133: Body cultivation? Chen De's choice!

Chen De thought to himself, “Perhaps I can give it a try.”

After his transformation, he had one opportunity to choose a human cultivation system.

If he wanted to add more cultivation systems later, he would need some special methods.

This wasn’t just true for Chen De; it applied to humans and everyone else as well.

Because, under normal circumstances, one could only choose one primary cultivation system.

If multiple primary cultivation systems were practiced simultaneously, conflicts would inevitably arise.

However, martial arts had developed for many years, so naturally, methods for cultivating multiple mainstream systems concurrently had long been deduced.

For example, the Martial King of the past, now the Divine Martial Emperor.

He cultivated both body and martial arts, reaching the peak of the Heavenly Imperial Realm (Eternal Realm) in both.

It was just that such methods were mostly controlled by powerful forces, making them difficult for ordinary people to obtain.

Chen De was no exception; the Tianyan Sect did not have the qualifications to acquire such a method.

According to Chen De’s estimation, Qingyun Prefecture’s Qiu Xian Hall should possess such a method.

Perhaps there will be an opportunity in the future; it seems he will have to visit Qiu Xian Hall again!

However, Chen De was not in a hurry at the moment, nor did he plan to cultivate too many systems simultaneously.

So, after much deliberation, Chen De decided to choose body cultivation as his second cultivation system.

Why?

There were actually many systems within the Tianyan Sect, and Chen De had gained some experience from their memories.

At the same time, in the minds of the true disciples Chen De had influenced,

there were also some calculations by the Tianyan Sect’s Grand Elder regarding this dual-cultivation method.

Even though they hadn't practiced it, that didn't prevent them from having opinions on the method.

Furthermore, as a Void Union Realm expert, he had seen some individuals who practiced both body and martial arts.

According to what the Grand Elder once preached:

If one pursued speed in dual cultivation, the greater the similarity between the two systems, the better.

If one pursued the effect of dual cultivation, the smaller the similarity between the two systems, the better.

Chen De’s understanding was that if there was an 80% similarity between two cultivation systems,

then the cultivation of the second system could progress at an extremely fast rate to the level of the first system.

Because the first system had already laid the foundation for the second system.

The second system cultivated in areas where the first system had already developed.

When the second system reached that point, it could skip that process.

Thus, the cultivation speed would be extremely fast.

It was just that the same achievement could not be attained twice, so doing the same thing could not yield twice the same amount of benefit.

The overlapping parts could not bring any improvement to oneself.

Because it had already been completed, it was impossible to do it a second time.

It was like an object that had already been polished smooth and perfect; polishing it again would be meaningless.

It would also be impossible to gain rewards again in the same place.

Therefore, if two systems with 80% similarity were dual-cultivated, the final strength achieved

would be the non-overlapping 20% of the first system, plus the non-overlapping 20% of the second system, plus the overlapping 80%.

The final strength would be 120% of the original.

This dual-cultivation method had little effect but was fast.

In fact, if the similarity between the two major cultivation systems was high enough, a dual-cultivation method might not even be necessary.

It was just that such a situation was essentially not much different from not dual-cultivating at all.

It was smooth, but the effect might be similar to just running one’s cultivation technique normally.

Then there was the second type, which had slower cultivation speed but very good effects.

The lower the similarity, the greater the final improvement gained.

However, when the similarity was sufficiently low, it was no different from cultivating from scratch.

Therefore, Chen De chose a body cultivation system that was as dissimilar as possible to the demon beast cultivation system.

Currently, attribute points were scarce, so naturally, he had to choose the solution that maximized benefits.

So, Chen De immediately sat cross-legged and began his body cultivation.

The first stage of body cultivation, Inner Resonance Realm, was entered in three breaths!

Inner Resonance Realm Triple Layer, broken through in a hundred breaths!

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Just like that, Chen De cultivated for one night and reached the peak of the Body Tempering Realm.

With his superior understanding, Chen De’s physical strength was already not weak.

He could completely defeat the Essence Fusion Realm system with just his physical body.

This night of cultivation was merely about integrating his physical body.

The reason Chen De did not continue to break through was not because he could only cultivate to this point in one night.

But because Chen De encountered a problem: he didn’t know this technique!

Before this, Chen De had never had experience with autonomously breaking through realms.

And the Essence Fusion Realm was precisely the most crucial dividing line between body cultivation and the normal martial artist system.

Essence Fusion, Essence Fusion, the fusion of body and soul.

From then on, the body was the soul, and the soul was the body.

When Chen De read novels in his previous life, they all said that body cultivators had weak spirits and could be attacked with mental attacks.

But upon arriving here, Chen De understood that no primary cultivation system had ever been eliminated until now.

One of the most crucial points was that it had no weaknesses.

Even body cultivation, like normal martial artists, included healing, movement, attack…

Different systems could only be said to have their own characteristics, rather than their own shortcomings.

Just like body cultivation, Chen De used to think that body cultivators had weak spirits and could be attacked with mental attacks.

But in reality, upon reaching the Essence Fusion Realm, after the body and soul merged,

the soul was the body, and the body was the soul!

Mental attacks, attacking the spirit, were equivalent to attacking the physical body.

Facing a body cultivator, using a mental attack to attack his physical body

was even less effective than directly using a physical attack on his physical body.

But precisely because of this, Chen De dared not break through rashly.

The cultivation method for body cultivation was far more dangerous than that of normal martial artists.

Especially in the Essence Fusion Realm, a single mistake could lead to the scattering of his soul and death.

For this critical step, even though Chen De had seen it thousands of times in others’ memories, he still dared not be negligent in the slightest.

Fortunately, when Chen De cultivated the system, the system also promptly displayed the body cultivation panel.

Realm: Demon Transformation Realm Ninth Layer / Body Tempering Realm Ninth Layer

Race: Evil God · Chaos World-Destroying Beast

Talent 1: Giant Force (A talent possessed by all ant-type demon beasts; ancient bloodline, higher bonus, permanently increases strength by 50%)

Talent 2: Heaven Crystal (Can condense demon power onto ordinary crystals, granting crystals functions such as hardness, energy storage, and image retention)

Talent 3: God Shield (Naturally immune to 30% of mental attacks)

Talent 4: Blood Fiend (Attack lifesteal, demon 紋 body protection, dying frenzy, integrating offense, defense, and madness)

Talent 5: Shadow Fiend (Body like a void abyss; those not a major realm higher cannot perceive its realm)

Talent 6: Burning Evil (Burn blood to transform into a demon; the worse the body’s condition, the stronger the battle power boost)

Talent 7: Evil God Essence (Infinite proliferation, indescribable, disguise, black liquid, Devouring, pollution, madness, distortion…)

Talent 8: Extreme Chaos (Spirit Devouring, Blood Refining, self-conflict, self-collapse…)

Speed: 9999.9 (1:100000) [88 / 10000] / 99.9 (1:1)

Defense: 9999.9 (1:100000) [0 / 10000] / 99.9 (1:1)

Strength: 9999.9 (1:100000) [0 / 10000] / 99.9 (1:1)

Attribute Points: 0 / 3000

Skill 1: Extreme Collapse Demonic Silver Armor (Activated)

Skill 2: Earth Dark Sky Demonic Light (Activated)

Skill 3: Dark Ember World-Destroying Kill (Activated)

Skill 4: Formless Void Strike (Activated)

Skill 5: Chaos True Demon Seal (Activated)

Skill 6: Evil Prison Nine Wave (Activated)

Cultivation Technique: Evil God · Chaos Demonic Enlightenment Scripture