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Yunhua flipped his hand, and a jade bottle appeared in his palm. He pulled out the stopper, and immediately a rich aura of heaven and earth emanated from the bottle. Just taking a breath of it made people feel refreshed.
This jade bottle contains over 300,000 jin of Yuan Liquid, which Yunhua has collected from the sinful cultivators of the Great Swamp and Sea over the past three months.
The cultivation of Qi Refining is very simple. As long as one's realm can keep up, one can simply consume resources to soar to the heavens. Yun Hua's divine soul is powerful, and his realm is almost comparable to a Pure Yang True Immortal, so his cultivation speed is naturally astonishingly fast.
However, for the past year or so, he had spent most of his time studying and practicing the cultivation methods and scriptures of this world to deepen his foundation; the rest of his time was also spent on the divine and demonic body refinement.
Therefore, his Qi Refining ability has not improved much in the past year; he has only become familiar with the "Myriad Phenomena" realm from a systemic perspective.
But now that he has the time and the resources, it's time to take it a step further.
"Inhale!!" Yun Hua opened his mouth and inhaled, and a massive amount of Yuan liquid flew into his mouth.
As the primordial liquid entered his body, it entered his Purple Mansion space.
Pure Yuan energy began to emanate from the blazing sun above the Yuan energy ocean, causing it to boil instantly. Simultaneously, the sea level naturally began to rise.
"Crash!!"
At the same time, mysterious essences condensed within the ocean of Yuan energy. These essences flew out from the sea surface and rapidly ascended into the sky, heading towards the billions of stars, the sun, and the moon at the highest point of the Purple Mansion space.
These myriad stars and the sun and moon operate in an incredibly mysterious way. They are connected to the sun, moon, and stars in the outside world and are influenced by the real sun, moon, and stars, which is why they move in this way.
It is precisely because of the movement of the sun, moon, and stars that the purest Myriad Manifestations Realm Yuan Power can be generated.
"Crash!"
The droplets of essence rising from the seawater were immediately drawn into the natural "array" formed by the movement of countless stars as they soared into the sky. The essence was then pulverized by the array's operation and absorbed into every single star, with the Moon and Sun stars taking the lion's share.
"Boom!"
The stars revolve, seemingly tireless, constantly operating within the Purple Mansion space, undergoing transformation as they absorb the essence of Yuan energy.
"Boom!!"
Finally, after reaching a certain level, all the sun, moon, and stars underwent a qualitative transformation, the most obvious being that the primordial energy they emitted became more refined.
"It took 12,000 jin of Yuan Power to cultivate to the mid-stage of the Myriad Manifestations realm. I wonder if my 300,000 jin of Yuan Liquid is enough to break through to the Nascent Soul realm!" Yun Hua was also somewhat speechless. He seemed to have underestimated his consumption of resources.
The growth of his body through the Divine Demon Body Refinement made Yunhua's physical qualities far surpass those of other cultivators who were cultivating Qi Refining. Naturally, the resources he consumed to break through were also greater than those of other cultivators.
"Let's continue!" Yunhua only spent a few days to fully comprehend the mid-stage of the Myriad Manifestations realm before continuing his cultivation.
This time, he refined a full 20,000 jin of Yuan liquid, which caused countless stars in the Purple Mansion to undergo another comprehensive transformation.
After spending a few more days settling in, Yunhua continued to refine the Yuan Liquid, this time consuming 40,000 jin of Yuan Liquid to reach perfection.
At this point, of his original 300,000 jin of Yuan liquid, only 250,000 jin remained.
"Continue! Today, let's take advantage of this momentum and break through all the way to the Nascent Soul Realm!" Yun Hua opened his mouth and inhaled, swallowing all the Yuan Liquid into his body.
All the primordial liquid was refined in an instant, transforming into the purest primordial energy in the Purple Mansion space, and the entire sea of primordial energy expanded like never before.
"rise!"
With a thought, Yunhua conjured countless points of essence light from the vast and boundless sea of primordial energy. These points of light merged into the myriad stars and coalesced into the Golden Crow and the Moon Rabbit.
The moment all the essence was absorbed, the sun, moon, and stars, which had already reached their limit, transformed into beams of light that flew downwards.
"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"...
Chapter 982 The Defects of the Qi Refining Technique in the Three Realms
Billions of beams of light bombarded down from the highest point of the Purple Mansion space. The beams of light from the stars were slightly thinner, but the beams of light from the sun and the moon were incredibly bright, almost like divine light that created the world.
Finally, countless beams of light converged in the central area of the Purple Mansion, and a colossal object gradually emerged.
The pillar of light from the sun formed the head of a tortoise, while the pillar of light from the moon began to form the head of a snake. The essence of billions of stars condensed into a massive body.
As the beam of light shone upon it, the enormous creature gradually solidified and became increasingly clear. Finally, when the light dissipated, a legendary being—a tortoise-snake—emerged.
When cultivators of any race or bloodline break through to the Nascent Soul stage in Qi Refining, they all achieve the Turtle-Snake Nascent Soul.
This is determined by the cultivation system of this world; those who cultivate according to this system will develop a tortoise-snake primordial spirit.
The tortoise represents Yang, and the snake represents Yin; the tortoise represents strength, and the snake represents gentleness. The tortoise and snake are thus representatives of strength and gentleness, Yin and Yang.
The interaction of Yin and Yang, the harmony of strength and gentleness, are what give birth to all things. This is the true essence of the tortoise and snake's primordial spirit.
"Boom!".
The moment the tortoise-snake took shape, it seemed to come back to life, actively crawling through the void and directly into the sea of primordial energy below.
In an instant, it was as if a huge island had appeared in the entire Yuanli Sea, slowly moving.
"The tortoise and snake are formed, and the divine soul descends!!"
Instantly, Yunhua's soul descended directly into the giant tortoise-snake.
In that instant, Yunhua felt an unprecedented sense of comfort. This tortoise-snake body naturally had a powerful nurturing effect on the "divine soul." Yunhua even felt that his divine soul was growing stronger and improving at an unprecedented pace.
The Primordial Spirit Realm is a tremendous opportunity for a cultivator's soul to be enhanced. Whether it is the terrifying divine body formed by the refinement of gods and demons, or the primordial spirit of a tortoise and snake that refines qi, both have a great nourishing and enhancing effect on a cultivator's soul.
Yunhua possesses both a divine and demonic body and a tortoise-snake primordial spirit. The combined effects of these two powers bring his spiritual strength close to that of a Pure Yang True Immortal.
Of course, this rapid nurturing only occurs when the primordial spirit has just been established. After about six months, the effects of this nurturing will gradually decrease.
"Boom!!"
The tortoise and snake intertwined, yin and yang merging. At that moment, golden flames suddenly appeared on the tortoise and snake's shell. These flames were extremely hot, but they did not harm the primordial spirit in the slightest.
This is precisely the "Primordial Fire" that every Primordial Spirit Daoist possesses.
However, compared to other Nascent Soul Daoists, Yunhua's Yuan Fire is significantly stronger than others due to his cultivation technique and the phoenix's true form. Even Earth Immortals in the Returning Void Realm might not be able to match him.
"Crash!!"
At this moment, as the divine soul merged into the tortoise and snake, the enormous tortoise and snake, carrying the primordial fire, swam freely in the ocean of primordial energy within the Purple Mansion space. Its eyes were incredibly lively, as if it had already possessed true life.
"Boom!!"
Above the Purple Mansion, the sun, moon, and stars shone brightly, and beams of light once again converged on the tortoise and snake. As the light gathered, the tortoise and snake grew larger and larger, its body becoming increasingly solid.
The whole process lasted for quite a while before finally stopping.
This also indicates that Yunhua has reached the early stage of the Primordial Spirit realm in terms of Qi Refining.
"As expected, the essence I have is only enough for me to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm." Yun Hua opened his eyes and slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
"I estimate it will take a million catties of Yuan Liquid to cultivate to the perfect Yuan Shen realm! However, once I reach the perfect Yuan Shen realm in Qi Refining cultivation, I can stop for now and focus on cultivating the Divine Demon Body Refining Path." Yun Hua pondered for a while and made up his mind.
The Qi Refining Techniques in the Three Realms are terrible. If someone becomes a Celestial Immortal using this kind of Qi Refining Technique, their future is doomed.
Before reaching the Celestial Immortal level, the Divine Demon Body Refinement method was always stronger than the Qi Refinement method. However, in reality, the advantage of the Qi Refinement method only truly comes into play after reaching the Celestial Immortal level. A Celestial Immortal with a First-Class Golden Core is even more terrifying than a Celestial God of the same level.
When one is cultivating Qi to become a Celestial Immortal, there are three paths to choose from. The paths are different, and the Golden Core one will achieve in the future will be completely different.
First-class Celestial Immortals use a vast and boundless space of heaven and earth as their power to condense their golden core. These Celestial Immortals are equivalent to the strongest gods, and they even have too many methods when fighting. Some First-class Celestial Immortals are even more terrifying than gods.
Second-class celestial immortals use various chaotic and wondrous objects to assist in condensing their golden elixir. These celestial immortals barely reach the threshold of celestial gods, and are considered quite powerful.
Third-class celestial immortals condense their golden cores using their own power. These celestial immortals are simply prey for the gods; even if a group of them were to attack together, they would still be slaughtered.
Only when such celestial beings cultivate to the level of Pure Yang True Immortal do they possess power equal to that of celestial gods.
In the Three Realms, the path of Qi Refining may not be weaker than that of other worlds in the mortal stage, but it is clearly the weakest in the most crucial, even destiny-determining, Celestial Immortal stage.
The celestial beings in the Three Realms are all the weakest third-class celestial beings!
Therefore, Yunhua does not plan to continue cultivating. He will instead use the Divine Demon Body Refining Path to achieve his next breakthrough. After leaving the Three Realms, once he finds a first-class Golden Core method, he will then switch to cultivating Qi.
"I'll continue cultivating while searching for the peacock. I have nine months left. If I still can't find it in nine months, then I can only blame my bad luck," Yunhua said softly before leaving the temporary cave she had created.
For the next period of time, Yunhua wandered around the mountains and seas, cultivating while searching for the peacock, the target of his mission.
Gradually shifting his focus to cultivation, Yunhua's cultivation speed increased significantly compared to before. In just half a year, he cultivated the "Crimson Bright Nine Heavens Diagram" to the fourteenth level, which is already considered to be the mid-stage of the Nascent Soul Realm.
"Nine months have passed, and I still haven't found any trace of the peacock. It seems my first mission is going to end in failure." Yunhua was somewhat speechless; his first mission in Yinglong Guard was probably going to end like this.
The probability of failure for Yinglongwei's missions is still quite high.
Because they often don't know the specifics, all intelligence has to be searched by the Yinglong Guards themselves. If the target is intentionally hiding, then it will be really hard to find them.
"Boom!!" Just then, Yun Hua's eyes suddenly narrowed, and he turned to look at a pool of water in the distance.
There, the primordial energy of heaven and earth surged and turbulent, and the vast fluctuations seemed to have triggered a storm, affecting most of the mountains, seas and marshes, causing violent fluctuations in the primordial energy between heaven and earth.
"Such a massive fluctuation suggests that some being is about to break through to the Void Returning Realm. And it's most likely a very poor being," Yunhua said with a smile, looking at the fluctuations in the Yuan Qi.
Truly wealthy cultivators use primordial liquid to break through to the Void Returning Immortal realm, so they don't create such a big commotion.
However, these relatively poor cultivators do not have many good conditions and can only absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on a large scale to break through.
Their breakthroughs can even influence the vital energy of a region, causing violent fluctuations in the surrounding area.
"Huh, is that a powerful demon? A demon with grave sins?" Yun Hua's third eye opened between his brows, and he immediately saw a patch of crimson blood in that direction.
Chapter 983 Killing the Returning Void Peacock
"A sinful blood light, tsk tsk, it's actually from a cultivator with such deep sins!" Yun Hua was surprised. He had seen sinful blood lights in this great mountain and sea marshland before, but he had never seen one with such a dense blood light.
Cultivators burdened with heavy sins will have a foul aura of sin on their bodies, and once this aura accumulates, it can form a bloody aura of sin. Any cultivator with a bloody aura on their body is a person of great sin.
"Huh!? No, it was that peacock that broke through. What a coincidence!?"
Yunhua was suddenly stunned. At the point of breakthrough, the five elements of energy could be clearly seen soaring into the sky and transforming into five feathers of different colors.
"I understand now. It devoured the people of Thousand Star City to use their blood as a catalyst to temper its own bloodline; no wonder that in just nine months, its original four feathers have all become five feathers with all five elements." Yunhua suddenly realized.
Even if the other party came to the mountains, seas, and marshes, it's possible they weren't seeking refuge.
This peacock lacks the feathers of water element, and the Great Marshland of Mountains and Seas is the place in Anchan County with the most abundant water element power. It might be easier to make a breakthrough in such a place.
"It's fate that we met. You're just unlucky this time; the momentum of your breakthrough was too overwhelming!"
Meanwhile, in a quiet water palace in the vast mountains and seas...
A Taoist priest dressed in a five-colored feather robe sat cross-legged on a jade bed made of ice. His body shone with five-colored light, and life essence emanated from his body.
Meanwhile, within his Purple Mansion, the primordial fire on the back of the tortoise-snake primordial spirit burned ever brighter.
"Crack!"
As if a seed were sprouting from the soil, a delicate golden lotus suddenly grew from the blazing primordial fire that shot into the sky on the back of the tortoise and snake.
This golden lotus took root on the back of the tortoise and snake, using the tortoise shell as soil to absorb nutrients, and imitating the primordial fire as sunlight and water.
The golden lotus swayed in the flames and grew slowly.
Compared to the tortoise-snake and the soaring primordial fire, this golden lotus was extremely small. However, the primordial energy surrounding the golden lotus was extremely pure, far surpassing the primordial energy before it.
At the same time, the entire tortoise and snake began to gradually dim, and the essence in the tortoise and snake's primordial spirit was continuously transferred to the golden lotus, causing the golden lotus to grow and become larger and larger.
As the golden lotus grew, the luster on the tortoise and snake became increasingly dim, losing its former shine.
At this point, the peacock officially broke through to the realm of Returning to Emptiness Immortal.
"Boom!!"
The peacock suddenly opened his eyes, and five-colored divine light burst forth from his body. At this moment, his energy soared to the sky. After advancing to the next level, his entire body underwent an unimaginable transformation.
This advancement was not only in terms of Qi Refining level, but also in terms of his own divine beast bloodline.
In that instant, the peacock's heart pounded as if a divine drum were beating. If any other cultivators were to witness this, they would surely be deeply shocked.
His internal organs were also vibrating, emitting a five-colored halo; his bones were constantly creaking, as if a million swords were ringing out.
"Finally, I've made a breakthrough..." A look of joy appeared on Peacock's face.
At the same time, he slowly raised his palm, and five-colored divine light gathered in his palm, flowing and turning, and there was even a faint tendency for the five elements to unite and transform into chaos.
"The Five-Colored Divine Light is now flawless. All things in the world that belong to the Five Elements will be restrained by me! It was not in vain that I risked being wanted by the Yinglong Guard of the Great Xia Dynasty to devour hundreds of thousands of lives in Thousand Star City. Your deaths were not in vain. I thank you for your essence and blood, which has allowed my bloodline to undergo another transformation!!" Peacock's eyes held a hint of a smile.
He felt no remorse for the deaths of those many beings, and even being consumed by karmic fire would not cause him the slightest regret or sorrow.
"With the Five-Colored Divine Light fully mastered, I'm now confident that I could even fight against gods and demons in the Void Returning Realm, or even Celestial Immortals. As long as the Great Xia Dynasty doesn't send its most powerful experts, I am invincible!" Peacock's smile grew even wider, and he was full of vigor.
"I really wish there was a strong opponent for me to practice against right now!!" Peacock thought with anticipation.
"Hopefully it's from the Yinglong Guard... What?!"
The peacock, who had been full of vigor, suddenly changed his expression and became like a frightened bird, his feathers standing on end.
At this moment, within the range of his divine sense, a blazing arrow of fire pierced the sky, carrying towering flames that evaporated thousands of miles of water, pointing directly at him.