Chapter 95: Consecutive Breakthroughs
Yin Twenty-Four revealed a curious expression: “Why are you so concerned about her? For now, you two are still competitors.”
Li Weiyi used the words Yin Twenty-Four had once said in front of Yao Yin: “Maybe because she’s pretty!”
“Then I advise you not to fall for her, lest you experience the pain of life and death separation in the future, harming both others and yourself.”
Yin Twenty-Four sighed: “She has the extremely rare Jade Shattered Ice Soul Body, which only appears on Pure Immortal Bodies. Out of ten thousand Pure Immortal Bodies, there might be only one.”
“Jade Shattered Ice Soul…”
Li Weiyi puzzledly repeated after her.
Yin Twenty-Four said: “In other words, the Pure Immortal Body is too pure, so the body is prone to shattering like jade, cracking like ice. The reason for this rare constitution mostly stems from its parents, some kind of bizarre bloodline mutation. Her father…”
At this point, she immediately stopped.
“I’ve only heard of Half Immortal Body; I didn’t know there was such a thing as being too pure.” Li Weiyi felt it necessary to find an opportunity to cram some knowledge about this world.
Once he became a Hidden Person, he would go to the Library of Coffin Sea Pavilion to take a look.
Yin Twenty-Four said: “In this world, anything done to excess is as bad as deficiency. Pure Immortal Bodies with the Jade Shattered Ice Soul Body mostly don’t live past eighteen years old. Otherwise, do you think that as the granddaughter of the Medicine Li Tribe Leader and a Pure Immortal Body, with such nobility, why would she come to the Hidden Sect for trials?”
“Can the Hidden Sect save her?” Li Weiyi said.
Yin Twenty-Four shook her head: “In history, there are records of Pure Immortal Bodies with the Jade Shattered Ice Soul Body surviving, pushing the Pure Immortal Body’s combat power to the extreme, achieving extraordinarily high accomplishments. But that was by finding the Supreme Yang Flower… The Hidden Sect doesn’t have that either.”
“If she can comprehend the Jiu Li God’s Battle Intent, she might find a way to live, but it’s too slim.”
Li Weiyi knew that many things in this world were beyond his ability to change; everyone has their own fate, and in one’s life, there are many encounters and partings.
Beautiful things always wither; after a sigh and regret, one’s own life must continue.
“Yin Twenty-Four, you know too much!”
Li Weiyi dropped this sentence and headed straight back to the Blood Tree Forest Cliff.
Yin Twenty-Four was stunned, then realized. This guy had used the secret and special constitution issue of Yao Yin to probe her relationship with Yao Yin.
She indeed had an extraordinary relationship with Yao Yin, so she knew her situation like the back of her hand.
Although Yin Twenty-Four was only sixteen years old, how could she have survived to the end among a batch of trial participants purely by being outwardly joyful? She naturally had a deep and seasoned side.
At the end of the Spider Cave trial, Yin Twenty-Four had seen that Li Weiyi’s strength was not simple; he was very likely Yao Yin’s strongest opponent. But he had obvious personality weaknesses, as he hadn’t taken the chance to kill Yao Yin inside the Spider Cave.
Based on these two points of analysis, Yin Twenty-Four had used her own strategy to help Yao Yin, targeting precisely Li Weiyi’s weaknesses.
“This got seen through so quickly? What a headache; now there’s another point he’s got a grip on.”
Yin Twenty-Four walked toward Yao Yin, deciding to confess everything to her, lest she really fall into it. Now Li Weiyi was basically a nailed-down Hidden Person and no longer a life-and-death rival competitor to Yao Yin.
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The cultivation of the Mind Master realm is the constant process of absorbing light to nourish fire.
No matter how powerful the meditation method, absorbing light in the natural world is a slow process.
But the Radiant Flame Pill is different.
Li Weiyi swallowed the first Radiant Flame Pill, and his abdomen immediately felt warm and cozy. Then, his entire body was illuminated by the light from his abdomen, his physical body glowing bright and incandescent like red-hot glass.
He immediately meditated.
He imagined himself as two tall Fusang Divine Trees, rapidly absorbing all the light.
All the light flames in the entire Cave Mansion turned into dense light particles, surging toward the Forehead Spirit Realm at his brow like a stream.
Inside the brow, the Spiritual Light Flame rapidly surged wildly.
After one day and one night, the light from the first Radiant Flame Pill was completely gone; thirty percent was absorbed, seventy percent lost.
“The entire Forehead Spirit Realm is filled with flames, comparable to three months of hard cultivation accumulation.”
Li Weiyi felt very heartbroken; to save these three months, 100,000 silver coins instantly vanished.
“Next is to continuously refine the Spiritual Light Blazing Fire until it condenses into the higher-grade Bright Fire.”
Li Weiyi considered himself the big creditor of Yin Twenty-Four and Yang Yun, and he could even extort some from Yao Yin, since he had saved her twice.
He could be a bit arrogant.
If he ran out of money, he could just go collect debts, so he quickly swallowed the second Radiant Flame Pill.
After another day and one night, the light from the second Radiant Flame Pill dissipated.
This time it was better; he absorbed thirty-five percent.
The Spiritual Light Blazing Fire in the Forehead Spirit Realm became much more condensed, the temperature clearly higher, the light more scorching. But it seemed far from metamorphosing into “Bright Fire.”
The third, the fourth.
By the fifth day, Li Weiyi took out the last Radiant Flame Pill, his mood not good at all—one day burning down a Courtyard in Jiu Li City, four days in a row, yet still no breakthrough.
This pill was too scammy!
Expensive for no reason.
He strongly suspected that Yin Twenty-Four had given him fake pills to fool him.
“If this one still doesn’t break through after swallowing, I’ll go settle accounts with Yin Twenty-Four. She’s always scheming against me; four million silver coins were still too cheap. I need to make her really bleed some.”
He gulped down a big mouthful of Golden Spring from the Pottery Jar, and Li Weiyi swallowed the last Radiant Flame Pill.
Half a day later, the Spiritual Light Blazing Fire in the Forehead Spirit Realm, after repeated compression and refinement, suddenly vibrated. It vibrated for a full half hour, and in a certain instant, all the blazing fire collapsed toward the center.
“Boom!”
The Forehead Spirit Realm became tranquil.
All the violent blazing fire contracted into a pea-sized bright flame.
This flame was like a solid, unmoving and unshaking, bright as a star.
“Haha, success, Bright Fire achieved!”
Li Weiyi laughed wildly in the Cave Mansion, too lazy to continue meditating to absorb the remaining Radiant Flame Pill light. He quickly took out the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish.
Particles of Bright Fire from his brow released, surging toward the Dao Ancestor Tai Chi Fish, activating it.
“Whoosh—”
As the two Bronze Fish rotated, a Tai Chi Seal appeared under Li Weiyi’s feet, spatial power erupted, pulling him toward the microscopic world of the Buddha’s Sarira.
In the Cave Mansion, in an instant, only the Buddha’s Sarira remained suspended in mid-air, held up by a Tai Chi Seal.
After experiencing weightlessness, Li Weiyi reappeared on the dry ocean-like Blood Mud Great Land, with the surroundings much more open. The blood mist enveloping and imprisoning the entire space receded into the distance.
“The Blood Mud Space seems just enlarged, with no other changes.” Li Weiyi sighed.
A voice from the Spirit Tablet sounded: “Use your mind power to see if you can disperse the blood mist in the edge area of the space.”
Li Weiyi quickly reined in his various emotions, gradually becoming focused in meditation, using his mind bit by bit to peel away the blood mist in one direction, the blood mist gradually thinning.
After multiple attempts, he became increasingly proficient in controlling mind power and blood mist.
When he peeled away the last layer of blood mist veil, a shocking scene that touched the heart appeared before his eyes again after several months.
Behind the blood mist was actually a vast and majestic ocean.
At the end of the great sea stood two enormous Mulberry Trees supporting each other, who knows how many tens of thousands of meters tall, extending lush and bright branches and leaves toward the horizon, each leaf emitting light like sun and moon.
On the sea surface bloomed large and small Golden Flowers, with no leaves, only white roots immersed in the water.
This was exactly the Tanggu Sea that the Bronze Ship had passed through several months ago.
Fusang Divine Tree, Xihe Flower…
What shocked Li Weiyi to suffocation even more was that everything before him seemed no illusion.
He could smell the exotic fragrance emitted by the Xihe Flowers, hear the sound of waves, feel the light erupting from the Fusang Divine Tree.
“This… Spirit Tablet Master, you mean tempering the Gold Veins using the glory of the Fusang Divine Tree? How is the Shaoyang Star connected to the Tanggu Sea? And how did you know?”
Li Weiyi tried to calm himself, but his eyes couldn’t move away from the Fusang Divine Tree, his facial muscles completely stiff.
The Spirit Tablet Senior said: “The Shaoyang Star is an extremely remarkable space treasure. Back when we participated in the war, it directly teleported us from all over. In other words, it opening spatial barriers to anywhere is not surprising.”
“As for why lifting the blood mist brings you directly under the Fusang Divine Tree, I don’t know the reason. It was when you first entered the Shaoyang Star, the first time you lifted the blood mist, that the Fusang Divine Tree and this ocean briefly appeared, so I guessed that after your mind power strengthens, you might connect to this sea area.”
“Perhaps… it’s related to you blindly modifying the One Grass Meditation Method!”
“When you meditate, you imagine yourself as a Fusang Tree, which might have made the Shaoyang Star think you want to come here in some way. So when you peel away the blood mist, you arrive here.”
Li Weiyi found it hard to believe and muttered to himself: “Then if I imagine returning to Earth, couldn’t I open the spatial barrier to Earth?”
“You can try.” The Spirit Tablet Senior said.
Li Weiyi was excited and immediately imagined it—imagining himself in Shou Qiu, in the ancient temple where he cultivated with his Master. Then, he mobilized mind power, layer by layer peeling away the blood mist in another direction.
But behind the blood mist was endless barren Blood Mud Great Land, the terrain of the Shaoyang Star.
“Maybe I wasn’t focused enough.”
He tried a few more times until his spirit was somewhat wilted before giving up.
The Spirit Tablet Master said: “Perhaps your mind power cultivation isn’t strong enough yet. The stronger your mind power, the stronger your control over the Shaoyang Star.”
“Or maybe I don’t have such a strong intention to go back; it was just a momentary impulse.”
Li Weiyi smiled bitterly, then rubbed his temples, stood up again, and walked toward the vast sea area where the Fusang Divine Tree was; tempering the Gold Veins was the urgent matter.
But just as he reached the edge of the Blood Mud Space, he was blocked by an invisible spatial barrier, unable to truly reach the sea area.
“This isn’t a real space channel?” Li Weiyi said.
The Spirit Tablet Master said: “No, it’s that your mind power isn’t strong enough yet. If you become a Great Mind Master, you might be able to walk out of this spatial barrier.”
Breaking through from Square Inch Blazing Fire to Square Inch Bright Fire had consumed five Radiant Flame Pills, equivalent to eating five Courtyards.
From Square Inch Bright Fire breaking through the great realm to Square Foot Earth Fire, Li Weiyi didn’t dare imagine how much it would cost. Forget it; better to steadily absorb light to nourish fire.
“Although blocked by the spatial barrier, the light from the Fusang Divine Tree is real. In heaven and earth, there should be no place more suitable for tempering Gold Veins than here, right?”
All of Li Weiyi’s shock was replaced by excitement.
Then, while drinking Golden Spring, he performed the Fusang Divine Tree Meditation Method, while using the Cang Wang Tempering Method to continuously absorb the light emitted by the Fusang Divine Tree, integrating it into the Silver Veins.
No longer fusing into all ninety-six veins like before, but focusing on one of them.
Time passed quickly.
“Whoosh!”
On the other side of the spatial barrier, the sea area boiled, endless Divine Flames burned at the seabed, then turned into a Golden Crow rushing out of the sea surface.
The instant the Golden Crow rushed out, the light from the spatial barrier intensified countless times.
Li Weiyi, performing the Cang Wang Tempering Method, only felt all light particles go out of control, pouring like a waterfall, blasting into his body like a wind explosion, integrating into the veins.
The Silver Vein connected to the palm of his right hand first surfaced with a layer of golden light, then grew brighter and brighter, releasing scorching and vigorous energy. Like a Dragon Vein, it rushed out of his arm, extending toward his organs and back, then straight to the top of his head.
The first Gold Vein was tempered in just one day.
Li Weiyi looked at his right arm, then suddenly stood up from the ground, gazing toward the soaring Golden Crow: “Fusang and Golden Crow have a mutually achieving relationship, and during my meditation… I am the Fusang Divine Tree.”
“Spirit Tablet Master, I feel that the key to using the Cang Wang Tempering Method to temper Gold Veins is to simultaneously cultivate the Fusang Divine Tree Meditation Method and the Martial Way; combining the two, plus this treasure land of Tanggu Sea… alright, too many additions! Anyway, I feel that it won’t be long before I can temper all the Silver Veins in my body into Gold Veins.”
“Jar Master, how many Gold Veins did you say you tempered before?”
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