Chapter 60: The Astonishing Cultivation Speed Bonus of the Azure Wood Spiritual Physique

For the next period of time, Lin Heng enjoyed a rare stretch of relaxed and leisurely life.

Acting just like an ordinary five-year-old child, he studied nothing and worried about nothing every day.

Aside from spending a bit of time circulating his cultivation technique to heal his injuries, he spent the rest of his days either taking a kettle into the mountains to pour water over fire ant nests for amusement, or heading to the kitchen to help the chore disciples slaughter chickens and sheep. Occasionally, he would take up a stick and have Xiao Rang take him outside to make life difficult for locusts.

This served to satisfy the destructive urges deep within his heart and dispel his killing intent.

With each passing day, Lin Heng’s physical condition improved significantly, and his bodily origin strengthened at a visible rate.

By the third day after regaining consciousness, the numerous ferocious sword marks on his body began to recede, and his throat, which had been ravaged by sword Qi and sounded like a broken gong, started to recover.

To ordinary people, these injuries would have been utterly impossible to heal on their own, but such obstacles simply did not exist for Lin Heng.

Five days later, Lin Heng was fully restored. He had become a child with skin as white and flawless as jade, looking as though he were carved out of pink jade, with a voice as warm and gentle as jade, bearing some of the demeanor of an exiled sword immortal.

After that, Lin Heng’s body continued to undergo changes.

His flesh and blood grew every day, and the number of acupoints—initially just 1,296—constantly increased, multiplying further.

This was the true potential of the second-tier physique, the Azure Wood Spiritual Body, which continually manifested alongside the recovery of Lin Heng's origin.

Lately, the various elders of the sect had frequently appeared around Lin Heng, occasionally sending him spiritual herbs that benefited Qi and nourished blood, or newly gathered heavenly treasures, which further accelerated the growth of his origin.

Although their initial purpose had been to gain Lin Heng's permission to study the "Boundless Ocean Divine Skill" he had created, after witnessing Lin Heng's formidable utilization rate of cultivation resources, they set aside much of their utilitarianism.

Harboring the mindset of nurturing a junior, even after gaining Lin Heng's consent to study the "Boundless Ocean Divine Skill," they still racked their brains every day trying to figure out what other resources could be used on Lin Heng.

Under these circumstances, the rate of Lin Heng's physical recovery grew faster and faster.

Over half a year later, Lin Heng, who had just turned six, felt that his origin had completely reached the peak state of the Azure Wood Spiritual Body.

Inside his room, Lin Heng sat cross-legged on a warm jade cultivation platform capable of nourishing Qi and blood while accelerating cultivation speed.

He closed his eyes and inspected his current physical condition.

Within his small body lay an extremely formidable vitality and vigor.

Though he had not yet formally practiced cultivation, his mind was agile, and his Qi and blood surged mightily, resembling a humanoid fierce beast.

His meridians and acupoints were also exceptionally broad and unobstructed. All 129,600 acupoints had opened naturally, twinkling within his body like stars. Every inch of his flesh and blood possessed extreme toughness, harboring terrifying potential.

That strand of sword Qi still lingered in his sea of consciousness, constantly extracting Lin Heng's essence, Qi, and spirit to transform into sword Qi, attempting to grind away Lin Heng's origin.

However, for Lin Heng, whose body had now returned to its peak state, this strand of sword Qi was no longer of any consequence.

The bit of essence, Qi, and spirit it extracted was merely a drizzle, appearing utterly negligible compared to his formidable regenerative capacity.

Leaving aside the fact that Lin Heng currently had the sword Qi of his sect elders protecting him from within, even without it, that strand could no longer wear down his greatly magnified origin.

"It is astounding. Without having practiced cultivation, my body's overall qualities are several orders of magnitude stronger than a mortal physique."

"In actual combat, compared to a mortal physique at the same realm, the gap reaches a heaven-and-earth difference. Relying solely on this uncultivated physique, I can defeat a Grandmaster and live for six hundred years. If I were to fully develop the body's potential, it is unimaginable what terrifying heights I might reach."

Inspecting his current physical state, even with Lin Heng's composure, a sense of awe surfaced in his heart.

Although he had anticipated that the Azure Wood Spiritual Body would be powerful—perhaps no less inferior to the physique he transformed into after achieving the realm of a Martial Dao Celestial—he had not expected that the actual Azure Wood Spiritual Body would be even more exaggerated than he imagined.

"Let's try cultivating."

Having finished inspecting his physical state and feeling that his essence, Qi, and spirit were full, with his origin restored to its prime, Lin Heng decided to officially begin cultivation.

This time, Lin Heng began to circulate the third version of the "Boundless Ocean Divine Skill"—the one he had created when he broke through to the Martial Dao Celestial realm.

The third version of the "Boundless Ocean Divine Skill" not only recorded the complete method for breaking through to the Celestial realm, but more importantly, the circulation routes of this version's cultivation technique could also adapt to a primordial number of acupoints and their matching meridian operations.

Although this technique, tailor-made for a Martial Dao Celestial physique, certainly could not perfectly match the Azure Wood Spiritual Body, it was bound to be vastly superior to other cultivation methods.

Once Lin Heng re-cultivated to the Celestial realm and fully developed the potential of the Azure Wood Spiritual Body, he could naturally tailor a completely new set of cultivation methods according to the circumstances.

As the cultivation technique circulated, a wisp of inner breath flowed through Lin Heng's meridians and acupoints.

Compared to when he first started the simulation, where his meridians were merely unobstructed but his acupoints still needed to be opened from scratch, at this moment, Lin Heng's meridians and acupoints were in an innately opened state, allowing his inner breath to circulate unimpeded both inside and outside his body.

On this first circulation of the technique, there was not the slightest obstruction.

The heaven and earth primordial Qi in the surrounding world began to swarm toward Lin Heng, instantly absorbed and refined by his Azure Wood Spiritual Body.

A massive amount of essence Qi bred within Lin Heng's body, and the newly born inner breath grew at a visible rate.

After completing a single major circulation, it had already attained a considerable scale, transforming from a tiny wisp of inner breath into a large mass of inner breath.

This cultivation effect was simply astonishing, far faster than the speed at which Lin Heng had cultivated during his first simulation.

Lin Heng continued his cultivation, and his inner breath increased continuously.

Just a single day later, his inner breath filled all the meridians of his entire body, circulating spontaneously. He had officially reached the Innate realm, achieving a level of ceaseless and endless inner force.

"I remember that the first time I achieved the Innate realm, aided by numerous resources, it took me a full seven months."

"Yet now, practicing hard without any resource assistance, it took only a single day. And these are even evolved meridians capable of storing more inner breath. Calculated overall, this cultivation speed is at least five hundred times faster than before!"

Sensing this cultivation effect, Lin Heng was filled with awe.

Although he was a Martial Dao Celestial re-cultivating, and his cultivation speed was naturally very fast.

Even excluding that factor, the cultivation speed bonus brought by this Azure Wood Spiritual Body was simply too astonishing!

Under these conditions, he would soon be able to restore his cultivation to the Celestial realm and press forward toward even higher realms.