The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu

Time flies, and another year has passed.

During this year, whenever he had the chance, Long Xuan would stay at the inn opposite the Qian Clan’s Treasure Pavilion.

Using the illusionary art of the Original Realm, he copied the entire Treasure Pavilion into an illusion, then used this illusion on himself, entering the illusion to learn all the techniques within the pavilion thoroughly.

Even the clan’s most secret techniques were inadvertently learned by him, the process was so simple it seemed unbelievable.

Due to his special Ten Absolute Body, which prevented him from practicing other techniques, he could only gather the strengths of various schools to create his unique technique.

He spent a whole year creating it, only scratching the surface.

Creating one's technique is not simple, it takes a long time and cannot be completed quickly.

Fortunately, the progress he made on paper would disappear if he wrote it wrong, so he had no trial-and-error cost. If someone else tried, they might spend their whole life and not even scratch the surface, especially for a technique suitable for the Ten Absolute Body.

This limited Long Xuan’s scope of creation to a specific topic. He named it the "Ten Absolute Scriptures" elevating the difficulty to an infinite level.

Luckily, his golden finger could point out mistakes, and he could conduct human experiments in the illusion realm. Even if he bled from seven orifices in the experiment, his real body would not be affected.

If something could not be done in the illusion, it certainly could not be done in reality. If it worked in the illusion, it would definitely work in reality.

Long Xuan relied on the dual roles of the illusion and the golden finger to create a technique suitable for the Ten Absolute Body. Otherwise, no matter how imaginative he was, he could not have succeeded.

Long Xuan had read many cultivation novels in his past life and believed in the theory of the five elements mutual generation and restriction. The five elements theory has three cycles:

Restriction Cycle: Fire melts metal, Earth blocks water, Metal cuts wood, Water extinguishes fire, Wood controls Earth.

Reinforcement Cycle: Fire burns wood, Wood absorbs water, Water corrodes metal, Metal moves earth, Earth controls fire.

Generation Cycle: Water generates wood, Wood generates fire, Fire generates earth, Earth generates metal, Metal generates water.

Based on this theory, he created a five-element technique.

His body just happened to have all five elements, so he believed that the cycle of the five elements was most suitable for his body.

This idea would be considered rebellious in this world.

This world, like the cultivation novels of his past life, emphasized purity.

The fewer attributes, the better. Having only one attribute is considered a genius of the highest grade, and single-attribute cultivation is extremely fast. The techniques in this world are all single-attribute.

However, Long Xuan went against the norm and created a mixed-attribute technique that was incompatible with this world.

The great cycle of the five elements is indeed powerful. Once the cycle is formed, its power is far greater than the sum of its parts.

The spiritual sea of the Ten Absolute Body is as solid as a rock, leading to the drawback of difficult breakthroughs. Long Xuan planned to use the powerful impact generated by the five-element cycle to break this rock, thus solving this drawback.

Therefore, the five-element concept was suitable for the Ten Absolute Body, and it was because of this concept that he successfully created a technique suitable for the Ten Absolute Body.

Although he had only scratched the surface, with a progress of only 3%, the hardest part was starting. Once the beginning was overcome, the rest would follow smoothly.

After making the concept, he needed to complete the three essential elements of a powerful technique, each indispensable.

The first step was the route of spiritual power operation, could be directly borrowed and perfected, which was doable but adding attributes to spiritual power added difficulty.

He wanted spiritual power attributes beyond the basic metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. If he was to create a technique, it had to be the best, or he wouldn’t create it at all.

He had long thought about the idea of variant spiritual power. He constantly conducted various spiritual power fusion experiments in the illusion realm, often breaking his meridians, bleeding from seven orifices, and even facing near-death situations several times.

Almost every time he entered the illusion, he would end up crippled, but since the experiences in the illusion were illusory, his real body was not affected, so he wasn’t afraid of the consequences of experimental failure.

With such crazy experimentation, how could he not research variant spiritual power? His success was inevitable.

Wood generates fire, more wood means stronger fire. Fire with wood becomes strong fire, which Long Xuan called flame, thus creating flame spiritual power from the fusion of fire and wood.

Similarly:

Fire generates earth, fire and earth together create strong earth, named Jade spiritual power.

Earth generates metal, earth and metal together create strong metal, named Gold spiritual power.

Metal generates water, metal and water together create strong water, named Lake spiritual power.

Water generates wood, water and wood together create strong wood, named Forest spiritual power.

Therefore, his five-element cycle was not metal, wood, water, fire, earth, but Gold, Forest, Lake, Flame, jade.

He didn’t know how strong his variant spiritual power was compared to others, but it could be stronger.

This was only the fusion of two attributes, and he had already planned the outline of the technique.

The first layer of the technique involved two-attribute fusion, cultivating Forest Spirit energy, Water Spirit energy, Flame Spirit energy, Jade Spirit energy.

The second layer involved three-attribute fusion, cultivating Verdant Spirit energy , Aqua Spirit energy, Blaze Spirit energy, Mountain Spirit energy.

The third layer involved four-attribute fusion, cultivating spiritual power such as Mettalic Energy, Hydro Energy, Inferno Energy, Tremor Spirit Energy.

It’s not that he didn’t want to go all out from the start, but his current strength didn’t allow it, and it was temporarily unfeasible.

Additionally, a novice cultivator couldn’t start with the world’s top technique for many reasons.

The biggest reason was that the spiritual sea couldn’t be developed in the early stages.

In the Spirit Gathering Stage, the task is to accumulate spiritual power. In the Marrow Cleansing Stage, the task is to cleanse the marrow and bones to build a solid foundation. In the Spiritual Sea Stage, the task is to develop the spiritual sea.

As for the Soul projection Stage, the task is to strengthen the soul, enabling the soul to leave the body. The soul is an ethereal entity, immune to most attacks.

At the Soul projection Stage, a cultivator, even if their physical body is destroyed, can escape easily with their soul, making them extremely difficult to kill. Even if their physical body is destroyed, they have the possibility of reincarnating through possession, though each person only has one chance to reincarnate due to various reasons.

Therefore, Gu cultivators can only develop their spiritual sea at the third stage. Before the spiritual sea is developed, all spiritual power is stored in the body’s meridians, which are too fragile to withstand overly violent spiritual power.

Even in the Spiritual Sea Stage, not all spiritual seas can easily accommodate top-tier variant spiritual power.

The most powerful techniques are destined not to be accessible to everyone, as the strongest techniques are always in the hands of a small number of people. This is the difference between genius and mediocrity.

Otherwise, what would be the advantage of Long Xuan’s Ten Absolute Body? The strength of the Ten Absolute Body lies in its rock-solid spiritual sea, capable of bearing any violent power.

If someone else cultivates his five variant spiritual powers, their spiritual sea will burst, not to mention accommodating five kinds of spiritual powers at the same time.

Only the powerful Ten Absolute Body can contain all five spiritual powers.

Only a non-human could create such a suicidal technique.

TL Note: This was the most difficult chapter to write and Translate...there might be some mistakes regarding the names of the technique, but this is the best one for now XD.