Volume 1: Questioning the Past Chapter 27: Soul Binding Rope
"Boy, this furnace is called the Three Yang Spirit Refining Furnace. It is a rare furnace for refining pills. It is also a rare furnace for refining the body. This furnace has a method for refining the body, called the Three Yang Refining the Golden Body. I am too lazy to explain the details. You can experience it yourself. If you can make it through, you will be lucky to have great fortune."
Mao’s creation!
The fifth elder said one thing and thought another, sneering secretly. If this boy dared to make Ling'er cry, he would make him suffer.
However, he did not lie about the Three Yang Alchemy Body, but no one has ever successfully practiced this thing. It’s not because it is difficult to practice, but because it is impossible to practice!
Let me ask you, who can draw out all of their own blood without dying? Moreover, they have to wrap themselves with blood to form a blood cocoon, and then wrap themselves with spiritual power to form a spiritual cocoon. They also have to ensure that their blood does not dry up, their cultivation does not run out, and their souls do not dry up during the 49 days of tempering in the spiritual furnace. Finally, they have to transport the blood back after the final tempering.
Let me ask, who can do it?
Maybe the old monster at the Nascent Soul stage can do it, but he is already at the Nascent Soul stage, and his physical body is already extremely strong. Why would he need to refine your broken golden body? Besides, with this furnace, it is estimated that it cannot be refined...
To sum up, the Fifth Elder thought that this was a secret method of body refining that only a madman could come up with, and it was impossible for anyone to be able to master it.
But at this time, the Fifth Elder showed a kind smile on his face, and cast an encouraging look at Lu Ling'er, saying: "Ling'er, don't worry, this kid is very lucky. Not only was he fine after being roasted for ten days, but his cultivation level has also improved. It's only an extra 49 days, there is no problem at all. Maybe this kid will really cultivate a Three Yang Alchemy Body? You have to believe him!"
Forty-nine days?
Gu Xiaoxing was already stunned by these six short words. He wanted to wail, roar, or even shout for help, but before he could open his mouth, his mind and soul were blown again.
"Boy, if you dare to say one word, I will train you for one more day. If you say two words, I will train you for two more days. Do you want to try?"
The Fifth Elder's voice was like thunder, but only Gu Xiaoxing could hear it. Then he cried silently. He really didn't dare to speak.
Lu Ling'er's worried look gradually became firm. She smiled sweetly and said, "Master is right. Ling'er should believe in little brother!"
Gu Xiaoxing was speechless, he didn't want to refine any golden body. However, it was useless for him to think about it. The secret symbols on the furnace wall had become brighter, and the temperature in the furnace had doubled. In just a moment, his skin had turned red, and he had to start practicing to resist.
"Boy, this is the power of double yang, next is triple yang, take it!"
In an instant, the countless divine patterns in the furnace became brighter, emitting brilliant light. Based on the double sun, the temperature doubled again. Not only was it high in temperature, but there seemed to be an additional violent force. The heat turned into raging waves, like a thousand-foot-high fire wave that kept hitting down.
Gu Xiaoxing gritted his teeth and tried his best to activate his cultivation, but his skin all over his body was still burning with pain, as if tens of thousands of long needles were piercing him at the same time. The pain was excruciating, and his cultivation was consumed very quickly. He couldn't imagine what kind of pain he would endure when his cultivation was exhausted.
"You don't really want to refine me, do you?"
Gu Xiaoxing's thoughts raced, trying his best to resist the heat while also thinking of countermeasures. At this moment, the robe made of his spiritual power could not withstand the impact of the heat wave and turned into drifting spiritual power again.
Suddenly, there was a gleam of light in Gu Xiaoxing's eyes, as if he thought of something. He pondered for a moment, and all kinds of things about practicing the Soul Binding Rope flashed through his mind. He had been unable to practice this technique because he had not gotten the hang of forging the soul rope. Since this Sanyang Soul Refining Furnace can temper the body, why not use it to temper the soul rope?
As long as this spiritual rope is tempered long enough and wrapped around itself, it may be able to withstand these heat waves!
He did it as soon as he thought of it. Gu Xiaoxing's eyes focused, and his huge cultivation overflowed from his body. He continued to resist the heat while using the Spirit Control Finger to condense all the overflowing spiritual power together. Immediately, a spiritual power ball with a diameter of about half a meter appeared in front of Gu Xiaoxing. As soon as this spiritual power ball appeared, it was dispersed by a wave of heat wave. Gu Xiaoxing controlled them to condense, and then they were dispersed again, and condensed again, over and over again.
With repeated repetitions, each time after re-condensation, the spiritual energy ball would become smaller and denser, gradually becoming like a balloon filled with water, twisted and deformed under the impact of the heat wave, but not enough to break it up. The heat wave continued, and in just half an hour, as if it had been tempered by thousands of hammers, the spiritual energy ball was condensed into a fist-sized spiritual energy ball. The heat wave hit again, and the condensed spiritual energy ball did not move at all.
"This level should be much higher than what I expected, but I need this intensity, otherwise I won't be able to withstand the heat wave..."
Then, Gu Xiaoxing released his own cultivation and condensed into a ball of spiritual power again, wrapping the fist-sized ball of concentrated spiritual power inside. After another half hour of heat waves beating and tempering it, the concentrated spiritual power ball, which was originally only the size of a fist, became much larger after being wrapped in another layer of concentrated spiritual power.
He then continued to do the same thing, three floors, five floors, eight floors, all the way to the thirteenth floor, when Gu Xiaoxing stopped. His cultivation was almost exhausted, after all, he had to devote a part of it to resist the heat wave. At this time, the ball of concentrated spiritual power was the size of a head, which was more than enough to forge a spiritual rope.
You should know that the middle-aged man in the Black Wood Forest had only tempered seven levels of concentrated spiritual power when he practiced this method before. This is because tempering is really hard work.
If it weren't for the Sanyang Spirit Refining Furnace that saved Gu Xiaoxing a lot of energy, it would be impossible for him to forge the thirteenth layer with his cultivation level, but this was far from enough.
His eyes flashed with determination, he took out the last piece of spiritual marrow and put it into his mouth. He did not use it to refine it to improve his cultivation, but instead forced the speed at which the soul-eating insect devoured the spiritual marrow. He used it simply to restore his cultivation. His spiritual power was soon replenished again, and he continued to control the spiritual furnace to refine it.
Twenty layers, fifty layers, one hundred layers. When it reached the one hundred and eighth layer, it was as if it had reached some kind of limit. It was impossible to absorb any more spiritual power into it. Gu Xiaoxing felt regretful. This method of forging the spirit rope was strange. The more layers there were, the stronger the spirit rope would be. He thought that if his cultivation was high enough, he would continue to forge it layer by layer, it would eventually evolve into a great magical power. But it seemed that there was a limit.
But for Gu Xiaoxing, this was enough. He had originally planned to stop after tempering one or two more layers as his spiritual essence was almost exhausted.
At this time, a large ball of concentrated spiritual power floated in front of him. Ordinary spiritual power was light blue, but the ball in front of him was red gold. The superposition of one hundred and eight layers of concentrated spiritual power seemed to have made it transcend the scope of spiritual power and sublimate into another substance.
At this time, the heat waves from the spirit furnace were no longer able to shake the red-gold spirit ball at all. Even Gu Xiaoxing doubted whether he could chew through this hard bone. Fortunately, this was something he had forged with his own cultivation, and he could barely shape it when he used his full strength to control his spirit.
On this day, the sun rose. It had been exactly half a month since Gu Xiaoxing was captured. In the alchemy furnace, he breathed a sigh of relief. "The most difficult step is finally completed. The next step is to engrave the secret runes. It must be done as soon as possible. My spiritual essence has been used up, and my cultivation is not much..."
In front of Gu Xiaoxing, there was a spiritual rope like a red golden dragon. It was impossible to tell how long it was as it coiled and meandered. In any case, it was not short, enough to wrap around a person tightly without leaving any gaps.
However, this is still a semi-finished product and difficult to control. Secret symbols and divine patterns need to be engraved before it can be truly practiced as a soul-binding rope and can be controlled freely. There are only two methods. One is to engrave it with the soul, but this method is extremely laborious and requires concentrating the spiritual consciousness to the extreme and turning it into a sharp knife to engrave. Gu Xiaoxing only tried it for a while and then felt his head become heavy, so he gave up directly.
Then, he gritted his teeth, his expression revealing a ruthless look, and chose to continue with the second method. Although it was a bit harsh on himself, there was no other way!
