The Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art!
It was the supreme body-refining technique passed down from Great God Pangu. It focused on using the body as a furnace to absorb the energy of heaven and earth, tempering the physical frame, and drawing upon the power of laws to engrave Dao marks within oneself, allowing the physical body to undergo sublimation and metamorphosis.
It rendered the body indestructible and infused it with boundless strength!
Take the Twelve Ancestral Witches, for instance. Having reached the Fourth Turn of the Mysterious Art, their physical bodies were comparable to Daluo Golden Immortals. Yet, they could clash head-on with Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures with their bare flesh without being disadvantaged—a clear testament to the terrifying strength of body refining!
This was especially true below the realm of Saints, where everyone specialized in only a single cultivation system, making the Wu tribe's physical bodies stand out all the more.
Pure Spirit cultivators refined their Primordial Spirits, allowing them to command various spiritual treasures, cast divine powers and spells, divine the past and future, and execute all manner of subtle abilities. However, their physical bodies were far too weak compared to the Wu tribe.
Turbid Body cultivators focused primarily on the physical body. Their bodies were indestructible and capable of clashing head-on with spiritual treasures, but their Primordial Spirits were deficient. Nevertheless, the Twelve Ancestral Witches were born naturally aligned with the Great Dao Laws that suited them best, covering for their inability to cast conventional divine powers and spells.
This was precisely why, below the realm of Saints, Pure Spirit cultivators frequently suffered setbacks when facing the Wu tribe.
Xuanjian intended to grasp both methods.
He wanted both the Laws of the Primordial Spirit and the path of body refining!
Xuanjian pulled out a mountain of natural treasures and heavenly materials.
There were Innate Spiritual Roots.
There were Acquired Spiritual Roots.
There were Innate Divine Treasures.
There were Acquired Divine Treasures.
Circulating the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art, Xuanjian began absorbing the various energies contained within these treasures.
He did not even spare the Earthly Turbid Qi and Innate Fiend Celestial Qi that hovered perennially over the Wu tribe's territory!
Under the conscious control of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art, these two qis could not erode Xuanjian's Primordial Spirit.
It spared Xuanjian from falling into the same plight as the Ancestral Witches.
In fact, had the Ancestral Witches possessed conscious awareness back then and aided themselves with the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art, their Primordial Spirits likely would not have been eroded into extinction by these two qis either.
Three thousand years passed in the blink of an eye.
Every form of power was converted into the purest blood energy, cleansing and tempering Xuanjian's bones, blood, tendons, skin, internal organs, and every acupoint across his entire body.
First Turn of the Mysterious Art!
Physical body at Profound Immortal Great Perfection!
Skin of bronze and bones of iron!
A Dao mark of Commerce was engraved into each of the twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty acupoints throughout his body!
Every subsequent turn would bring a metamorphosis of the physical body and a sublimation of these Dao marks.
Xuanjian did not stop.
He continued cultivating the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art!
Ten thousand years passed.
Second Turn of the Mysterious Art!
Physical body at Golden Immortal Great Perfection!
Bones of jade and a body of golden radiance!
The Dao marks of Commerce within all twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty acupoints underwent a second sublimation.
...
Twenty thousand years later...
Third Turn of the Mysterious Art!
Physical body at Taiyi Golden Immortal Great Perfection!
Glazed Golden Body!
The twelve thousand nine hundred and sixty Dao marks of Commerce underwent their third metamorphosis.
With that, Xuanjian's cultivation of the Nine Revolutions Mysterious Art drew to a close.
The Third Turn of the Mysterious Art.
It had taken a total of thirty-three thousand years.
This cultivation speed was remarkably fast.
Fortunately, he was in the domain of the Wu tribe and had a vast quantity of natural treasures to consume; otherwise, accomplishing the Third Turn of the Mysterious Art in such a short timeframe would have been nearly impossible.
This period of cultivation had also consumed eighty percent of all the natural treasures Xuanjian possessed.
However, the outcome was thoroughly rewarding.
Now, Xuanjian's Primordial Spirit and physical body had both reached Taiyi Golden Immortal Great Perfection!
His Law of Commerce mastery stood at forty-nine percent!
Combined with the Grandmist Measuring Sky Ruler and various Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures, even without activating his 【Fifty-Fifty with Anyone】 skill, Xuanjian was confident he could utterly crush Ancestor Qingzhu from back then—or even wipe him out entirely!
Erasing him from existence!
“Phew...”
Xuanjian opened his eyes, exhaled a stream of pure qi, and let a faint smile spread across his face. “With both my Primordial Spirit and physical body at Taiyi Great Perfection, I suppose I can consider myself a force to be reckoned with as I travel Honghuang.”
This was a rare period of peace.
It was after the War between Dao and Demon, yet before the Wu-Demon Tribulation.
The three primordial races—Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin—had suffered devastating blows to their vital energies and remained dormant. The various Innate Sacred Beings had only just begun to emerge, mostly possessing cultivation bases at the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
With Xuanjian's current battle power, he was fully capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with them.
“It has already been eighty thousand years since the Dao Ancestor announced he would give a sermon in Zixiao Palace in one yuanhui.”
“In another forty thousand years at most, the Innate Sacred Beings from across Honghuang will set off to wait in Zixiao Palace beyond the heavens.”
“However, that has nothing to do with me for now. It's time I set out to retrieve the Money-Shaking Gold Tree.”
Rising to his feet, Xuanjian murmured to himself as he sensed the karma connection between himself and the Money-Shaking Gold Tree.
“Once I find the Money-Shaking Gold Tree, an unforgeable currency for Honghuang will finally be born, and the launch of my merchant association can officially be put on the agenda!”
The Money-Shaking Gold Tree!
Strictly speaking, it was not a pure Innate Spiritual Treasure.
Instead, it was a unique treasure that existed on the threshold between an Innate Spiritual Treasure and an Innate Spiritual Root.
It was both a Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure and a Top-Grade Innate Spiritual Root.
This treasure could continuously gather the Qi of Five Virtues from heaven and earth to produce the Coins of Five Virtues.
The Five Virtues were Fortune Virtue, Merit Virtue, Nether Virtue, Sacred Virtue, and Dao Virtue.
These coins would serve perfectly as the universal currency of Honghuang.
However, the Coins of Five Virtues could be used as a high-tier currency, reserved exclusively for entities at or above the Daluo Golden Immortal realm.
For those below Daluo Golden Immortal... it was better to stick to the ordinary coins generated by the Treasure-Gathering Gold Basin.
Xuanjian had no fear of anyone producing counterfeit currency.
Every single coin produced by the Treasure-Gathering Gold Basin and the Money-Shaking Gold Tree maintained a tight, unbreakable bond with the two treasures.
Whether a coin was real or fake could be verified instantaneously through either treasure.
“The Money-Shaking Gold Tree is in the east?”
“That location... where could it be?”
Before long, following the karma connection, Xuanjian sensed the location of the final treasure among the Three Treasures of Commerce.
It was in the east!
Xuanjian was currently at the foot of Mount Zhou, a region that did not belong to any of the four cardinal lands of north, south, east, or west.
Instead, it was the Central Land!
The karma connection pointed east. The East was currently the grandest continent in Honghuang, so Xuanjian could not pinpoint where exactly the Money-Shaking Gold Tree was located.
“I'll just head over and take a look,” Xuanjian thought, setting off immediately.
However, before leaving, Xuanjian offered a greeting to Xingtian and Kuafu, who were guarding the exterior of Pangu Hall.
At least he wasn't leaving without saying goodbye.
“Ancestral Witch Xuanjian! Are you going out to fight? Take me along if you're fighting! I, Xingtian, am fierce as hell!”
Xingtian hopped on his feet, hollering as he raised his massive axe and shield.
“I'm only going out to search for treasure, not to fight,” Xuanjian replied. “If there really is a fight to be had, I certainly won't hesitate to count on you, Xingtian.”
With that, Xuanjian vanished in a flash.
Pouring magic power into the Wind-Thunder Cloud-Treading Boots on his feet, he pushed the power of wind and thunder to their absolute limit. Xuanjian transformed into lightning and rode the wind, traveling tens of millions of miles in a single flash!
Xuanjian headed east all the way.
Along the journey, he continually adjusted his heading.
Traveling at full speed, Xuanjian flew for a full five thousand years—so far that he was almost about to fly beyond the borders of the Eastern Continent, already catching sight of the azure sea and blue skies in the distance—yet the karma connection still pointed further east.
“Could it be... the Money-Shaking Gold Tree is in the Eastern Sea Dragon Palace?”
Suspended above the coast of the Eastern Sea, Xuanjian stared at the vast, boundless ocean before him, falling into deep thought.
The Four Seas of Honghuang were famed for being “boundless,” implying they were endless and knew no shore.
And the Eastern Sea was still the domain of the Dragon Clan!
Even a depleted dragon was grander than a lizard—though the Dragon Clan had declined, they remained one of Honghuang's prominent races.
Xuanjian suspected that the Money-Shaking Gold Tree was in the hands of the Eastern Sea Dragon Clan!
Because...
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