Chapter 361 - 189: The Four Supreme Treasure Body Diagrams, Gourd Swallows Divine Gold
This is what is referred to in the Great Yi City Immortal Realm as a special cultivation body.
Treasure Body!
It refers to a cultivator’s innate origin being close to the Dao, possessing an extremely special physique that allows for rapid enhancement of a particular attribute or certain aspect of strength during cultivation. As a result, they are ten steps ahead in both combat and cultivation, holding an advantage.
Compared to Spirit Root qualifications or Spirit Body, the Treasure Body is even more rare. Generally, this unique qualification arises from either bloodline mutation or ancestral lineage inheritance. For instance, in some powerful cultivation clans, if the progenitor has a certain powerful physique, it is very likely that this physique will reappear in his descendants or bloodline heirs.
This is also called atavism, or the theory of bloodline.
In the Cultivation Realm, Dragon Blood Battle Body, Fire Spirit Bloodline, Sword Casting Body, Vast Righteous Qi Body, and Spirit Fusion Elixir Body of several ancient cultivation families with millennia of inheritance are examples of this.
As for cases like Zheng Yi, who uses special cultivation techniques and secret spiritual objects to reconstruct the bloodline, resulting in one or two kinds of Treasure Body or Spirit Body, such cases are not unheard of, but they are exceedingly rare and seldom known.
For instance, his Little Five Elements Yin Yang Dao Embryo was born from the fusion of Yin Yang Qi, Five Ghosts Technique, and the Innate Peach Divine Embryo, occurring by sheer luck and coincidence.
The Blood Talisman Body, in contrast, is a special physique derived by Zheng Yi through the Incense Fire Dharma Realm, utilizing the vast computational power of the Super Brain Main God to deduce it. It integrates Scattered Divine Light, Physical Body Opening Technique, Saint Armor Divine Refining Skill, and Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Rune Seeds into one.
This case is an exception.
Besides having deep foundations and vast Celestial Secret Calculation, what’s more important is a bit of fortune. Even a slight misstep could render artificial creation impossible.
Therefore, in the marketplace, once someone exhibits a special Treasure Body or Spirit Body, they are regarded as a genius and are quickly taken under the wing of major families or major sects for focused cultivation.
They might even marry into some cultivation families as a way to improve bloodlines.
Even more, some evil forces specifically research these physiques. Through special human experiments and secret techniques, they can strip some Treasure Body from the original owners and transplant it onto themselves.
Of course, this involves significant risk and a low success rate; the recipient tends to experience rejection or backlash.
Moreover, even if the transplant succeeds, it might only yield three or four, or even one or two-tenths of the original Treasure Body’s effect, and it no longer possesses growth potential. The potential and operational yield are not substantial.
The cultivation realm has thousands of years of inheritance, and every force pays attention to collecting talents with special physiques, gradually concentrating these special bloodlines.
For ordinary people, the chance of having a Treasure Body becomes rarer and rarer. Cultivators possessing such powerful Treasure Bodies almost always hail from major families or significant forces, leading to a concentration of talent.
"Array is the key of talismans; talisman is the base of arrays..."
"Blood Talisman Body, Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Rune Seeds... It seems that this human skin paper scroll, by some mysterious will of heaven, has fallen into my hands, and is not wasted!"
Holding the square human skin paper scroll, Zheng Yi’s eyes were filled with joy, and his heart surged with excitement.
"This Four Extremes Array has fate with me; it should be mine!"
Although chased for a hundred thousand miles, fleeing for three whole months, and almost perishing at the hands of Golden Palace Sect’s Supreme Elder, Master Baoxu.
But now, having obtained Taibai Divine Gold and coincidentally discovered the secret of the Qin Family Treasure Box, gaining the nameless strange array, the human skin scroll inheritance of the Four Extremes Array: Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire, all the hardships are worth it.
It can be said to be a fat harvest!
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It’s not an exaggeration to say that in this operation, Zheng Yi achieved complete victory.
Firstly, he eliminated the Qin Family Ancestor, removing a major threat, making the greatest threat faced by the Daluo Alliance vanish into thin air.
Secondly, he acquired two extremely important treasures.
The mission, initially intended simply to gather information, ended up with Zheng Yi gaining a rich harvest.
"Wind Roar Array, Ice Array, Flame Array, Earth Flame Array!"
Zheng Yi carefully studied the Four Extremes Array recorded on the human skin scroll. Meanwhile, he perceived that these four arrays, when fused into one, form an overall force, their power can increase several times, this is the true Four Extremes Array.
This set of Four Extremes Array consists of Wind Roar Array, Ice Array, Flame Array, and Earth Flame Array, which were the four origin breaths of constant change Zheng Yi previously observed.
Each changing array map is mighty, even now having advanced to the Purple Mansion, confronting the aura of the Four Extremes Array, Zheng Yi feels as insignificant as an ant. It is a very ancient power.
Even if the same tier deploys any single array, Zheng Yi dares not guarantee coming out of the array map unharmed.
"This array map has considerable power, but the cost to activate these array maps is also significant."
After thoroughly studying it several times, Zheng Yi carefully stored the human skin in Pot Celestial Acupoints within his physical body space, keeping it close.
The content recorded on this human skin is too profound to comprehend in a single reading; much of it is beyond his understanding.
However, compared to others, Zheng Yi has two significant advantages: one is that the Blood Talisman Body makes researching arrays twice the result with half the effort, with a unique bonus.
On the other hand, in the Doomsday World, it allows him to awaken wisdom through the power of the Incense Fire Dharma Realm, increasing the wisdom aura, and further leveraging the computation ability of the Super Brain Main God.
With such a series of gains, even a pig could take flight.
Even if not an array genius, one would become an array genius.
