Forbidden Body refining secrets

As the hours passed, the immense sun left its central position for the moon trinity. Covered in silver-purple moonlight, the already purple mountain became even more splendid, resembling a sacred peak floating high in the sky.

At the upper end of the mountain was an open field, where hundreds of pretty young maidens observed a peerlessly beautiful woman. She sat in a lotus position, her arms connected to two young boys, one of whom was unconscious.

After an indeterminate amount of time, the crisis had finally been averted, and Kaelen's complexion took on a healthy tone. As for Raizel, strange purple and gold auras circulated around his upper body while a small yellowish energy refined his body, occasionally manifesting on exposed skin like his face and neck.

A few minutes later, the yellow energy was finally utilized. The purple-haired boy woke up from his cultivation. Before testing his newfound strength from breaking through to the next realm, he turned to look at his friend, who remained unconscious.

As Raizel awoke, the peerless woman also removed her hands from the two boys. "Huu..." Exhaling lightly, she stood up from her lotus position. "It's done. I've used half of the remaining energy to heal him, so he will wake up eventually. As for the other half..." Pausing slightly, she turned to Raizel. "I've sealed it in his heart, as it was the place with the most likely chance of success. Only, to break through to the next realm, he will have to refine his heart first. With his talents, he should be able to do it. However, I'm not sure what consequences that will have or if any abnormalities will occur from basically reversing the Xiantian Reconstruction process."

While she mentioned the reversal of the Xiantian process, Torin, standing not far away, had a peculiar expression on his face. Unaware of his unusual expression, the peerless beauty addressed the surrounding disciples. "Everyone, I'm sorry for interrupting your training session, but the situation went a bit out of hand. You should all go rest and continue your training tomorrow. I will personally guide everyone here later."

As they heard the last sentence, all the young maidens all jumped in joy. "Yes, Senior Miao!" Excitedly, they all shouted in unison as they dispersed.

Once everyone left, only the perpetrators of the incident remained at the scene. Raizel, still contemplating what the woman told him, furrowed his brows. "If you're unsure of the possible side effects, why did you choose to seal that raging energy inside his heart? Isn't that a bit reckless?"

"I didn't do it completely on a whim. I've heard of someone in a similar situation surviving—no, thriving—after refining his heart first. According to the records I've seen, someone who manages to refine his heart first to enter the Xiantian Reconstruction Realm will benefit more from each breakthrough, gaining twice the strength boost. Besides the massive boost originally brought by refining the heart that would normally happen at the 11th extreme stage; normally, when one breaks through to the Xiantian realm, one gains ten thousand pounds of strength, and each following breakthrough all the way to the ninth layer, one gains five thousand pounds of strength, totaling fifty-five thousand pounds of strength. But the person who reverses the steps and refines the heart first will immediately have a hundred thousand pounds of strength. Every subsequent breakthrough, he will gain ten thousand pounds of strength, up to a total of a hundred-ninety thousand pounds of strength, almost five times that of the normal peak Xiantian." Looking at the moons in the sky, the beauty explained slowly.

"Of course, if someone manages to break through the 11th extreme layer, then he too will gain a hundred thousand pounds of strength. However, he will still have less strength than your friend, for he only gained five thousand pounds of strength in each breakthrough." Hearing this, Raizel finally released a sigh of relief.

Suddenly, a black-green figure flew towards them. Before long, a handsome, tall, dark-haired middle-aged man landed next to the unconscious Kaelen. Seeing this man, Yu Hao quickly greeted him. "Teacher Long!"

"I apologize. Even though you trusted me, I let one of the new disciples get severely hurt. Please punish me." He said with a depressed expression, putting a knee on the ground and cupping his fist toward the tall man.

"Do not worry. Elder Miao has already told me everything through divine sense. It is not your fault. Take your flying companion and go back to cultivate; I'll take it from here."

Hearing this, the depressed Yu Hao quickly brightened up. "Yes, teacher! Elder Miao!" He gave a bow of respect to the peerless woman before going to his beast companion's side. "Oy, you've been sleeping enough, haven't you?" With a light slap on its giant beak, he woke up the bird. Chirping sounds resounded in the area as the bird stood up, confused, as if it had forgotten everything that happened. "Alright, come on, let's go!" With a light step, he mounted the bird, turned around, and looked at Raizel and Torin's direction. "I'll see you troublemakers around. Saintess." He nodded toward Su Yao before the bird flapped its huge wings, flying up in the sky.

Watching him leave, Teacher Long then turned to look at Kaelen beside him, then at Elder Miao. As he looked at her, his normally strict face lightened somewhat. "Sister Miao, it seems my new recruit caused you some trouble."

She turned to look at him, her gaze also softened. "It's fine. I'm mostly at fault. I'm sorry." She then turned to Kaelen and the others. "Until he wakes up, they can stay at my palace atop the mountain since they shouldn't have a resting place yet. Tomorrow they can leave."

A surprised glint flashed in the man's bright green eyes. Contemplating for a moment, he finally acquiesced. "I'll be troubling you once more, then." Smiling at the peerless figure, who nodded back, he carried the sleeping boy from the ground. "We'll be spending the night at the Miao palace at the peak of the mountain. Tomorrow, you will all settle down at the Leaping Dragon Mountain further deep in the sect. It is the mountain I live in with first and second-year disciples of my choice. Saintess, you should head back to the Sovereign Palace; I entrust you to relay today's information to your father in my stead. You may visit them tomorrow if you want."

"I will." The young beauty answered simply. She took a deep glance at the sleeping boy, and with a tap on her ring finger, a royal purple light flashed as a magnificent purple phoenix-like bird appeared in the air. It was quite big, though significantly smaller than the white crane from before. Its purple wings only extended 15 meters wide. However, the might it released was much greater, despite also being a stage three monster beast; it had an additional royal aura to it.

Turning her gaze away from the sleeping boy, she jumped on the bird, nodded at the pink-silver-haired beauty, before the gorgeous bird flew far into the sky towards the deepest depths of the Free Immortal Sect. Looking at the girl on the phoenix-like beast, the silver-haired beauty let out a slight smile before soaring into the sky, heading towards the peak.

"Let's go as well," Elder Teacher Long told the two boys as he willed a sacred white aura to cover their entire bodies before flying into the sky, levitating them along with him.

...

A few hours later

Miao Palace, guest room.

Inside the wide room covered in silver-pink walls, three young men lay on three separate beds, though only one of them slept. Raizel and Torin found it hard to sleep after today's events. The night would be a restless one for many tonight, it seemed.

"He'll be fine, you know." Looking at Raizel across from him, Torin couldn't help but say, noticing the boy occasionally sneaking glances at Kaelen beside him.

"How can you say that? I can't just take her word for it," he softly said, looking back at the valiant ruby-eyed boy.

Pausing slightly, Torin looked at Kaelen. "In my clan, we have a mysterious technique that forcefully refines the heart when we break through the Xiantian Realm, though not everyone is qualified to use it. It's a dangerous technique, but if you're talented enough, you can attempt it. Generally, even talented members of my clan avoid doing it since they can't reach the 11th extreme easily, even with the accumulated experience of refining other parts of the body and the eyes all the way up to the 10th extreme layer. Trying to do it without experiencing those refinements is purely courting death for most of them. However, occasionally extreme talents with the purest bloodline, rare even amongst my clan's most core members, will appear and be successful at it. My elder sister is one such person. When she was in the Xiantian realm, she was a pure human-shaped beast, terrorizing our fellow clan members who were already born with innate divine strength usually gained from our powerful bloodlines. Of course, she had the same bloodline and one much purer and mightier than theirs, added to that was the reversal of the Xiantian Reconstruction process; they had no chance."

An expression of recollection flashed in the valiant boy's face. Thinking of his beautiful sister smashing her cousins with her much smaller fists, he couldn't help but smile widely.

Hearing his story, Raizel's worries at once disappeared. If someone their age managed to do it thanks to talent, he knows that Kaelen will be okay. After all, his grandfather, who's often shocked at Raizel's talents, often says that Kaelen has inherited an even greater talent from his parents.

His mind finally free from worry, he starts thinking about the mysterious technique Torin mentioned. Unable to hide his curiosity, he asks, "Hey, do you have that technique with you?"

As if expecting this, Torin smiles. "Of course. I was going to use it to breakthrough; after all, I can't be weaker than my sister. Do you want to try it?"

"Can I? But I've already broken through Xiantian." A light shines in the purple irises of the beautiful boy.

"Yeah, no problem. You can do it at any stage, but you get more benefit the earlier you do it, of course. Since you're at the first stage, you will only be five thousand pounds weaker than Kaelen and my sister, and that difference is easily erased when awakening bloodlines anyway. Bloodlines at the heaven grade and above all have innate divine strength at the basic awakening; you should probably have realised it by now since you had a few hours to assess you situation after entering Xiantian. You should have awakened your bloodline more thoroughly, if my guess is correct and yours is as powerful as mine, your strength should already be up there in the thirty thousands and such, you will gain greater increases the further you awaken your bloodline. Also, different bloodline origins bring different increases. A beast bloodline will bring more physical increase than an elemental one. Here goes." He lifts his right index finger as a red ring with a Qilin ingraving is shown.

With a red flash, a red-black worn-out book with a skull on its cover page appears in Raizel's grasp. 'Forbidden Body Refining Secrets' was the name of the book.

"Woah, creepy book." Raizel can't help but remark

"I know, right? Anyways, give it a read. Make sure you accurately remember the information on the Xiantian realm. Of course, there are other secrets in the books, but only my clan can do those, so don't bother trying those." Torin lightly chuckles before falling asleep.

"Ohh. Let's get into it then." Raizel, still full of energy, perhaps because of his recent breakthrough, excitedly opens the first page and starts his lecture.