Chapter 1471: The Greatly Accomplished Ten Thousand Poisons Body

Translator: CinderTL

"These secret arts each have their own merits, covering thunder magic, escape techniques, body refinement, and more. Mastering any one of them would make you virtually invincible against enemies of equal cultivation. However, greed leads to indigestion. I advise you not to attempt to cultivate them all."

Perhaps because Song Wen’s life hung by a thread, Gu Que spoke with unusual sincerity, his words tinged with earnest concern as he continued his counsel.

"The Nine Great Heavenly Thunder Secret Arts are manageable. By setting up the Imperial Thunder God’s Sacrifice Platform to enhance your Thunder Art Talent, you can gradually master them. The Ten Thousand Poisons Body isn’t difficult either, though the cultivation process is somewhat painful, requiring you to refine your body by consuming various poisons."

"As for the other secret arts, each comes with strict limitations and hidden dangers."

"Take the Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions, for example—the foremost escape technique in the mystic realm. Once activated, it conjures countless blood shadows, making it impossible to distinguish the true from the false, and grants astonishing escape speed. Unfortunately, cultivating this art requires condensing blood crystals from your own blood essence, a time-consuming and draining process that depletes your vital energy. Moreover, each blood crystal can only be used once before dissipating completely, requiring you to condense new ones for each subsequent use. Furthermore, activating this technique consumes vast amounts of spiritual power and blood essence."

"The Netherworld Corpse Refinement Art, while capable of creating Corpse Puppets with unparalleled combat prowess, requires various rare Corpse Dao spiritual materials. To cultivate the Demon Subduing Heavenly Net Art, one must first refine netherworld demonic qi before even beginning..."

"These secret arts, though possessing immense power and capable of greatly enhancing one’s strength, demand excessively harsh cultivation conditions. Forcing their cultivation would not only be futile but also detrimental."

Song Wen remained noncommittal to Gu Que’s warnings, responding only with a curt, "These concerns are unnecessary. Simply hand over the secret arts."

Gu Que complied, transmitting all the secret arts he had mentioned to Song Wen.

Song Wen then began meticulously examining these techniques.

First were the Nine Great Heavenly Thunder Secret Arts. Finding them identical to the versions he already possessed, he skimmed through them and moved on.

Next, Song Wen turned his attention to the cultivation technique of the Ten Thousand Poisons Body.

The Ten Thousand Poisons Body proved to be a pleasant surprise.

Song Wen had previously obtained partial versions of this technique twice, but these only covered the first two layers of the full five-layer manual. Moreover, certain sections could only be cultivated after achieving immortality.

Gu Que had claimed that the Ten Thousand Poisons Body cultivation technique was easy to learn, but this wasn’t entirely accurate.

While the initial stages were indeed simple, achieving mastery required various potent poisons. According to the technique’s description, even in the immortal realm, these poisons were exceedingly rare.

However, the third layer Song Wen was about to cultivate didn’t require specific poisons; any potent poison would suffice.

Upon mastering the third layer, Song Wen’s blood, bones, and even his breath would generate Five Decays Yellow Spring Qi. With a mere thought, he could unleash this qi to slay enemies or condense it into a protective shield.

If he cultivated to the fifth layer, achieving perfect mastery, his physical body would manifest innate toxic essence, a substance of supreme yin and evil. At that point, a single drop of his blood could taint immortal artifacts, and his breath could corrode mountains and rivers.

Song Wen continued examining the other secret arts.

The Blood Shadow Thousand Illusions technique particularly intrigued him. As Gu Que had said, it was arguably the foremost escape art in the mystic realm. Moreover, the two major challenges—condensing blood essence into blood crystals and the massive consumption of blood essence during the technique’s activation—posed no difficulty for Song Wen whatsoever.

As for the other secret arts, Song Wen paid them little attention. Their cultivation requirements were far too stringent, leaving him with nothing but wistful sighs.

Noticing Song Wen withdrawing his focus from the secret arts, Gu Que spoke up.

"Ji Yin, in truth, none of these secret arts can compare to the Undying Blood Sea Yama Emperor Seal."

During their fierce battle in the immortal’s tomb, Song Wen had unleashed the Blood Sea Seal, revealing to Gu Que that he possessed this artifact.

"Oh?" Song Wen raised an eyebrow, his interest piqued. "What makes you say that?"

Gu Que continued, "These secret arts might allow you to fight opponents one or two minor realms above your own. But the imperial seal, when refined to its peak, makes you virtually invincible within your current major realm. It can even render enemies a major realm higher helpless against you—hence the ’Undying’ in its name."

"What constitutes ’peak refinement’?" Song Wen asked.

Gu Que said, "Refine enough blood essence and integrate it into the imperial seal. This will allow the Blood Sea Seal to evolve into a blood sea that reaches the limits of your current cultivation level. At your current Body Integration Stage, if you can manifest a blood sea ten thousand miles wide and ten thousand miles deep, no Body Integration Stage cultivator who falls into it will ever escape. Even if a Great Ascension Stage cultivator arrives, as long as you conceal yourself within the blood sea, they may not be able to breach it and locate your true form. Of course, this is merely a theoretical projection. In reality, no one has ever truly refined a blood sea of such magnitude."

Song Wen glanced at Gu Que in surprise.

His words perfectly aligned with Song Wen’s own thoughts.

However, the required blood essence was staggeringly vast. He wondered how many living beings would need to be slaughtered to achieve such a feat.

"The Divine Blood Gate established multiple teleportation arrays on the Western Rong Continent leading to the Eastern Profound Continent. Do you know their locations?" Song Wen asked, changing the subject.

"This is the Western Rong Continent?" Gu Que asked, surprised.

"Yes," Song Wen replied.

"Those teleportation arrays... I’m afraid you won’t be ’fortunate’ enough to use them," Gu Que said.

"Why not?" Song Wen frowned.

"The other ends of these teleportation arrays are all located within the Divine Blood Gate’s territory," Gu Que said. "If you use them to return to the Eastern Profound Continent, you’ll likely fall directly into the Divine Blood Gate’s hands. You... aren’t affiliated with the Divine Blood Gate, are you?"

"All within the Divine Blood Gate?" Song Wen asked, his voice tinged with surprise and suspicion.

Being teleported into the Divine Blood Gate’s territory would be tantamount to suicide; they would never let him leave alive.

"Then do you know of the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss?" Song Wen asked.

Since the Divine Blood Gate’s teleportation arrays were unreliable, his only hope lay with the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss.

Gu Que didn’t answer immediately, pausing to ponder before replying.

"The Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss... I recall hearing it mentioned once or twice during my lifetime, but I never ventured there myself. I’m afraid I can’t guide you. Moreover, if my memory serves me correctly, the Mirror Sea Mirage Abyss has long been swallowed by the Primordial Qi Death Zone, hasn’t it? Finding it now would be no easy task."

"I did manage to learn its approximate location from a demon race member," Song Wen said.

"Ji Yin, this matter is far more complex than you imagine," Gu Que said. "Have you ever personally ventured deep into the Primordial Qi Death Zone?"

For a moment, Song Wen didn’t understand the purpose of this question. He answered truthfully, "I once crossed the Primordial Qi Death Zone on the Eastern Profound Continent."

Gu Que’s eyes narrowed sharply, a flicker of undisguised astonishment flashing across his face.

"I never imagined you possessed such methods and courage, little friend. I must admit, I misjudged you. However, the Primordial Qi Death Zone on the Western Rong Continent is vastly different from the one on the Eastern Profound Continent. It’s a thousand times larger, with far denser Primordial Qi, giving rise to far more powerful resentful spirits and void fiends. The dangers there are incomparable to those on the Eastern Profound Continent. If you intend to venture deep into the Western Rong Continent’s Primordial Qi Death Zone, I urge you to reconsider carefully. It was precisely for this reason that, after successfully creating the Nether Fox, the Divine Blood Gate abandoned this Primordial Qi Death Zone, sealed the teleportation array, and ceased all involvement with the Western Rong Continent."

Unbeknownst to Gu Que, Song Wen was currently standing just outside the Primordial Qi Death Zone on the Western Rong Continent.

Outside the sea of consciousness, Song Wen gazed at the swirling black mist that filled the sky and earth ahead, his expression growing solemn.

If Gu Que’s words were true, he would indeed need to proceed with extreme caution.

With the shadow void at his side, Song Wen felt no concern about the Void Demon Clan within the Primordial Qi Death Zone.

The shadow void was a high-rank void beast, capable of sensing even eighth-tier low-tier void beasts from tens of thousands of miles away.

However, the shadow void couldn’t detect resentful spirits from afar, relying instead on divine sense to locate them. Encountering an eighth-tier resentful spirit would pose a significant challenge.

Song Wen suddenly recalled Gu Que’s earlier words: "If you can refine the Blood Sea Imperial Seal to its ultimate form, even facing an enemy a major realm higher, you’ll have a chance to render them helpless."

(End of the Chapter)

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