Inside the Cang Le City, there were only two Profound Core Cultivators. However, in the perspective of the Cang Qin Province, a single Profound Core Cultivator could effortlessly destroy the entire province many times over, let alone two.
However, when it came to Ning Cheng, he could quickly kill these two Profound Core Cultivators without expending any effort at all. Nevertheless, he knew that the time was not ripe for reaping their lives. Even if he had no choice but to fight, he would still wait for others to find trouble with him willingly before starting anything. During this time, he must improve his cultivation.
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Yang Honghou and Nan Yuefang had indeed found an exquisite residence; it had a huge front yard and surrounded by more than ten independent rooms. In addition to these, there was also a backyard taking up a large area, a garden full of greenery, along with a sizable pond among other things. This kind of residence would definitely have a sky-high price in the Cang Le City; however, for Yang Honghou, who possessed several hundred thousand high-grade Spirit Stones, he would be able to buy many such courtyards.
After coming here, Ning Cheng first arranged a Spiritual Gathering Array, and then simultaneously arranged a Defensive Array and a Hidden Killing Array outside of the courtyard. These were just for contingencies. Although those two Profound Core Cultivators did not pose any threat to him, it was an entirely different matter for Nan Yuefang and the others.
Other than all these things, Ning Cheng also brought out Grey Toottoot to guard them before all the people simultaneously chose to go into seclusion.
Ji Luofei had obtained a suitable Cultivation Method for herself from the white-haired woman, while Ning Cheng had passed her a new ring containing more cultivation resources. Inside it, besides the several million Spirit Stones, there were also quite a few pills and an introduction to some of the basics of cultivation related matters.
After obtaining all these things, Ji Luofei was able to advance to the Essence Building Realm in just a single night. Now that Ning Cheng had once again come to her side, her heart no longer contained any distractions. With the help of so many resources, her cultivation also started to rapidly soar.
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The crystal stones left behind by Meng Jingxiu did not disappoint Ning Cheng. Initially, when Ning Cheng used Spirit Stones for his cultivation, the process was quite slow, but at this moment, his cultivation speed was akin to a ‘hurricane’. His cultivation was always on the rise and was advancing exceptionally quickly. Even the Mysterious Yellow Origin from the Mysterious Yellow Bead, under such a hurricane-like absorption of Spiritual Qi, turned lively.
With Ning Cheng wholly immersed in the middle of his cultivation, he had an indistinct feeling, that what he was absorbing from the Crystal Stone was not at all Spiritual Qi. Instead, it was definitely something other than Spiritual Qi. At the very least, it was a few levels higher in quality than Spiritual Qi.
Ordinary Spiritual Qi, after absorption, would transmute into True Essence, thereby improving one’s cultivation gradually. However, as he absorbed the Spiritual Qi from these crystal stones, not only was he able to quickly advance further ahead when it came to his cultivation, but at the same time, it gave him the feeling that he lacked comprehension of something. As to what kind of awareness he required, he was not able to state it out clearly.
It was as if, in addition to the advancement in cultivation, he also gained a slight comprehension into ways of better utilising Magical Techniques.
This crystal stone is absolutely a top grade cultivation treasure;
Ning Cheng immediately understood this point. However, under the crazy absorption from the crystal stone for his cultivation, he placed all such thoughts to one side.
In merely six days, with the help of the Mysterious Yellow Origin and the crystal stone, Ning Cheng was able to advance to the 6th Level of the Soul Sculpting Realm. Half a month later, Ning Cheng rose to the 7th Level of the Soul Sculpting Realm. One month from then, Ning Cheng once again pushed himself to the 8th Level of Soul Sculpting Realm……
At this moment, the Crystal Stone in Ning Cheng’s hand shattered with a ‘Katcha’ sound, at the same time Ning Cheng’s cultivation consolidated at the peak of 9th Level of Soul Sculpting Realm. Almost forty days since he went into secluded cultivation in Cang Le City, Ning Cheng decided to not continue using the rest of his Crystal Stones for his cultivation. Instead, he took an additional ten days to firmly consolidate his cultivation, before finally standing up.
Ning Cheng swept out with his Spiritual Consciousness, finding Grey Toottoot lying in the sun in the backyard.
At this moment, Ning Ruolan already reached the True Condensation 1st Level in her cultivation. While Nan Yuefang reached the Great Circle of Profound Congealing Realm and was preparing to attack the boundary to the Profound Core Realm. At the same time, Ji Luofei reached the Essence Building 2nd Level. The only person who had a comparatively slow speed was Yang Honghou. However, under Ning Cheng’s Spiritual Gathering Array and the support from pills and Spirit Stones, he was about to break through the Essence Building 1st Level shortly and advance to the Essence Building 2nd Level.
It had been nearly two months since he arrived at the Cang Le City; Ning Cheng knew that if Gui Feng decided to come to the Cang Le City, then it would be quite soon. Therefore, he decided to leave Cang Le City alone to seek out a place to advance to the Sea Opening Realm.
He did possess a few Void Cleaving Pills. The Void Cleaving Pills were Rank 7 Pills; however, this pill, unfortunately, was not entirely up to par for attacking the boundary of the Sea Opening Realm. Unfortunately, although Ning Cheng had many of such Rank 7 Pills when it came to similar Rank 8 Pills, he just had none. That was because he was still unable to refine any Rank 8 Pills. It’s not that he could not do it; instead, it would be too late to start now.
This was indeed not the time to practice Alchemy. This really caused Ning Cheng to feel somewhat depressed, as his Alchemy level had always been a step behind his cultivation.
Whenever he needed a higher rank pill, his Alchemy level was not able to cope up with it.
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For Ning Cheng, the best place to undergo the Thunder Tribulation was the Daan Forest.
Ning Cheng had been inside the Daan Forest once before, but his cultivation was quite low at that time. However, with his present cultivation, the Daan Forest was almost as safe as his own backyard.
Ning Cheng found an empty and spacious place to arrange a Spiritual Gathering Array before getting to ready to cross the tribulation.
Even though Ning Cheng was currently at the Great Circle of the Soul Sculpting Realm, and had also arranged about a hundred million Spirit Stones at the critical locations of the Spiritual Gathering Array, Ning Cheng still felt that it would be challenging to attack the cultivation barrier to the Sea Opening Realm. He thought that he would only be able to touch that thin veil of cultivation barrier; as for actually attacking it, Ning Cheng still felt that he lacked the necessary strength.
Nevertheless, taking out several Void Cleaving Pills, Ning Cheng swallowed them all at once. Almost instantaneously, the formidable Spiritual Power contained in the Void Cleaving Pills fired into Ning Cheng’s body just like a flood of Spiritual Power after the dam broke. Ning Cheng forcibly suppressed the discomfort caused by the raging Spiritual Power, gathering up all the Spiritual Power, he then used it to immediately attack the veil of the cultivation barrier to the Sea Opening Realm.
“Boom…..” An extremely powerful tremor shook throughout his body, to the point that Ning Cheng’s mind ended up somewhat dizzy from the powerful impact. However, the cultivation barrier still held fast, just like an insurmountable wall that he could never surpass.
Ning Cheng sighed darkly in his heart, his foundational heritage was just too weak; instead, it could be said that he just did not have any proper legacy to actually learn from, only mindlessly progressing rapidly. If it was not for the Mysterious Yellow Origin and his f
ormidable Body-Forging body, perhaps he might not be able to withstand this kind of rapid progress in his cultivation.
Regardless of whether he would be able to break through this bottleneck and advance to the Sea Opening Realm, Ning Cheng had already set a firm resolve for himself that in the future he would definitely spend enough time to properly consolidate and solidify is cultivation. As for advancing to the Crucible Transformation Realm, it could only be put aside for now.
Chapter 0400 – Spiritual Root Derivative
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The impact created by the Void Cleaving Pills was significantly smaller than what he had previously thought; allowing Ning Cheng to immediately realise that depending on the Void Cleaving Pills to attack the boundary of the Sea Opening Ream was a delusional idea. He did not hesitate and took out the remaining two crystal stones.
If he did not use the two crystal stones to attack the bottleneck but rather kept slowly attacking it using up massive amounts of Spirit Stones, Ning Cheng had the confidence that he would definitely reach the late stages of the Sea Opening Realm in his cultivation using the two crystal stones after breaking through. Even breaking through to the Crucible Transformation Realm would not be impossible. Unfortunately, he did not have any high-grade pills, nor did he have any heavenly treasure materials saved up for that. He could only depend upon these two crystal stones to break through to the Sea Opening Realm.
Although he could definitely use the energy inside the crystal stones for attacking the boundary, with Ning Cheng’s experience with cultivation, he was still a bit reluctant to use the crystal stone to break through to the Sea Opening Realm.
Finally making up his mind, he held the two crystal stones to the skin nearest to the Dantian, then operating the Mysterious Yellow Formless Cultivation Method, he gathered up the raging spiritual power pouring into him to attack the cultivation barrier to the Sea Opening Realm.
The spiritual power from the crystal stone, under the effects of the formidable Cultivation Method, did not move around and dissipate slowly as during Ning Cheng’s general cultivation.
“Bang…..” The spiritual power from the two crystal stones rumbled out, even if Ning Cheng possessed a Rank 5 Imperial Body, this kind of sensation felt unbearable to him as cracks started to appear on his body, oozing blood. The incomparably wild and berserk spiritual power then poured into his Dantian; it felt as if, if it could find an escape point, the next moment, it would end up tearing apart his body from the inside out.
Ning Cheng spurted out a mouthful of blood the same moment when the raging spiritual power, from the crazy absorption from the crystal stone, struck the cultivation barrier. He was sure that no one would attack the cultivation barrier with the same craziness as him. However, Ning Cheng was also convinced that only by absorbing horrifying quantities of spiritual power would someone like him be able to gain a sliver of hope to break into the Sea Opening Realm; otherwise, the only thing that awaited him if he failed was death.
The spiritual power from the crystal stone was incomparably berserk, at the same time, it did not contain even a little bit of that ‘harmonious and reconciliatory intent’. He did not have any pills that could be helpful to him at this moment; moreover, pill creation involved paying particular attention to bringing out this harmonious and reconciliatory intent; as such, pills only posed a slight danger to one’s life. For Ning Cheng to use this crystal stone to attack the cultivation barrier, it was tantamount to steamrolling through the wall. Moreover, it also did not involve much on insights; instead, it relied more on brute force.
Attacking the cultivation barrier to the Sea Opening Realm, even if one possessed a Rank 5 Imperial Body, it would not be an impossible scenario if the body ended up torn asunder. However, Ning Cheng had already steeled his heart to break through this cultivation barrier in one swoop, even if it meant that he would have to gather extreme quantities of spiritual power in his body. If it were not enough, then he would still crazily absorb the Spiritual Qi available from outside to attack the barrier repeatedly.
One time, two times……
As Ning Cheng unceasingly attacked, his cultivation barrier, although was loosened slightly, the spiritual power inside his body was also growing at a terrifying rate. A dripping layer of thick blood covered the surface of his body, it was as if the next moment, his body would no longer be able to contain the spiritual power and end up exploding.
Fortunately, Ning Cheng already experienced undergoing Body Forging in the Sifting Orchid Star; as such, this kind of experience was akin to a slightly elevated level of pain, something still within the scope of his endurance. As long as he could endure such levels of torture, his body would definitely not fall apart.
“Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom……” The entire sky turned cloudy while Ning Cheng was still crazily attacking the barrier to the Sea Opening Realm. He realised that the Thunder Tribulation was about to descend. The reason that Ning Cheng was still struggling to break into the Sea Opening Realm was not due to his inferior qualifications, but because his heritage was still too shallow. All this time, he majorly depended on the Mysterious Yellow Bead to forcefully advance, without any kind of proper legacy. Otherwise, to proceed to the Sea Opening Realm, it would have never been possible in just less than two years.
“Ka-Ka….” Nine powerful Lightning Arcs fell, followed by a Thunder Waterfall, but Ning Cheng chose to not bring out the Everlasting Blue Thunder City.
He wanted to continue with his Body Forging Cultivation to improve upon his Imperial Body. As such, in the face of this kind of Lightning Arcs, he wanted to see how long he could resist them. His body, filled to the brim with spiritual power, anyway could not move much. He believed that the vast reservoir of spiritual energy in his body would be able to support him in blocking the Thunder Tribulation.
“Bang-Bang… Puff-Puff…” The nine Lightning Arcs almost immediately struck Ning Cheng’s body, causing a burst of blood mist to arise.
“Kacha……” Sounds of bones breaking immediately resounded throughout his body, causing Ning Cheng’s heart to sink. He found that he had definitely made a mistake in his assumption, the spiritual power in his body and the external Thunder Tribulation were two entirely different things. The spiritual power inside was fundamentally not his own strength; as such, wanting to use it to block the Thunder Tribulation would be impossible.
Although he would be able to reduce his injuries inflicted on him with the help of the Body Forging Cultivation Method, and can even use it to quickly strengthen and temper his corporeal body, the speed and intensity of this Thunder Tribulation were too frightening. He was not able to activate the Body Forging Cultivation Method to repair his physical body when the Thunder Tribulation had already descended on him in its entirety.
Seeing that a broad swath of the Thunder Waterfall was about to descend, Ning Cheng immediately realised that he would not be able to resist it. If he did, he would die without a doubt.
However, at this time, Ning Cheng suddenly felt a trace of cyan coloured spiritual source flowing into his meridians. His meridians automatically absorbed this incoming spiritual source in a flash. Moreover, his cultivation instantly took a significant leap forward after he absorbed this spiritual source.
“Kacha…..” Unexpectedly, at this moment, the Sea Opening Realm’s cultivation barrier started cracking apart.
Ning Cheng’s mind immediately blacked out for a moment in this instant due to the intense pain; however, by the time he sobered up, it was unexpectedly too late to bring out the Everlasting Blue Thunder City.
The next moment, the broad swath of Thunder Waterfall fell onto Ning Cheng’s body. Ning Cheng’s entire body shook, not waiting for him to activate his Cultivation Method, the Mysterious Yellow Formless automatically kicked into operation.
Nevertheless, just as this Thunder Waterfall exploded onto his body, it immediately caused large swaths of blood and flesh to evaporate from his body. However, unexpectedly, the Thunder Waterfall ended up entirely absorbed by him, which then turned into a cyan coloured spiritual source, allowing his cultivation to take another significant leap forward.
A most strange sensation started to well up in Ning Cheng; at this moment, he almost could not believe his senses. This was the first time that he was actively able to sense his own Spiritual Roots. He discovered that he actually felt the fire, water, wood, ice, along with wind and thunder, i.e. six different types of Spiritual Roots. It caused Ning Cheng to forcibly check his Sea of Consciousness. Finding that it really was the case; he really did have a fire, water, wood, ice, wind and thunder; six completely different Auras of their respective Spiritual Natures in his Sea of Consciousness.
The aura of the Thunder Spiritual Nature was the weakest, but as he continued to absorb that cyan coloured spiritual source, the Thunder-type Spiritual Qi was gradually expanding, allowing his cultivation to increase progressively. Ning Cheng almost instantaneously understood that the cyan coloured spiritual source was actually the Thunder Source. Since he had the Thunder Spiritual Root, he was now able to absorb this Thunder Source.
His Spiritual Roots were continuously improving and evolving; moreover, he was now even able to perceive and see it, causing Ning Cheng to feel pleasantly surprised in his heart. He was sure that not many people would be able to sense their own Spiritual Roots, let alone see them, yet he was able to unexpectedly achieve this.
“Boom-Boom-Boom……” A massive piece of Lightning Arc once again fell down, causing Ning Cheng to sober up and realise that he was still in the middle of crossing his tribulation.
As his cultivation rose, Ning Cheng also felt that the berserk spiritual power in his body has become a lot milder. Once again, a large piece of Lightning Arc followed by a broad swath of Thunder Waterfall fell onto Ning Cheng’s body. However, Ning Cheng was still not willing to bring out his Everlasting Blue Thunder City.
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