Chapter 262 - 259: Something Has Changed
As a child reading at home, the books often said that a gentleman is gentle and refined like jade. Now that he’s begun cultivating the Green Jade War Body, Ye Zhen truly understood what it feels like to be ’gentle and refined like jade.’
With a slight exertion of force from his palm, he activated the unique method of the Shattered Jade War Body to absorb the power contained within the Green Spirit Jade. The Jade Spirit Power entered Ye Zhen’s meridians, and an immediate sensation of gentleness washed over him.
Fundamentally speaking, the Spiritual Power of a Martial Artist’s body originates from the violent Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi. Even though it becomes Spiritual Power after undergoing various refining and nurturing processes, the violent nature of Spiritual Power does not change. Otherwise, how would Spiritual Power possess such formidable offensive capabilities?
Normally when cultivating, the slow circulation of Spiritual Power isn’t an issue, but during battle, when Spiritual Power surges wildly, the meridians feel as if they are being scraped by knives, causing persistent, tingling pain. Even with habituation, the meridians still feel somewhat uncomfortable.
However, the Jade Spirit Power from the Green Spirit Jade is different; when it flows through the meridians, it feels like warm oil, without a trace of discomfort.
Ye Zhen somewhat understood why the Shattered Jade War Body Secret Manual could allow Martial Artists to temper their Acquired Spiritual Bodies even before breaking through to the Spirit Transformation Realm.
The likely reason is that the energy contained within the Green Spirit Jade is gentle and refined like jade, not harming the internal organs or flesh at all.
According to the Shattered Jade War Body Secret Manual, a Martial Artist’s body is like a mountain containing countless caves—it can accommodate Spiritual Power everywhere, with the Dantian being just the most common, easiest, and largest ’cave,’ a method of storing Spiritual Power.
The Shattered Jade War Body utilizes other ’caves’ within the body to store a completely different kind of power, the Jade Spirit Power. It can form an independent system and then condense into a Green Jade Spirit Armor.
The first step in cultivating the Shattered Jade War Body is to use the Jade Spirit Power to temper the flesh, making it stronger, and in doing so, to create a number of small storage spaces for Jade Spirit Power within the flesh. Once the first step of tempering the flesh is complete, a thin layer of Green Jade Spirit Armor can be formed.