After choosing to take the holy body of divinity, Will went with the disciple back to where the Elder was. When the disciple went up respectfully to the elder and showed him the book which Will had picked out, the elder was extremely shocked when he read 'Holy body of divinity.' he had heard of this technique and even tried to train it himself, but he, like all others who tried to train it, was unsuccessful in doing so. He could not help but look again at Will, who was standing there looking at the book. At this moment, he finally spoke after a while of silence.
"It is fine if you want to take this skill but I must warn you that it is entirely useless and the chance that you will be able to train it is essentially zero. Also, if you take this skill, you won't be able to get another skill until you enter the silver core realm." The Elder spoke solemnly. It was obvious that his warning was out of his own will and not something he was required to say.
"I am sure that I want this skill, and I am aware of the consequences of taking it."
"Since you are sure, I won't prevent you from taking it. All skills above the low ranked silver core martial art are recorded on a jade slip, so you can use that instead of having someone read you the book."
After saying this, the Elder handed a jade slip to Will, who grabbed it. Will knew how to use a jade slip, so he quickly left with the jade slip in hand. He had chosen to not get another skill for the time being because he sensed nothing else compatible with him on the first floor.
After he left, the Elder spoke to the disciple. "How did he find this skill? Did you find it for him?"
"He found the skill on his own. I have no idea how he found it, but he did so on his own and without any help. I did not even read the summaries of the books to him. He simply walked through the rows of bookshelves and directly picked out the book." The disciple spoke with obvious confusion and astonishment in his voice.
'Hmm, there might really be something quite special about this boy,' thought the Elder privately to himself.
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As Will had gotten the holy body of divinity, he should have gone back to his house to try to train it, but instead, he went to the market. He figured that since he was blind, there was no point showing people that he knew exactly where they were by looking directly at them. He decided that he would cover his eyes so that he did not stand out so much.
It only took a few minutes for him to buy a black ribbon which he now wrapped around his eyes. After doing this, he did not know it, but it made him seem slightly wicked and evil. He was wrapped in a black cloak with only his face visible. He now had a black ribbon wrapped around his head covering his eyes, and paired with his blood red hair, he seemed to be quite wicked.
After getting the ribbon, he went back to his disciple's house. Taking off the cloak, he once again sat on the ground with his wings stretched out. At this moment, he took out the jade slip which contained the holy body of divinity skill. Inserting his inner breath into the jade slip, a surge of information rushed into his mind. This information was the skill holy body of divinity.
'Holy body of divinity: unknown rank.
Warning: nearly untrainable. One must have a perfectly calm mind to train. Person must be perfectly compatible with the skill down to the very last cell of your body.
With this skill, you will be able to make a perfect body and be nearly indestructible. Be able to defeat those of the same rank with only your body.
First level: metal-like skin. When trained to the peak, be able to face attacks from those of two ranks higher with only the skin. Be able to challenge those of a higher rank with only the body. Only increases defense, not attack strength. Attack only increases by small amount but body defense increases the damage done.
Second level: holy blood. Blood and organs are strengthened. Inner breath is twice as strong and recovery ability is twice as strong. If attacks can pierce your skin, you will not sustain as much damage. Skin is also improved; you can now withstand attacks from three ranks above with only the body.'
Reading only the first two levels, Will was astonished by how incredible this skill was. He was also extremely surprised by how ridiculously strict the requirements were. 'Compatible down to the last cell in the body?' Will felt that probably only a few people in all of existence might be able to train this skill. He was now worried that he would not be able to train the skill.
However, he put this thought aside and wanted to try to train it.
After reading through the technique to train it, Will found that it was actually quite simple to train. However, it required one to be perfectly compatible with the skill to train it. If one was not compatible with the skill, it would simply end up destroying their skin and their body if they tried to forcefully train it. Other skills could be forcefully cultivated even if one was not compatible with it, and they would have a negative effect, but never before had Will heard of such a severe effect as completely destroying the body if there was an attempt to forcefully cultivate it. Now, he finally knew why no one had ever been successful at cultivating it and that it was deemed utterly useless.
However, when he tried to cultivate it, he felt no resistance whatsoever from the skill and it smoothly merged with his body and started to refine his skin. He was confused, didn't this skill require one to be compatible down to the last cell in the body? Why did it happen so smoothly for him? And even if he was compatible with it, it should have not been so easy to cultivate. After all, it was a skill that was at an unknown rank, at least at the peak of the void realm. The void realm was the realm above the silver core realm, the same level which the elders of the sect were at. However, even among the elders, the most powerful skill they had was only a bottom of the bottom low ranked void martial art skill, and it had taken half of their life just to train it to the low level of completion. For a skill that was ranked at the peak of the void realm at the least and probably even higher, why was he not meeting any resistance while trying to train it?
He could not help but be extremely overjoyed at this moment. If he was able to train this skill, it would mean that his defense would be at the very top of those at the same rank and he would be able to challenge those of a higher rank with only his body. It should be mentioned that the body was the foundation of cultivation, and the better the body was at the lower ranks, the more stable your foundation would be for later realms and it would in a way improve your talent and potential.
He finally realized that he truly was compatible with this skill just like he suspected the moment he felt its aura and emotions when he found it in the martial arts pavilion. This meant that he could now find compatible skills based on their aura alone and not have to read through all of them.
Putting these thoughts aside for now, Will started to train the holy body of divinity. After a total of two days, he managed to barely reach the first level. He could not help but be astonished by the sheer speed with which he trained this skill. He estimated that if it was anyone else that trained this skill, even if they were compatible with it, it should at least take them about two months to reach the first level and officially be considered to have trained the skill.
Holy body of divinity first level: metal-like skin. In this level, the skin will be trained to be as hard as metal and be able to block the attacks from those two ranks above with the skin alone.
At this moment, Will took out a random stone from his spatial ring and punched it. At this moment, the force of his punch alone completely pulverized the rock and left nothing but dust behind. Most of all, Will could feel that his skin was stronger than metal and could actually withstand attacks from two ranks higher with his body alone. When he was in the qi-less zone, he was able to shatter granite with his hands alone but it had mangled his hand and broken the bones in his arm to do so. Even though it healed in only a matter of minutes, he did not have the ability to do it without being harmed. However, now, he could not only do it without being harmed but he could also pulverize the rock into dust at the same time. Such pure defensive power was so strong that it had increased the pure force behind his punches, like the difference between the hit of a lion and the charge of a rhino, it simply could not be compared. Although they were both strong, the rhino had such pure defense in its attack that it would put out more pure force behind it's attack, leading to it being much more deadly than the lion's attack.
With this, Will was so happy that he could not contain himself from laughing in glee.