Divine sense easily entered the jade tube, but unlike last time, there was no overwhelming surge of information. What appeared before his eyes was an incomparably magnificent purple-gold palace. A suffocating pressure descended upon Henry Bolton, making his soul involuntarily tremble. Through his divine sense, he could feel the solemnity and awe-inspiring atmosphere of this illusory palace.

As Henry Bolton's divine sense slowly penetrated deeper, the color of the purple-gold palace began to visibly change, gradually fading until it turned into a faint silvery white. Even the originally purple-gold jade tube transformed into silvery white.

Next, as if by magic, the silver palace turned into a towering ancient pagoda, also silvery white, divided into several levels. Henry Bolton guessed that these nine levels probably represented the nine stages of this cultivation technique.

Encountering a slight resistance, Henry Bolton's divine sense entered the first level of the ancient pagoda.

As soon as he entered the first level, a vast amount of information surged toward him. Henry Bolton hurriedly absorbed this massive influx of knowledge.

Fortunately, relying on his Foundation Establishment stage cultivation, he could barely cope with the torrent of information before him.

After about half a stick of incense's time, Henry Bolton had absorbed all the information from the first level of the pagoda. His divine sense withdrew from the first level and attempted to advance to the second, but just as he expected, as soon as his divine sense touched the second level, he encountered tremendous resistance, even being bounced out, almost damaging his divine sense.

Silently withdrawing his divine sense from the now silvery white jade tube, Henry Bolton wore a strange expression, with a few black lines appearing on his face. After a long while, he finally spat out a few words: "What a damn perverse cultivation technique."

Since Henry Bolton had already received the information from the first level of the pagoda, he now had a general understanding of this heaven-defying cultivation technique he had obtained.

This heaven-defying technique was called "Refining Heaven and Transforming Earth." Its meaning was to refine all tangible substances in the world and transform all intangible things.

Such a claim was indeed wildly arrogant, but at its highest level, this technique truly possessed such power.

Moreover, this technique was a comprehensive collection, not only containing methods for cultivation, but also information on artifact refining and alchemy.

There was no doubt that this technique was extremely powerful, heaven-defying, and even close to perfection.

It could be said that as long as one mastered this technique, in battles against opponents of the same level, even with ordinary magical tools, one could be invincible, and might even challenge those of higher levels.

By digesting the information obtained from the first level of the pagoda, Henry Bolton learned that this "Refining Heaven and Transforming Earth" technique had several advantages.

The first advantage was that practitioners of this technique would gain a physique comparable to that of demon beasts. If one mastered its essence, it could even make the cultivator's body akin to a living magical treasure. With such a monstrous body, one could largely resist most poisons and intoxicants; all external toxins would find it hard to invade the body, and to some extent, one could even be immune to some low-level spells.

As is well known, ordinary cultivators' physiques, though constantly transforming and becoming much stronger than ordinary mortals as their cultivation improves, are still nothing compared to demon beasts.

A demon beast's ordinary claws could easily tear open a cultivator's body, while a cultivator, without using spiritual power, might not be able to harm a demon beast even with a top-grade spiritual tool. Of course, some demonic cultivators' techniques also focus on tempering the body, making their bodies much stronger than those of cultivators at the same level, but there is still a considerable gap compared to demon beasts.

The second major advantage was that the spiritual energy cultivated by this technique was quite strange, with unknown attributes, yet it could overcome all other techniques in the world!

In the cultivation world, there is almost no technique that can restrain all others; no matter how powerful, there will always be a nemesis. However, once one cultivates this technique, one will possess such heaven-defying power. This single advantage, like a cheat code, would make any cultivator's heart race.

The third major advantage was that cultivating this technique would allow the practitioner to form within their body a kind of heaven-defying flame in advance. This flame was the core of this perverse technique, said to be able to reduce all things to nothingness, and could also allow the cultivator to easily refine magical treasures or spiritual tools above their own level.

Even if a cultivator obtained a high-level magical treasure, due to lack of strength, it would be difficult to truly control it. But a cultivator of this technique could, with this mysterious flame, easily refine a magical treasure one level higher than themselves, thus unleashing the full power of a high-level treasure.

The fourth major advantage, according to the information from the first level of the pagoda, was that the cultivation method of this technique seemed quite different from conventional techniques. There was no need to form a golden core or condense a nascent soul; instead, a mysterious crystal nucleus would form within the body. The specifics, however, were limited by the information from the first level, so Henry Bolton's understanding was incomplete.

An extremely "unconventional" technique—what benefits would this bring to the practitioner? Other cultivators would never easily discover your weaknesses.

The fifth major advantage was that those who cultivated this technique would not only have a powerful body, but their divine sense would also far surpass that of cultivators at the same level, even allowing their divine sense to leap an entire stage!

A powerful divine sense could easily discern the situation of both friend and foe, making it much easier for the cultivator to survive in this perilous world of cultivation.