Chapter 002: Martial Arts or Immortal Techniques

After the hypothesis of a hodgepodge was dismissed, Wang Bo felt somewhat relieved.

To be honest, if this were a hodgepodge wuxia world where a transmigrator from another wuxia world suddenly appeared, Wang Bo really couldn't tell whether that person was a transmigrator or not.

Then, Wang Bo asked about the Beggar's Sect. If this were the world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, there should be a Beggar's Sect.

Why hadn't the waiter mentioned it? Could he have forgotten?

But the waiter shook his head and said, "It's gone."

Wang Bo was taken aback. "What do you mean, gone?"

If Ding Chunqiu existed, where did such a large Beggar's Sect go? How could it just disappear? That's not wuxia.

The waiter said, "Before Ding Chunqiu of the Star Sect wiped out the Twelve Linked Forts, he had already wiped out the Beggar's Sect. Now the Beggar's Sect has been renamed the Star Sect Beggar's Branch."

Wang Bo: ...

Are you kidding me? Since when was Ding Chunqiu so powerful that he could wipe out the Beggar's Sect?

Was he a match for Qiao Feng?

That Chief Qiao, who was invincible with his theme music playing, actually lost to Ding Chunqiu? That's too unrealistic.

Wang Bo couldn't help asking, "How exactly did Ding Chunqiu defeat Qiao Feng?"

The waiter asked in surprise, "Who is Qiao Feng?"

Wang Bo was stunned. "You don't know Qiao Feng? Then who is the chief of the Beggar's Sect?"

"Naturally, it's Chief Wang Jiantong," said the waiter. "But he was no match for Ding Chunqiu. Ding Chunqiu turned him into a dried corpse with his Art of Dissolving Power."

Hearing this, Wang Bo rubbed his temples. Qiao Feng had vanished into thin air—no, to be precise, he had never appeared at all.

Yet Ding Chunqiu had defeated Wang Jiantong and turned him into a dried corpse.

Was the Art of Dissolving Power that powerful? By its original setting, it could only dissolve a person's internal energy, not turn them into a dried corpse.

And was Ding Chunqiu that bold? Could he be a transmigrator?

Was this still the Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils he knew?

Wait, he seemed to remember that in one version, Ding Chunqiu was incredibly powerful.

In the end, he even mastered the Northern Dark Divine Art!

New Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils: The Fairy of Tianshan.

That's right, that's it. This version should be a parallel world of Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, and a high-martial-arts version at that. In this world, the Tianshan Sect was terrifyingly formidable.

Yes, in this world, there was no Carefree Sect, only the Tianshan Sect.

Ding Chunqiu roamed the jianghu relying on the Art of Dissolving Power. Not only did he wipe out the Twelve Linked Forts, but he even wiped out the Quanzhen Sect and Shaolin. Especially Shaolin—when they heard Ding Chunqiu was about to attack the mountain, the entire Shaolin Sect scattered in all directions.

In the end, only Xu Zhu, who couldn't escape in time, and a few old monks remained.

Wang Bo remembered that when the abbot of Shaolin fought Ding Chunqiu, his ultimate technique was Ten Thousand Buddhas Worshiping the Ancestor. Heaven knows whether that was a martial art from the Yijin Jing or the Buddha's Palm.

But even so, the Shaolin abbot still had all his bones dissolved by Ding Chunqiu's Art of Dissolving Power.

In the end, Shaolin was destroyed. Ding Chunqiu almost unified the martial world.

The Art of Dissolving Power, which he relied on to dominate the jianghu, was not created by Ding Chunqiu himself but was a martial art of the Tianshan Sect. What's even more absurd was that this martial art was only considered second-rate in the Tianshan Sect.

A second-rate martial art was enough for Ding Chunqiu to dominate the jianghu and almost unify the martial world. From this, one could infer the terror of the Tianshan Sect.

So, how powerful were the first-rate martial arts in the Tianshan Sect?

The plot had also explained this.

In this world, Li Qiushui of the Tianshan Sect did not practice the Lesser Non-Phase Skill from Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, but the Nether Ghost Claw. This martial art was astonishingly powerful. In front of Li Qiushui, Ding Chunqiu, who had almost unified the martial world, didn't even dare to fart.

And Wu Xingyun practiced another martial art, the Child Maiden Heart Sutra.

This martial art had a characteristic: during a full moon, one's true qi was almost inexhaustible. No matter how much one wasted, it didn't matter; the consumed true qi could be replenished in an instant.

However, if a lunar eclipse occurred, one's power would greatly decline.

Despite this flaw, the Child Maiden Heart Sutra was still a powerful martial art.

But even so, these two martial arts were still not the top-tier ones.

The top-tier martial art was the Northern Dark Divine Art.

In this world, besides being able to absorb and transfer others' internal power, the Northern Dark Divine Art was even more powerful. What shocked Wang Bo the most was that this martial art could bring people back to life after death.

Its name was... the Northern Dark Rebirth Technique!

This was less like a martial art and more like an immortal technique.

In the plot, Ding Chunqiu practiced the Northern Dark Divine Art. After his body was blown to pieces, he actually resurrected. If not for his primordial spirit not yet being stable, and eventually being dispersed, the ending of the plot would have been completely rewritten.

Moreover, when the martial arts of the Tianshan Sect were cultivated to the highest level, they could even make people immortal.

This was not much different from being a god.

Except for being unable to ascend to immortality and join the ranks of the immortals, they were almost human gods.

To be honest, Wang Bo also coveted the Northern Dark Divine Art.

True, he had the Twelve Labors, allowing him to be reborn twelve times, which sounded terrifying. But the Twelve Labors were not invincible. For example, in the Fate world, Heracles, who possessed the Twelve Labors, was once killed seven times in a single strike by King Arthur Altria.

One attack consumed seven of Heracles' resurrection chances, ultimately killing him.

Thus, the Twelve Labors were not as invincible as imagined.

So Wang Bo greatly coveted the Northern Dark Divine Art, because it could bring people back to life. Wang Bo would never have enough resurrection chances—not just twelve, but even hundreds would not be too many.

It would be best to be able to resurrect infinitely.

But unfortunately, although Wang Bo's luck was a bit good, he was not the king of luck. He still hadn't drawn the Demi-Human bloodline. If Wang Bo could draw the Demi-Human bloodline, he wouldn't need to covet the Northern Dark Divine Art.

But in this world, there was no 'if.'

After Wang Bo sent the waiter away, he briefly recounted the story of this world to Diana.

After listening, Diana couldn't help but marvel.

"A world without a single god, yet possessing secret arts that can bring the dead back to life and even grant immortality. This world is too amazing."

Although she was Zeus's daughter, like other gods, she had no ability to resurrect.

If a person is killed, they die. This saying also applied to Diana. If a god is killed, they also die.

The corpse of Ares, still in Wang Bo's Time Villa, could prove this statement.

Then Wang Bo told Diana his decision.