The Stories of a King

Zao Tian received twelve lashes, each one being more severe than the other.

After finishing, Huolong Ji did not say anything to Zao Tian and burst out laughing. He ordered the other disciples in prison to descend and remove the debris from the basement.

Like the first time, Zao Tian's body was huge and full of blood. But this time, the wounds were a bit more superficial, and his body's recovery speed had increased.

Zao Tian crossed his legs and closed his eyes. He remained seated as he tried to organize all the information that was cluttering his mind.

The disciples who were cleaning the rubble looked at Zao Tian, ​​and none of them could feel sorry for him. Anyone who looked at Zao Tian's bloody body could imagine how severe punishment was.

Zao Tian simply ignored the other disciples and kept concentrating until a familiar voice popped into his mind.

"Boy, that old man gave you a lot of knowledge about medicine and alchemy. Therefore, I will stipulate some rules for you ... "Gold began to speak suddenly.

"You can not in any way use this knowledge to enrich money, or increase your strength through pills. The only thing you can use freely is the body enhancement technique you obtained. You must increase your strength on your own, so the knowledge of alchemy you obtained should not be used for that purpose. "

Zao Tian, ​​who was already writing various enrichment plans and was selecting various pill formulas to boost his strength, felt like he was taking a cold shower.

He even thought about questioning these rules, but knowing Gold's temperament and behavior, he knew that any questioning would be useless and he had only to regret.

Faced with Gold's rules, Zao Tian diverted his thoughts and began to focus on the technique of body enhancement.

He had not yet seen any of the principles of technique and if he wanted to survive, he should begin to understand and practice it.

While trying to find the body technique in his thoughts, Zao Tian could not hold back and finally refuted Gold: "Gold ... Why should not I use this knowledge to enrich or increase my strength? Would not it be much faster if I made some pills? "

"Foolish idiot ... Do you really think that increasing your strength through pills will help you get stronger? You do not understand anything about Dao Martial! This kind of growth is a shortcut that will only hurt you in the future. Also ... I do not want things to become easy for you! "Gold replied coldly.

"You must settle for this bodily enhancement for now, and ... as for increasing strength, you must seek the knowledge you have acquired, for nowadays you absorb spiritual energy in the wrong way. When you learn how to absorb spiritual energy correctly ... Then yes, you will increase your real strength!" Gold finished.

While understanding Gold's motives, Zao Tian was a bit confused, as Gold had just said that Zao Tian was cultivating the wrong way.

Zao Tian gave up arguing with Gold and went back to the body enhancement technique. This process would have been easy if the Emerald King had not passed on that enormous amount of knowledge to Zao Tian.

But as this had happened, Zao Tian's mind was in complete chaos, it would take some time to organize and know where to look for every thing.

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Ten hours later ...

The disciples had finished clearing the basement and headed for their respective cells. Zao Tian was alone there and finally had managed to organize much of that information.

The body-enhancement technique had finally been found, but Zao Tian had only seen his name and could not understand practically anything about it, because the principle of that technique ran counter to all that Zao Tian had learned before.

It was a different concept of cultivation, which Zao Tian should learn first, and then he would be able to move forward with the technique of body enhancement.

In the troubled memories he acquired from the Emerald King, Zao Tian found a living account. In this account, the Emerald King narrated a great learning, that changed the way to cultivate the spiritual energy.

"Throughout my life, I longed for the top of the Martial Dao and tried to develop the supreme bodily enhancement technique ... But I always found an insurmountable obstacle in my way. Somehow, I knew that this obstacle was a kind of understanding of the laws of the world that I could not understand. I have always wondered why there are such powerful individuals in the world; I have always tried to understand how those individuals have become so powerful. But ... One day ... As I continued incessantly in the pursuit of knowledge ... I made a discovery ... That changed my view on Dao Martial. Before making such a discovery, I lived for three hundred years and was already considered the greatest physician and the greatest alchemist in the world. What was once my greatest pride became a big joke ... Well, I found out that I was against Dao Martial, I was just doing everything the wrong way ... "

Zao Tian was attentive to the reports of the Emerald King.

"After my fifth thousandth attempt to create such a persecuted technique of bodily perfection ... I ended up invoking an extremely powerful spirit, which looked nothing like any existing race; I managed to cancel the invocation in time and after a moment of reflection ... I began to understand some things, because that thing that was invoked, definitely did not belong to this world ... And it was at that moment that my mind was opened. If that thing did not belong to this world, how could it have such spiritual power? Is this world not the center of everything? Does spiritual energy not belong only to this world? "

"After so many questions, I finally understood. Spiritual energy does not belong only to this world and it must not be drawn from it ... The true source of spiritual energy ... is the universe!"

"I always tried to get his off the ground, because that was the only way I could feel his. I had never tried a different way of cultivating before. "

"After that day, I spent the next fifty years trying to feel the spiritual energy of the universe ... Until the day I finally felt it."

"I was a fool! I was trying to feel the spiritual energy of the universe through my body. So I finally realized ... That a body can not feel the energy of the universe, because the body, belongs to the earth. The energy of the universe must be felt with the only thing that transcends the earth ... The soul! "

"When I began to feel the spiritual energy that came from the universe, it was like a rebirth. I began to cultivate the purest spiritual energy that I have ever felt. After a hundred years, I finally ascended to the top of the Dao Martial, I was able to rival some of the greatest forces in this world and I finally managed to create my supreme body enhancement technique ... "

After seeing that account, Zao Tian's eyes widened abruptly. The reports of the Emerald King made Zao Tian finally understand the words of Gold. But ... Before the reports said, how the Emerald King could feel the spiritual energy of the Universe with his soul ... They are finished.

Zao Tian did not bother asking Gold how he should feel the spiritual energy of the Universe with his soul. He already knew that Gold would not answer him.

After trying in his mind the remainder of that account, Zao Tian got no success. A few hours had already passed and Huolong Ji was again in front of Zao Tian.

Zao Tian looked at Huolong Ji and then closed his eyes. He did not utter a single word and focused on feeling the spiritual energy with his soul.

Huolong Ji was dissatisfied with the attitude of Zao Tian, ​​he broke the twelve lashes with a much stronger force than before.

Zao Tian's body trembled with pain, his concentration was severely affected by the lashings and the current condition of his body. In order to concentrate on the soul's understanding, Zao Tian should enter into a state of meditation that he had never tried or achieved before. He should practically separate his soul from his body.

The state of meditation that Zao Tian sought was a state he could hardly attain throughout his life. But now, Zao Tian knew that this state was possible to reach, and what he had in the basement was time to practice.

The wounds from the lashes were healing twice as fast as normal. However, this was due to the presence of those green spots in the spiritual veins of Zao Tian.

The technique of bodily enhancement could only be used the moment Zao Tian manages to extract the spiritual energy from the universe.

"Technique of bodily enhancement ... 'King's Supreme Body' ... I, Zao Tian, ​​will master it!" Zao Tian muttered as he meditated.