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    Starry Sky Professional Directory 108

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    “I failed!”

    “Spiritual roots are innate. In such a short time, I couldn’t comprehend the secret method of altering spiritual roots…”

    “My lifespan was nearing its end. I had no choice but to rely on a ghost cultivator secret method I had previously completed and a ‘幽冥地脉’ (冥府 earth vein) I discovered in the secret realm to transform into a ghost cultivator…”

    “Although ghost cultivation has many limitations – I can’t leave the Netherworld for too long and easily lose my memories, becoming muddleheaded – I used a divine consciousness secret technique to split my soul, mutually infusing it, barely maintaining my obsession…”

    “I refined a ‘soul lamp,’ successfully transforming into a ghost cultivator, enduring endless pain and loneliness, but finally obtained a long time, allowing me to devise a secret technique to improve spiritual roots, named ‘Blood Sacrifice Method’… As long as there are relatives with the same bloodline and spiritual roots, their blood sacrifice can improve their spiritual root aptitude…”

    “But my relatives are almost all dead. Even if they weren’t, the probability of a mortal possessing spiritual roots is incredibly low… Even establishing a cultivation family and diligently cultivating descendants is too late, not to mention that I have transformed into a ghost cultivator and can never have offspring.”

    “I abandoned this path and turned to research another method: ‘Body Snatching’!”

    “Body snatching means changing one’s body. If I could change to a body with superior spiritual roots, it would solve my predicament…”

    “But only Nascent Soul cultivators can perform body snatching, using their Nascent Soul to occupy another cultivator’s body… If I were a Nascent Soul cultivator, I wouldn’t need to change my spiritual roots… For me, this is a deadlock.”

    “After painstakingly cultivating for hundreds of years, I finally bypassed this vicious cycle, comprehending the ‘Ghost Infant Technique,’ which can temporarily transform my ghost body into a ‘Ghost Infant’ body similar to a Nascent Soul, also allowing for body snatching…”

    “Because it was difficult to leave, I patiently waited for the secret realm to open, releasing inheritances and treasures… to attract outsiders, allowing them to pass numerous trials and granting them abundant resources… all to find a cultivator with the most outstanding spiritual root aptitude, the most suitable for my body snatching!”

    “Finally, I found a Heaven-grade spiritual root… It’s as if heaven itself is favoring me. I will live a second life!!”

    “But just as I was making the final preparations for the Ghost Infant body snatching, three Foundation Establishment cultivators unexpectedly broke into the secret realm…”

    A large amount of memory flooded Fang Xing’s mind, making him feel dizzy.

    Fortunately, this memory wasn’t his own; it was like watching a movie.

    Otherwise, he would have gone insane, or at least developed a second personality.

    But with such great risk comes great reward.

    At least, countless secret techniques automatically appeared in his heart.

    From the ‘Blood Sacrifice Method’ for enhancing spiritual roots to the ‘Ghost Infant Technique’ that simulates Nascent Soul body snatching…

    Of course, there were also the five elements spells, and even Wanfa Old Man’s self-created spells!

    This person was indeed a prodigy, with amazing comprehension; the few spells he comprehended were all quite powerful yet consumed little energy.

    Each one released could completely change the landscape of the cultivation world!

    “However…”

    “The Blood Sacrifice Method requires cultivation and requires relatives with spiritual roots!”

    “As for the Ghost Infant Technique, it requires a perfected Foundation Establishment ghost cultivator to perform… Once performed, after transforming into a Ghost Infant, if one cannot perform body snatching in a short time, they will quickly perish!”

    “No wonder that old geezer, Wanfa Old Man, was so eager to snatch my body… He never imagined that my sea of consciousness wasn’t a haven, but a hellish furnace!”

    How much experience is a perfected Foundation Establishment ghost cultivator equivalent to?

    Fang Xing didn’t know.

    He only knew that his proficiency level of the Mahābhote-like Chant was still rising!

    Although much slower, it was very steady.

    Finally!

    The Mahābhote-like Chant crossed another threshold and became ‘Proficient’ level!

    “Proficient level Mahābhote-like Chant… The Great Sun Furnace has been upgraded. I can input martial arts or secret techniques for fusion, transformation, and upgrading?”

    After a brief understanding, Fang Xing knew the purpose of this new function.

    For example, if he put the Ghost God Blade and Exquisite Emotion Sword into it, it could potentially evolve into a new martial art – ‘Dual Mastery of Blade and Sword.’ If he added the twelve styles of Military Fist, it could become ‘Triple Mastery of Star Martial Arts’… The martial art’s level would also be upgraded. If enough is inputted, it might become S-class! Or even surpass S-class, a terrifying martial art!

    “Of course, this fusion upgrade consumes energy. This special ‘energy’ can be proficiency level or external ‘fuel’…”

    “There seems to be a lot of potential here. Some martial arts fusions are useless, but others, once fused, will drive all martial artists crazy, such as the Dragon Tiger Intent Realm!”

    “If in the future, when I break through to the Martial Dao Golden Core, I fuse the Great Dragon Stake and the Subduing Tiger Stake, wouldn’t I be able to overcome this difficulty… Wait, that’s self-sabotage. After all, this is an extraordinary martial art bestowed by the Evil God, who knows what other tricks there are? Martial Dao will is the only reliance of a martial artist!”

    “Why choose this goat path when there is a sunny path of proficiency? You don’t know how you’ll die!”

    “Once all martial arts dependent on martial Dao will are polluted by the Mahābhote-like Chant, is the resulting martial Dao will really my will?”

    “So, what can I improve now?”

    Fang Xing fell into thought, then suddenly had an idea and poured all the secret technique memories he obtained from Wanfa Old Man into it.

    “This is called taking from you and using it for you…”

    In an instant, he felt that Wanfa Old Man’s Ghost Infant was burning a million times faster!

    On the attribute bar, the imprints of the ‘Blood Sacrifice Method,’ ‘Body Snatching Method,’ and ‘Ghost Infant Technique’ appeared one by one, rapidly solidifying from a semi-blurred state and then being poured into the Great Sun Furnace…

    Because of this, the rapidly increasing proficiency of the Mahābhote-like Chant finally slowed down and gradually stagnated.

    Finally.

    After a roar filled with resentment, in Fang Xing’s sea of consciousness, Wanfa Old Man’s Ghost Infant turned into a wisp of black smoke, quickly swallowed by the scarlet sun…

    And on the attribute panel, a new line of information appeared at the same time:

    【Mahābhote-like Chant: 13/200 (Proficient)】

    【Celestial Mother’s Virtue and Virtue Golden Lotus Twin Guardian Technique: 1/100 (Beginner)】

    “‘Celestial Mother’s Virtue and Virtue Golden Lotus Twin Guardian Technique’?”

    Fang Xing ignored the proficient level Mahābhote-like Chant and began to carefully comprehend this technique.

    In a daze, a lot of information appeared in his mind.

    This technique uses oneself as the ‘Mahāvajra Ox-Head Ming Wang,’ visualizing a ‘Celestial Mother Mingfei,’ and then refining this ‘Celestial Mother Mingfei’ into a ‘Mahāvajra Twin Guardian’ secret technique!

    Simply put, it’s a ‘body-splitting technique’!

    Of course, compared to ordinary body-splitting techniques, this technique has many advantages. Firstly, visualizing a Mingfei and refining it into a guardian does not require splitting one’s own soul.

    Strictly speaking, this is only creating a projection of one’s own will.

    The biggest advantage is that it bypasses the limitations of cultivator’s spiritual energy, allowing martial artists to also cultivate this technique!

    “This ‘Mahāvajra Twin Guardian’ is like a nascent soul, capable of body snatching once to obtain a true physical body!”

    “Of course, although the guardian can perform body snatching, in terms of power, it is far inferior to a Nascent Soul, it’s only a body snatching secret technique… but it bypasses the restriction that only a Nascent Soul can perform it.”

    “This is also a way for me to obtain spiritual roots… Using this secret technique to snatch the body of someone with spiritual roots, can’t I cultivate?”

    “Unfortunately, a guardian can only perform body snatching once, but once is enough. In this world, only Nascent Soul cultivators can perform body snatching! What more could I ask for?”

    Fang Xing knew some iron laws of the cultivation world, such as cultivators not being able to snatch the bodies of those without spiritual roots.

    But what about someone without spiritual roots snatching the body of a cultivator?

    “It feels a little strange… Oh well, it’s barely enough.”

    “After all, it’s a branch of an extraordinary martial art related to the Evil God. It being evil, bloody, and brutal is perfectly normal…”

    If he could cultivate, Fang Xing was still somewhat interested.

    Moreover, having a cultivator clone would better support his main body and allow for the exploration of the Xianwu path (Immortal-Martial path).

    “Wait… a body with spiritual roots?”

    Fang Xing quickly walked to the white jade coffin and looked at the young man’s corpse inside: “No wonder his cultivation was so low, it turns out he was the target for body snatching chosen by Wanfa Old Man… His spiritual root aptitude is Heaven-grade, top-notch… what a pity.”

    No matter how good the body snatching target is, it has to be alive!

    Even Wanfa Old Man, when he used the secret realm to select this person, only froze him for later use.

    Who knew Fang Xing would strike so ruthlessly, killing him in one blow!

    Snatching a dead body is still just a dead body!

    However, Fang Xing didn’t regret it, as it was an instinctive reaction.

    At that time, there was simply no choice. He has never been threatened his entire life, preferring jade-like shattering to remaining intact as a tile.

    “And… for others, this corpse is useless, but for me, it may not be.”

    Fang Xing quickly took out a test tube, collecting the young man’s blood and bone marrow…

    “Aquila Star is most developed in the cultivation industry!”

    “For the interstellar era, cloning an identical person is definitely not difficult! It doesn’t even have karma or memories, making body snatching even better!”

    “It’s just that cultivation pods are difficult to obtain… I wonder if there are any on the black market? This thing is even more restricted than firearms.”

    Fang Xing stroked his chin.

    However, he had already decided to do this.

    And, since he was cloning one, cloning a few more wouldn’t hurt.

    In this way, Wanfa Old Man’s ‘Blood Sacrifice Method’ would also have its use.

    No blood relation could be closer… than being a hundred percent identical to oneself?

    And from a scientific point of view, there would be no rejection reaction, thus no hidden dangers.

    Of course, the premise of this is that the guardian clone succeeds in body snatching!

    Otherwise, without spiritual roots and cultivation, one cannot cultivate that secret technique; no matter how many clones are created, they would be useless.

    “What is the aptitude above Heaven-grade spiritual root? In the cultivation world… there shouldn’t be any, right?”

    “If it’s that kind of aptitude, breakthrough would be as easy as eating and drinking, barely able to keep up with my main body’s growth…”

    Fang Xing stroked his chin, and suddenly his expression turned serious: “Wanfa Old Man might not be completely dead… When he transformed into a ghost cultivator, to maintain his memory, he split his soul, mutually infusing it… Only one died here, where is the other? In the Wanfa Secret Realm?”

    “But with my strength, wouldn’t it be suicidal to go to a secret realm where even a Foundation Establishment cultivator died?”

    Time returns to the moment the Ghost Infant was melted by the Great Sun.

    Within the Wanfa Secret Realm.

    Underground space.

    The original coffin had disappeared, and only one person sat cross-legged in its place. He was thin, with a goatee, wearing a black Taoist robe; it was the Black Heaven Temple’s Wu Laodao!

    Fang Xing only saw two Foundation Establishment escape lights and assumed that a Foundation Establishment ancestor died in the secret realm, but he overlooked the possibility of being trapped.

    At this moment, Wu Laodao’s expression was sometimes ferocious, sometimes calm, holding a brass lamp in his hand.

    The brass lamp had lotus patterns on its surface, and a wick was slowly burning, emitting a seven-colored halo.

    Under the halo, the ferocious expression on Wu Laodao’s face was quickly fading.

    “I… died?”

    Suddenly, Wu Laodao opened his eyes, a trace of killing intent flashing across his face: “Those two Foundation Establishment cultivators, when I completely master this body and leave seclusion, I will definitely reduce them to ashes!”

    “A split soul, who is the master and who is the servant?”

    “From today onwards, there will only be one Wanfa Old Man in the world…”

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    Fang Xing put on his mask, took out his long-sealed black market communication device, and called Meatbun Zhang Jiare.

    After a short while, the call was answered.

    “Eh? What a rare guest…”

    Zhang Jiare sounded somewhat resentful: “You haven’t contacted me for a long time…”

    “Cough cough, the Fengye City black market was recently under strict investigation, it wasn’t convenient…” Fang Xing immediately got to the point: “Do you have cultivation pods?”

    Although cultivation pods are used to cultivate bio-humans, they’re different from cloning humans, but the program can be modified.

    “Cough cough… Don’t you know I’ve been transferred to the Yuan Yu City black market? Also… only one kind of organization would be interested in cultivation pods. Are you from the resistance army? Which branch?”

    Zhang Jiare was surprised.

    “You’re in the Yuan Yu City black market?”

    Fang Xing suddenly felt like he had been hit by a pie, but quickly denied it: “I’m not from the resistance army, I just need cultivation pods for some scientific research… Can you get some? I’ll pay a high price!”

    “No!”

    Zhang Jiare refused decisively: “The Federation is very strict about this… Only the crazy resistance army, daring to attack cultivation bases, can get some…”

    “Alright, I’ll contact you later.”

    Fang Xing nodded and hung up the phone.

    “Since the black market doesn’t have them, then… the resistance army?”

    He stroked his chin: “Come to think of it… I have a pretty wide network of contacts. Unknowingly, I’ve reached this level?”

    In the resistance army, he indeed has a friend, Liu Wei!

    Of course, contacting him now is also troublesome and must be kept secret!

    “Unfortunately… if I couldn’t get this cultivation pod through normal channels, why would I bother with all this?”

    Fang Xing shook his head and sighed helplessly.
    (End of Chapter)

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