Immortality Starts With Ignorant Heart Sword Art

Chapter 124: Invincible Defense

According to Zhong Cang's original plan, when he comprehended the Five Beasts Infusion Technique, he would focus on the circulation of the Five Elements. This way, he would be able to gain the ability to convert the circulation of elemental energy before advancing to the Master level in the Five Organs Divine Palace True Form Diagram.

Unfortunately, the appearance of the Heaven and Earth Eight Trigrams Diagram caused Zhong Cang to change his mind.

This time, Zhong Cang abandoned everything else and focused almost half of his attention on the comprehension of the Mountainous Giant Turtle.

The remaining half of his attention was fully devoted to contemplating the knowledge of gravity, repulsion, and attraction from his past life.

In particular, he repeatedly recalled the three laws of classical mechanics.

"Hum..."

He continued this contemplation for the duration of an incense stick.

When everything was over, a majestic illusion of a Mountainous Giant Turtle appeared around Zhong Cang, protecting him in the center.

At the same time, some anomalies appeared in the surroundings.

First was gravity. A powerful gravity spread out from the center of the giant turtle towards the surroundings.

Under the pressure of gravity, the ground around Zhong Cang sank uniformly.

Next was attraction. Without Zhong Cang doing anything, the surrounding objects such as gravel, debris, tree branches, and dust all gathered towards him.

The force of attraction caused these debris and objects to almost bury Zhong Cang. But at this moment, a powerful force of repulsion suddenly burst out from Zhong Cang's body.

"Bang!"

The force of repulsion resisted everything, pushing away the gravel, debris, soil, and even the air from Zhong Cang's surroundings.

Due to the rapid expulsion, most of these scattered objects were not only thrown far away but also shattered.

The domain of gravity, the attraction of Myriad Manifestations, and the Heavenly Conquest of the Divine Net.

Zhong Cang succeeded. With the Mountainous Giant Turtle's Gravity Art as a reference and his knowledge and experience from his past life as fuel, Zhong Cang deduced the arts of attraction and repulsion.

...Of course, the deduction of attraction and repulsion was not the only gain from Zhong Cang's comprehension this time.

The advancement to Master level in the Five Beasts Infusion Technique brought Zhong Cang more benefits than he had anticipated.

"It makes sense. The mastery level of a technique is related to Foundation Building. It is normal for those who can successfully build their foundation without using Foundation Building Pills to gain stronger and more abundant characteristics when comprehending techniques at this level."

"After all, even the weak Qi Consumption Technique brought me the transcendent characteristic of Chest Containing Five Qi after advancing to the Master level. The Five Beasts Infusion Technique is stronger than the Qi Consumption Technique, so naturally, the rewards it brings are better."

Thinking like this, Zhong Cang closed his eyes and carefully sensed his surroundings.

With his movement, a buzzing sound resonated, and Zhong Cang felt a vast and boundless power, as if it could carry and encompass everything, connecting with his mind.

Zhong Cang knew what this was, the earth.

As a Master at the fourth level of the Five Beasts Infusion Technique, Zhong Cang not only comprehended the arts of attraction and repulsion but also, through his study of the Mountainous Giant Turtle representing the earth attribute, he comprehended the 'essence' of the earth.

At this point, Zhong Cang had comprehended three types of essence. Among them, the Thunderous Essence was explosive, the Essence of Wind was agile and unrestricted, while the Essence of Earth was completely opposite to the Essence of Wind, making Zhong Cang as solid as a mountain.

Specifically, after comprehending the 'solidity' of the earth, as long as Zhong Cang stood on the ground, his feet would take root and merge with the surrounding earth. Ordinary strength would find it difficult to shake him unless it could move mountains.

Of course, pure physical defense was not considered strong, especially considering the requirement of standing on the ground with both feet.

What truly delighted Zhong Cang was that this essence allowed him to slightly manipulate the power of the earth. When encountering enemies, he could create a shield of earth attribute around him through the connection with the earth.

This shield is connected to the earth. When others attack the shield, it is like attacking the earth.

As long as the ground is not completely shattered, the enemy's attacks cannot break through Zhong Cang's turtle shell.

At the same time, if the shield is damaged, it can continuously draw power from the earth to repair itself.

It cannot be shaken, broken, or consumed.

Such defense can be called an impregnable fortress.

If this spell is trained to the limit, it is hard to say whether Zhong Cang can defeat others, but the enemy will never be able to defeat Zhong Cang.

"...It's really worthy of being derived from a mountainous giant turtle."

Most turtles are good at defense, and now Zhong Cang truly understands this statement.

...

After sighing, Zhong Cang pondered for a moment and gave this spell a name: "Earth Core."

The reason for this is that this spell is closely related to the earth, and it can only exert its strongest power when standing on the ground.

Therefore, naming it "Earth Core" is very appropriate.

Oh, by the way, one more thing to mention is that the toughness of the Earth Core Shield is closely related to the range in which Zhong Cang is fused with the earth.

And the range of the earth that Zhong Cang can sense and fuse with is closely related to his spiritual strength.

- How far his spiritual consciousness can spread determines how far Zhong Cang can integrate with the earth.

"So, in addition to cultivating spiritual energy, I also need to find a way to enhance my spiritual strength... Fortunately, this is not difficult. With the resources of star souls in place, the speed of my spiritual strength improvement is faster than that of spiritual energy and physical body improvement."

...

After understanding his situation, Zhong Cang opened the attribute panel and looked at the information on it.

Naturally, the first thing he looked at was the Five Beasts Infusion Technique. At this time, the information on it had undergone significant changes.

[Five Beasts Infusion Technique, 4th Realm Master (1/36000/144000), Characteristics:... Gravity Art, Repulsion Art, Earthly Charm]

After taking a glance, Zhong Cang originally intended to skip it, but soon he discovered that the proficiency display of the Four Realms Master of the Five Beasts Infusion Technique was somewhat strange.

It was not the normal 1/144000, there was another number in between.

After observing for a while and estimating for a while, Zhong Cang gradually understood the meaning of this number.

"144000 proficiency points, without any surprises, this should be the total upper limit of the Four Realms Master of the Five Beasts Infusion Technique."

"As for the 36000 points in between, it represents progress. The Five Beasts Infusion Technique has five beasts and five elements. Currently, I have only comprehended one kind of spiritual charm. If I want to cultivate this technique to perfection, I must awaken all five kinds of spiritual charms."

"36000*4=144000, so the first 36000 proficiency points are a milestone. When I practice the technique to this level, I will comprehend another charm."

"Next, every time I increase my proficiency by 36000 points, I will comprehend one kind of elemental true meaning."

"Four times, that's 144000. When I reach this point, my Five Beasts Infusion Technique will be completely perfected. At that time, this technique will truly be perfected."

"...This kind of display is quite convenient."

After understanding everything, Zhong Cang put aside these trivial matters and took out a brush and talisman paper from his storage bag. He began to write talismans on the nearby stone table.

He was going to write the gravity talisman and repulsion talisman.

And when these two spells were completed, Zhong Cang's cultivation of the Rank One segment of the Heaven and Earth Eight Trigrams Diagram would also be completed.

Thinking of this, Zhong Cang felt a sense of anticipation.

"I wonder what kind of abilities I will gain after completing the cultivation of the Heaven and Earth Eight Trigrams Diagram. Will these abilities allow me to defeat Apex Level geniuses like Zhou Cang and Yan Ying?"

(End of this chapter)