Chapter Eighteen: The Sword Cannot Enter

  Master, in fact, can also be divided into physical repair and spiritual repair according to the direction of cultivation focus.

  Cultivation of the soul is to constantly refine the sea of consciousness, absorb and nourish the spiritual consciousness, control various techniques and star instruments for battle through spiritual consciousness. On the other hand, physical cultivation is to continuously refine one's own body, making it incredibly strong. Legend has it that a powerful physical cultivator can uproot a mountain with their bare hands, resist the soul cultivator's spiritual instrument attacks with their physical body, and in the later stages of powerful physical cultivation, one's own body becomes an indestructible human-shaped treasure.

  But it must be said that the number of people who cultivate their bodies in the spiritual realm is extremely small. Most cultivators, after passing the initial stage of gathering spirits and laying a foundation for their physical body, are 99% likely to take the spiritual cultivation path. The reasons for this are not only because physical cultivation breakthroughs are more difficult and the road is more bumpy, but also because those who want to take the physical cultivation path basically need to be from a wealthy and noble background, with powerful backers.

  Because physical refinement is not only a breakthrough, but also more difficult to cultivate, you need to absorb various heavenly materials and treasures into your body during the cultivation process, constantly tempering your body to make yourself stronger. If you are not born with great wealth or have extremely heaven-defying abilities, taking the path of physical refinement is simply a fool's dream.

  But now, with a casual punch, he crushed a green brick, and with a random grip of his fist, he felt that the power of his left fist was even stronger than when he broke through to the True Person realm. Guo Zhengyang was indeed stunned.

  How did his left hand suddenly become so powerful?

  This is almost close to the spiritual gathering period of physical repair and limb regeneration.

  One left hand is indeed stronger than a true person's spiritual body strength!

  It's not that, even if it's spiritual cultivation. After the initial stage of gathering spirits, absorbing spiritual energy no longer goes to cleanse the physical body, but with each breakthrough, the cultivation surges, and the whale swallows the spiritual energy into the body, allowing the physique to transform. That momentary change is enough to make the physical strength stronger again, in order to better cope with cultivation.

  At the beginning of Jiling, you cultivated to the peak, and the fleshly strength you built up was only enough to allow you to maintain several days and nights without feeling tired during cultivation, making it more convenient for later cultivation, no need to cultivate for a while and then go eat, drink, and relieve yourself.

  But this physical condition, if it is applied to the later period, even if a cultivator who has been cultivating for one or two years without moving their dwelling place, it is still far from enough. Therefore, every time you break through and improve your cultivation, your physical strength will also continue to increase. Simply put, from the initial spiritual initial peak to the breakthrough of the true person realm, the four breakthroughs in between brought about a huge change in your body, and the physical strength increased by at least one to two times compared to the initial spiritual initial peak.

  If Guo Zhengyang can now casually throw a punch with several hundred kilograms of force, when he reaches the True Person realm, even if he hasn't deliberately cultivated his physical body, the change brought about by breaking through will be enough to allow his physical body to easily throw a punch with over a thousand kilograms of force. At that time, casually sitting down to cultivate for two or three months won't give rise to feelings of fatigue or hunger.

  When in the True Person Realm, one's physical body is far stronger than it is now. However, once you truly reach the True Person Realm, that powerful physical body is of little use in battle. At the True Person level of spiritual cultivation, a mere thought can send a spiritual artifact flying, and even steel can be instantly crushed into pulp. By then, if a cultivator were to rely on their physical body to fight, even if they could deliver a punch with the power of over a thousand kilograms, they would still be brutally defeated by their opponent in the blink of an eye. That kind of physique is only better suited for withstanding cultivation and adapting to various harsh environments.

  The physical strength of the true body in the spiritual refining period is only slightly stronger than that of the gathering spirit middle period, and it's actually even weaker.

  But Guo Zhengyang now indeed felt that the strength of his left hand was even stronger than when he entered the True Person realm in his previous life, and might even be comparable to some Spirit Gathering stage physical body strength.

  This change was indeed far beyond his imagination.

  How could he force those spirits that had merged with the gray energy to fully merge into his left hand, and why was his left hand changing so dramatically?

  He thought his left hand was three or four times stronger than his right hand.

  "Could those gray gases still be the ultimate treasure for refining one's physical body? The power of Ti Xiu lies in the fact that during cultivation, a large amount of heavenly materials and treasures must be merged into the body, which is the path to refine the physical body into a magical artifact. But those gray gases are considered sinful in the mouth of Intent..."

  He raised his left hand again, and Guo Zhengyang stared at the palm carefully. It was still exactly the same as before, and there was no visible change at all. However, the power contained in the palm had indeed become completely different.

  If you only look at the results, these gray gases are really good things, super good things. After simply merging into his body, they can actually bring such a shocking change to his body.

  But the problem is that Guo Zhengyang still hasn't forgotten about beheading the long-haired man, and his intention was to gain sin, then the long-haired man's corpse burst out with these gray gases rushing into his body.

  If this is really karma, then karma can have such an effect?

  Wasn't he really misunderstood at the time? Isn't this a sin? Is there something wrong with his own understanding.

  He stared at his left hand and pondered for a moment, then pulled out another object from his pocket, which was a dagger with a cold glow. This dagger was the same one he had used to kill three kidnappers earlier, it was a murder weapon, so he wouldn't give it to Zhang Jiuyi, nor would he casually discard it, but rather planned to take it away from the scene and deal with it later. Now this dagger seemed to be able to help him do some experiments.

  With a dagger in his right hand and his left hand raised to his eyes, Guo Zhengyang's hand moved slightly, and the dagger sliced across his left palm.

  This time he didn't use much force, but the dagger was very sharp. If it were a normal palm, it would have been cut open, but his left hand didn't leave any scars at all.

  The skin is intact.

  Guo Zhengyang was stunned for a moment before raising his hand again, with even greater force this time, but his left palm remained unscathed.

  In a continuous trial, until after more than ten breaths, Guo Zhengyang grasped the dagger and stabbed it into his left palm.

  "Delicious!"

  This stab, the force he used should be about the same as a normal young man's full-force thrust, and it was still using the sharpest tip of the dagger to stab down, but on the left palm, there was only a faint white mark, as if the skin had not been pierced yet. This stab also made Guo Zhengyang feel some pain.

  He couldn't help but take a cold breath, his left hand was now almost invulnerable to swords and guns, of course, this was referring to ordinary people wielding swords and guns, and the gun wasn't referring to modern firearms like handguns, but rather ancient cold weapons like long spears.

  "If this is a sin, then the benefits of this sin are too great." A surprised murmur, and Guo Zhengyang really didn't know how to react.

  The pure physical strength of this palm had already far surpassed the strength he had in his previous life as a true person. Although the flesh of a spiritual cultivator was much stronger than that of an ordinary person, it was not invulnerable to swords and guns. However, the reason for this situation was that he had forced the guilt within his body to merge into his palm.

  If he absorbs enough sin, will he really be able to temper his palms and even his entire body to become stronger?

  But this sin did not appear when he faced Yang Lulu last time, because he didn't kill Yang Lulu. This time it appeared because he really killed the target.