landbeastnovel Chapter 283 - 225: Soul Contract (3)
Chapter 283 - 225: Soul Contract (3)
A Tier-2 Soul Contract, the kind used by Foundation Establishment Cultivators, costs a single Top-grade Spirit Stone. If the Contract Ghost rejects it, that Top-grade Spirit Stone would be completely wasted.
If he were to add his own name, he would be bound by the contract as well. There was no way Fang Qingyuan would do something to shackle himself.
After giving it a few glances and seeing no issues, Fang Qingyuan happily tucked the Soul Contract scroll away.
’From now on, this will be my own Investiture of the Gods. Right now, it’s only Jia Changqing, but I’m sure there will be many more in the future.’
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Three days later, Fang Qingyuan appeared in the Sword Tomb of the vassal sect.
After signing the Soul Contract, Jia Changqing was sent to a secluded place by Fang Qingyuan to recover. Huo Hu had torn off one of his arms and subjected him to a round of torture. Without a full year of undisturbed recovery, his combat strength would be severely hampered.
Although Huo Hu was powerful, once he succumbed to his demonic transformation, it was only a matter of time before he lost control. Fang Qingyuan couldn’t rely on him completely.
That was why Fang Qingyuan had specifically recruited people like Jia Changqing, preparing to use them as replacements for when Huo Hu inevitably lost his sanity.
Fang Qingyuan planned to bring Jia Changqing and his two brothers under his command. Beyond them, he wanted to recruit even more Cultivators of their kind.
’After all, every sect needs someone to do the dirty work.’
Fang Qingyuan closed his eyes, silently feeling his body being scoured by the combined auras of over a thousand Spirit Swords and magical artifacts.
Over a thousand swords, with no one to control them, acted on their own meager spiritual intelligence. Together, they focused on destroying the greatest obstacle in this place: Fang Qingyuan’s physical body.
As the Sword Qi, which formed a crisscrossing web as dense as a spider’s, sliced at him, Blood Pearls constantly beaded on the surface of Fang Qingyuan’s body, only to be reabsorbed by his skin in the next instant.
This was Fang Qingyuan cultivating the final part of the Five Elements Undying Body: the Path of the Metal Element.
In the past two-plus years, Fang Qingyuan had already mastered the other four elements. Now, only the Path of the Metal Element remained.
After a long while, it became increasingly difficult for the Blood Pearls to form on his skin. Finally, he shot to his feet, and with the sheer force of his physical body, he sent the surrounding Spirit Swords flying.
"My qi and blood are as dense as mercury, making it difficult to even be wounded. Ordinary Magical Artifacts can no longer harm me. I’ve finally perfected the Path of the Metal Element."
Fang Qingyuan sighed in satisfaction. After three years, he had finally perfected the Qi Cultivation Realm of his Five Elements Undying Body.
The next step was to begin the Body Refining cultivation for the Foundation Establishment Level.
At the Qi Cultivation Realm, the Five Elements Undying Body could completely nullify Low-level Techniques of the five elements. It could reduce the power of Middle-level Techniques by seventy percent and high-level techniques by forty percent. As for Nine-Luminaries level techniques, the reduction was a little over ten percent.
That percentage might not seem like much, but that ten-percent-plus reduction was calculated *after* the attack had already been weakened by various other defenses.
After all, besides resisting attacks head-on with his Body Refining Technique, Fang Qingyuan, as a Cultivator, had all sorts of other defensive measures.
If Qu Jianyan were to use that ’Crystalized Aurora’ again, by the time it penetrated Fang Qingyuan’s Magical Artifacts, Talismans, and his own Spiritual Power Shield, it would likely only have about thirty percent of its initial power left when it struck his body.
Even then, his body would shave off another ten-plus percent of its power. At that point, the attack would no longer be life-threatening to Fang Qingyuan.
’If the Five Elements Undying Body is this powerful at the Qi Cultivation Realm, how miraculous must it be at the Foundation Establishment Realm?’
At this thought, Fang Qingyuan could hardly wait. But when he remembered his remaining Spirit Stones, his expression immediately soured.
’It’s time to make some money. Otherwise, I won’t be able to continue cultivating.’
And so, Fang Qingyuan stepped forward and headed outside.