Chapter 717 - 290: Witchcraft Path Cultivation Method
Artifact Slave Jinze, hailing from the Golden Jade Race, a race in the Great Wilderness known for their affinity with the Gold Element.
The vast Great Wilderness has many races with affinity to one of the Five Elements, and some races with strong affinity rely on this racial talent to cultivate to very high realms in the corresponding attribute.
At the same time, these races, whose talents are more prominent in certain attributes, are also the most sought-after types of slaves in the Great Wilderness. Many creatures will purchase them to train as personal servants.
When Jinze was still a child, the tribe was destroyed by people who had taken notice, the tribe’s resources were plundered, the clan land was destroyed, and the clansmen were divided into different levels of slaves for sale according to quality.
Jinze was bought by the Shallow Sea Race, a Tier Six Race from Tushang Ancient City, and was subsequently taken as a servant by a Martial Artist named Hai Yuansi from the Shallow Sea Race, who taught him Bone-Birth Alchemy.
To ensure Jinze cultivated Bone-Birth Alchemy well, Hai Yuansi provided him with great support, ensuring he lacked no cultivation resources, simply waiting for Jinze to advance to Tier Five and forge himself into a Witch Artifact with an Artifact Spirit.
As time went on, Jinze realized his predicament, as he didn’t want to become a Witch Artifact.
Once, when the Shallow Sea Race made a tribute delivery to Tushang Ancient City, they encountered an attack from an opposing force, the Zhenyuan Race, and Jinze’s ’master’ Hai Yuansi was heavily wounded.
This gave him the opportunity to turn the tables, engulfing Hai Yuansi and fleeing to Tushang Ancient City.
However, he had been cultivating Bone-Birth Alchemy for so long that he had already become a Witch Artifact body, with no possibility of reversal.
Once detected by other creatures of the same tier, he would inevitably become prey.
A living, breathing Witch Artifact, who could look at it and not be tempted?
He sold his former master Hai Yuansi at Tushang Ancient City, combining Hai Yuansi’s original wealth, to obtain the Sealing Spirit Possession Ban at the Exchange Conference.
Originally intending to find a safe place and look for the ’right person’ to possess.
Yet, after the Exchange Conference ended, due to seeking the Sealing Spirit Possession Ban, he was targeted by other creatures.
In a bout of confrontation, Jinze managed to fend off the onlookers but exposed his whereabouts, discovered by the Martial Artists of the Shallow Sea Race.
With Hai Yuansi’s fall and Jinze the servant participating in the Exchange Conference, the Shallow Sea Race soon learned the details.
Thus, Jinze embarked on the road of escape, facing the pursuit of Tier Six Power, his luck was not bad, managing to escape across the vast Great Wilderness.
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As Jinze became an Artifact Slave, his memories were naturally open for Shen Can to peruse repeatedly.
Shen Can easily gained insight into Jinze, including parts of his previous master Hai Yuansi’s memory, seeing them thoroughly.
The two sets of memories were as vast as smoke, especially Hai Yuansi’s memory, which, although only a part, contained much more information than Jinze’s.
Due to the overwhelming information, Shen Can couldn’t view it all at once, so he asked Jinze why he appeared in the Earth Cave.
Upon hearing this, Jinze’s Divine Sense fluctuated slightly.
If he had known he would encounter Shen Can in the Earth Cave, he would not have come.
Fleeing at that time, he had chosen several places, certainly not confident enough to withstand the Shallow Sea Race’s pursuit.
Only by altering his appearance could he escape the chase; otherwise, with his Witch Artifact body, he would eventually be exposed.
He chose the Earth Cave because it was far from Tushang Ancient City.
Moreover, the Earth Cave could also filter his target for possession.
As for the Bone-Birth Alchemy on his skull, it was his second test arrangement for selecting a possession body.
If he was to possess, he naturally wanted to choose a potential Tier Five creature; he wouldn’t want a blockhead.
In preparation for this possession, he had made long-term plans, confident of swallowing a Tier Five, therefore not considering those below Tier Five.
Unexpectedly, he failed in the Earth Cave.
"’Soul Absorption Technique’, ’Divine Essence Witch Transformation Skill’, ’Furnace Transformation Skill’."
After a long search, Shen Can finally found in Jinze’s memory the cultivation method he wanted.
However, it was somewhat disorganized.
Like the cultivation techniques passed down among the various divisions in Yongyi, one technique during the Stone-Breaker Mountain Opening Realm, another during the Celestial Vein Realm, and yet another during the Divine Treasure stage.
The Witchcraft Jinze cultivated was the same, yet this Witchcraft did not match Jinze as a Great Wizard.
"Former master... Hai Yuansi said that I shouldn’t purely walk the Wizard’s path, and for Witchcraft, I should just cultivate casually.
Therefore, before I reached Tier Five, the Witchcraft Cultivation Method given to me was provided one realm at a time, and the realms were still from different Witchcrafts."
Jinze spoke, "I had long suspected this was to prevent me from becoming too strong with good Witchcraft, making it difficult to keep me in check."
"In Tushang Ancient City, Tier Five Witchcraft was not common, being something hidden by the major powers.
During my stay in the Ancient City, I also sought a complete Tier Five Witchcraft Cultivation Method, but alas, I didn’t find one.
Furthermore, there were cultivation barriers between techniques of different races, and had Hai Yuansi not intended to refine me as a Witch Artifact, the Witchcraft he gave me could not have been cultivated.
I relied on the strength of my own Witch Artifact body to force through unsuitable areas."
The ’Soul Absorption Technique’ is the simplest cultivation method, similar to the method currently practiced by the Blazing Flame Race wizards.
Guided by Divine Sense, it draws external Source Power into the body, transforming it into Witch Power.
This method is the most fundamental yet somewhat systematic.