Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

Earth Splitter: immense power added to the body, tearing the heavens above and splitting the earth below!

This is the general outline of the Earth Splitting Art. It sounds impressive, but it doesn't actually say anything! If a cultivator possesses great power, they can naturally do whatever they want. No matter what technique they use, they will be invincible.

The entire Earth Splitting Art focuses on one thing: how to use great power to break through massive objects. This can be achieved by concentrating force to attack weakness, dividing force to overcome strength, following the form to strip away momentum, or borrowing momentum to break the form. There are many approaches, each with its own use. However, all these wonderful methods can only be applied if one possesses great power. Without great power, they are just empty words.

"Where can I borrow great power?" Zhang Yuanjing pondered for a long time but still couldn't figure it out. He then asked Zhang Shi.

Zhang Shi said, "The power within the earth is great power. Master, since you have comprehended the Mountain Moving Art, why not move this power?"

Zhang Yuanjing asked in surprise, "The power within the earth comes from all directions and isn't unified. How can I move it?"

Although the Mountain Moving Art also states that whether the incoming force is one or ten thousand, it can be divided in two and borne on both shoulders, Zhang Yuanjing hadn't dared to try bearing the power of the earth, which seemed like a unified whole yet was infinitely complex, endless, and constantly regenerating. Moreover, if he did bear such great power, how would he get rid of it? When遁ing into the earth normally, the earth's power comes from all directions. If he couldn't bear it, he could simply escape upwards. However, if he combined it into two streams and bore it on his shoulders, the pressure would come entirely from above, and he would probably be unable to move an inch, trapping himself to death in the earth. This was why he hadn't dared to try it.

Zhang Shi said, "According to the meaning of the Mountain Moving Art, external power, once borne on both shoulders, becomes one's own power. Power that is not borne on both shoulders remains external power. Bearing power in the earth has only one use: to use force to break force, to break open the earth's layers. This is Earth Splitting."

This statement was just a sentence from Zhang Shi's inheritance, but for Zhang Yuanjing, it was like a thunderclap, clearing away the obstacles in his mind. Of the last three arts of the Eight Earth Arts, he first comprehended Sky Supporting, then obtained Mountain Moving. With these two arts mastered, Earth Splitting was already present before him, but his gaze had never turned in this direction, so he remained unaware. Now, awakened by Zhang Shi's words, he instantly integrated the essential points of the Earth Splitting Art, and all the various methods were now within his grasp.

The eight arts were originally one entity. With all eight arts obtained, the principles contained within also surfaced in his mind. Thousands of changes, myriad evolutions, did not stray from their origin. In an instant, he gained many more insights into the Eight Earth Arts, knowing their changes and their principles, knowing their principles and obtaining their changes. All kinds of wonderful uses existed within his heart, giving him a sense of completion in his cultivation.

He couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "Completion is not just about cultivation techniques, not just about magical power, not just about the physical body, not just about the divine soul, and not just about the state of mind. It is about their endlessness, their near limitlessness!"

If a cultivator could truly reach the extreme of their realm at the end of their lifespan, reaching a true state of completion, then their advancement to the next realm would be a natural occurrence, without any obstacles. The so-called probability of success would just be ignorant words.

This exclamation also stemmed from his recent eagerness to break through to the Nascent Soul stage. He constantly thought about it, often contemplated it, and inevitably put all his efforts into it. Now, it seemed that he had been trying too hard, becoming too fixated, and going against nature.

However, achieving Nascent Soul was, after all, the dream of all Core Formation cultivators. How could they not fall into obsession!

"Master? Master! Do you still have questions?" Zhang Shi saw Zhang Yuanjing lost in thought, silent for a long time, and couldn't help but worry, so he asked.

Zhang Yuanjing smiled and said, "Nothing much! I have already mastered the Earth Splitting Art. Return to my dantian for now, and follow me to split the earth and take the stone!"

"Yes, Master!"

After Zhang Shi transformed into a tiny mote of dust and entered his dantian, Zhang Yuanjing used Earth Evasion, drilling into the earth below.

After only a few dozen feet, powerful earth forces came from all sides and below. Because there was a cave above, there was no earth pressure from directly above, but the earth forces surging from the side above increased exponentially with the depth of the遁.

At thirty feet, he felt that the earth forces he was enduring were about to exceed his limit, so he stabilized himself, first using the Sky Supporting Art to strengthen his physical body, then operating the Mountain Moving Art to divide and bear the endless earth forces. This was only limited by what his body could bear, and it stopped at a certain point.

Once he bore the great force on his shoulders, this force was now under his control, while the remaining earth forces continued to arrive, attacking from all directions.

At this moment, it was most dangerous. If he couldn't use the force he was bearing to resist the newly pressing earth forces, then the two forces would overlap, and he would surely be crushed to dust.

In a flash of lightning, he had already switched to the Earth Splitting Art, using the method of dividing force to overcome strength, simultaneously throwing out the great force on both shoulders. The point of attack was a spot on the side above where the earth force was strongest.

"Boom!"

Strong force collided with strong force, using one force to meet it, then using two forces to disperse and break it, also mutually canceling each other out. In an instant, the earth layers twisted and cracked, and a wide crack extended downwards from top to bottom, stopping after more than twenty feet.

Zhang Yuanjing felt extreme pain all over his body, as if his bones were completely shattered. It took a long time for him to recover. Feeling that his body still belonged to him, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. Since he started cultivating this Thick Earth Art, he had formed a bond with self-torture. Whenever he practiced major techniques, he never lacked the pain inflicted on his body.

Following the crack, he遁ed down another thirty feet, dividing the earth forces and bearing them. This time, the Earth Splitting Art he used was the method of concentrating force to attack weakness, combining the divided earth forces into one and striking out. The point of attack was a wisp of earth force below.

Using strength to strike weakness was like splitting bamboo, and the crack extended nearly a hundred feet, with many collapses, forming a long, strip-shaped cave five or six feet wide.

After this, he either followed the form to strip away momentum or borrowed momentum to break the form, constantly extending this underground crack downwards, gradually approaching the location of the extraterrestrial meteorite.

A faint repulsive force was transmitted from the dust-like earth layers. This was the natural rejection of spiritual energy by a different kind of aura. The closer he got, the stronger it became. Its source was the outer layer of the giant rock. Its center was similar to the Void Sky Stone but didn't have this repulsive force.

Zhang Yuanjing had originally considered using turbid qi to communicate with this force, weakening the repulsion in order to approach the giant rock. However, now it seemed that this method wouldn't work because turbid force was also different from the giant rock's aura and would also cause repulsion.

Since this method didn't work, he could only use another method: using the Earth Splitting Art to deal with it. This method would definitely work. The only thing to worry about was using too much force and destroying the aura hidden in the center of the giant rock.

He drilled into a relatively loose layer of earth from a crack and moved outwards for more than ten feet. After borrowing the great power of the earth on both shoulders, he combined it into one and slammed it against the repulsive force below.

"Bang!"

Earth and stone exploded, the crack collapsed, and a huge tremor came from below, as if the earth had moved several feet.

He cast his divine sense down and saw that the giant rock had only shed a layer of gravel on its surface and was far from cracking open.

This undoubtedly showed that the shell of this extraterrestrial meteorite below was extremely hard. This reassured Zhang Yuanjing.

He then re-entered the earth, borrowing even more majestic power, and once again concentrated force to attack strength, stripping away another layer of the giant rock's shell.

He did this several times, and the giant rock gradually became smaller. If he ran out of strength, he would sit cross-legged in the earth crack and take pills, while also using black mud to forge his bones.

Several days later, the giant rock's shell was finally completely removed, and a black stone, a foot and a half in size, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with protruding edges, appeared before his eyes. An unknown aura emanated from it, having both compatible and naturally repulsive aspects to the magical power in his body.

Zhang Yuanjing was very certain that this stone must be a type of Void Sky Stone and belonged to a rather high-grade one. He then used Source Stone to protect himself and slowly approached the stone. He first tried to collect it with a storage bracelet, but the stone was extremely heavy, and the storage bracelet's space couldn't bear the weight. He then switched to a Sumeru ring, exhausted all his magical power, and finally succeeded in taking it away.