In fact, Tuntun even began to feel that this was too slow, and hopped directly on top of the Heavenly Genesis Flower. Whenever the flower released its load, Tuntun would open its mouth and swallow, its eyes squinting in enjoyment as it happily wagged its tail...
Every cultivation platform on the giant Genesis Mountain was filled with golden light. The flickering golden light seemingly turning the entire mountain gold.
Time gradually flowed, and four hours swiftly passed.
After four hours, the spouting Heavenly Genesis Flower finally began to slow down as the glowing golden cultivation platforms gradually dimmed.
However, everyone was still immersed in enjoying the sweet benefits, and could not possibly be willing to stop. Several disciples immediately retrieved a piece of Genesis jade and flung it towards the Heavenly Genesis Flower.
The moment the Genesis jade touched the Heavenly Genesis Flower, a crack split open on the flower, swallowing the Genesis jade like a mouth.
After swallowing the jade, the originally somewhat wilting flower began to shine dazzlingly as it began to energetically spout out more Genesis Qi.
Only now did the many disciples finally understood how precious the Genesis jade was...
As long as one had enough Genesis jade, one would practically have an endlessly spouting Heavenly Genesis Flower, making one’s cultivation speed faster than others.
At this point, everyone could not help but feel some pity for Han Shan, because he had already lost all of this month’s Genesis jade pieces...
Zhou Yuan opened his eyes, falling into thought for a brief second, before fishing out a Genesis jade piece and feeding it to the Heavenly Genesis Flower.
While training earlier, he had faintly felt the existence of the Alpha-Origin Heaven. Once he succeeded in sensing it, he would truly step into the Alpha-Origin stage.
*Gurgle*!
After eating the Genesis jade piece, the flower once again began to tirelessly draw out the Genesis Qi from the mountain. In the end, Genesis Qi mixed with golden pollen covered Zhou Yuan’s figure like a golden mist.
With a single piece of Genesis jade, the Heavenly Genesis Flower would be able to continue for another two hours.
Zhou Yuan’s figure was just barely discernible in the golden pollen Genesis Qi mist.
His eyes were tightly shut, his Spirit seemingly drifting in the murkiness. Something deep down inside of him could feel a very faint sensation, while his Spirit slowly followed this faint feeling.
He did not know how long this continued, until a certain moment when his Spirit seemed to bump into something.
With a jolt, Zhou Yuan’s Spirit violently returned to his senses as the world before him rapidly changed...
What appeared in his sights was a mysterious world that was filled with the aura of primal chaos. The aura seemed to stir, giving off a feeling of ancientness.
“Is this place… the Alpha-Origin Heaven?!” Zhou Yuan’s Spirit trembled as he was struck with a flash of understanding.
Then was this primal chaos like aura the so-called Alpha-Origin Qi?!
Absorbing it would transform his Qi Dwelling, allowing it to gradually evolve into a Divine Dwelling!
Joy flooded Zhou Yuan’s heart. He knew that the moment his Spirit entered this mysterious Alpha-Origin Heaven, he had finally truly stepped into the Alpha-Origin stage!
“Use the Spirit to receive Alpha-Origin Qi, and transform the world of the Qi Dwelling…”
Chapter 221 First Collection
Tiny wisps of what seemed to be the essence of the world drifted within the primal chaos like space, giving off an ancient aura.
With regards to the mysterious world essence like Qi, desire instinctively rose in Zhou Yuan.
Zhou Yuan’s Spirit stood in this domain as his senses stretched forth. The domain seemed to be endless, making it impossible for him to find its boundaries.
“So this is the Alpha-Origin stage.”
Mumbled Zhou Yuan to himself. Only those that had stepped into the Alpha-Origin stage would be able to sense the Alpha-Origin Heaven and enter with their Spirit.
“I guess I’ll have to use my Spirit power to move the Alpha-Origin Qi here back into my body to begin transforming my Qi Dwelling.”
Evidently, the more powerful the Spirit, the greater one’s advantage in the Alpha-Origin Heaven. With a powerful Spirit, moving Alpha-Origin Qi would be more effective, allowing one to surpass others in this aspect.
At this point, Zhou Yuan laughed softly. This just so happened to be his strong point. Amongst those at the same level, he rarely encountered anyone whose Spirit was as powerful as his own.
With the exception of Yaoyao of course.
After all, not just anyone would possess a high class Spirit tempering method like the Primal Chaos Divine Grindstone Visualisation Method.
After the baptism of the Saint blood, Zhou Yuan’s Spirit had grown even more corporeal again, and was now at the perfect advance Illusory stage. All that was needed was an opportunity for him to smoothly reach the Corporeal stage.
Normally speaking, for those who did not practice any Spirit tempering methods, when their Genesis Qi cultivation reached the Alpha-Origin stage, their Spirit would also strengthen. However, this boost was limited, and most would only reach the initial Illusory stage.
In comparison to Zhou Yuan’s perfect Illusory stage, the distance between them was tremendous.
Therefore, at the very least, Zhou Yuan’s Spirit would give him a huge advantage at the Alpha-Origin level.
With these thoughts in mind, Zhou Yuan decided not to waste anymore time. His Spirit power extended, seemingly transforming into numerous giant invisible hands that began to scoop up the tiny streams of world essence Qi…
Spirit power swirled around his Spirit together with the now secured world essence, growing more abundant as wisp after wisp continued to be collected.
After an incense stick of time, the flowing world essence Qi around him had thickened to strands.
By this time, all of the world essence Qi in the vicinity had already been collected.
Ordinarily speaking, an initial illusory stage Spirit would only last about an incense stick of time in the Alpha-Origin Heaven, before being forcibly kicked out due to exhaustion.
However, Zhou Yuan was clearly not a part of this group. He could feel that his Spirit power was still sufficient, and thus began to drift forward, finding another spot that was abundant in world essence Qi, and begin the collection process again.
As such, the following period of time was spent happily collecting world essence Qi, only stopping when his Spirit began to tire.
By now, the world essence Qi swirling around Zhou Yuan’s Spirit was akin to tiny twisters, a pretty impressive sight indeed.
Zhou Yuan nodded as he gazed upon the fruits of his hard work in satisfaction. With a thought, his Spirit began to leave the Alpha-Origin Heaven.
The invisible Spirit herded the world essence Qi towards the pull of the physical body...
...
Genesis Mountain.
At this current moment, the dazzling golden light on the numerous cultivation platforms had already gradually dimmed. Stalk after stalk of Heavenly Genesis Flower drew back their leaves and petals, the golden glow they previously gave off now much duller, a sign that they had used up all their energy.
The many disciples sat on the cultivation platforms, their faces overflowing with joy. The training session had benefited them substantially, and most importantly, they had finally truly tasted the wonderfulness of entering the Cangxuan Sect.
The outside world was definitely unable to provide such a unique training method, because ordinary sects completely lacked the means...
Yaoyao stretched her back, boldly displaying the amazing curves of her slender waist that drew several barely detectable glances.
As a first class disciple, Yaoyao’s fame and reputation amongst the new disciples was even greater than Zhou Yuan’s.
Many were already secretly trying to find out more information about her since yesterday.
After all, Yaoyao was just too beautiful. In addition, her cold and distant demeanor made it such that ordinary people would not dare to approach.
Only those first class disciples of the same status with ability worth bragging about would dare to have designs on her.
Yaoyao chose to completely ignore these gazes. With Tuntun again in her arms, she looked towards Zhou Yuan’s cultivation platform, and a soft cry of surprise suddenly sounded from her red lips, “Oh?”
She had sensed some strange activity from Zhou Yuan’s Spirit.
“This … his Spirit has entered the Alpha-Origin Heaven? Has he finally stepped into the first layer Alpha-Origin stage?” Yaoyao was somewhat surprised.
Bzz!
The moment Yaoyao’s words faded, a strange noise suddenly sounded in the sky. Numerous disciples lifted their heads in bewilderment, only to watch in astonishment as strands of world essence Qi began hanging down from high up the sky like a tassel.
“This is… Alpha-Origin Qi?!”
The sight of the world essence Qi caused numerous disciples to cry out in surprise.
“Someone has just stepped into the Alpha-Origin stage?” Everyone was somewhat stunned. The scene before their eyes was very familiar; it occured when someone reached the Alpha-Origin stage, linked to the Alpha-Origin Heaven and brought back Alpha-Origin Qi.
In other words, someone had ascended to the Alpha-Origin stage. However, there was someone who had yet to reach the Alpha-Origin stage amongst them?
“It’s Zhou Yuan!” Someone quickly regained his wits. Who else was there who had to reach the Alpha-Origin stage besides Zhou Yuan.
Thus, surprised gaze after gaze was cast in Zhou Yuan’s direction.
Sure enough, they saw that his eyes were still closed, the world essence Qi hanging down from the sky surrounding his body as it streamed in.
“Heh, he’s already caused such a ruckus at the quasi Alpha-Origin stage, wouldn’t that mean he’ll be going to turn the world upside down after he steps in the first layer Alpha-Origin?” Several Shengzhou first class disciples could not help but cheekily joke when they saw this.
In between there words was mockery and arrogance.
One of the first class disciples smiled as he asked Lu Feng, “Lu Feng, when you reached the Alpha-Origin stage, how long did the Alpha-Origin Qi you brought back last?”
Lu Feng’s face was impassive as he answered, “935 breaths.”
This period of time started when the Alpha-Origin Qi first appeared and ended when all of it entered the Qi Dwelling. It would normally be over pretty quickly, and was hence counted in breaths.
When one reached the Heaven Gate stage, the Genesis Qi dashing past the Heaven Gate was measured in feet.
At the Alpha-Origin stage, it was measured based on how much Alpha-Origin Qi was brought back. The more abundant the Alpha-Origin Qi, the longer it lasted.
“Awesome.” Praised the other first class disciples when they heard Lu Feng’s answer as their faces lit up with admiration. “The first time I brought back Alpha-Origin Qi, it only lasted for 400 breaths.”
“Me too.”
“Looks like brother Lu Feng’s Spirit is pretty strong too.”
Lu Feng chuckled softly. “I had a fortunate encounter in the past, and my Spirit just happened to reach the mid Illusory stage when I ascended to the the Alpha-Origin stage.”
“No wonder.” The crowd nodded. Most of them were only at the initial Illusory stage and naturally could not compare to Lu Feng.
“Hehe, I wonder how long the Alpha-Origin Qi Zhou Yuan brought back will last.” They grinned as they looked towards Zhou Yuan as if something amusing was going to happen.
Zhou Yuan’s victory over Han Shan had in a certain manner made the Shengzhou disciples lose face. Hence, they were naturally keen on gloating over him.
While the crowd was whispering, Gu Hongyi also looked over. The first time she had brought back Alpha-Origin Qi, it had lasted a thousand breaths, a record even longer than Lu Feng’s.
Hence, she too was interested to find out what the one who had overwhelmed Han Shan could achieve.
Besides them, even the Qiao Xiu and the other non Shengzhou disciples, whom had spoken up for Zhou Yuan earlier, also cast their gazes over.
In mid air, Chen Yuan also turned his attention towards Zhou Yuan.
Under the numerous watching gazes, Zhou Yuan’s eyes remained shut as the world essence Qi continued to descend...
Time swiftly passed breath by breath...
Chapter 222 Genesis Qi Stars
A stream of world essence seemed to have been squeezed out of some unknown domain, appearing in the sky above Zhou Yuan, before endlessly falling onto him...
Under the attention of countless gazes, time swiftly flowed.
A hundred breaths faded away in an instant.
Every gaze was unblinking as they continued to count the time.
A hundred breaths… a 150 breaths, 200 breaths...
It soon reached 300 breaths. However, the descending stream of world essence was still as clear and bountiful as before, showing no signs of waning.
400 breaths.
500 breaths.
By this time, the expressions of the first class Shengzhou disciples had turned a little ugly. This timing had already surpassed their own.
They could not help but sourly remark, “He does have some ability.”
Only Lu Feng remained impassive, not even the slightest ripple visible on his face.
World essence Qi continued to fall as time continued to flow. It soon reached 700 breaths.
Low cries of surprise began to ring out in the mountain. This timing had already surpassed 90% of the people here, and even some first class disciples would be left far behind in the dust by this number.
“I can’t believe his Spirit cultivation is so high.” Said Qiao Xiu in amazement. Lasting this long was clearly out of his expectations.
Lu Feng frowned slightly.
“This guy.”
He had detected that even at 700 breaths, the Alpha-Origin Qi that descended from the sky still showed no signs of stopping. It looked as if the reserves were still ample...
750 breaths… 800 breaths, 1000 breaths.
The entire Genesis Mountain had fell deathly silent. The Shengzhou first class disciples swallowed their saliva and looked towards Lu Feng, seeing the latter’s brows now tightly furrowed together.
Zhou Yuan had already surpassed his record.
The thing that made Lu Feng’s expression sink the most was that even at a thousand breaths, the falling stream of world essence still showed no indications of weakening.
Several of the first class disciples could not help but blurt out, “Just how strong is his Spirit?! How can he bring back so much Alpha-Origin Qi on his first time?!”
Lu Feng’s gaze flickered for a moment. He stared deeply at Zhou Yuan and indifferently said, “Interesting.”
“How interesting.” Gu Hongyi’s eyes also glimmered faintly, her voice filled with interest. She had realised that she could no longer estimate the extent of his abilities.
The young man who had originally been nothing special in her eyes now seemed a little unfathomable.
As soft gasps sounded across the mountain, the Alpha-Origin Qi continued to fall, lasting all the way till 2359 breaths under everyone’s stunned gazes.
Numerous disciples looked to each other, not knowing what to say.
Even now, the Alpha-Origin Qi they could bring back was far from being able to match this number. And yet, Zhou Yuan had achieved it on his very first try...
Although this did not determine one’s future accomplishments, like how tall one’s Genesis Qi could reach at the Heaven Gate stage, it would at least give Zhou Yuan the absolute advantage during the Alpha-Origin stage.
A single round for him would be equivalent to several round for them. How coul
d they match his efficiency?
Lu Feng let out a long breath, his eyes turning as deep as the night. He looked towards the stunned Shengzhou disciples in the vicinity and said in a nonchalant voice, “No need to make a mountain out of a molehill. His Spirit is likely stronger than ours because he practices a Spirit tempering method.”
“I’ll admit that he does have ambition, training both Genesis Qi and Spirit.”
“Though ambition is good, one should only do what’s within one’s capabilities. Dual cultivation would result in having to split one’s efforts and attention, making him unable to be as focused as us. Therefore, when the comes where we step into the Diving Dwelling stage, he will likely still be struggling at the Alpha-Origin stage.”
“Likewise, how long he lasted doesn’t mean anything, because the most important factor is still how many Genesis Qi stars he managed to create, the true representation of one’s foundations.”
The other disciples nodded in agreement after hearing this. It was indeed as he had said, dual cultivation might give one the ability to utilise multiple strategies, but it also meant difficulting in achieving proficiency in both. Thus, it may be better to focus on one like themselves.
At the very least, if they could reach the Divine Dwelling stage, though their Spirits would not be as strong as Zhou Yuan’s, they would still be able to easily finish him off in a fight.
As for the Genesis Qi stars, they were tiny specks of light created from the amalgamation of Genesis Qi and Alpha-Origin Qi, and looked similar to stars. Hence why they were called Genesis Qi stars.
Someone asked, “How many Genesis Qi stars did senior brother Lu create on your first try? I believe I managed slightly over 20.”
“I only had a little more than 50 on my first try.” Lu Feng smiled faintly.
The others once again secretly wet their lips. Having over fifty Genesis Qi stars after reaching the Alpha-Origin stage was enough to show the abundance of Lu Feng’s Genesis Qi.
Gu Hongyi’s gaze concentrated on Zhou Yuan. She too understood that although how long the Alpha-Origin Qi lasted showed the strength of his Spirit, the most important thing to the Alpha-Origin stage was the number of Genesis Qi stars.
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