lovenovelstory #340 - Nine-turn elixir
#340 - Nine-turn elixir
Chapter 338: Nine Revolutions of Returning the Elixir
Qi Refining Technique, Third Realm: Jade Liquid Returning the Elixir.
Zhang Chen looked at the profound secrets, tapping his knee thoughtfully. Then, he summoned the Golden Finger interface. His eyes focused on it, and as expected, with the acquisition of a higher-level Qi Refining incantation, Jade Liquid Returning the Elixir appeared on the Golden Finger interface:
【7 Skills (First Tier): Second Heaven (Perfected)】
【Status: Upgradeable (0/10000000)】
“Ten million experience points? Isn't that a bit too much? And this is only for upgrading to the Second Tier!” Seeing the experience points required on the Golden Finger interface, Zhang Chen couldn't help but gasp.
One must know that the Second Tier Jade Liquid Returning the Elixir is divided into the Upper and Lower Heavens. These ten million experience points are only for the Jade Liquid cultivation realm. He wondered if the Returning the Elixir realm would require experience points, and if the experience points would continue to increase.
Thoughts flickered in Zhang Chen's mind. The Qi Refining Technique was definitely a gold-devouring monster. Continuing to upgrade would require a terrifying number of points.
Previously, Zhang Chen had been thinking that he could stay in the Huangli Temple for a while and rely on the Golden Finger to perfect his skills. But now, it seemed he was overthinking it. Before he could find the Longevity Tree Coffin to extend his life, he wouldn't have the chance to perfect his skills.
He knew that he had wasted more than half a year in the mental world. Adding the time he had wasted outside, a year had already passed, leaving Zhang Chen with only three years.
Zhang Chen had to find the Longevity Tree Coffin within three years, or he would definitely kick the bucket.
“Never mind so much. For now, I'll focus on leveling up the Qi Refining Technique. The Qi Refining Technique is the fundamental technique. After I've maxed out the Qi Refining Technique, I'll max out the Mountain Moving Technique.” Zhang Chen cursed inwardly.
Ten million experience points seemed like a lot, but it was only five days of Zhang Chen's effort.
Life seemed to return to peace. Wu Changming also stayed in the Taoist temple, polishing his mind all day long, preparing to reach the legendary mysterious mental world.
Wu Changming's reliance on this place caused Zhang Chen a lot of trouble, greatly slowing down the speed of stealing experience points. But Zhang Chen had no choice; he couldn't just drive people away, could he?
Moreover, Wu Changming had chosen a good excuse, directly using the pretext of guiding Zhang Chen in his cultivation so that he could escape into the mysterious realm as soon as possible. Zhang Chen couldn't say anything.
Fortunately, Zhang Chen was a smart man, and a smart man should use smart methods.
One day, Wu Changming came to freeload a meal again. After eating the stewed beef, he sat under the big tree in Zhang Chen's courtyard, pondering how to cross the final hurdle and enter the first heaven of the mental world. Not far away, Zhang Chen looked at Wu Changming, feeling very speechless. Wu Changming was in the courtyard; what could he do? He couldn't steal points under Wu Changming's nose, could he?
He didn't have that much courage!
Zhang Chen felt that Wu Changming was annoying and an eyesore, but he was wronged. Little did he know that Wu Changming knew of Zhang Chen's extraordinary nature, so he deliberately stayed here to build a relationship with him.
Looking at the frowning Wu Changming, Zhang Chen deliberately stepped forward to ask Wu Changming for guidance. After the guidance was over, he said casually, “I saw that Master has been frowning lately. Has he encountered any trouble?”
Wu Changming didn't hide anything: “I have already touched the Sitting and Forgetting realm, only one step away from the mental world, but for some reason, I can't seem to cross over.”
Zhang Chen's eyes turned, knowing Wu Changming's bottleneck. He must have encountered the barrier from the fixed void to the mental world. So, he pointed out:
“I heard that there are leaks of mysterious substances in the Immortal Realm behind that passage, which can strengthen people's essence, energy, and spirit, and nourish people's whole body. Master cannot enter the legendary mental world, perhaps because his foundation is not enough. He might as well go to that Immortal Realm to absorb some mysterious substances to enhance his foundation, and perhaps he can break through the barrier.”
Zhang Chen wasn't talking nonsense. What he said was all reasonable. The first heaven of the mental world that Wu Changming sought was just the world opposite the black hole. If Wu Changming could enter it with his physical body, his soul would be nourished by the mysterious power of the first heaven of the mental world. When the time came, the other party would cultivate and enter samadhi in the mental world, and he would definitely be able to easily cross that threshold.
After all, the other party's physical body and soul were already in the first heaven of the mental world, which was equivalent to knowing the answer in advance. What problem could there be in solving the problem with the answer in hand?
After hearing Zhang Chen's words, Wu Changming slapped his thigh, feeling that Zhang Chen's words made a lot of sense. So, without saying a word, he directly turned into a stream of light and flew away.
With the troublesome Wu Changming gone, Zhang Chen finally became free and began his plan to steal points.
Finally, on the sixth day, Zhang Chen accumulated enough points and summoned the Golden Finger interface:
【7 Skills (First Tier): Second Heaven (Perfected)】
【Status: Upgradeable (0/10000000)】
【Points: 10320000】
Looking at the Golden Finger interface, Zhang Chen did not hesitate and directly clicked on it. The next moment, the Golden Finger interface flashed, and the skill directly evolved:
【7 Skills (Second Tier): Jade Liquid (10000000)】
【Status: Upgradeable】
“Still ten million points. This Golden Finger interface is still quite conscientious and didn't take the opportunity to raise the price.” Zhang Chen said to himself.
Ten million points were easy; he could collect enough in just five days.
However, after Zhang Chen's Qi Refining Technique advanced to the Second Tier, he found that the speed at which he devoured points was twice as fast.
He could get four million points a day and a night!
Zhang Chen worked hard for two days, and the points for the upgrade were already enough. Zhang Chen looked at the Golden Finger interface and clicked on it again. He saw the mana around Zhang Chen circulating according to a mysterious route, and his aura had a slight change.
The so-called Returning the Elixir does not really mean cultivating an 'elixir'.
Returning refers to the continuous cycle.
Elixir represents perfection and flawlessness.
This is the true meaning of Returning the Elixir. In the end, its essence is still the tempering of mana and the nourishment of the soul.
Then, the Golden Finger interface fluctuated, and the Golden Finger interface was refreshed again:
【7 Skills (Second Tier): First Revolution of Returning the Elixir (10000000)】
【Status: Upgradeable (0\\10000000).】
Then, Zhang Chen was stunned when he saw the ten million points: “After Returning the Elixir, you give me the First Revolution of Returning the Elixir? What a joke?”
If there were Nine Revolutions of Returning the Elixir, the experience points would be in the hundreds of millions. What a huge amount of experience points that would be! It would be enough for Zhang Chen to upgrade a large wave of skills.
But there was no choice. The Qi Refining Technique was the fundamental technique, related to future development, so Zhang Chen had to cultivate it.
Even if he knew it was a pit, Zhang Chen had to jump in.
However, after cultivating to this realm, Zhang Chen also noticed the mystery. Each time after the First Revolution of Returning the Elixir, his mana would undergo some inexplicable change, as if it had been stained with some kind of mysterious power of the law, and had some kind of mysterious attribute. But Zhang Chen could hardly perceive what kind of change had occurred.
Moreover, after each cycle of the Reverting Pellet, Zhang Chen's speed of devouring the power of incense increased by 10%. By the time the Nine Revolutions of Reverting Pellet were complete, Zhang Chen's devouring speed had almost doubled again.
Previously, Zhang Chen's devouring speed of incense power was two million per day and night. Later, after breaking through the Jade Liquid Reverting Pellet, the devouring speed reached four million. Now, after the Nine Revolutions of Reverting Pellet, his devouring speed per day and night is nearly eight million.
As the Nine Revolutions of Reverting Pellet reached its limit, Zhang Chen looked at the Golden Finger interface:
【7 Skills (Second Order): Nine Revolutions of Reverting Pellet (Complete)】
Closing the Golden Finger interface, Zhang Chen looked at his own mana again, and it actually carried a trace of golden light, flashing with a golden yellow color, as if a trace of immortal energy was flowing.
"Although the Nine Revolutions of Reverting Pellet is only a realm, after a series of transformations, my mana's amplification of supernatural powers has reached five times. In particular, the amplification of the Devouring Technique is the greatest for me. It's completely a case of sharpening the knife does not delay the work of cutting firewood. Although the points required to upgrade the fundamental technique are huge, my speed of devouring points has also become faster. Comparing the two, I still made a profit!" Zhang Chen was delighted with the Nine Revolutions of Reverting Pellet, sitting in front of the stove warming himself by the fire.
"Currently, there is no next-level cultivation method for Qi Refining. Next, I will concentrate on grinding the Mountain Moving Technique. If I can grind the Mountain Moving Technique to the first stage of completion and grind out twelve thousand runes, I can move twelve thousand pounds of objects."
However, the Mountain Moving Technique also has a limitation, that is, to reach the first stage: 'Entry Level' completion, it requires accumulating five hundred years of mana.
Zhang Chen pondered the Mountain Moving Technique, and then looked at his own mana, but he didn't know how many years his current mana could be considered. He relied entirely on the Golden Finger to grind it up, so where would he have any concept of measurement?
"Cultivate the Mountain Moving Technique first, and wait until the mana is not enough later!" Zhang Chen didn't care so much, just grind it, and what if his mana was not enough? When his mana is not enough and he can't grind it up, then he will talk about other things.
Zhang Chen's mind turned, and he潜伏ed into the ground, came to the front of the incense wall, and the next moment the mouthparts in his palm stretched out and pierced into the incense wall.
An hour later, Zhang Chen stopped devouring, frowned and remained silent, looking at the dim incense wall.
After an hour of absorption, the luster of the incense wall was dimmed, less than one-tenth of its initial state.
"The speed at which Huang Li Guan collects incense faith can no longer keep up with my devouring speed." Zhang Chen had no choice but to stop and return to the ground to wait for the recovery of incense faith.
"If I continue to devour at this speed, there will be big problems sooner or later. Devouring eight million points every day, Huang Li Guan's incense is already unsustainable, and sooner or later it will be noticed by the higher-ups of the Yellow Sky Dao." Zhang Chen had already taken precautions in his heart. Although his devouring speed had increased, he also had to consider the reaction of the Yellow Sky Dao and not attract everyone's attention.
"The Mountain Moving Technique requires cultivating twelve thousand rune imprints, and each rune imprint requires one thousand points, which is about twelve million points. It is not difficult for me to grind the entry-level realm of the Mountain Moving Technique to completion in Huang Li Guan, but the incense power in Huang Li Guan is not enough now, not enough for me to薅!" Zhang Chen stood in the courtyard, feeling a little troubled.
His devouring speed has increased, but he can't stand the fact that there is not so much stuff for him to devour?
Moreover, the old guys in Huang Li Guan are not fools. If there is such a big gap in the power of incense, once it enters an unsustainable state, they will definitely investigate. So at this time, Zhang Chen did not dare to薅 too hard.
"It seems that I have to open up a new source. One Taoist temple in Huang Li Guan is not enough for me to薅." A flash of inspiration flashed in Zhang Chen's mind, and he thought of an idea:
"There are many Taoist temples in the Northern Yellow Sky Dao. If I薅 a little from each Taoist temple, wouldn't the matter be solved?"
"I'm really a little genius." Zhang Chen was secretly happy in his heart. He was about to improve his Mountain Moving Technique when he saw a stream of light flashing in the courtyard, and Wu Changming arrived.
At this time, Wu Changming was full of energy, his eyes full of joy: "Boy, you have made a great contribution."
"Master, could it be that you have entered the first heaven of the spiritual world?" Zhang Chen saw Wu Changming's excited look and had already guessed something in his heart, so he pretended to be curious and asked.
Hearing Zhang Chen's words, Wu Changming patted Zhang Chen on the shoulder: "Boy, thanks to your guidance, I, the old ancestor, absorbed the power of the immortal world outside that space channel, and actually used the power of the immortal world to break through the barrier of the mind and enter the legendary spiritual world."
Wu Changming's voice was full of pride, his whole person was beaming with joy, and his mood was very good.
He should indeed be proud, because from ancient times to the present, those who can enter the first heaven of the legendary spiritual world with their minds are all patriarch-level figures who have created various sects.
Zhang Chen looked at the triumphant Wu Changming, feeling a little strange in his heart. If Wu Changming knew that the first heaven of the spiritual world that his mind had entered, his physical body could also enter now, and in fact the two were the same place, he wondered what his thoughts would be.
As for Wu Changming not noticing the difference between the spiritual world and the 'Cultivation World', Zhang Chen was not surprised, after all, the spiritual world is vast and boundless, and even if humans enter from the space channel, mortals cannot explore far in that wilderness.
You know Ailao Mountain, right? How far can ordinary people explore? Not to mention a barren world?
It is normal for Wu Changming not to notice the difference, because the probability of Wu Changming's spiritual incarnation meeting people who enter the spiritual world from the space channel is almost zero.
Wu Changming looked at Zhang Chen with his eyes, his voice full of joy: "Today should be celebrated, we should have a big drink."
After saying that, Wu Changming ordered his disciples to bring wine and drinks, wanting to drink with Zhang Chen.
Zhang Chen had no choice but to delay his cultivation and accompany Wu Changming to drink.
After drinking for a few rounds, Wu Changming was a little tipsy and patted Zhang Chen on the shoulder and said, "Boy, don't be discouraged. It doesn't matter if the position of Star God is gone. What's so great about it? Your master, I have now entered the spiritual world with my mind, and I can absorb the mysterious aura in the spiritual world to strengthen myself, and I can also pick the great medicines in the spiritual world for cultivation. It won't take ten years for my Yin God Technique to prove the Yang God. Let me tell you, the mysterious power of the spiritual world is very beneficial to the soul, and it has incredible benefits for the cultivation of the soul. As long as you follow me to cultivate well in the future, I, the old ancestor, will pick peaches, ginseng fruit and other great medicines from the spiritual world, and I will teach you to ascend to heaven directly with one pill."
"Gods are good, but they have territorial restrictions and are not free. Moreover, the Great Virtuous Teacher controls the method of conferring gods, and all the gods in the world are controlled by the Great Virtuous Teacher. What's so good about being that lousy god? The Yin God Technique is the road to heaven." Wu Changming was already a little drunk, and he vented his dissatisfaction with curses in his mouth, his voice full of resentment.