The Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength (Gu Shaoshang's Improved Version)
The original Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength was a true cultivation technique, encompassing body refinement, divine abilities, and more. It was a renowned innate technique across all heavens and myriad worlds.
The version Gu Yuan obtained was Gu Shaoshang's personally improved rendition. It stripped away all superfluous elements, retaining only the core body-tempering effect and an incredibly heaven-defying ability: transforming the body's particles into one's own form. Each form possessed the capacity to cultivate martial skills, generate martial insights, and connect with the main body. Once all particles of the body transformed, Gu Yuan would be able to cultivate countless martial skills.
This martial skill would prove immensely useful later, so Gu Yuan decided it would be his primary cultivation technique.
Visions of the Divine Elephant Suppressing Prison Strength's insights and cultivation methods began to flood Gu Yuan's mind.
The human body is composed of eight hundred and forty million particles. Open the power of the giant elephant within the body's particles.
Upon reaching the successful opening of the body's particles, one can return to the origin, cultivating dragon-elephant particles upon the giant elephant particles, followed by primordial elephant particles, until all particles in the body become divine elephant particles – this signifies great completion.
Gu Shaoshang's improvement involved transforming the divine elephant into oneself. This required the cultivator to have an intimate understanding of their own being to cultivate their own particles.
The types of elephants are myriad and varied. The giant elephant is young, transforming into a dragon-elephant. The dragon-elephant is green, transforming into a primordial elephant. The primordial elephant is robust, transforming into a divine elephant – this signifies great completion.
As the martial technique continuously circulated, Gu Yuan gradually felt everything within his body transforming into exceedingly fine particles. These particles arranged themselves in a regulated pattern, forming Gu Yuan's body.
All eight hundred and forty million particles of his body were continuously manifesting.
Gu Yuan released his divine soul. The profound divine soul cultivated through the Chaos Demonic Ape Visualization Technique for a long time began to exert its power. He grasped a particle, enveloped it, and began to modify it, constantly transforming it into Gu Yuan's own likeness.
Finally, after half an hour, Gu Yuan successfully modified the first particle of Gu Yuan's Strength. The subsequent operations did not require Gu Yuan's direct intervention. This single modified particle would then influence other particles.
Furthermore, Gu Yuan infused a wisp of his divine soul power into it, containing a boxing martial skill. He had extracted this skill from an endless martial knowledge database; it was relatively low-tier and not worth his personal cultivation, so he could entrust it to the particle for practice.
Observing the minuscule, shrunken version of Gu Yuan meticulously practicing the martial skill, and continuously transmitting insights about this skill to Gu Yuan's mind, Gu Yuan's body rotated, and gusts of airflow whistled. It was precisely the martial skill he had just taught the particle.
Gu Yuan could execute it without prior learning, showcasing the immense power of this martial skill. Gu Yuan surmised that Gu Shaoshang intended for him to cultivate myriad martial skills, from which he could then synthesize his own martial path.
Although the particles could autonomously develop other particles, the speed was excruciatingly slow. Gu Yuan decided to cultivate them himself, which would be a perfect opportunity to test his multitasking abilities.
Particles could freely switch between a state of being and being integrated with flesh and blood. For instance, while Gu Yuan was cultivating a particular set of particles, other parts of his body could still receive the nourishment of blood and qi. Essentially, Gu Yuan was still cultivating the martial path of blood and qi.
Moreover, particles could become more potent through the nourishment of blood and qi.
Gu Yuan spent the entire afternoon cultivating particles, developing approximately one thousand of them, to which he imparted basic martial skills or cultivation methods from his mind.
Once the first one was cultivated, the rest would only become faster.
Gu Yuan ceased his cultivation and took out some spirit herbs imbued with high levels of blood and qi energy. He no longer needed to focus on spirit herbs that boosted true qi; all his resources would now be allocated to spirit herbs that strengthened the physical body.
He took out several pieces of intact ferocious beast meat, rich in blood and qi energy, stewed them together, and consumed them all at once, directly commencing his blood and qi cultivation.
The path of blood and qi martial arts required the cultivation of essence, qi, and spirit. However, essence was the foundation and could nourish blood and qi, as well as the divine soul. Thus, cultivating the physical body was of paramount importance.
Qi referred to the blood and qi generated between flesh and blood and the qi. It was an extremely pure energy. Its quantity depended entirely on the martial artist's physique; the stronger the physique, the more blood and qi.
Gu Yuan could not afford to halt his physique cultivation even for a moment.
The room resounded with sounds akin to great rivers flowing, accompanied by the crashing of waves against a shore.
The next morning, Gu Yuan concluded his cultivation. The particles within his body, cultivated by himself, numbered approximately one thousand and five. Gu Yuan's internal strength had grown even greater.
With each additional particle, Gu Yuan's strength increased by a notch.
Gu Yuan channeled fine wisps of his divine soul power, imbued with the martial techniques passed down by Gu Shaoshang, into the newly transformed particles.
He let them cultivate on their own, then paid them no further mind. After washing up – though technically unnecessary, it was a habit he couldn't break – he consumed some spirit herbs to replenish his blood and qi, and then headed directly to the arena.
Today marked the start of the second stage of the elimination rounds, and he would be participating. He wondered who his opponent would be, hoping for someone who would push him to his limits.
A few minutes later, Gu Yuan appeared in the contestant seating area. He surveyed the seats, already half-empty. After a few minutes of waiting, the time reached eight o'clock, and the competition officially began.
The opponents were being drawn. Projections flickered in the air, numbers endlessly scrolling.
Gu Yuan took out the display device he had received last time, watching his opponent's name roll by, the speed gradually decreasing.
Opponent: Number Seventy-eight, Gu Xu!
Gu Yuan turned his head towards seat seventy-eight. A robust man with an ordinary face was intently looking back at him. Gu Yuan's lips curled upwards, and he turned his head back.
Information about Gu Xu flashed in his mind.
[Name]: [Gu Xu]
[Destiny God]: [None]
[Destiny]: [Cross-Realm Traveler]
[Realm]: [True Qi Realm (Perfection)]
[Destiny Numbers]: [Cross-Realm Traveler (Red)], [Main God's Walker (Red)], [External Incarnation (Purple)], [Talent Seed (Purple)], [Fortune Plunderer (Purple)], [Tiger-Leopard Strength (Blue)]
A dark line flashed across Gu Yuan's mind. As he had suspected, when the Ancestor of Myriad Heavens Martial Arts appeared before him, he understood that the Main God Palace, reputed to encompass the boundless sea of universes, would undoubtedly interfere. After all, as a training ground for gods and demons forged by the gods, how could the Main God not intervene? Of course, information about the Main God Palace was contained within the knowledge imparted to him by the Ancestor of Myriad Heavens Martial Arts.
It seemed this would be a tough fight. A fighting spirit flickered in Gu Yuan's eyes. He wondered what sort of individuals came from the Main God Palace.