Cultivating Immortality :I Obtained The Villain's Ascension Code

Unlike normal meridians, these new channels would be born not of harmony, but through destruction. Their sole purpose was to harness asura qi—and to devour.

He began.

Drawing the crimson strands inward, he directed them into his limbs. At once, the energy surged and burned, ravaging his right arm’s meridian network. Veins ruptured, bones cracked, and flesh blistered beneath the invisible current.

Xiao Ning clenched his teeth.

Agony surged through every inch of his body, muscles tearing and bones grinding as the Asura Qi carved its way through him. Yet he did not falter.

To an ordinary cultivator, this torment would be unbearable. But to the former Li Fang—the original owner of this body—it was far from the worst he had known. In his early years, Li Fang had walked the grueling path of body refining cultivation, a discipline that treated the flesh itself as a treasure to be forged.

While most cultivators focused on drawing Qi into their meridians to strengthen their spirit, body refiners took a different route: they tempered skin, muscle, bone, and marrow through fire, pressure, poison, and pain. Every scar became a foundation. Every broken bone, a stepping stone.

They sought to turn the body into a weapon—resilient as metal, enduring as stone, and immune to ordinary harm. It was a cultivation path of brute willpower, where one advanced not through enlightenment, but through survival.

And now, it was not Li Fang who endured this pain, but Xiao Ning—an ancient soul who had lived for thousands of years, seen the rise and fall of sects and empires, and cultivated across forbidden realms.