One Step, One Kill

Chapter Seven: The Undying Five Elements

As the burning sensation rose from his stomach, Lin Yisheng felt an unprecedented sense of exhilaration and wished he could just keep eating and drinking like that.

Unfortunately, Yin Chengdao's spatial bag didn't contain much food, only enough for one month. He had plenty of gold coins and jewelry, but in this desolate, misty forest, they were worth as little as stones.

The spatial bag also contained over a dozen bottles of pills, including common Qi Gathering Pills, Vitality Strengthening Pills, Tendon Strengthening Pills, and Blood Replenishing Pills, as well as healing pills such as Hemostatic Pills, Muscle Regeneration Pills, and Detoxifying Pills. It even included high-grade Spirit Gathering Pills and Marrow Cleansing Pills. Besides the pills, the spatial bag also contained some rare spiritual herbs and weapons, including a fourth-grade spiritual weapon sword.

As a Grand Spirit Master, Yin Chengdao's wealth is indeed considerable!

However, what Lin Yisheng found most exciting in the space bag was a teleportation talisman.

A teleportation talisman capable of instantly transporting a person thousands of miles away.

Yin Chengdao obtained two teleportation talismans before his death. He used the first one and was teleported to the Misty Forest. The second one has not been used yet.

According to Yin Chengdao's "memory", this teleportation talisman is a one-time consumable item, and it has a major drawback: you must provide coordinates when teleporting, otherwise it will teleport randomly, and you will not know where you will be teleported to.

You might be teleported to a mountain or the sea. If you're even more unlucky, you might be teleported to the lava of a volcano or some other forbidden place.

Yin Chengdao was undoubtedly unlucky; his first use of the teleportation talisman transported him to the Misty Forest. This led him to prefer waiting for someone to appear and "possess" him rather than use a second teleportation talisman.

Lin Yisheng certainly wouldn't dare to use it casually.

He made up his mind that since his spatial bag contained a month's worth of food, he would stay in the Misty Forest for a month to cultivate the "Pangu Creation Technique" and search for food. If he couldn't find any food after a month, he could risk using a teleportation talisman.

After finalizing the plan, Lin Yisheng took out the fourth-grade spiritual weapon sword from his spatial bag, dug a hole in the ground, and buried Yin Chengdao's body.

Although Yin Chengdao had ill intentions towards him, Lin Yisheng had obtained the other party's "soul inheritance" and spatial bag after all, and he could not let the other party's body be left to rot in the wilderness.

After burying Yin Chengdao, Lin Yisheng found a place with a larger space and used a fourth-grade spiritual weapon sword to cut down more than a dozen trees, attempting to build a house for himself.

In this foggy forest, the humidity must be very high. If there is no place to stay and no fire to drive away the humidity, Lin Yisheng will definitely fall ill soon.

Having served as a slave in the Wu family for several years, Lin Yisheng had done his fair share of such tasks, so building a wooden shed was no challenge for him.

It took two hours to build a simple wooden shed that could only accommodate one person.

Lin Yisheng gathered a lot of firewood and went into the house to start a fire.

However, Lin Yisheng soon encountered a major problem.

There was no flint for starting a fire in Yin Chengdao's spatial bag.

After searching Yin Chengdao's "memories", Lin Yisheng realized that Yin Chengdao did not need flint in the wild. As a spiritual cultivator, he could gather fire spiritual energy and start a big fire with just a thought.

In this very humid forest, the trees are mostly wet, so there's no way to start a fire by friction.

This means that if Lin Yisheng wants to start a fire, he needs to learn spiritual cultivation techniques as soon as possible.

Left with no other choice, Lin Yisheng searched Yin Chengdao's "memories" again. Before long, he not only found a minor cultivation technique for gathering fire spiritual energy, but also learned what "spiritual cultivation" was all about, and even found Yin Chengdao's own spiritual cultivation technique—the Undying Five Elements Body.

This world has abundant primordial energy, which is divided into yin and yang energies. After absorbing this primordial energy, spiritual cultivators will transform it into five different types of spiritual energy for their cultivation.

These five different types of spiritual energy are the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Theoretically, most spiritual practitioners can only cultivate one type of spiritual energy. Those with exceptional talent can cultivate two or more types. However, according to the theory of the five elements' mutual generation and restraint, a spiritual practitioner cultivating two types of spiritual energy cannot choose two opposing elements. For example, a spiritual practitioner cultivating fire-attribute spiritual energy cannot cultivate water-attribute spiritual energy, which is incompatible with fire.

Only those with a special physique capable of simultaneously cultivating all five elements can achieve this. Such a prodigy might only appear once every few hundred years in this world.

However, even without a special physique, there is another way to cultivate the five elements simultaneously. This is the "Undying Five Elements Body" that Yin Chengdao cultivates.

The "Undying Five Elements Body" is a very special spiritual cultivation technique. Through special training, it can transform the body of an ordinary person who can only adapt to one or two of the five elements into a prodigy who can adapt to all five elements simultaneously. After successful transformation, one can cultivate the spiritual energy of the five elements at the same time. Not only will the cultivation progress be rapid, but the strength will also reach the divine level, and one can even cultivate an immortal body that is neither dead nor indestructible.

This kind of practice can be called a spiritual cultivation method, a martial arts method, or a dual cultivation of spirit and martial arts.

The powerful being who created this "Undying Five Elements Body" is unknown, but it is certain that if this technique is real, its value is probably even higher than the "Pangu Creation Technique," a top-grade Heaven-level martial arts technique.

Yin Chengdao has confirmed that this "Indestructible Five Elements Body" is real.

Yin Chengdao began cultivating the "Undying Five Elements Body" when he was twenty-five years old. He started with the Earth Spirit Body, cultivating it into a pure Earth Spirit Body within five years, and then moved on to the Fire Spirit Body. Five years later, his body was transformed into a body with both Earth and Fire attributes.

It took a long time to cultivate the third water attribute, a full ten years, before he successfully adapted his body to the water attribute, transforming it into a body with three attributes: earth, fire, and water, enabling him to absorb the spiritual energy of earth, water, and fire simultaneously for cultivation.

As for the fourth type of wood elemental energy, Yin Chengdao regretfully never succeeded in cultivating it before his death.

However, this has already proven the authenticity and reliability of the "Indestructible Five Elements Body".

Lin Yisheng was moved.

Following the method in Yin Chengdao's "memory", Lin Yisheng successfully transformed the spiritual energy in his body into fire spiritual energy, ignited a flame on his fingertip, and lit the damp wood. After starting the fire, Lin Yisheng became interested in spiritual cultivation techniques and was tempted by the "Undying Five Elements Body" spiritual cultivation technique, which sounded extremely powerful.

In any case, the "Undying Five Elements Body" is not a pure spiritual cultivation technique, but a dual cultivation of spirit and martial arts, which does not conflict with the "Pangu Creation Technique". So why not just cultivate both at the same time?

With this in mind, Lin Yisheng decided that from now on he would practice the "Pangu Creation Technique" in the morning and the "Undying Five Elements Body" in the afternoon, practicing both at the same time.