Chapter 470: Chapter 237: Tribulation of the Nine Great Inner Elixir Techniques! Zhang Fan and Jiang Yunxian

The Three Corpses Illuminating Fate was once hailed as the number one technique in the world, solely because the one who practiced it was the foremost expert under heaven.

The Nine Great Inner Elixir Methods have traversed through time, spanning the ancient and modern eras.

However, when it comes to the one who truly mastered the Great Skill, undoubtedly, the first name that comes to mind is that of the Three Corpses Daoist who, eighty years ago, struck fear into the hearts of the entire Daoist Sect.

"It is said that this person truly cultivated this technique to great success. He was also the closest to the Immortal Path in nearly a century," Yu Hua couldn’t help but sigh.

As a disciple of Maoshan, though he did not mention the name, his eyes revealed a trace of sincerity and longing.

No cultivator could remain indifferent to such a realm, only looking up with reverence, unrelated to positions or morality.

"If he was invincible under heaven, why did he lose to Transcendent Zhenren?" Zhang Fan couldn’t help but ask, expressing the greatest doubt in his heart.

With this remark, everyone showed a peculiar expression and looked at him.

"Transcendent Zhenren is an Exiled Immortal from the heavens, not of the mortal realm..." Yu Hua, after a brief pause, sighed.

If the Three Corpses Daoist was the most legendary figure in nearly a hundred years, then Chu Chaoran was the most unimaginable variable.

"The Dao debate on Dongyue was already the limit of mortal cultivation, but unfortunately, no one could witness that battle with their own eyes," Yu Hua whispered.

For the Three Corpses Daoist and Transcendent Zhenren, their life-and-death magical combat was also a Dao debate.

On this path, they were both mortal enemies and companions, a lonely light guiding the way, exploring forward.

That battle was known as the marvelous bloom of the Daoist Family, blossoming in an instant, but how could ordinary people have the privilege to see its glory!?

"I heard from my master that all things in nature, wherever there is a strong, there is a counter..." Yu Hua said solemnly.

"That one hailed as number one under heaven, perhaps Transcendent Zhenren was his destined nemesis, or rather..."

Yu Hua suddenly shifted tone, saying mysteriously, "The Three Corpses Illuminating Fate is not only one of the most mysterious techniques in the world but also one of the most terrifying tribulations..."

"One of the most terrifying tribulations?" Fang Changle muttered softly.

"True, the reason the Nine Great Inner Elixir Methods are crowned above all techniques, and known through the ages, is because each one captures the profoundness of the Great Dao while also triggering celestial tribulations."

Everything, when developed to the extreme, will inevitably move toward the opposite direction.

As they say, the motion of the Dao is reversal.

Just like holding cold snow in winter, the hands will gradually warm.

If one works too hard, their efficiency will rather decrease. A car running at too high a speed, the wheels may break, and it would stop moving.

Similarly, the Nine Great Inner Elixir Methods, their great strength breeds tribulations, their profundities are unmatched, and their tribulations are rare in the world.

"Like the Divine Demon Holy Embryo, known as the most vicious in the world, striking fear in the hearts of cultivators, yet it can only become their resource..." Yu Hua said gravely.

"Precisely because of this, those who cultivate this method, with their Extraordinary Primordial Spirit transcending to sainthood, vast and immeasurable, no techniques can affect them. However, once they enter a tribulation, it is like all thoughts become an abyss, entering the Great Night, never to see Celestial Light again."

"Heaven and Earth Stealing Fortune, the Way of Heaven diminishes the excess and supplements the insufficient. Seizing the great luck of heaven and earth will inevitably result in a great tribulation from heaven and earth. When the tribulation arrives, even heaven comes to kill, earth comes to condemn..."

"Jia Sheng Gui Si, claimed as something between life and death, beyond life and death, dying and resurrecting, with no end to birth and extinction, but once the tribulation strikes, life becomes an impediment, death becomes an impediment, and it is merely an unending curse of reincarnation."

"Vacuum Refining Form, Form and Qi Unity, dispersed it becomes Qi, gathered it becomes Form, there is a body outside the body, heavens outside the heavens, yet once lost in tribulation, one will be lost in void, completely severing realness."

"And the Ten Thousand Evils Tribulation Aspect, known as the source of ten thousand evils, tribulation of all beings, its power most evil, yet once the tribulation comes, the cultivator will enter the five declines of the Celestial Being, their Primordial Spirit withers, flesh decays, horrors beyond imagination."

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Yu Hua sighed, as a disciple of Maoshan, and moreover, a strong figure at the [Sect Leader] realm, he was quite familiar with the Nine Great Inner Elixir Methods.

They were both the strongest techniques in the world and the most terrifying tribulations.

They are like the two sides of Yin and Yang; the fortune of the technique gives birth to tribulations, no longer techniques of the mortal world.

If ordinary cultivators contemplate life and death, once they succeed, they reach the Realm of Pure Yang Wuji.

Then the Nine Great Inner Elixir Methods contemplate the transcendent fortunes above life and death.

Tribulations exist within life and death, as well as beyond life and death. They are the fundamental forces behind the growth of everything.

Within the cycle of formation, existence, deterioration, and void, tribulations still exist.

Understanding these tribulations is truly reaching the level of a true immortal.

Once one recognizes this, they realize just how profound and terrifying the Nine Great Inner Elixir Methods truly are.

The same applies to the Three Corpses Illuminating Fate among the Nine Great Inner Elixir Methods. The Three Corpses are innately born, hidden within everyone’s body, and especially for cultivators, it is the greatest barrier to becoming immortal. The higher the cultivation, the more terrifying the tribulations of the Three Corpses become.

If the Three Corpses Daoist cultivated this technique, how could he not be subject to this tribulation!?

"Brother Yu Hua, why did you only mention eight Inner Elixir Methods? Didn’t you say there are Nine Great Inner Elixir Methods?" Zhang Fan couldn’t help but ask.

Yu Hua, well-versed and widely knowledgeable, could recite the Nine Great Inner Elixir Methods with ease, yet counting them, there were only eight.

"There’s one more that I don’t know about, and I’ve never heard any elders mention it..." Yu Hua said solemnly.

"Senior only mentioned that this method hasn’t widely circulated, its profundity remains outside, but it has never appeared in the world, and no one has ever cultivated it."

"So mysterious!?"

Zhang Fan, Fang Changle, and Sui Chunsheng could not help but show curiosity.

"It’s better that it hasn’t circulated in the world, the Nine Great Inner Elixir Methods have such a great reputation, but throughout the ages, how many have truly mastered them? Instead, countless calamities have been created." Yu Hua sighed.