"Obtaining the 'Divine Cultivation and Heaven-Slaying Manual' means you can cultivate it!"

Evan Parker's question seemed to touch upon something in George White's heart, and his tone carried a hint of sigh as he said, "If it weren't for obtaining this 'Divine Cultivation and Heaven-Slaying Manual,' would I have ended up in this situation? And now you, kid, are still hesitating for so long—it's truly infuriating."

Evan Parker had always been someone who could infer many things from one, so upon hearing this, he frowned slightly and said, "From what you're saying, you ended up trapped in the Hongmeng Pearl because you were fighting over this 'Divine Cultivation and Heaven-Slaying Manual.' In other words, you yourself have never cultivated this manual?"

"You're half right."

George White's voice was no longer as cold and deep as before, but carried a touch of reminiscence as he said, "I am not trapped in the Hongmeng Pearl, but rather residing within it. As for the 'Divine Cultivation and Heaven-Slaying Manual,' I have indeed never cultivated it. My physical body no longer exists, so how could I cultivate it?"

"Then aren't I just your test subject?"

George White snapped, "Kid, if you're unwilling, I won't force you. You can spend your whole life cultivating those dime-a-dozen immortal cultivation manuals."

"Come on, Uncle White, don't jump to conclusions so quickly. I'm just asking, I never said I wouldn't learn it."

Evan Parker calmly said, "Let me try cultivating it first. Hopefully, we can both get what we want: I achieve Divine Transformation and return to Earth, and you avoid disaster and escape the Hongmeng Pearl. How about it?"

"Listen up, I'll teach you the 'Divine Cultivation and Heaven-Slaying Manual'..."

A long time later.

"This thing is way too hard to cultivate..."

After receiving the 'Divine Cultivation and Heaven-Slaying Manual' from George White, Evan Parker showed no sign of joy. On the contrary, his brows furrowed tightly.

"If I cultivate according to this manual, the spiritual stones required are at least ten times what ordinary cultivators need. I spent three whole years in the mines just to barely gather enough spiritual stones to reach the Innate Realm. By that logic, even if this manual allows for much faster progress than any immortal cultivation method, without enough spiritual stones, it's all for nothing..."

"Indeed, that's a problem, but not one without a solution."

George White's voice once again echoed in Evan Parker's mind, "On Xuanyun Star, I still have a cave residence. Although it's the smallest of my three, the treasures inside are enough for you to cultivate all the way to the Divine Transformation stage."

"There's such a good thing!" Evan Parker said bluntly, "Where is the cave residence?"

"Well..." George White replied with a hint of embarrassment, "In Youxuan Valley."

"That name sounds familiar, I think I've heard of it, huh?"

"No way, that's the headquarters of the Supreme Yuanyang Sect... the territory of one of the Nine Great Sects. How am I, someone at the Innate Realm, supposed to get in there? Even if I could, with my meager cultivation, how could I possibly enter the cave residence you mentioned without being noticed in the Supreme Yuanyang Sect's headquarters..."

"You'll have to rely on your own efforts for that."

George White said straightforwardly, "That earlier exchange of divine sense with you cost me a lot. I will be dormant for a while to recover. You'd better take good care of this Hongmeng Pearl..."

Not giving Evan Parker any chance to complain, the Hongmeng Pearl, which had been faintly glowing white, reverted to its original battered stone appearance. No matter how many times Evan Parker called out, George White's voice did not sound again.

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Ten days later, accompanied by a clear cry from Evan Parker, a mass of strange fire, blue-green with a hidden crimson core, rose from his palm.

"Blazing Flame Palm!"

With a palm full of divine energy, the strange fire shot out as if it had a life of its own, flying at a speed almost imperceptible to the naked eye. The intense heat instantly melted the hard rock into liquid, and with a single strike, he blasted a two-foot-deep depression into the rock.

This result greatly surprised Evan Parker. Before converting his internal true essence into divine energy, even when using all his strength, his "Blazing Flame Palm" could at most open a hole about a foot deep in the rock—and that was only after he had advanced to the eighth level of the Innate Realm.

But now, because the 'Divine Cultivation and Heaven-Slaying Manual' had such extreme requirements for cultivation accumulation, after Evan Parker used it to completely convert his true essence into divine energy, his cultivation, which had already reached the eighth level of the Innate Realm, actually regressed to the initial stage of the Innate Realm.

Yet, relying on this initial stage cultivation, he possessed destructive power far beyond what he had at the eighth level before. Just this alone was enough for Evan Parker to take back all his previous doubts and disbelief toward George White.

Whatever George White's intentions were, at the very least, the 'Divine Cultivation and Heaven-Slaying Manual' he passed down was a supreme technique that would drive all the cultivators on Xuanyuan Star mad with desire.

All those so-called supreme sect-guarding techniques of the Nine Great Sects, all those heaven-grade manuals, were nothing compared to the 'Divine Cultivation and Heaven-Slaying Manual.' This wasn't just a matter of "difference"—it was a matter of "class." One cultivates immortality, the other cultivates divinity; they're simply not on the same level.