Be the Hardest Working Demon Cultivator!

Tan Shuchang practiced cultivation for seven years, time ceased to matter in the search for truth, and he gradually forgot what date it was today.

I picked up the sun at dawn, and returned it to the sky when darkness came.

One should not belittle oneself without cause.

After all, except for those who are stronger than I, I am the strongest.

Note—Written on the first day after ascension.

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Tan Shuchang practiced cultivation for seven years, time ceased to matter in the search for truth, and he gradually forgot what date it was today.

Here, there were neither the cultivation techniques for ascending to immortality, nor a variety of Divine Secret Skills, what existed were straightforward confrontations of fist against flesh, and somewhat mystical combat skills.

Today, I encountered a cultivator of Body Refinement who laughed at my slender frame, probably thinking I couldn't truss a chicken. With one punch, I showed her that a laughing girl isn't necessarily always fortunate.

Note—Written on the second day after ascension.

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Tan Shuchang practiced cultivation for seven years, time ceased to matter in the search for truth, and he gradually forgot what date it was today.

What exactly is this place?

And where is the South Gate Pillar that supports the Primordial Heavenly Realm?

Note—Written on the seventh day after ascension.

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"The will of the Jiawu Realm, where have you sent me?" Tan Shuchang gazed at the setting sun, its afterglow spread across half the sky—it was both familiar and strange to him.

Familiar because all sunsets share this afterglow, but strange because he was certain he was not in the Jiawu Realm.

At that time, he was in hot pursuit of the accursed Secluded Spring Blood Demon.

One more strike, and he would have claimed the old life of that Secluded Spring Blood Demon.

But who would have thought that at the crucial moment, this vile creature would summon the once ascended three-testament ancestors of the Jiawu Realm! Of course, when these people arrived, it only took a moment for Tan Shuchang to eliminate them cleanly.

Empowered by eight hundred years of cultivation, all of Tan Shuchang's Divine Skills had reached the current limit of the Jiawu Realm.

The time had come for the Demon Realm Giant Handprint to "prevail by force"!

And this did not even consider the amplification effect of the undying blood form.

Thus, Tan Shuchang confronting these ancestors with suppressed cultivations matching a single testament was like an adult competing in arm wrestling with a child.

And after dealing with these ancestral ascendants from past three-testament times, Tan Shuchang felt the will of the Jiawu Realm suddenly descend upon him. In his perception, though the fury of the heavenly will persisted, there was an intention to subside.

Then... the will of the heavens directly bestowed something upon him.

Tan Shuchang did not know what that thing was; he only knew that before he could even come into contact with it, he was sent away from the Jiawu Realm by a blast of a five-colored light column that erupted from it.

The reason he could be certain that he had ascended, rather than having traveled through time, was that this unfamiliar world, where everyone could cultivate, had a legend about the Orion Martial Immortal.

An existence that had cultivated physical strength to its utmost limit!

It was just that Tan Shuchang was still unable to find any trace of the Orion Martial Immortal, yet he did learn of several other Martial Immortals. These included the bearer of the Phoenix Seal—the Phoenix Martial Immortal, the Combiner with the ethereal Sword Spirit—the Sword Martial Immortal, the pact-bearer of ancient Qingmu—the Master Martial Immortal, and the descendant of the Martial Ancestor's bloodline—the Heavy Pupil Martial Immortal!

These four Martial Immortals also represented the four paths of Body Cultivation that Tan Shuchang had come to understand in this place.
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The Phoenix Martial Immortal, holder of the Phoenix Seal, resided on Phoenix Peak.

About this place, it was said that once a pair of Azure Phoenixes and Fire Phoenixes lived there; later, though turned into a pair of wheels by some, the Azure Phoenix left behind a phoenix mark.

Anyone could comprehend this phoenix mark to attempt to incorporate a fraction of the Azure Phoenix Power into themselves.

A Body Cultivation practitioner who possessed a portion of the Phoenix Seal's power belonged to one of the four paths of Body Cultivation in this place, the True Blood Body Cultivation!

The ethereal Sword Spirit of the Sword Martial Immortal was akin to the Sword Spirit of an Immortal Sword, but the difference lay in the fact that Sword Spirits could only exist in Immortal Swords, whereas the likes of the ethereal Sword Spirit could emerge from any weapon.

The notion of Combiners refers to the Body Cultivation practitioners on this path, who need to temporarily merge as one with such a "spirit" to unleash their full potential!

For instance, when the Sword Martial Immortal merges with the ethereal Sword Spirit, his entire body becomes as sharp as an Immortal Sword.

Therefore, practitioners on this path are known as the True Spirit Body Cultivation!

The remaining two paths of Body Cultivation, like that followed by the Master Martial Immortal, fundamentally subscribe to the harmonization of humanity with the Earth, the Earth with the heavens, the heavens with the Tao, and the Tao with nature.

Everything sought by oneself is requested from the natural world.

This is why such Body Cultivation practitioners here are called the True Tao Body Cultivation!

The last path relies on the power of bloodline for cultivation, known as—Heavenly Human Body Cultivation! Because such Body Cultivation practitioners naturally possess strong physiques from birth, they only need to temper their bloodline slightly to naturally enhance their physical strength.

This Heavy Pupil Martial Immortal was also the youngest of the four martial immortals that Tan Shuchang had inquired about.

It was said to have taken him only ten years to reach his current state of cultivation.

Because he possessed the purest bloodline of the Martial Ancestor.

True Blood, True Spirit, True Tao, Heavenly Human, the four pathways of Body Cultivation!

This was Tan Shuchang's harvest after wandering for seven days.

And as he gazed at the sunset glow, he wasn't entirely focused on the setting sun. For what he was observing, were actually the vital energy laws of this world.

The vital energy laws of this world had no issues, and as soon as he arrived here, the "God of Mountains and Rivers" congealed in his Coexistent Blood Pool started growing in a different direction.

It had always grown upside-down, just like a person standing on a mirror laid out on the ground, with their reflection appearing inverted within it.