Chương 18: Starting on body cultivation

Bai Yun woke up after what felt like ages. His head felt like someone had used it for hitting practice. The only place on his body that didn't hurt was his right leg.

He looked around him. He seemed to be in a burrow. It was large enough for him to sit here comfortably. Based on the few hairs that he could see, it seemed to be created by a rodent type beast. And a large one at that. But seeing that the hairs seem to be quite old, as well as the state of the burrow, it seemed as if it hasn't been here in a while. It was most likely already dead for a long time. Otherwise Bai Yun would be dead by now.

Bai Yun knew that he had to rest for a while and heal up. He decided to use this burrow as a base until he healed up, and killed the entire moron group. The moron group was not very strong, with only three people in the group being worthy of mention. They were Bai Shan, the spy, and the guy with the cultivation at the fourth qi condesnataion stage. He knew that if he was at his peak, he could easily deal with them. It was only due to the grey rock python that he was in such a state.

The moron group could clearly see that he was severely injured. If the moron king had any brains, he would definitely send someone to hide and keep watch on the entrance to the weed valley, while they would keep looking. There was no way they would tell what happened to anyone. It would only tarnish their reputation, if they couldn't even defeat a cripple who was severely hurt to boot. On top of that it would only bring trouble to them. So they would definitely hide what they were doing from everyone. So he had to kill them all soon, before one of those morons told the truth to anyone else, and he would be suspected of their death.

But based on his current state, he could definitely not kill the moron king. So he had to raise his cultivation, and also heal himself. Thankfully he had the body fruit. Based on the energy of the body fruit, It would be possible to place three patterns, for someone who had not even started on the body tempering path. But Bai Yun knew that the energy would only be enough for two patterns in Undying Body.

Bai Yun removed the bandage that was covering him, as well his shirt. Anyone who saw him would definitely be terrified. All of his body was in different colors due to his injuries. He took out the body fruit.

The first nine mysterious patterns of the Undying Body were to cover as much of the body as possible. The first four covered his limbs, the fifth his head, and the final four covered his back and chest. But there was no order in the way the patterns had to be placed. It was only that the final pattern had to be placed last.

Bai Yun decided to start with one pattern each in his arm and leg. He needed the strength boost provided by the pattern to kill Bai Shan, so placing one on his left arm was necessary. But since his right arm was hurt, placing one there would not be of much use in the short term. Thus he needed to place one in his leg to increase maximum efficiency and speed. Bai Yun chose to start with his right leg first, as his left ankle was still hurt.

Bai Yun quickly ate the body fruit. As its energy filled his body, he quickly split it into two. After carefully considering the energy required, he took a little bit of energy from the two blobs out. Based on his calculations the energy he had was slightly larger than what was needed for two mysterious patterns. He send the leftover energy into his left hand, ,so that it could help in healing. He felt the arm becoming slightly stronger, while also being slightly healed. Even though it was almost imperceptible, since every little part counted, he did it anyway.

Bai Yun controlled the smaller of the two blobs of energy, while locking up the larger one tightly with his god sense. During the laying procedure for the mysterious patterns, all the attention must be placed on it. If he did so some of the energy of the body fruit would definitely be leaked during the process for someone without god sense. This was enough to show how much more demanding the Undying Body was. The power in the body fruit was enough to make three patterns for any other technique even with energy leakage, but was only barely enough for two if no leakage occurred in the Undying Body.

While wondering if the body fruit was the most powerful one in the valley, Bai Yun started on the mysterious patterns. After all the energy inside this fruit was much larger than what was said in the guide, and also the clearing around the mutant weed was quite large. No wonder even an animal like the grey rock python was lying in wait around it.

Bai Yun started in his fingers and started to work his way up. The first pattern went up from the tips of his fingers to just a few inches short of the shoulder. The most important thing in skin sewing was controlling the energy. In skin sewing, one had to control the energy into a thin thread, and the tip of it as a pin, and use it to slowly leave marks across the skin. As one laid the mysterious patterns one had to leave some gap between the threads of energy. This was because during skin sewing, one had to start from one end of the mysterious pattern, and work your way to the other end, then go back from that point to the starting and the pin will finally pierce the point where the sewing started and finish the pattern.

This entire process had to be done in one sitting, and if interrupted, then it could mean that one would not be able to lay another pattern there, and would also lose one pattern in the skin.

Thus control was very important. The thread of energy had to be exactly the same size from the start to finish, and the distance between each thread of energy also had to be exactly of this width. For many people this would be extremely difficult. Not only was this extremely difficult, such precision as nearly impossible. Even in his past life he had some tiny gaps in his patterns. But these were almost impossible to notice, and did not hinder his further path unlike gap between patterns.

But for the current Bai Yun, who had god sense, the experience of a god as well as three soul tendrils of Infinitude Heavenly thought, this was simplicity in itself. The threads he weaved were extremely fine, but terrifyingly tense. He used his god sense to direct his soul, and in just under an hour he was done.

The energy only had a single loop to go around before it reached the starting point and completed the pattern. He had a little bit of energy remaining, as he had overestimated the energy he would need by a bit. This much concentration was a bit taxing on Bai Yun and he his persistent headache had become much worse by now.

The moment he finished Bai Yun gave a sigh and withdrew his soul back, intending to take a short rest before he started on the second soul tendril.

Suddenly a startling pain assaulted his soul. Immediately his eyes followed suit. It felt as if someone was gouging out his eyes and burning them at the same time. This was the greatest pain he had felt in his current life, but Bai Yun did not scream, as there were still people looking for him outside. He silently clenched his fist and curled up until he trembled.

Suddenly he felt an incredible aura rise up from within him. Bai Yun was stunned when he recognized the aura, it was the aura of the devil emperor!

Bai Yun felt a force forcibly open his eyes. The moment he did so, the pain vanished. But what happened next completely stupefied him.

From his right eye, he could see the hole he was hiding in, illuminated only by a few steaks of moonlight streaking in from the entrance. But his left eye was showing a completely different picture!

In front of his left eye was a field. It seemed to be a cultivation chamber. He could see a few dummies standing in front of him. The first dummy in the front was severely beat up, and there was a saber stuck into it.

Suddenly the vision in front of his shook, as if he was shaking his head. 'No,' Bai Yun realized with a start, 'whomever my sight is connected to is shaking his head.'

Suddenly a terrifying pain assaulted his eyes and Bai Yun closed his eyes. When he opened them again, the pain had disappeared along with the vision.

For the first time in his life, Bai Yun felt something he had never felt before. Fear. Hopeless and all consuming fear. Even in the midst of battle, or when he saw the devil emperor after the final battle he had not felt such fear.

Because he had felt the power of the devil emperor right before the vision started. And he finally figured out just how dangerous the devil emperor was. And he knew that there was nothing he could do in front of him.

And most importantly he had no idea what the hell just happened.

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A black robed youth with blue eyes stood panting in front of a practice dummy. With a final yell he thrust his saber forward. A red glow appeared around his saber, and then it was thrust deep into the dummy. He stood with his hands on his knees, panting. 'I finally managed to use the technique' he thought with a smile.

Suddenly a horrifying pain assaulted his head. He felt as if someone was burning his mind. Then an equally terrifying pain attacked his eyes. He felt as if someone was disintegrating his eyes.

Then a horrifying power surrounded him. He felt as if the power was the nemesis of everything in existence, something that desired to destroy the whole of reality itself. It was the purest aura of destruction he had felt.

Then his eyes were forcibly opened and the pain went away. A look of shock appeared in his eyes. His left eye was working fine, but the image reflected in his right eye was not what was in front of him. He saw a curled up body lying in a dark room. There was barely any light, and he could only see from the waist down. What he saw horrified the youth. The body was injured all over, with most of his body being in different colors. He shook his head in shock trying to clear the vision he had.

The pain that had gone away returned after a few moments. Then his sight went back to normal, and the pain also went away.

The youth laid on the ground panting. The power that he felt earlier terrified the youth. He felt as if even the strongest person he knew could not last an instant against that power. He heard a patter of steps approach him. As he sat up, a young girl wearing a red dress ran up to him. "Young Master I heard you scream. Are you okay?"

"I am fine. I just got a little exited when I succeeded." The youth said. The girl could tell that he was lying.

'Who was that. He seemed to be severely hurt. I hope that he is fine.' The youth thought, while trying to pacify the little girl, who seemed determined to examine him for injuries.