A Regressor’s Tale of Cultivation

Every time spiritual energy is exploded in the dantian as part of their cultivation, they have to endure the pain of their dantian being shattered at every moment. This is even worse for Core Formation stage demons as they have to explode their Demon Core itself, enduring horrible pain.

Another five years pass.

Ten years in the Emptiness Floor!

It’s hard to gauge how much time I’ve wasted.

By all rights, I should have regained my Nascent Soul cultivation with abundant spiritual energy outside by now!

But here I am, barely surviving in the void, only increasing my understanding of demon beast methods.

Boom!

I suffer unbearable pain as if my dantian is shattering as I practice both the Vast Cold Formula and the Azure Spirit Starlight Quintessence Great Method.

Gradually, the cold of the Emptiness Floor recedes before the heat of pain.

Thump, thump, thump!

”It’s like a heart.”

Practicing demon beast methods feels as if there is another heart in my dantian.

Every time the heart beats, blood is pumped through the arteries to the entire body, then returns to the heart through the veins.

Every time the Yin and Yang in the dantian explode, that explosive force sweeps through the body, refining it, then condenses back inside the dantian, becoming pure life force that heals the body.

Life is, in essence, an explosion

Thump, thump, thump!

The Vast Cold Formula and the Azure Spirit Starlight Quintessence Great Method elevate my life through explosions.

And at some point.

Flash!

I feel a peculiar sensation as if the Vast Cold Formula and the Azure Spirit Starlight Quintessence Great Method are emerging around my Inner Core.

This is

The Azure Spirit Starlight Quintessence Great Method is evolving.

No, that’s not it.

Originally, body refining methods are a degraded version of demon beast methods.

Now, the foundational demon beast method, the Vast Cold Formula operates within my Inner Core, making the degraded body refining method reach an equivalent condition as demon beast methods, revealing its essence.

This is the true power of the Azure Spirit Starlight Quintessence Great Method!

Boom!

Creak, creak!

It’s cold.

So very cold.

But at the same time, I realize fundamental changes occurring throughout my body.

Crack, crack!

A complete transformation!

Just as the Five Energies Converging to the Origin led me to understand how the spiritual energy of heaven and earth can guide my body on the correct path,

Now, once again, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth begins to show me how my body can evolve even more correctly.

Crack!

”This is...”

Spiritual energy rotates before my eyes.

Yin and Yang collapse, entering my body to form a double helix.

Ahh

Yin and Yang ascend the double helix, unraveling the secrets of the flesh accumulated from the past and providing the correct direction for evolution.

Crack!

I adjust my body according to that direction and finally complete the metamorphosis.

Simultaneously, I feel my consciousness naturally taking on a specific form.

So it is.

The area of consciousness that enveloped me in a circle transformed into a complete human form, covering me.

Could it be that humans, before discovering the rituals to become part of the Heaven Tribe, were a kind of demon beast?

Gurgle...

As my consciousness transforms into human form and I move my fist, I feel an immense power in my fist, unlike anything I had felt before.

”Haaah...”

Finally, I have reached a new realm of demon beast methods.

At the same time, I am engulfed in a sense of awe towards Kim Young-hoon.

Without even touching body refining methods, did a martial artist with a mortal body trace back the origins of martial arts to find the path to human demon beast methods?

The ’other path’ that Kim Young-hoon struggled to find beyond the Ultimate Pinnacle, in his quest for a way forward.

That was precisely demon beast methods.

Found in the library of Seo Ran, not the real demon beast methods for beasts, but for humans!

That was the other path Kim Young-hoon discovered while evolving martial arts.

Huh, it turns out I reached that path in the end.

I recall Kim Young-hoon from that cycle and smile wryly.

Is this the end...?

After undergoing complete transformation and witnessing the life force escaping from my entire body, I laugh with self-deprecation.

Its good to have realized the true meaning of demon beast methods through complete transformation.

But in doing so, I have almost used up all the spiritual energy inside my body.

There is hardly any life force left in the Canvas of Myriad Forms and Connections.