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Chapter 406: Chapter 402: Martial Saint Inheritance
"Martial Arts Skills give rise to Divine Abilities, the Martial Arts Will transforms flesh and blood."
Gu Jinlai was comprehending.
"Ancient Martial King."
Yan Lie addressed Gu Jinlai, "You have not yet cultivated any Cultivation Techniques, have you? Come, let me give you a comprehensive understanding."
Gu Jinlai listened but glanced at Pan Dali.
He noticed that this Peak Martial King, who had condensed Martial Arts Will, occasionally glanced at him, clearly pondering something.
Yan Lie’s move was actually to extricate him from an awkward situation.
"Thank you, Dean Yan."
Gu Jinlai said, and soon followed Yan Lie to the inner courtyard.
On the way, Yan Lie somewhat helplessly said, "Martial Kings... even those in the stage of a military general begin to consciously cultivate their Martial Arts Will, leading to much chaos. However, cultivators take too long to develop. Our Holy Dynasty urgently needs powerful Martial Artists to resist the invasion of devils. In this context, even if some Martial Kings cause destruction, it is inevitable as long as they do not completely lose control, and the authorities will not punish them because this is the price they pay for gaining power."
"Destruction?"
Gu Jinlai thought of the dark red, ink-like Karma on Jin Yuhai and Pan Dali’s bodies: "What kind of destruction? Slaughtering a city? Exterminating a clan?"
Yan Lie was surprised, "Not to that extent. Sometimes, due to someone’s offensive words, they might kill someone by accident. The national laws turn a blind eye to their actions as long as they are able to hunt enough devils and serve the Human Clan, thus avoiding punishment."
Saying this, he added, "The hardships and prices they paid on their journey from Martial Sect to Martial King, if we execute them for manslaughter, it would be too pitiful. Better to let them preserve their valuable selves, hunt sufficient devils or martial artists who have lost control to compensate for their crimes, thus saving more innocent lives. The public can also understand this behavior, and they spontaneously restrain themselves, showing utmost respect in the presence of those Martial Kings consolidating their Martial Arts Will, to avoid provoking such Martial Kings."
"Consolidating Martial Arts Will..."
After Wu Tianya’s explanations, Gu Jinlai had some understanding of Martial Arts Will.
Martial Arts Will is a state of facing the true self, seeking the true self, subduing the true self, and ultimately unifying with the true self.
What is the true self?
Inner thoughts, or the embodiment of desires.
To face the true self and seek the true self, one must follow the heart and release one’s thoughts or desires.
Do as one pleases.
This is the process of facing the true self.
When this great desire reaches its peak, the Martial King completely "sees through" his heart, seeks the true self, then guides and subdues it for unification, finally completing a transformation at the spiritual will level, condensing out Martial Arts Will.
Pan Dali’s Martial Arts Will is brutal!
Torture!
In his process of facing the true self, it is said that he brutally tortured many people.
This included innocent people.
However, the families of these innocent victims later received substantial compensation, and knowing that Pan Dali was risking loss of control while condensing his Martial Arts Will, though they mourned the death of their loved ones, they also expressed "understanding."
After all, if there were no Martial Kings to become Martial Saints, continuously patrolling and guarding cities, how could they enjoy such a peaceful and stable life now?
And Pan Dali did not disappoint, subduing his true self and redirecting his brutality from all living beings purely towards devils.
Though still influenced by his Martial Arts Will to be somewhat violent, belligerent, and bloodthirsty, at least, he was no longer brutal and torturous like during the period of condensing Martial Arts Will.
Moreover, because such a destructive, murderous Martial Arts Will could nurture more powerful divine abilities in him, if he became a Martial Saint in the future, he would undoubtedly be one of the strongest among this batch of advanced Martial Kings.
"Every Martial King can develop their own Martial Arts Will based on others’ Cultivation Techniques, or they can directly comprehend some inheritances and experiential insights left by Martial Saints, following the paths they had taken. Both methods have their advantages and disadvantages; it all depends on your choice."
Yan Lie led Gu Jinlai around several turns, and soon they arrived at a four-story tower.
In this tower, he felt several strong forces of Qi Blood.
"Any Martial King undergoing advanced training can exchange a Body Refining Technique for a Cultivation Method to condense the Martial Arts Will, or experiential insights they have cultivated. You’re cultivating the Chaos True Demon Body, right? Although our Martial Saint Institute has recorded it, we also want to know how your Chaos True Demon Body differs from our recorded version. If you wish, after writing out your Chaos True Demon Body, you can choose your scripture."
Yan Lie said, "These scriptures can be inheritances left by Martial Saints or related experiential insights formed by condensing Martial Arts Will and Martial Arts Divine Power."
"I agree."
Gu Jinlai said.
"Good."
Yan Lie quickly led Gu Jinlai to the tower, preparing ink and paper for him.
Soon, Gu Jinlai had written out the Chaos True Demon Body.
Yan Lie glanced at it, somewhat surprised, "This edition of the Chaos True Demon Body indeed has been refined, possibly incorporating other Cultivation Techniques, and holds a certain value."
Saying so, he summoned a library administrator, handed over the scripture to him, and then took Gu Jinlai up to the third floor.
Here, there were not many bookshelves, and each bookshelf was protecting tens of volumes in various ways.
At a glance, there were definitely over three hundred volumes.
"Are all these... inheritances left by Martial Saints?"
"There are one hundred and forty-six inheritances in total, and the remaining two hundred and three volumes are experiential insights related to the condensation of Martial Arts Will and Martial Arts Divine Power."
As Yan Lie spoke, he led him to another volume not protected by devices, "This is the catalogue, containing a basic description of the three hundred and forty-nine volumes. Take a look first, then choose the scripture you want to exchange."
Gu Jinlai looked at these scriptures.
Each inheritance not only had divine methods derived during the Martial King stage but also the Condensation Techniques of Martial Arts Will.
These divine abilities varied in strength.
Powerful divine abilities, such as the Heavenly Track Dragon Flame, needed the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures — Heavenly Fire Flame Crystal — for cultivation. Once mastered, its divine force could injure the body of a Saint with the power of a Martial King.
The weaker Divine Skill was the previously mentioned Power of Fierce Bear, refining the Fierce Bear Essence Blood could grant immeasurable strength.
Direct combat, despite its powerful impact, had a singular approach which was easily countered.
Even facing a Primordial Spirit Monarch capable of sword flight left one somewhat helpless.
Consuming Essence Blood of a Fierce Beast, the path above a Martial Saint often required the visualization of an Innate Divine Beast.
Consuming Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, thereafter one would need to visualize the Heaven and Earth Demigods.
Although Innate Divine Beasts had almost become extinct due to the hunting by creators a thousand years ago, there were still some clues remaining, and from time to time, there were even sightings of living Innate Divine Beasts.
Visualizing them was less challenging.
But those Heaven and Earth Demigods
Were formless and intangible.
In the future, accomplishing visualization would be countless times more difficult than with Innate Divine Beasts.
Therefore, which path to choose was a vexing issue for numerous Martial Kings.
"Divine Beasts, Demigods."
Gu Jinlai pondered for a moment and searched through many texts, quickly taking a fancy to three inheritances.
Great Thunder Sword Technique.
Ten Thousand Thunders Secret Scripture.
Thunder Origin Divine Body.
Among the three skills, the Great Thunder Sword Technique was a Cultivation Method that collected thunder from heaven and earth for cultivation, with immense Divine Skills power and resources born from nature, nurtured within thunderstorms; the downside was its extreme difficulty in cultivation, a nine-in-ten chance of death.
Apart from its founder, Heavenly Thunder Martial Saint, no one else had mastered this inheritance.
And this Heavenly Thunder Martial Saint had also perished from being struck by lightning during a cultivation session that summoned a super-thunderstorm.
The Ten Thousand Thunders Secret Scripture followed the Fierce Beast path, refining the Essence Blood of all Fierce Beasts that could wield Thunder Power within one’s body, constantly refining and purifying it, and amalgamating the powers of tens of thousands of Fierce Beasts embodying Thunder Power into one.
The founder of this method, the Ten Thousand Thunders Martial Saint, still lived and had reached the rank of National Guardian Martial Saint, now serving as the Commander of the Garrison Army in Thunder Marsh Town.
However, what Gu Jinlai was interested in from the Ten Thousand Thunders Secret Scripture were the control and handling methods between the Body and Thunder Power.
As for melting various Fierce Beast Essence Bloods embodying Thunder Power into one’s body, he didn’t care much about it.
The last skill, Thunder Origin Divine Body, entered Gu Jinlai’s consideration due to its process of refining Thunder Magnetic Elemental Gold to condense into a Thunder Origin Body.
"Hesitating?"
Seeing Gu Jinlai’s gaze lingering on these books, Yan Lie asked with a smile.
"Can I exchange for these three inheritances?"
Gu Jinlai asked.
"Aside from the Chaos True Demon Body, if you have other Body Refining Methods that can reach the Martial King stage written out, they can also be exchanged on a one-to-one basis. However, external inheritances are generally limited to the Martial King stage and cannot be exchanged like the Chaos True Demon Body, almost benefiting from using a Martial King inheritance to exchange for a Martial Saint inheritance. You will still need to supplement the missing Contribution Value. Once your Contribution Value is sufficient, you can also directly exchange with it,"
Yan Lie said, then advised, "Biting more than one can chew is not good; having too many inheritances is not necessarily better. It’s most important to find what suits oneself."
"I understand."
Gu Jinlai replied, "All three Cultivation Methods are good; I just want to practice a bit to see which one suits me best."
Saying this, he went to one side and wrote out the Red Sun Demon God Body Refining Technique.
Yan Lie looked at it and shook his head, "This technique is very low tier, I’ll credit you ten million Contribution Value, but to exchange any book on the third floor, you need one hundred million Contribution Value."
Ten million. n𝚘𝚟𝚙u𝚋.co𝚖
In the Holy Dynasty, Contribution Value was similar to silver taels, but people fleeing from various places often carried a lot of gold and silver treasures, which had a significant impact on the economy of the Holy Dynasty. Thus, in addition to the silver and gold monetary system, a new system of Contribution Value was added.
Ten million Contribution Values were merely equivalent to ten million silver taels.
In Qiantian, a Refining God Immortal had an annual salary ranging from several tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand, and if one knew how to make money, even several hundred thousand was not a problem.
This number was indeed very low.
However, the Red Sun Demon God Body Refining Technique was a Demon God cultivation method hurriedly created as the Tianyuan Dao was on the verge of destruction, only enabling one to barely become a Martial King.
"There are many ways for a Martial King to gain Contribution Value, such as hunting Demons, chasing after cultivators who have lost control, hunting down Demonic Cultists, all of which provide generous rewards. Or, if you have some Treasure you can surrender it, as long as its value is sufficient, it can also be exchanged for a large amount of Contribution Value,"
Yan Lie said.
Gu Jinlai nodded.
He currently couldn’t afford Thunder Magnetic Elemental Gold, and cultivating by drawing in the heavenly thunder was too risky. He immediately said, "I’ll exchange for the Ten Thousand Thunders Secret Scripture."
"Alright."
Yan Lie quickly operated and soon took out the Ten Thousand Thunders Secret Scripture from its protective device.
"You have three days to review the memory."
"Okay."
Gu Jinlai nodded.
Considering that cultivators who lost control were often dominated by desires and became monstrous killers, with incredibly shocking Karma on them, he immediately said, "Additionally, doesn’t the Martial Saint Institute have a team specifically for chasing after those who’ve lost control? May I join them?"
"Haha, it just so happens that our ’Sweepers’ squad at the Martial Saint Institute is short on people. We would be delighted to have Ancient Martial King join in contributing to the safety of Wind and Rain City,"
Yan Lie happily agreed.
