novelapdf Chapter 203 Body and Form
Chapter 203 Body and Form
On this day, Du Fan was fiddling with a vessel next to the instrument while imprinting something onto a jade slip.
After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Du Fan suddenly trembled, his face turned as if he were going mad, and he laughed wildly, shouting:
"Haha, I finally figured it out! Cold Mountain Sect, you bastard! Of the thirty-odd kinds of spiritual herbs in one pill, more than half of them are useless, just used as a smokescreen. You're ruthless!"
"Young Master Du, you have finally deduced the formulas for these two pills." Ding Lan, who was cultivating not far away, opened her beautiful eyes upon hearing this, her face beaming with joy, and said with great delight.
"Hmm, the alchemists of the Cold Mountain Sect are too cunning. If they hadn't encrypted the pills, it wouldn't have taken this long. I could have come up with the formula in a week at most. Instead, it's been a full three months!"
After his initial joy, Du Fan couldn't help but feel a little depressed. He kept cursing the Cold Mountain Sect in his heart. If he were to cultivate the Ghost Curse Technique, he would have the urge to curse those alchemists!
What made him even more furious was that the Cleansing Tendon Pill and the Bone-Strengthening Pill were not a combination of pills at all; they were simply the same pill! They had just been forcibly separated. The spiritual ingredients of the two pills were exactly the same, only the proportions were different.
Without a doubt, this is also one of the methods used by the Cold Mountain Sect to encrypt its elixirs.
However, Du Fan had already thoroughly researched it. As long as he could gather the relevant spiritual herbs, he could directly extract the Bone and Tendon Cleansing Oil.
"Wait a minute, why do I get the feeling that the Muscle Cleansing Pill and Bone-Strengthening Pill can't be formulated into essential oils?"
"Never mind, we'll talk about this later." Du Fan put aside his distracting thoughts and pondered.
After a moment, Du Fan suddenly raised an eyebrow and waved his arms. In the blink of an eye, Du Fan and Ding Lan appeared on the wall of the giant beast's cavity. At the same time, the various artifacts scattered around them entered Du Fan's Qiankun Ring.
Du Fan performed these movements subconsciously, seemingly having reached a state of selflessness.
A moment later, the surging sea roared in. Once everything calmed down, the two of them went about their business as if the scene they had just witnessed was as casual as drinking a bowl of soup...
The two pills that Du Fan used as test subjects have long since turned into powder, but he naturally wouldn't waste them. These pills are still very precious to him now, as he only has two chances to take them.
After Du Fan finished using the Cloud and Rain Technique, he left behind a bowl of clear water. Then, his gaze shifted to the two clumps of powder in the instrument.
At that moment, his lips twitched involuntarily. The pain he had felt last time still sent chills down his spine when he thought about it.
However, the hesitation in his eyes quickly turned into decisiveness. With a flick of his wrist, he poured the two clumps of powder into his mouth and swiftly picked up the large bowl, drinking the water inside in one gulp.
In the blink of an eye, the clear water, along with the powdered pills, slid into his stomach.
The next moment, a turbulent energy storm appeared in Du Fan's abdomen, surging and then dissipating in an instant.
Soon, waves of excruciating pain surged through his body, a pain that felt like his bones were shattering and his soul was being torn apart.
Du Fan's eyes were bloodshot, veins bulged on his forehead, and large, cold beads of sweat instantly appeared all over his body.
However, he gritted his teeth and didn't utter a sound. He just clenched his fists and his body trembled violently as he endured it all.
At some point on the second day, the pain reached its peak. Just as Du Fan was rolling his eyes back and about to faint from the unbearable pain, it seemed that the excruciating pain had reached its zenith, and then it gradually subsided.
His current physical condition is that all the bones and tendons below his neck have been completely shattered, and what follows is the process of regeneration of his entire body.
With a sigh of relief, Du Fan slowly exhaled a breath of stale air. He knew that the most difficult moment was over.
After another day or so, Du Fan's entire body and bones were completely rebuilt under the effect of the body-tempering pills.
Du Fan used his divine sense to examine himself and found that his current strength of tendons and bones had improved to a new level, but it was still much worse than the effect of the first time he took the Tendon Cleansing Pill and Bone Strengthening Pill, probably only 50% of the effect.
Du Fan wasn't too surprised by this. Even in his previous life, he developed drug resistance from cold medicine. If this body-tempering pill could increase his strength in his muscles and bones at an astonishing rate after the first dose, wouldn't that be defying the heavens?
Such a thing was impossible to imagine, so Du Fan did not show the slightest disappointment.
Du Fan closed his eyes, silently recited the introductory chapters of the three Buddhist and Taoist cultivation methods, and began to try them out.
"No, it's still a bit lacking. However, as long as I take these two kinds of pills again, there will be no problem."
After a while, Du Fan abandoned his wishful thinking, opened his eyes wide, exhaled softly, a glint of light flashed in his eyes, and his face showed a hint of excitement.
After waiting for several hours and experiencing being devoured by a giant beast, Du Fan began taking the Cleansing Tendon Pill and Bone-Strengthening Pill for the third time.
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Three days later, Du Fan's bones and muscles had been rebuilt for the third time. His current strength was probably comparable to that of a low-grade magic weapon.
After examining himself, Du Fan felt that he could barely cultivate those three Buddhist and Taoist techniques, but to be on the safe side, he only tried them out briefly.
"what?"
After a short while, Du Fan opened his eyes, let out a soft exclamation, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
"I still can't cultivate the 'Descent of the Human Buddha' technique. I didn't expect that this active physical technique would have such high requirements for physical strength. It's not enough to just meet the requirements for muscles and bones."
Du Fan frowned and fell silent.
"However, the 'Indestructible Vajra Body' and 'Immortal Body' techniques are not a big problem and can be practiced immediately."
He immediately perked up again.
"To put it bluntly, these two techniques are about enhancing physical strength. I wonder if, after mastering them to a minor level, they can meet the cultivation requirements for the 'Descendant of the Human Buddha'."
Du Fan took a deep breath, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
With a flick of his hand, he put away the "Descent of the Human Buddha" technique, preparing to cultivate the other two Buddhist and Taoist physical techniques.
The Indestructible Body and the Undying Body are undoubtedly techniques for tempering the physical body. When Du Fan thoroughly understood them, he realized that these two techniques were related in the same way as the Cleansing Pill and the Bone-Strengthening Pill.
Therefore, with the two physical techniques complementing each other, they can be practiced simultaneously, and the training effect will be better in this way.
Speaking of these two cultivation methods, Du Fan couldn't help but marvel. One was for body refinement, and the other for body tempering, which were quite similar to the traditional Chinese medicine theories he had encountered in his previous life.
People in the past life mostly only knew about the body, but did not know the difference between the body and the physical body.
The body refers to the torso, the flesh and blood within the torso, and even the internal organs; while the limbs refer to the arms and legs.
Therefore, Du Fan had scoffed at the gym in his previous life, because it wasn't a gym at all; it was more like a fitness room.
It must be said that "body" is much more important than "physical body" because, according to traditional Chinese medicine theory, the dexterity of a person's arms and legs is essentially due to the abundance of Qi and blood in their body.
Another point that proves the importance of the "body" is that if the limbs representing the "body" are severed, a person can still live, but if the "body" no longer exists, it is impossible to continue to maintain life.
What shocked Du Fan was that the two Buddhist and Taoist cultivation methods, "Indestructible Vajra Body" and "Undying and Indestructible Body," shared a striking similarity in their fundamental basis with the ideas and theories of traditional Chinese medicine from his previous life.
Thinking of this, two sentences involuntarily came to Du Fan's mind: Traditional Chinese medicine and Taoism are of the same lineage, and Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism were originally one family...
Du Fan took a deep breath, letting go of the shock in his heart. He stopped thinking about those ethereal things that were of little use to him at the moment, and instead calmed down, closing his eyes and regulating his breathing.
After half an incense stick's time, when he had adjusted himself to his best state, he began to practice the two Buddhist and Taoist techniques.
These two Buddhist and Taoist physical techniques, like the "Savage Technique" and "Strengthening Technique," are all passive types. That is to say, they do not require magical power to activate them, and once mastered, they are eternal and never degenerate.
According to the cultivation levels, the two cultivation methods are divided into three realms: minor success, intermediate success, and major success.
Under the condition of meeting the cultivation requirements, one can cultivate these two Buddhist and Taoist body techniques to a minor level during the Qi Refining stage, to a medium level during the Foundation Establishment stage, and only when one reaches the Golden Core stage can one cultivate these two Buddhist and Taoist body techniques to a great level of perfection.
According to this technique, at that time, one can shake magical artifacts with only the strength of the physical body.
Of course, this kind of astonishing physical skill, besides its demanding prerequisites, is also extremely difficult to cultivate, and the pain that must be experienced during the cultivation process is something that ordinary people cannot bear.
At least Du Fan has now deeply realized this.
Although the two techniques can be practiced simultaneously, there is a specific order to them. Since the "body" is the source of the "form," Du Fan did not hesitate to choose the "Indestructible Vajra Body" and practice it first.
The cultivation process is similar to the effect of taking the Bone and Muscle Cleansing Pill. First, the body's flesh and blood are pulverized, and then regenerated. In other words, this Buddhist and Taoist physical cultivation method is a process of physical body reconstruction.
However, for Du Fan, who had undergone three rounds of bone-cleansing and tendon-refining, this pain, though unbearable, was nothing.
After all, in terms of pain, a broken bone is worlds apart from a cut on the body.