Where was the quiet little courtyard before her eyes now?
There was only a suffocating darkness.
Immediately after, the darkness surged.
Billions of shrill roars exploded in her ears.
In a daze, Jiang Yuechu glimpsed an indescribable behemoth within the rolling black mist.
It was entrenched between heaven and earth, its body spanning tens of millions of miles.
It was surrounded by dense Death Qi and evil intent, with countless distorted faces appearing and vanishing on its body.
Great Black Heaven.
Using the body as a prison to detain ten thousand demons, using the soul as a Furnace to refine the golden body.
The behemoth slowly lowered its head, two crimson gazes piercing through the ages.
Coldly staring at a certain ant who dared to peek at its true form.
A terrifying pressure crashed down upon her.
Jiang Yuechu felt as small as a candle flame in a gale before it.
Meanwhile, within the hundreds of large acupoints in her body, the originally suppressed remnant souls of demons seemed to receive some kind of summons.
They frantically struck the barriers of her acupoints, letting out venomous roars.
A wolf shadow loomed in the depths of her Qi Sea, and a tiger shadow opened its bloody maw.
Thunder Dragons rampaged, and white cranes screamed in fury.
Countless more unknown demons gathered into a black torrent, flowing upstream and charging straight for her Spiritual Terrace.
At the same time.
The sense of power coming from her Physical Body was skyrocketing.
Every inch of her flesh and blood became increasingly resilient under the scouring of this Evil Qi.
But in contrast, there was the agonizing pain of her Divine Soul being on the verge of shattering.
Kill.
Kill everything in sight.
Turn all living beings in this world into a part of the Great Black Heaven.
The young girl's reason retreated step by step under this wave of madness.
The clarity in her eyes was bit by bit being replaced by crimson.
She even had a faint premonition in her heart.
If she couldn't hold onto this last trace of clarity,
Even if she achieved the Realm of Perfection, she would be nothing more than a walking corpse that only knew how to kill.
It was at this critical moment.
Deep within her Divine Soul, a breeze suddenly blew past.
[Untainted Pure Heart] operated on its own.
It was as if a spotless white lotus had grown in that muddy, filthy swamp.
The originally noisy and clamorous demonic voices actually froze for a moment.
Jiang Yuechu seized this fleeting opportunity and forcibly suppressed the killing intent that was about to spiral out of control.
A long time later.
Clarity returned to her mind.
"Phew—"
Jiang Yuechu suddenly opened her eyes.
It was late now, and the courtyard was silent.
Only the occasional chirping of insects could be heard from afar.
She lowered her head and looked at her hands.
Her originally fair palms were now uncontrollably twitching slightly.
Beneath her skin, black Qi faintly circulated.
Although suppressed, its Evil Qi still couldn't be hidden.
Along with these changes,
The level of her Physical Body stepped up another notch.
Just by casually clenching her fist,
She could feel the destructive power to collapse mountains and split peaks.
Driven by this power, her cultivation at the Sixth Level of the Ascending Tower Realm actually showed faint signs of loosening again.
Reaching Perfection in the "Great Black Heaven Body Forging Scripture" was indeed domineering and peerless.
But there wasn't a hint of joy on Jiang Yuechu's face.
Instead, her brows were tightly furrowed, and her expression was solemn.
She had always relied on the System to add points and had never considered the side effects brought by her Cultivation Techniques.
The moment of losing control just now left her with lingering fears.
Now it was only at the Realm of Perfection, yet the backlash was already so terrifying.
If she wanted to add points to reach the Supreme Realm... Jiang Yuechu narrowed her eyes, calculating silently.
Her current set of skills seemed matchless, but in reality, she was somewhat unbalanced.
Sanctifying the Physical Body, possessing the strength to move mountains, and with the blessing of many innate Divine Abilities, she already had few rivals in the Denglou Realm in terms of offense and defense alone.
But this path of the Divine Soul was her greatest shortcoming.
[Untainted Pure Heart]Although it can resist invasion,Preserve the clarity of mind.
It was, after all, only a means of passive defense and didn't truly strengthen her Divine Soul.
Once that backlash exceeded its capacity, she might not even have time to cry.
Throwing down over nine hundred thousand years of Dao Cultivation today had brought a surge in strength, but it also buried a huge hidden danger.
The remnant souls of demons in her body accumulated more and more, and the Evil Qi grew heavier.
This Physical Body was like a constantly pressurizing powder keg.
Forcing an upgrade to supreme would surely blow her to smithereens.
Jiang Yuechu slowly stood up, stretched her somewhat stiff neck, and forcibly suppressed the restless urge for quick success in her heart.
Forget it.
If the boat capsizes, no matter how fast you swim, it's in vain.
Although the "Great Black Heaven Body Forging Scripture" was extremely powerful, since it was currently a single-plank bridge, there was no need to force her way across.
To improve further, she had to first find a method specifically for cultivating the Divine Soul... Anyway, this Dao Cultivation, could it not be spent anywhere?
If it couldn't be consumed here, there were naturally other mouths waiting.
Thinking of this, the young girl no longer hesitated.
[Celestial Demon Martial Practice: Furnace]
In a daze, the surrounding scenery changed again, returning to the familiar martial practice field.
The sky was grey, and the earth was vast.
Only this time, within this empty and lonely martial practice field, there was one more object.
A giant cauldron.
Cast entirely in bronze, with three legs and two ears, it stood tall in the center of the martial practice field.
Carved on the body of the cauldron were countless hideous Yao Beasts, either roaring or fighting, so lifelike it seemed they would burst out of the walls at any moment.
There was no fire inside the cauldron, yet waves of heat came rolling out.
Jiang Yuechu carefully examined the behemoth that had appeared out of thin air.
This is the so-called Furnace?
They really gave her a freaking Furnace?
Withdrawing her gaze, her mind stirred.
The system panel expanded again.
It was a dazzling array, quite staggering.
Jiang Yuechu narrowed her eyes, her gaze sweeping over them one by one.
[Innate Divine Abilities:
Four Perils Manifestation: Desolate God Body
Three Flood Dragons Transformation: Dragon God Body
Moving Mountains and Filling Seas
Broad Knowledge and Strong Memory
Metal Virtue: Soaring Aspiration
Silver Bone Glazed Body
Severing Sound and Dust
Reverse Battle
Fire Dragon Incinerates Heart
Taiyin Shape Refining
Eternal Evergreen
Heavenly Flame Golden Splendor
Untainted Pure Heart
Poisonous Torrent and Evil Mist
Remnant Fox Cry
Flesh and Bone as Furnace
Earth Control]
All in all, there were actually more than a dozen kinds.
Jiang Yuechu looked at the data before her, her brows slightly furrowed.
In the past when she was weak, she had no choice and used whatever she could get.
But now that she had reached the Denglou Realm, the opponents she faced were becoming increasingly powerful.
Some of these methods had long since failed to keep up with her pace.
Like a peddler carrying a vast fortune, though there are many things, when truly encountering a bandit, the handy tools one can take out to fight for their life are only one or two.
If I could exchange these junk items for something useful... Jiang Yuechu looked around, her gaze slowly sweeping over the various innate Divine Abilities.
The first to be settled upon was the Divine Ability [Moving Mountains and Filling Seas].
This technique was obtained from that White Ape Duke in the past; its name was quite grand, sounding like it had the power to change the world.
But today, she was no longer the fledgling Demon-Suppressing Captain she once was.
In the Denglou Realm, every punch and kick has the power to collapse mountains and split peaks.
Such a Divine Ability was already redundant for her.
Furthermore, she had another technique [Earth Control], and their effects overlapped; keeping it was also useless.
Her gaze shifted and landed on another talent.
[Broad Knowledge and Strong Memory].
Never forgetting what is seen, never losing what is heard.
If placed on a mundane person, it might still have some use.
But after entering the Ascending Tower, one's memory is naturally far superior to a Mortal's.
As for extremely obscure and difficult Cultivation Techniques and martial arts, she had the Golden Finger to record and deduce them on her behalf, so why would she need to bother remembering them herself?
As for other things, like having her read more books... don't make your Sister Jiang laugh.
This thing is also junk.
Since it's junk, it should have a use for junk.
Jiang Yuechu no longer hesitated, and with a thought,
I'll use these two innate Divine Abilities to test the waters!