The Undying Immortal System

After securing the Black River Kingdom for Lord Kang and taking over his old city, ShouLi, like me, retreated from public life and entered a period of relative seclusion. While she still spent time guiding others from the shadows, her focus was on improving her own cultivation base.

However, unlike most Lords, ShouLi had no need to worry about regular, energy cultivation. With Kang’s old city supporting her, she was accruing contribution points at a rapid pace and would have access to as much karmic energy as she could possibly need, so reaching Martial King wouldn’t be any issue at all.

Instead, her focus was on finally taking the next step in body cultivation.

With the help of her blessing, ShouLi had been able to reach the peak of Rank 1 body cultivation without issue, but she had been blocked from going any further, and she hadn’t been able to help anyone else make similar breakthroughs. There was nearly a decade before the next competition for stewardship of the North Empire, and she wanted to use this time to figure out how to take that next step.

Within our clan, it was generally assumed that the reason no one had been successful in copying ShouLi’s body cultivation technique was that we needed to find some way to create filters for wu first. Without such filters, using ShouLi’s technique meant absorbing a mixture of random toxic energies from the environment and polluting one’s body.

Finding a solution to this problem was what had consumed all of Liang’s and NiangBa's attention for the past several years. However, without even a starting point to work from, they hadn’t made any progress.

I gave them as much support as I could, but eventually, it became clear that everyone was just pounding their heads against a brick wall. Seeing this, I finally decided to step forward and offer them a solution. I had hoped we wouldn’t have to use it, but at least for the moment, it was starting to look like the only way forward.

The problem was that we needed a way to cultivate pure wu of a single element without pulling in any impurities. With normal cultivation, this was done with a filter, but there was another way to achieve a similar effect, and I had used it when working on a formation for growing herbs.

First, I created a kind of reverse Qi Gathering Formation that completely from a small bubble of space. Then, I used the flame of a Yellow-Rank spirit fire to fill this space with pure wu. This created a perfect environment for cultivation, removing the need to filter energy.