Ethan pushed open the door to his treehouse, walked straight to the wooden table in the living room, and sat down, placing the 《Elemental Torrent Body Refinement Technique》 on the surface.
The cover felt rough and warm to the touch, like some kind of beast hide that was still alive.
The faint red patterns flowing across the surface were particularly striking under the soft green light of the treehouse. Those patterns weren't carved on; they grew from within the skin.
It had some weight to it, consisting of about thirty pages.
Ethan flipped the book open.
A line of small characters was printed on the inside of the cover: "Elemental Torrent Body Refinement Technique. Temper the flesh with elemental power, and wash the bones and sinews with a torrent of energy. Do not practice if the physique is weak; do not practice if the will is not firm; do not practice if resources are not abundant."
His lips curled slightly.
Three warnings of "do not practice." This thing was likely the real deal.
He continued flipping through.
The first page explained the principles.
The so-called Energy Torrent involved guiding external energy particles to forcibly pour into the body, letting them run rampant through the flesh, bones, and meridians, tempering every inch of tissue in the most brutal way. Wherever the energy particles passed, cells were torn apart, reorganized, torn again, and reorganized again, repeating in a cycle until the body adapted to this washing, significantly increasing its strength and toughness.
To put it bluntly, it was using energy particles as knives to carve oneself from the inside out.
Carve, heal, and carve again.
Repeatedly carving.
With every scrape, the physical strength would increase by a fraction.
As long as one could endure it, physical strength could theoretically grow without limit.
Indeed, it looked powerful.
Flipping to the second page, the specific cultivation method was recorded.
Step one: Guide energy particles into the body and let them run wild within the flesh.
The attribute of the energy particles didn't matter, as long as they were energy particles.
Step two: Control the flow and intensity of the energy particles.
One couldn't truly let them run wild; they had to be consciously guided to wash specific parts of the body.
Start with the limbs, then move to the torso, and finally the head and internal organs.
Of course, if one had the confidence, the most efficient way was to have the entire body undergo the energy particle washing simultaneously. This efficiency was a hundred times greater than doing it separately.
Naturally, the danger was also millions of times higher.
Step three, and the most critical step.
While the energy particles were washing the body, use any means necessary to repair the damaged tissue. Destroy while repairing, allowing the body to become increasingly resilient through repeated tearing and healing.
Simple, right?
You just had to endure.
But what if you couldn't endure it?
Then you died.
But was Ethan afraid of death?
Not at all.
With Yama's Blessing, dying once cost one year of longevity for a perfect resurrection.
Longevity added a hundred years to his life every day. He had plenty of longevity in his hands now; dying several thousand or even ten thousand times was not a problem at all.
Ethan finished the entire book in about an hour.
The content wasn't much, just over thirty pages, but every page was dense with information.
The energy circulation diagrams looked simple, but they were quite difficult to execute in practice. When energy particles ran rampant inside the body, a slight lapse in focus could damage the organs.
However, for him, none of this was an issue.
With Yama's Blessing, dying once cost one year of longevity for a perfect resurrection. Longevity added a hundred years to his life every day, and his current longevity balance was already more than he could ever use. Dying hundreds or thousands of times was perfectly fine.
"Start slow? Too slow. Since it doesn't matter if I die, let's just go for it."
Ethan put the secret technique back into his ring, sat cross-legged, and closed his eyes.
Following the requirements of the first step of the secret technique, he began to guide the surrounding wood-element energy particles into his body.
The concentration of wood-element energy particles inside the treehouse was already high, so drawing them in didn't take much effort.
Those emerald-green specks of light emerged from the air and converged toward his body.
The moment the light specks touched his skin, a needle-like stinging sensation followed.
The energy particles passed through his skin, through his muscles, and through his blood vessels, burrowing deep into his body.
Everywhere they went, cells were brutally torn apart.
Muscle fibers snapped, cracks appeared in the vessel walls, and fine fissures were scraped onto the surface of his bones.
It was too fast.
The passive effect of Warrior's Body increased his physical cultivation speed by fifty times, and Sub-Saint's Gaze gave him understanding far beyond ordinary people.
As soon as he guided the first wave of energy particles into his body, his body automatically began to operate according to the secret technique's circulation route.
As soon as he guided the first wave of energy particles into his body, his body automatically began to operate according to the secret technique's circulation route.
Before he could even adapt to the destruction caused by the first wave of energy particles, the second and third waves had already flooded in.
The tearing spread from his limbs to his torso, muscle fibers snapped in large areas, the cracks in his blood vessels continued to expand, and the fissures in his bones extended from the surface to the depths.
Ethan grit his teeth.
His fingers twitched subconsciously, wanting to release Withered Wood Revives.
It was too late.
His heart was pierced by the energy particles.
Ethan's consciousness fell into darkness.
【Death confirmed. Consumed 1 year of longevity. Perfect resurrection.】
The darkness lasted only for an instant.
Ethan snapped his eyes open.
His body was completely intact. His muscles were whole, his blood vessels smooth, and his bones dense. Even the cold sweat that had just broken out on his forehead had vanished.
"Heh, it's great to have cheats."
Ethan closed his eyes again.
Since he couldn't die, he would train like his life depended on it.
The energy particles flooded in once more. This time, he was no longer cautious and directly opened himself up to the pull.
The remaining wood-element energy particles in the treehouse were almost swept clean, surging frantically into his body.
Cells were shredded.
Muscle fibers snapped.
Blood vessels ruptured.
Bones cracked.
Second death.
Resurrection.
Third death.
Resurrection.
By the fourth death, Ethan had begun to grow accustomed to the feeling of being shredded from the inside. It still hurt, but he was used to the pain.
On the fifth time, he lasted three times longer than the first.
On the sixth time, it was five times longer.
With every resurrection, his body would return to a perfect state. And with every death, the limits of destruction his body had endured would be "remembered" by his muscles, bones, and blood vessels. Next time, the same level of destruction would no longer be fatal.
This was the cultivation method of the Elemental Torrent Body Refinement Technique.
Exchanging death for data, using resurrection to stack progress.
After the seventeenth resurrection, the concentration of energy particles Ethan could withstand was already five times the initial amount.
The twenty-third time, eight times.
The thirty-first time, twelve times.
Pain.
It hurt every single time.
But the physical changes he felt after each resurrection made him unable to stop.
His muscle fibers were more than a grade denser than before; when he threw a punch, he could feel power transmitting through every single fiber.
A layer of dense bone matter covered the surface of his bones, giving off a metallic ring when tapped.
The toughness of his blood vessel walls had significantly increased, and energy particles no longer easily ruptured them as they traveled through.
The forty-seventh death occurred on the nineteenth day.
That time he got greedy, increasing the pull speed to the limit all at once, causing his body to explode directly from the inside.
After resurrecting, he rolled his shoulders and continued.
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