Itachi woke up feeling refreshed and looking forward to testing out the limits of his current power.
As he prepared himself for his fights later that day, he heard the voice of Jasmine.
"Over this past year you haven't been that bad, and I can tell you truly wish to ascend to the highest stage of power, while having pure intentions. Since my existence hinges upon yours, I will teach you an incredible technique, one of the most powerful ones in my possession, which is a body refinement technique, {{Nine Bestial Devil Dao}}."
Hearing these words Itachi felt a hint of anticipation, the name of the technique sounding imposing.
Hearing the words of Jasmine he simply said,"Teach me it."
For Jasmine to praise it as incredible, she herself having an unfathomable background, it must truly be so.
Jasmine snorted saying,"The reason I am offering to teach you this art is because it will allow your body to be able to have the potential to reach the True God level, if your cultivation is that high, it is truly incredible, however the early stages will cause you great pain, and it is difficult to cultivate, only being able to be cultivated by those with special physiques, such as your Evil God's profound veins, as well as needing incredible resources, will you still cultivate it?"
Without even a hint of hesitation Itachi responded,"Say no more."
Jasmine knew this meant he wanted to cultivate it.
Exuding a cold aura Jasmine stopped forwards, and her jade like hand touched Itachi's forehead, imparting the cultivation technique of {{Nine Bestial Devil Dao}} to him.
As soon as he received the cultivation technique for {{Nine Bestial Devil Dao}} Itachi immediately knew why this technique had its name.
"This cultivation technique is at the utmost limits of what is considered tolerable in the cultivation world, without being a real devil - a practitioner of darkness profound energy."
Having said these words Jasmine continued,
"This technique, as I'm sure you've just seen, is incredibly brutal in terms of the requirements on the cultivator, and what they must do."
This cultivation technique involved setting up nine separate 'soul containment' points around the body, one in the head, one on each hand, one on each foot, one in the heart, one in the liver and one in each lung, for a total of nine.
Once these nine soul containment points had been linked the cultivator could seal the souls of beasts that they had killed within each point, starting with the heart soul containment point, and following a set path and finishing with the ninth soul containment point in the head.
Once these conditions were complete the cultivator could fuse all nine soul containment points into the heart point, which would then fuse into the blood, forming a true Nine Bestial Devil Dao physique, which was an incredible strong physique which could equal the so called 'Body of Saints' once raised to the limit, the Rage God's physique.
However, although the embryonic form of the Nine Bestial Devil Dao physique could be completed before the True God level, with all nine soul containment points having been combined into the heart point, before one reached the True God level it was impossible to truly fuse the final heart point into the rest of the body.
Moreover, the potential of the technique was determined by the strength and potential of the beast souls sealed into each soul containment point, with a stronger beast soul allowing the technique to have more potential, and allow the user to be able to cultivate it to a higher extent.
The reason why this technique was regarded as a devilish technique was not only because of the fact that it involved sealing the souls of beasts into one's body, but because to absorb the souls of the beasts killed the user would have to generate a lot of resentment and absorb it into their body, meaning that they would have to kill the beast, and then drink its blood.
In special scenarios however, it would be possible to absorb the beast's soul if the beast itself consented to having it's soul absorbed, although instances such as this would be incredibly rare.
This action of drinking the beast's blood and then absorbing it's soul resulted in this technique being regarded as incredibly devilish before it had faded into obscurity since the fall of the True Gods, Jasmine having discovered it in an incredibly out of the way inheritance of an ancient expert, an unknown True God.
Itachi was enraptured with this technique, since currently his body was his weak point, but now he would be able to refine his body to the point where it would be equal to the strongest body in existence if he completed this technique.
Not only that, even at the embryonic stage, while he was still cultivating it, with each beast soul he added, depending on the beast soul's strength his own physical strength, regenerative abilities, and all around physical capabilities would increase drastically.
Even upon forming and linking the nine soul containment points his physical body would instantly increase in strength to being able to have 5,000 kilograms of strength, which was incredible, as well as becoming as hard as steel and having regenerative abilities far beyond the average human.
Itachi was instantly enraptured with this technique, and began attempting to cultivate it with the 4 hour period he had left before his first sparring battles within the Burning Heaven Clan.
Jasmine harrumphed coldly to herself seeing this, thinking,"Although he may have incredible natural talents in terms of his physique, I doubt his comprehension will be as incredible."
She was monstrously shocked, when within 3 hours, she saw that Itachi had suddenly started incredibly amounts of evil, seemingly devilish energy, from... the nine points on his body where the nine soul containment points of the {{Nine Bestial Devil Dao}} technique were!
Itachi opened his eyes, and swinging his arms and legs around found an incredible power surging through them, as if he had become a celestial demon able to crush mountains and boil seas with a wave of his hand.
Laughing, Itachi thanked Jasmine for the {{Nine Bestial Devil Dao}} technique and sat down to regulate his physical body's strength and get used to it within the next hour, before he was able to test his strength out on his fellow scions of the Burning Heaven clan, feeling even more excited now than before.