Chapter 347: Great Cultivator on Fifth Heaven
Light flashes filled Hao Ren's cave abode.
Zhen Congming had placed the chess pieces into the stone walls of the cave abode, forming a small array formation in which the chess pieces interacted with each other.
Traces of lightning flew into Hao Ren's acupoints like streams.
The entire cave abode was like a space in the clouds, and Hao Ren was immersed in the weak lightning.
The array formation pulled the surrounding nature essence and used it. Since the essence intensity in the valley was much greater than that on the land, Hao Ren's cultivation progress was naturally much faster.
The chaotic lightning was made up of pure five-elemental essences, and the traces of lightning energy created by the array formation was easier for Hao Ren to absorb than the heavenly lightning which he had to withstand with his body before converting and absorbing.
However, there were very few array formation masters like Zhen Congming who knew about the secrets of the ancient lightning cultivation technique.
Probably only the disciple of Qiu Niu, an ancient heavenly dragon, knew about the lighting cultivation technique and the methods of practicing it.
"Herrr!
Hao Ren's body shook, and the starry light disappeared from the cave. The hissing lightning rose slowly and formed a mass of white clouds, hovering in the air.
Thinking of his previous impatience and impulsiveness in activating the heavenly lightning while he knew nothing about the lightning cultivation technique, Hao Ren laughed as he felt like an idiot.
The starry light around him gradually disappeared.
Hao Ren checked his dragon core and found that he had unlocked another ten openings!
Eighty-five openings! He was only 35 openings away from Gen-level which needed him to unlock 120 openings.
If Zhen Congming didn't warn him about the enormous harm the lightning energy had on cultivators when used continuously, Hao Ren would have spent days immersed in the Small Cloud Rain Array until he reached Gen-level then Dui-level!
All the blood in his body was surging. Due to the half-day stimulation of the lightning energy, he felt like his blood veins had swelled up slightly.
Hao Ren shot a sword energy out of the valley.
Swoosh! A wide sword energy that was 50 meters wide and 200 meters long appeared in the sky!
All the people in the Seven Star Sect, Qiong Hua Sect, and Qin Yin Sect were astonished!
They didn't know that this sword energy was only a release of Hao Ren's abundant essence from his body and thus didn't have any power. However, the magnificent view together with the appearance of the dashes of heavenly lightning several hours ago made them think that a master of the Nascent Soul Realm who was hiding on Fifth Heaven was coming out of his or her seclusion cultivation.
Hao Ren's casual act became a sign of his great power!
To the masters of the sects living in the nearby mountains, the magnificent sword energy was a warning: anyone trespassing his territory would be killed immediately!
The sect masters of the sects, no matter big or small, summoned elders and senior disciples and warned them never to get close to the area around the Herb King Valley where the Heavenly Tribulation had appeared a little while ago.
"Hu..." Hao Ren exhaled deeply, feeling refreshed all over. Then, he flew on the energy sword back to the valley to check up on Xie Yujia in her elixir making room.
Xie Yujia was standing before a black elixir furnace while two notes, one golden and the other silver, were spinning quickly in her palm.
Little White hissed out demon fires which entered the interior of the furnace through the eight holes in the body of the furnace, emitting hot air.
As the natal fire of the demon beasts, demon fire was closely related with the internal core of the demon beast. Through continually spitting and swallowing demon fires, demon beasts could improve their strengths. Their demon fires could make elixir pills and exercise their internal cores. The more proficient the demon beasts used their demon fires, the stronger their internal cores would be.
When Zhen Congming was taken in as a disciple by Qiu Niu, he was just a level 7 demon beast who had just activated its intelligence. After years of spitting fire to make elixirs, Qiu Niu made him into a level 10 demon beast before feeding it a Transformation Pill that Qiu Niu made himself, turning him into the human form.
The demon fire burned vigorously while the black elixir furnace's surface turned red. If the herbs in the furnace were ordinary materials, the demon fire would have long melted them in the last four hours.
Xie Yujia, who was controlling the essence in the furnace with the Life-Death Notes, sweated, and the sweat appeared on her forehead. Before the sweat formed into drops, it was evaporated by the heat of the burning fire.
Elixir making was another form of cultivation. While Xie Yujia manipulated the essence in the furnace with the Life-Death Notes, the process didn't consume much of the nature essence.
Instead, it could improve the circulation of nature essence in her body. In fact, she was indirectly using Little White's demon fire to unblock meridian in her stone body type.
"Lift the pills!" Zhen Congming shouted.
Abruptly, Xie Yujia withdrew the silver note. The elixir furnace lid couldn't hold the burning demon fire inside, and it flew up immediately. With her golden note, she grabbed more than ten pills that had flown out from the furnace.
The demon fire lingering on the elixir pills was all absorbed by her golden note.
Xie Yujia felt like her limbs become as soft as jelly when a warm sensation filled her body. It was the effect of Little White's demon fire entering her body thread by thread.
Elixir making and body tempering were the same things in theory. In the same way that Hao Ren used the lightning formed of array formation to toughen his body, Xie Yujia could use the weakened demon fire to strengthen her body.
The Foundation Establishment Pills could solidify realms for cultivators. Its most common function was to help the Qi Refinement Realm cultivators break through to the Foundation Establishment Realm. On Fifth Heaven where the low realm cultivators fought over level 3Foundation Establishment Pills, the level 4 Foundation Establishment Pills were precious objects.
"I'll keep five pills. I'll take one each day and try to reach level 10 of the Qi Refinement Realm. And this one is for Zi." After placing five level 4 Foundation Establishment Pills into one bottle, she put one into Hao Ren's hand.
Hao Ren was surprised that she would give one of the pills, she had made with great effort, to Zi. In fact, Zhao Yanzi had reached level 10 of the Qi Refinement Realm, and she would soon reach the Foundation Establishment Realm after cultivating more extensively.
She would quicken her process with the help of a Foundation Establishment Pill. Although the East Ocean Dragon Palace had Foundation Establishment Pills, the ones in their warehouse were common ones since none of the dragon cultivators were good at making elixir pills or making dharma treasures. The pills in the dragon palace were no match for the level 4 elixir pills made together by Little White's demon fire and Xie Yujia's notes.
"The remaining ten pills are for the nearby small sects," Xie Yujia said as she put ten darker colored pills into ten small bags.
She had adopted Zhen Congming's school of thought that level 3 elixir pills were garbage. She didn't know that in ordinary sects, the cultivator who could make level 3 elixir pills would be elevated to the position of Elixir Elder!
"Well, ok!" Hao Ren had no objection. After all, Xie Yujia made all those elixir pills; she had the right to allocate them however she wanted.
Zhen Congming curled his lips, hurting inside for the materials Xie Yujia had wasted. However, at the thought that she would be able to make level 9 gold pills in the future, he felt better.
Swoosh... Little White created a five-colored light beam around the valley before shooting toward Fifth Heaven.
They returned to First Heaven, but the cultivators of the Qiong Hua Sect, Seven Star Sect, and Qin Yin Sect were ecstatic when they picked up the ten small bags containing Foundation Establishment Pills which had suddenly been dropped from the sky.
"Senior, thank you for giving us elixir pills!"
Looking at the snow lion that was dashing away, the three sect masters shivered with excitement and even had the urge to kneel and kowtow.