Chapter 58: Tempering the Spirit Scripture

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh...

Figures descended rapidly like a dense rain, surrounding Mu Xuyang and launching a fierce round of attacks against him. However, although there were many Bat Demons, due to limited space, only a dozen or so could get close to Mu Xuyang and launch their assault. This made it not so difficult for Mu Xuyang to deal with them.

As he swung his long spear, the Bat Demons that approached him were killed one by one, sent flying.

In a short amount of time, the area around Mu Xuyang was filled with Bat Demon corpses. The blood that flowed from their bodies, carrying a nauseating stench, stained the ground crimson.

After about half an hour, Mu Xuyang had killed most of the Bat Demons controlled by the Bat Demon leader. Only a few Bat Demons realized that the situation was extremely unfavorable for them and resisted the control of the Bat Demon leader, desperately unleashing their own resistance power. They regained their consciousness and flew away one after another.

Although the Bat Demon leader felt extremely angry seeing one Bat Demon after another break free from its magical control and escape the battlefield, it was helpless.

Only when it saw the last Bat Demon under its control being stabbed to death by Mu Xuyang's spear did it flap its wings in extreme unwillingness and fly away.

With the Bat Demon leader fleeing and no more Bat Demons attacking him, Mu Xuyang put away his long spear and released the Old Yellow Dog from the spirit pouch.

As soon as the Old Yellow Dog came out of the spirit pouch and saw the Bat Demon corpses all over the ground, it excitedly barked at Mu Xuyang a few times and then began devouring the Bat Demon corpses without hesitation.

The Old Yellow Dog had a huge appetite, and its speed in devouring the Bat Demon corpses was astonishing. While Mu Xuyang took half an hour to kill the Bat Demons, the Old Yellow Dog only needed about thirty breaths to clean up all the corpses.

Seeing the Old Yellow Dog finish cleaning up all the corpses, Mu Xuyang knew that it needed some time to rest and digest the power contained within the corpses. He directly put the Old Yellow Dog away and placed it in the spirit pouch, allowing it to rest quietly.

In the following half month, Mu Xuyang did not leave this jungle. During the day, he would search for and hunt the demonic beasts living in this forest area, and at night, he would find a quiet and concealed place to sit cross-legged. He would take the spirit stones he plundered from others as auxiliary cultivation materials and then start cultivating the "Indestructible Golden Body Technique."

After half a month of effort, Mu Xuyang finally perfected his cultivation of the "Indestructible Golden Body Technique," stepping into the threshold of transcendent transformation.

The foundation of a cultivator lies in their physical body. With a robust physique, one's potential for the future will be greater. If the foundation is unstable, the higher one ascends, the more difficult it becomes to progress. Even if advancements are achieved, their combat strength will always be inferior to those who have solid foundations during their body cultivation stage.

Body cultivation is precisely the process of tempering the physical body, an essential part of laying the foundation for future cultivation.

As for transcendent transformation, it is the process in which a person sheds their mortal shell and embarks on the path of immortality. It is also an accumulation process.

For some individuals, this process may be an insurmountable threshold. However, for certain exceptional talents, as long as they accumulate enough power and diligently follow their cultivation path, they can naturally undergo transcendent transformation and step into the realm of magical power.

After reaching the consummate stage in the cultivation of the "Indestructible Golden Body Technique," Mu Xuyang not only clearly saw the shape of the mysterious entity existing in his sea of consciousness, realizing that it was not some heaven-sent treasure but rather the "Mystical Gate" treasure he had designed before his transmigration, but also obtained a technique suitable for transcendent transformation practitioners called the "Tempering Spirit Scripture," which flew out from the "Mystical Gate" treasure.

As the name suggests, the "Tempering Spirit Scripture" allows the practitioner to convert the spiritual power cultivated from the "Indestructible Golden Body Technique" into magical power.

When entering the state of cultivation of the "Tempering Spirit Scripture," Mu Xuyang keenly sensed the emergence of a vacuum vortex centered around the "Mystical Gate" treasure in his sea of consciousness. The magical power he converted through the practice of the "Tempering Spirit Scripture" flowed directly into the vortex, accumulating within it.

Upon witnessing this phenomenon, Mu Xuyang realized that the key to transcendent transformation was to persistently cultivate the "Tempering Spirit Scripture," absorbing and converting a large amount of magical power and filling the vacuum vortex that he could only perceive while practicing the "Tempering Spirit Scripture" to its fullest capacity. Only then could he achieve consummation and complete the cultivation of transcendent transformation.

Although the process may sound easy, actually achieving it is not so simple.

Mu Xuyang deeply understood this point as he cultivated.

This is because, during his cultivation of the "Tempering Spirit Scripture," he keenly sensed the transformed mana. Once he immersed himself in the void vortex, it was as if a clay ox entering the sea, disappearing without a trace. Trying to fill the vast void vortex within his sea of consciousness was not something that could be accomplished overnight.

Although Mu Xuyang was very anxious to quickly improve his combat strength and seek revenge on the person who killed Zhen Langzhong, settling a matter of the heart, he was well aware that cultivation is not achieved in a day's work. It requires continuous effort and dedication for one's goals to be accomplished.

Therefore, he had to temporarily suppress the idea of avenging Zhen Langzhong in his heart.

After half a month of assimilation, the old yellow dog actually obtained the innate abilities of the bat demon, just as Mu Xuyang had guessed. The old yellow dog's sensing ability, olfactory ability, and hearing ability all experienced significant enhancements.

With the improvement of the old yellow dog's various abilities, Mu Xuyang found it much easier to track down the traces of the demonic beasts in the jungle compared to before the enhancement, as if every capture was precise.

Perhaps due to the fact that the number of demonic beasts in the first layer of the demonic realm, whose combat strength was comparable to those in the Refined Body Realm and Transformed Variable Realm, was relatively high, most of the demonic beasts Mu Xuyang encountered during this half month could only contend with individuals in the mid or late stages of the Transformed Variable Realm. He hadn't even seen any demonic beasts with slightly stronger combat power.

"The higher the cultivation realm of the demonic beasts, the greater their flesh and blood can enhance the abilities of the old yellow dog. Moreover, demonic beasts in the Mana Realm already possess demon cores, which, once obtained, can be refined and absorbed to harness their contained power. This is much faster than using spirit stones as auxiliary materials for cultivation. Master said that there are countless demonic beasts scattered throughout the parallel spatial planes in the first layer of the demonic realm, capable of contending with individuals in the Mana Realm and Golden Core Realm. Why haven't I seen any demonic beasts that can contend with those in the Mana Realm? Is it possible that there are no powerful demonic beasts in the forest area where I am now?"

During the noon of that day, half a month later, while Mu Xuyang was lost in thought, pondering why he hadn't encountered stronger demonic beasts, he found a group of demon wolves with the guidance of the old yellow dog. After hunting and killing them, while the old yellow dog was cleaning up the battlefield, Mu Xuyang remained deep in contemplation, trying to figure out the reason why he hadn't encountered more powerful demonic beasts.