The Asura Immortal Asuras

CHAPTER 22: 22

Chapter 22: 22

In the brightly glowing cave, John sat there long enough without moving. Everything that had just happened seemed unreal, as if everything was just an illusion. But when John sends a heavenly feeling back to his dantian, he once again finds a mysterious ball revolving around his dantian.

While observing the ball carefully, John began to have a trance. A few minutes later, John regained consciousness.

“What just happened? One second I observed the ball, and the next I, well, I don't know what I was doing.” John could not explain his sudden loss of concentration. It felt almost as if he was going through a trance of meditation, but he was not trying to cultivate.

Sending his sense of divinity back into the realm, John once again fell into a trance of meditation. Stopping a few minutes later, John gasped in shock.

“This ball also acts as a perfect meditation booster? What the fuck? Is there anything he can't do” thought John.

As he begins to fall asleep into a trance, John realizes that it is the same kind of trance as when he was cultivating. Things like that are too good to be true. From what John knew, falling into a perfect meditative state was something that only happened through sheer coincidence. It was rare that some cultivators lived their entire lives without ever falling into a perfect state of enlightenment.

“What else can this ball do?” john thought as he continued to observe it, but could find no other use.

“No problem. Just helping me fall into a state of perfect enlightenment was already beyond extraordinary. If nothing else, this will increase my cultivation and speed of understanding several times.” John had an expression of pure joy on his face. Something like this was what he needed to be able to catch up to his friends quickly.

After observing the ball for longer, John stopped and thought about the books he found in the palace. He saw his hand. Each hand holds a book.

It must have been amazing, John thought. “In addition to the drops of blood, I found nothing inside the palace.”

John looked at the two books for a while before deciding to open the pitch-black one.

“Eternal Asura Body huh? Really sounds impressive.”

John rubbed his fingers on the cover of the book, tracing every strange letter. Although he was still unsure how it happened, John could now understand the language on the cover of the book.

John opened the first page of the book, where a puzzled expression appeared on his face.

“What? No introduction or summary of the technique?”

The first page of the book has no detailed explanation of the technique. Instead, there were various intricate images engraved on it.

“That's a translucent ball in the palace?” thought John. The first image at the top of the page depicts a translucent ball, with 10 drops of blood spinning in it.

After analyzing the first image for some time, John turned his gaze to the second image on that page. It showed someone standing under the ball, a drop of blood hovering in front of them.

“This is what actually happened to me” thought John as he continued to stare down.

The next image shows a person, but unlike before, all of the person's veins, arteries, meridians, and acupoints are visible. Taking a closer look, John began to fall into a trance state. Although the image was motionless, John could almost see blood flowing through the body in the diagram. As he took a closer look, there seemed to be two streams of blood. One is normal blood, while the other is much darker red.

Normal blood seemed to flow throughout the body unhindered, while deep red blood flowed towards the Dantian. After flowing into the Dantian, what came out of the Dantian was not blood, but something else. John did not know exactly what it was, but he could see it flowing through certain meridians leading from his dantian to the rest of the body.

Still in a trance, John looks further down the page, but is surprised to find that there is nothing else.

“That's him?” thought John. He tried to open the next page, but was surprised because he could not move to the second page.

“What? Why not open?” john exclaimed as he gave more power to his fingers. But no matter how much power John put into his finger, he was unable to move the page in the slightest.

“Maybe I can only open it if I'm stronger” thought John. He stopped trying to open the book and once again focused on the contents of the first page. After studying the images for some time, an idea formed in John's mind.

John sent his heavenly sense into his body, particularly the veins and arteries.

“Ah!”

Though scattered, John can see darker blood mixed with his own blood.

“This is blood from that ball!” john said while studying it. It had the same evil aura as the drops of blood within the palace.

John studied the blood flowing within him for some time before he took a deep breath and began to use his new control over Qi to guide the dark blood towards his Dantian.

“Gah!”

“Wah, almost there. If I hadn't pulled it so fast, I honestly thought I might have died.”

“What happened, didn't the diagram show to do this. Is it possible to actually not refer to the evil blood?” john thought as he tried to figure out what was wrong.

“If blood cannot go to my dantian, will it go to the ball? Butwhy? Isn't the ball just a giant storage ring”

Despite the speculation, John could only test his theory to see if he was right. Learning from the fatal mistake last time, John slowly steers the smallest piece of blood toward the ball.

“Be careful, be careful.”

The deep red blood carefully approached the ball. After almost arriving, it suddenly sucked in. John's eyes twinkled as blood sucked rapidly.

“No pain! This must be what diagram” describes exclaimed John. John guided even more blood into the ball, and after a few minutes, all the black blood had been absorbed into it.

Just as John was happy to solve the puzzle, a burst of energy burst out from the ball and surged throughout his body. John gritted his teeth in pain as he did his best to suppress the energy waves, but no matter how hard he struggled, he found the energy growing stronger.

“I'll be dead so soon. What can I do?” john said with clenched teeth. Turning his brain to look for ideas, John looked down and happened to see the black book. Because of his understanding, John opened the book to the first page and carefully studied the final image.

After studying the page through the pain, John draws the surging energy back into the sphere, where he begins to direct the energy through the meridians depicted in the image.

The pain slowly began to fade from his body as John managed to control his energy. Slowly directing the energy through his meridians, John was completely shocked. Wherever the energy was absorbed, John could feel a part of his body strengthening.

Despite his shock, John continued to direct energy through his meridians to various parts of his body. A few hours later, John finally finished absorbing all of his energy. Sending a heavenly feeling throughout his body, John was greatly shocked.

“Every part of my body has been strengthened compared to before. Whatever the reason, I will be happy to welcome any increase in strength.” John started celebrating before he suddenly stopped.

“Wait, does this mean I am stuck as a body cultivator now?”

It was common knowledge in the cultivation world that a cultivator focused on cultivating a body or essence.

For essence cultivators, cultivators would store their Qi in their dantian and release Qi for devastating magical attacks. Thus, even if their attacks were strong, their bodies would be weaker.

On the other hand, body cultivators focused on strengthening their bodies. By constantly feeding their bodies with the Qi of their Dantian, body cultivators could strengthen their bodies to an unreasonable level. Not only did their defensive abilities increase, but also their explosive power. The exchange for cultivating the body was that the Qi in the dantian would continue to be used by the body for body food.

Thinking of Qi as food, the body will need a constant supply in order to function properly. As the body grows stronger, more and more ‘food’ is needed to function at peak levels. Since Qi was constantly used to feed and energize the body, body cultivators were unable to store large amounts of Qi reserves in their dantian. Without a large reserve of Qi, any magical attack would be disappointing and ineffective.

Because of this, cultivators knew that they had to choose one aspect of cultivation, body or essence, and hold on to it. There were genius cultivators who tried to defy the norm and cultivate both, but each of them ended up averaging in both categories, not geniuses in one category. As such, no longer would anyone care to cultivate the body and essence together.

The Fenix Clan was an essence cultivators clan, and as such, John had always planned on following that path. But now, he was not sure if he could

“Although I stepped onto the path of body cultivation, I have just started. If I stop now and focus on essence alone, the harmful effects will not be too great” John thought as he slowly started to calm down.

As he had calmed down, John was once again jolted by the sudden revelation.

“Wait a minute, the energy that strengthens my body comes from the ball, not my dantian.”

John focused on his dantian and took out some Qi from him, at that moment he heaved a sigh of relief.

“Still working fine. Wait..” John's mind disappears when a shocking idea pops into his mind.

Focusing on the ball again, John treated it as if it was his dantian, and focused on extracting energy from it.

“Ah!”

Surprised cries echoed throughout the cave.

“Bola .. The ball is dantian?”

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