by Dragon King
Since they were born with dragon cores, the dragon cultivators didn’t need to condense golden cores and could naturally reach Zhen-level. However, for human cultivators, they had to compress the nature essence into golden cores which could form their internal cores!
If it were an easy process, cultivation wouldn’t be going against the laws of nature!
Zhao Yanzi’s entire body was soaked in sweat as if she were sitting in a steaming pot or a volcano, releasing all the heat from her body.
Seeing her covered in sweat, Hao Ren didn’t dare to dry it for her since each disturbance at this moment would startle her.
All Hao Ren could do was stay with her and prevent anything from disturbing her.
If she were careless, and the nature essence deviated from the paths in her body, Hao Ren must act quickly and control the free-flowing nature essence!
When he saw that Zhao Yanzi had entered the most important process of core condensation, Hao Ren was more nervous than breaking through himself, and all his distracting thoughts were gone!
Four hours… Hao Ren calculated the time silently.
Four hours was a long time to be just sitting even if one weren’t cultivating.
Different from the Nascent Soul Realm breakthrough which took three to four days, the core condensation needed about half a day, but the cultivator must make good preparations for it.
Now, Hao Ren found that Zhao Yanzi’s frown had disappeared, and she had entered the realm of obliviousness. If she showed any agitation at this moment, it was a sign of trouble.
“This girl is careless in everyday life, but she succeeds at critical moments, just like how she could always pass the exams with good marks when she worked hard.” Hao Ren comforted himself with this thought.
Without the noises and distractions of the modern society, Fifth Heaven had more abundant nature essence, which meant that Zhao Yanzi had made a wise decision to break through in Ethereal Summit.
Looking at her peaceful face, Hao Ren wondered if those upsetting incidents were still inside her, giving her obstacles in the breakthrough.
However, if she indeed was sensitive to feelings, she should know that her life was happier compared with Duan Yao’s and wouldn’t mind the past conflicts. It would bring benefits to her cultivation breakthrough.
By returning to Sky Mountain Sect to break up with her past, Duan Yao was also preparing for her future breakthrough. After saying goodbye to her past, she would have fewer obstacles in her cultivation path.
In her breakthrough, Duan Yao must think back to her past. However, after the farewell to her past, the consequences would be minimal.
“I guess that Su Han has stayed alone because she is afraid of the potential distraction…” Hao Ren wondered what he would think on the day of his own breakthrough…
“Sword!” Zhao Yanzi suddenly reached out her hand from the pulled-up quilt.
Her slim and white arm reached out with her eyes still tightly shut.
With his fingertip, Hao Ren flicked the Purple Green Treasure Sword that was leaning against the bed, and it landed in Zhao Yanzi’s hand.
All the nature essence in Zhao Yanzi’s body circulated for one cycle before being injected into the Purple Green Treasure Sword.
While letting out a crisp sound, the body of the sword was surrounded by a flow of visible nature essence, and its sharp body looked vague inside.
“Zhao Yanzi wants to refine the Purple Green Treasure Sword!” Hao Ren was startled after understanding her intention.
However, he didn’t dare to utter a sound to stop her, or her nature essence would travel in the wrong path!
High-level cultivators including the Core Formation Realm cultivators could have their own natal dharma treasures.
However, low-tier Core Formation Realm cultivators usually didn’t have natal dharma treasures. One reason was that they might fail the refinery process and damage their bodies, and the other reason was that the cultivators at this realm usually didn’t have especially good dharma treasures. They wouldn’t want to make an ordinary dharma treasure into their natal dharma treasure since it would usually stay with them all their lives.
Zhao Yanzi was very bold to try and refine the Purple Green Treasure Sword while she was making a breakthrough! After receiving stimulation from Duan Yao and Xie Yujia, she was trying hard to increase her strength!
With her pure water body type and talent, she could control this top-tier sword and had a chance to make it into her natal dharma treasure, but it was quite risky!
Hum! Hum… The lights around the Purple Green Sword flashed. Although it wasn’t a supreme spiritual treasure, it still needed a powerful cultivator to refine it into a natal dharma treasure!
Zhao Yanzi looked calm, and Hao Ren watched her anxiously with sweat popping out on his forehead.
The refinery of natal dharma treasures would take twice the time compared to the Core Formation Realm breakthrough.
Each second during the breakthrough was risky, and Zhao Yanzi was a bit impatient to try to accomplish all these in one try!
The nature essence circulated in Zhao Yanzi’s body and then traveled around the body of the sword. It was dangerous to release the nature essence out of the body, let alone the fact that she was at the critical moment of a breakthrough!
Hao Ren began to regret letting her re-cultivate. With her personality, Zhao Yanzi should remain a carefree girl, and Zhao Hongyu was probably right about her future!
Ding! The Purple Green Treasure Sword let out a crisp sound.
Zhao Yanzi lifted the Purple Green Treasure Sword and inserted it into the top of her head.
Having turned into a phantom, the Purple Green Treasure Sword was injected into the Baihui Acupoint which was on top of Zhao Yanzi’s head.
Hao Ren held his breath with his heart in his throat.
If Zhao Yanzi made any mistake and lost control, the Purple Green Treasure Sword would return to its original state and cut open her head!
Despite his higher realm, Hao Ren could do nothing but watch in this situation!
The green sword phantom was almost visible from Zhao Yanzi’s white face while the tip of the sword entered her neck.
Hao Ren inhaled silently, not daring to swallow his saliva, afraid that a tiny sound would make Zhao Yanzi fail!
The sword phantom sunk little by little until it disappeared under her shoulder.
“Zhao Yanzi is too bold…” Hao Ren exhaled silently.
At the moment of a major breakthrough, it was indeed a good time for one’s nature essence to merge into a dharma treasure, making it one’s natal dharma treasure. However, if this cultivator failed, he or she would die instantly.
If one’s realm had reached a certain height, the refinery of a natal dharma treasure might fail, but the failure wouldn’t do significant damage to the body.
When the Purple Green Treasure Sword entered Zhao Yanzi’s body safely, Hao Ren looked down at his hands and saw that they were covered in sweat.
Ever since he began cultivating, he hadn’t sweated this bunch even when he fought with Taiyi Cave Master!
Zhao Yanzi exhaled deeply and opened her eyes.
Three light dots appeared in between her eyebrows, in the middle of her chest, and in the center of her belly. The golden core was finished while three acupoints had been unblocked!
Tink… The Purple Green Treasure Sword in Zhao Yanzi’s body echoed!
Exhaling deeply, Hao Ren turned jelly while he placed his hand on his chest. It was a narrow escape…
Collapsing on the bed limply, Zhao Yanzi was exhausted. Instead of feeling energetic with the breakthrough and rushing out of the cave abode to yell in ecstasy, Zhao Yanzi felt like all her strength had been sucked out.
Hao Ren patted his forehead and leaned over to touch her forehead.
With widened eyes, Zhao Yanzi looked at Hao Ren with happiness and satisfaction. Her round shoulders were damped with sweat, looking tempting.
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here was a faint expectation in her eyes as if she were hoping for something.
Hao Ren lowered his head and bit her small lips gently.
Exhaling, Zhao Yanzi thought, “I wanted him to bring me a glass of water. What’s he doing…”
However, when Hao Ren kissed her, her heart raced. While she tried to hide her body in the quilt shyly, she bit on Hao Ren’s tongue with pleasure.
With half of his body on the stone bed, Hao Ren’s right hand moved slowly from her waist toward her soft and tender belly.
Zhao Yanzi’s body tensed up like a small fish that was caught.
“Erm?!” Her eyes widened when she felt Hao Ren’s hand going into the damp quilt and reaching for her chest!
This time she was naked!
The round part was held in his hand, and the most sensitive spot was touched. Zhao Yanzi’s shoulder shook, and she sprung to the stone wall behind her like a spring and slapping off Hao Ren’s hand with her smooth hand.
“You…are a pervert!” Zhao Yanzi glared at Hao Ren with a red face.
Hao Ren lowered his head with a smile and slapped his neck several times since he couldn’t say anything about it.
Zhao Yanzi pulled up the quilt in a hurry and yelled suddenly after taking a glance.
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“What’s wrong?”
Hearing her shriek, Hao Ren turned his head to look inside the quilt.
On Zhao Yanzi’s white body was a clear green sword extending from her chest to her belly!
It looked like a birthmark or a tattoo!
“Why…” Zhao Yanzi touched her belly. When she saw Hao Ren looking into the quilt as well, she immediately pushed against his eyes heavily. “Hey!”
Hao Ren rubbed the spot between his eyebrows to ease the stinging pain, feeling wronged since he had been just showing concern for her… Also, she would become his wife sooner or later… Well, her smooth body began to show curves…
Zhao Yanzi pulled the quilt tightly around her and looked at Hao Ren in panic.
“Having such a mark on my body is disgusting! How can I go swimming with Ling and the others? Will Hao Ren feel disgusted at the sight of my body like this?” Zhao Yanzi’s face turned red as she thought.
When her third uncle mentioned that she could take the opportunity to refine a natal dharma treasure, he didn’t say anything about the marks on the body! She wondered if this mark would disappear.
The more she thought about it, the more irritated she got, especially when she thought of Xie Yujia’s great figure and smooth skin while she had a green mark on her body like a weirdo.
“It would be better looking if it were Sister Su’s slim longsword, but the Purple Green Treasure Sword has a wide body, and it covered a big part of my body. What can I do?” she thought to herself.
She wanted to summon out the Purple Green Treasure Sword to see if the mark would disappear, but she had just broken through, and she didn’t have any nature essence in her to force out her natal dharma treasure.
“I hate it! I hate it…” Zhao Yanzi yelled and then covered her head with the quilt angrily.
“I would never refine a natal dharma treasure if I knew the result!” she thought.
“Ugh…” Hao Ren froze when he saw her rolling in the quilt.
If another cultivator had successfully reached the Core Formation Realm and refined an ultimate dharma treasure into a natal dharma treasure, they would be beyond excited. However, Zhao Yanzi was so resentful of her breakthrough…
Anyway, Hao Ren was relieved when he saw that Zhao Yanzi had reached the Core Formation Realm safely.
He had accidentally seen Su Han’s body and didn’t see the mark of her natal dharma treasure on her skin, which meant that the natal dharma treasure wouldn’t show on the body this way, or it would eventually shrink into a corner.
However, he couldn’t comfort Zhao Yanzi with these words.
Seeing Zhao Yanzi still curled up in the quilt in frustration, Hao Ren opened the sound-proof array formation in the cave and flew out into the valley.
It was almost dawn, and pale light shone from a distance.
On Fifth Heaven, there were only day and night. Without the change of seasons or rain and snow, it seemed wonderful but could be boring sometimes.
Hum!
A five-colored energy sword appeared in his hand, Hao Ren recalled the Mystic Water Sword Techniques from his memory and began to practice in the open space of the valley.
Right now, he could even bounce up lightly by stepping on green grass.
In the misty white light of the dawn, Hao Ren’s sword technique looked light and vivacious with a hidden power which could destroy mountains and shake the sky.
He was only four openings away from reaching Xun-level, but the unlocking of the four openings was more difficult than all the work that he had done to unlock all the previous openings.
Compared with the human cultivators, it was more difficult for dragon cultivators to reach Qian-level and Kun-level which were equivalent to the Nascent Soul Realm. Hao Ren’s cultivation in the past had been easy due to the aid of the dragon core. However, as his realm increased, the effects of the dragon core got more insignificant.
In this case, he needed to plant a mystic crystal in his body to make the breakthrough. Since Hao Ren cultivated the five elements at the same time, he needed several times more nature essence. Without the mystic crystal to compress the nature essence, it was almost impossible to make a breakthrough.
Boom!
Hao Ren used a sword technique, shaking the array formation slightly and engulfing Ethereal Summit.
In the open fields were all kinds of spiritual herbs, and Xie Yujia separated the top-tier spiritual herbs that were used to nurture the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotus with a small fence for special care. She even put a big cover on it, afraid that the playing snow lion cubs would get into the fence and damage the herbs.
They still needed several kinds of spiritual herbs to grow the Seven-Core Five-Color Lotus. If he couldn’t get them in the Nine Dragon Palace, he would have to venture into the Demon Sea and ask Lady Zhen for help.
With five-colored energy sword in his hand, he swung out his right arm and shot out a strong surge of nature essence.
His realm had increased greatly after gaining the Immortal Physique, but he was still no match for top-tier masters such as Taiyi Cave Master.
If he used the Mystic Water Sword Techniques rashly, he probably wouldn’t do any serious damage to the Taiyi Cave Master. Instead, Taiyi Cave Master might learn the techniques from him.
The key was to increase his realm and strength. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be able to use the Mystic Water Sword Techniques, which was a set of immortal sword techniques.
Frustrated, Hao Ren touched the grass with the tip of the sword. While his body flew to the side, he swept the sword across a stretch of grass.
Swoosh! The green grass shot out like bullets before sinking into the black cliff.
Hao Ren stopped practicing when the snow lion cubs woke up and ran toward him.
The night in the valley was cool. Since the snow lion cubs couldn’t run up the stairs into Zhao Yanzi or Xie Yujia’s caves for the night, they usually slept together in a corner beside the cliff.
Seeing them trotting to his side like small balls, Hao Ren thought for a moment and shot out a sword energy, digging out a tunnel with a depth of several meters in the cliff close to the ground.
The sword energy in the tunnel exploded, creating many small caves.
Hao Ren bent down, picked up a snow lion cub, and tossed it into the cave. It tumbled and fell into the tunnel before crawling into a small cave with a shake of its rump.
It was warm in the winter and cool in the summer inside the tunnel, a perfect place for them to stay.
Seeing that snow lion entering the tunnel, the other snow lions immediately ran over, and each of them took one small cave. They barked happily for having s
uch good caves.
Xie Yujia returned to the valley on her Ruyi Cloth shakily, and she smiled when she saw Hao Ren opening caves for the snow lions kindly.
“How is Zi?” When she landed on the meadow, Xie Yujia asked Hao Ren immediately.
In fact, when she saw Hao Ren’s relaxed expression, she knew that Zhao Yanzi had reached the milestone successfully. However, but she didn’t know that Zhao Yanzi had successfully refined the Purple Green Treasure Sword.
“It was a success. She’s sleeping now,” Hao Ren answered.
“Good. Zi’s smart, and I knew that she would be ok.” Xie Yujia smiled slightly.
Qin Yin Sect felt honored when she stayed the night, and the Sect Master and two Core Formation Realm cultivators came to serve her in person.
Xie Yujia took the opportunity to ask some questions about cultivation. Thinking that Xie Yujia wanted to quiz them on basic knowledge, they were nervous and told her all the answers they had.
After hearing the cultivation experiences of the three Core Formation Realm cultivators, Xie Yujia found all the answers to her questions.
She was at the Foundation Establishment Realm, and the Core Formation Realm cultivators in the three small sects were very clear with the key points for the Foundation Establishment Realm, and their foundations were very solid.
After they were gone, Xie Yujia thought about their words carefully and tried to cultivate. To her surprise, she broke through some of the obstacles and reached top-tier Foundation Establishment Realm!
For Soul Formation Realm cultivators such as Old Grandma, the progress from mid-tier Foundation Establishment Realm to top-tier was insignificant, but it was a huge leap for Xie Yujia!
She had asked Su Han questions about cultivation, and Su Han had answered them patiently. However, the cultivation details for the dragon cultivators were different from those of the human cultivators.
Although the Sect Master and the two disciples of Clear Sound Sect didn’t have high realms, they could offer detailed answers to Xie Yujia’s questions.
It was an unexpected achievement for Xie Yujia to level up in one night!
Right now, Hao Ren looked at Xie Yujia and noticed that her realm had increased while her complexion was pinker than before.
