Grinding Cultivation Toward Martial Saint

The night was deep, the lake surface rippling with reflections like countless silver scales turning over.

Jiang Ning sat cross-legged upon the waterside pavilion, the palace servants and guards on the island had gradually retreated, leaving the entire island to silence.

With a wave of his hand, a palm-sized jade box appeared in front of him, its body transparent, with subtle cloud patterns flowing.

As soon as it was opened, a heart-soothing fragrance wafted out.

With a flick of his fingertip, a pill the size of a longan fell into his palm.

The pill was tri-colored: green, purple, gold, radiating a glow, resembling a miniature star.

Even before the medicinal power entered his body, just holding it in his hand, he could feel a vast vitality emanating from the pill.

In his current state, with just a glance, he could discern the purity, the vastness of the energy contained within the pill, comparing it as superior to any pill he had seen thus far.

"The Nine Revolutions Life and Death Pill... truly lives up to its name," he murmured, gaze deep with thought.

After that, without hesitation, he opened his mouth and swallowed the pill.

The effects of this pill had little significance to him now.

Reversing life and death, with complete authority over flesh and blood, he was already immortal.

To kill him now, one would have to eliminate all his flesh from a physical or microscopic level.

Otherwise, as authority over flesh and blood originated from this world, he was unkillable, indestructible.

Even severe injuries could instantly recover.

In his view, achieving such a feat would require intervention from a Martial Saint or immortals from the Cave Heaven Blessed Land—remnants of the past era.

Otherwise, only by stripping him of authority could his immortality be contained.

And stripping authority, that was even more impossible.

From his understanding, though the Martial Saint defeated many deities, he never managed to strip authority.

This is a task even the Martial Saint could not accomplish.

Thus, those immortal and indestructible deities would eventually resurface after certain ages.

Like the Blood and Flesh God he had killed days ago.

Stripping authority, even after attaining immortality of the Primordial Spirit, he could not lock onto the authority within himself.

Only when his Taixu Yin Yang Sword accomplished a breakthrough, extending the Heart Spirit trait, reflecting bodily changes, did he glimpse the authority within.

Thoughts flowing within, the pill had already been swallowed.

In an instant, a gentle warm stream slid through the throat into the body, then exploded intensely.

That explosive power wasn’t a trickle, but like a flood bursting its banks, like a volcanic eruption, vast vitality erupted from the dantian, sweeping through his limbs and torso, permeating each bone, every meridian, each cell.

Such vast vitality enveloped his entire being; it was the power to reverse life and death.

At this moment, his body lightly trembled, the black robe moving without wind.

He closed his eyes, the Primordial Spirit immersing within.

He observed the pill’s unrestricted release in his body, without any confinement or limitation, with all its energy striving to burst forth instantly.

But despite the overwhelming energy, though erupting like a long-contained volcano, flooding like a bursting dam, the energy wasn’t violent.

It seemed bound by some power, gentle and cleansing the entire body.

His muscles lightly quivered under the vitality’s wash, every inch of skin revealing a faint crystalline luster.

His bones glimmered with a subtle golden sheen.

His blood surged, growing stronger.

Jiang Ning’s mind stirred slightly, then settled, focusing his thoughts.

The pill’s value to him wasn’t in its miraculous healing power, but in the inexhaustible life origin.

At this moment, he absorbed all this origin, converting it into a foundation for his flesh.

His breathing became long and steady, the vital energy’s explosion, the almost infinite life origin was locked within his body, absorbed completely.

At this moment, with each breath, a faint golden mist escaped from his mouth and nose.

This was the pill’s residue, the discarded cells after the body’s metabolism.

This golden mist scattered like golden haze in the night breeze, settling on the lake surface, causing the water to radiate a slight halo.

The fish in the lake seemed drawn by this vitality, gathering beneath the pavilion, swimming about, scales reflecting fragmented light under the moon.

Their lips repeatedly parted, swallowing the golden haze floating atop the lake.

Time flowed slowly.

Jiang Ning remained motionless, like a stone sculpture.

As the vast, ocean-like, abyssal life origin was locked within, an extensive transformation was occurring within him.

Cells were continually metabolized.

Waste was expelled through his nostrils.

A short while later, the movements within calmed, the pill’s power thoroughly refined.

He slowly opened his eyes, a flash of black and white intertwined brilliance passed, then faded, returning to calm.

He glanced at his hand, made a fist, his strength fuller and more solid than before.

He nodded with satisfaction in his heart.

Though the enhancement wasn’t significant, sensing any improvement was precious at this stage.

This sufficiently demonstrated the Nine Revolutions Life and Death Pill’s immense power.

Then, he steadied his heart and mind.

[Origin Point]: 96.7

Glancing at the panel, he couldn’t help but rejoice.

The energy contained in one Nine Revolutions Life and Death Pill alone had increased his origin point by over twenty points, once again nearing the hundred-point threshold.

Now, after achieving the realm of an immortal Primordial Spirit, his cognitive speed, perception had undergone transformative enhancement.