area51novel Chapter 112 Thunder Rise in the Soul, Prodigies Gather
Chapter 112 Thunder Rise in the Soul, Prodigies Gather
Chapter 112 Thunder Rise in the Soul, Prodigies Gather
Several days later, Chen Yi's soul was finally completely stabilized.
He mobilized dozens of golden lightning flames within his body to repair the marks on his golden bones caused by the demonic flames.
The immense consumption of these golden rays made Chen Yi grit his teeth in hatred for that beautiful witch, determined to teach her a lesson next time.
Fortunately, the demonic energy released by the witch was completely absorbed by the system within Chen Yi's body.
Through repeated tempering with the "True Body Technique of Blazing Sun," this energy was transformed into a considerable amount of Yang Flame Power, barely making up for some of his losses.
This newly formed black yang flame is quite unique; although it belongs to the fire element, it contains a strong aura of cold yin.
This kind of energy, which combines the opposing attributes of Yin and Yang, is extremely rare. Chen Yi vaguely felt that it would be of great use in the future.
He carefully stored these black yang flames in his bone cavity, saving them for future use.
After Chen Yi returned, Hao Youren proactively reported some information to him, including the situation inside and outside the city and in the secret realm.
The situation in the secret realm has now diverged – some prodigies have chosen to withdraw and recuperate due to severe injuries, while those still capable of fighting have gathered outside the Thunder Soul Sect's inheritance hall, each using various methods to try to break through the restrictions and compete for the legendary ancient Thunder Soul Sect inheritance.
After briefly understanding the situation, he completely gave up the idea of participating in the competition.
He would never rashly venture into the Inheritance Hall until his body refinement cultivation had merged with the Five Elements Golden Radiance and his soul strength had reached a level where he could withstand the bombardment of the Thunder Pool without becoming numb.
Putting aside the methods of other prodigies, the Nine Yin Demon Flame of that female cultivator from the Demonic Sect alone made him extremely wary.
The previous battle not only consumed dozens of his precious Thunderfire Golden Radiance, but also left a shadow on his soul—the ten-thousand-year-old demonic thoughts hidden in the opponent's body were like a bone-deep ailment, and would erode his sea of consciousness if he was not careful.
This kind of battle, where you have to endure the pain of being burned by demonic flames while also having to distract yourself from the invasion of demonic thoughts, is really too much of a loss.
Chen Yi secretly planned that next time he encountered that witch, he would either not fight her or subdue her in one move!
The dangers deep within the secret realm far exceeded his expectations. With his current strength, he was unlikely to succeed in the inheritance competition and might even get injured.
"At the very least, one must cultivate the ability to generate lightning from the void within the soul sea to the point where it is second nature."
He stared at the crackling electricity in his palm, recalling the destructive power of the underground thunder pool that could destroy both body and soul.
Only when he can summon such thunder in the soul with every move he makes can he be worthy of the word "safe".
Chen Yi put his thoughts aside and decided to first go to Zhao Jingwu's Strongman Alliance to exchange resources and inquire about cultivation techniques.
Rather than risking his life to seize an opportunity, he preferred to improve his strength step by step.
When Chen Yi stepped through the heavy gate of the Warriors Alliance, which was made of black iron.
Upon seeing his distinctive bald head, the disciple on duty immediately bowed respectfully: "Senior Xu, the Alliance Leader has been waiting in the warehouse for quite some time."
Deep within the warehouse, the one-armed Zhao Jingwu grinned as he saw Chen Yi approaching: "Brother Xu, you've come at the right time. This batch of Canghai Heavy Water is comparable to a high-grade second-tier item; it's one of the best treasures we've acquired recently."
There are other copper mines, such as Leitong ore; Brother Xu can take his time to choose.
As he spoke, he opened the jade box, and ten drops of dark blue water, as black as ink, slowly swirled in the specially made container, each drop weighing as much as a thousand pounds.
Zhao Jingwu was a man of his word; he had previously promised Chen Yi that he could take 10,000 spirit stones from the Warrior Alliance warehouse afterward.
As soon as Chen Yi arrived, he laid out the most valuable resources in front of him one by one.
Chen Yi's opinion of Zhao Jingwu improved somewhat.
"Alright, I'll take these ten drops of the Ocean Water."
Chen Yi lightly touched the jade box with his fingertip, and the system immediately notified him that it was indeed a rare, high-grade second-tier water attribute resource.
He is currently preparing to search for water-attribute body-refining techniques and does need to stockpile some water-attribute resources.
Ten drops of the Great Ocean Water are worth less than ten thousand spirit stones, but the difference is only about two or three thousand.
Chen Yi thought for a moment and then asked:
"Brother Zhao, you've had a lot of contact with strongmen, do you know where I can find advanced water-attribute body-refining techniques?"
"Oh? A water-attribute body-refining technique? We don't see this kind of technique often here, but there are similar techniques in the North Sea Islands."
A few days ago, a fellow Daoist mentioned that a female Daoist he knew was practicing the "Mysterious Water Incarnation Technique," which might be a fragment from the North Sea.
I'll keep an eye on it for Brother Xu later.
"If things go well, this item will be considered as payment to Brother Zhao."
Chen Yi then took out a Magnetic Thunder Bead that glowed with purple light and placed it on the table. It was a second-grade low-level Magnetic Thunder Bead, which was worth 2,000 to 3,000 spirit stones to outsiders, but its cost to Chen Yi was only a little over 200 spirit stones.
With this item and the remaining 2000 spirit stones in the warehouse, it's enough to exchange for a high-quality water-attribute body-refining technique.
Sure enough, upon seeing the magnetic lightning bead,
A glint of light flashed in Zhao Jingwu's eyes, and he immediately patted his chest and said:
"Brother Xu, leave the matter of the cultivation technique to Old Zhao, and he'll definitely get it done for you!"
After thinking for a moment, Zhao Jingwu added:
"As for the third-stage Vajra Skill, Senior Brother Long Xitian has already returned to the sect to report and apply for it, including all the Vajra Skill cultivation content that the Jade Dragon Sect possesses, as well as the physical techniques of the Vajra Skill."
"However, things might not go so smoothly for Senior Brother Long. He might make some demands or something. Brother Xu can consider his answer carefully and doesn't need to worry about my relationship."
Zhao Jingwu understood his position; he was far inferior to Xu Jiu in body refinement and was unwilling to speak up for the sect, so he gave him a heads-up in advance.
Chen Yi nodded to indicate that he understood.
With the clues to the cultivation method now clear, Chen Yi began to arrange his seclusion.
At this moment, his body refinement realm has reached the Great Perfection of Golden Bones and the Initial Refinement of Jade Bones. His bones are covered with a dark golden luster, with faint lightning patterns flowing around them.
To advance further in the Jade Bone realm, the required resources are enormous—those rare and precious natural treasures can easily cost tens of thousands of spirit stones, which even Chen Yi in his current state finds difficult to afford.
After weighing the options, he decided to temporarily suspend his physical cultivation and instead focus on improving his magical power, which he had been working on for several days.
Every morning, Chen Yi would sit cross-legged in meditation in the quiet room.
The magical power of the Taiyi Longevity True Talisman flowed gently through the meridians, as clear and pure as a stream.
Even during the daytime, when occasionally receiving guests or handling orders for spiritual meals from Miaoyin Pavilion,
It did not hinder his cultivation.
A table of mid-grade second-tier spiritual food is equivalent to half a month of hard training for an ordinary cultivator.
If it is a high-quality spiritual food, it can significantly improve one's magical power.
"Essence, energy, and spirit should be like the three legs of a tripod, forming a unified whole."
Chen Yi looked inward at himself and saw that his dantian was calm and still, the golden bone thunder pattern was faintly visible, and his consciousness was solid and tangible.
The strength of his physical body and soul had long surpassed his magical cultivation, so focusing on improving his spiritual power now felt like a natural progression.
Even with a solid foundation approaching the Heavenly Rank Foundation Establishment level, and the system's assistance in devouring spiritual objects, Chen Yi still maintained a steady cultivation pace.
With only two or three hours of cultivation each day, one's magical power increases by about one percent.
Of course, this is already close to the extreme speed of a cultivator with a Heavenly Spirit Root.
Outside the quiet room window, an old plum tree extends its branches into the room.
Chen Yi occasionally glanced up and saw the plum blossom shadow slowly shifting on the bluestone ground, knowing that another hour had passed.
He lightly tapped the jade table with his knuckles, and the spiritual mist in the teacup on the table swirled and entered his nostrils, transforming into pure spiritual energy that flowed into his meridians.
Although this kind of cultivation is slow, it is like spring rain nourishing all things, and every bit of growth is incredibly solid.
As the sun set, Chen Yi promptly finished his practice.
The hundred or so strands of third-order divine sense in his sea of consciousness trembled slightly as he carefully sorted through what he had gained that day, ensuring that there was no trace of superficiality left.
"The path of cultivation cannot be rushed."
The copper bells on the eaves jingled softly, bringing a few wisps of evening breeze carrying the scent of the lake.
Chen Yi pushed open the window and gazed at the faint spiritual light in the direction of the secret realm, a smile appearing on his lips.
Compared to those prodigies who fight to the death in front of the Hall of Inheritance, he enjoys this leisurely cultivation time much more.
"My cultivation is like a surging river, not striving for the fleeting brilliance of the sun and moon, but only seeking to be continuous and unending."
Chen Yi didn't waste his remaining time either.
Occasionally, I would craft one or two Magnetic Lightning Beads, intending to sell them for high-level resources after the group of prodigies emerged from the secret realm.
More often than not, he was dealing with the black crystals within the soul.
Sitting cross-legged on a futon in the quiet room, he closed his eyes slightly and let his consciousness sink into the depths of his soul.
There floated dozens of jet-black crystalline fragments, which were the remaining spiritual essence after the demonic thought dissipated.
Chen Yi activated the system's power, absorbing the spiritual energy within.
Using his third-order divine sense as a blade, he slowly peeled away the profound and obscure high-level runes within. With each wisp he devoured, dark ripples spread across his sea of consciousness.
Day after day, the original hundred or so strands of third-order divine thoughts gradually increased to more than one hundred and fifty, weaving into a star network in the sea of souls.
That morning, Chen Yi began to try, just as he had done in the underground cave, to use his divine sense to activate the lightning patterns within his golden bones in order to temper his divine consciousness.
He lightly tapped his brow with his finger, and a wisp of divine thought probed into his head cavity like a gossamer thread.
On the dark gold surface of the bones, fine lightning patterns suddenly lit up.
"Sizzle—"
The blue-white lightning climbed upwards along with the divine thought, intertwining and merging with the three colors of divine thought: green wood, ice water, and golden threads.
In an instant, his soul sea surged with turbulent waves. Chen Yi's temples throbbed, but he gritted his teeth and did not utter a sound.
Once the excruciating pain subsided slightly, he abruptly guided the bolt of lightning into the center of his consciousness.
The lightning flashed brightly, and the entire sea of souls trembled.
Chen Yi had a thought,
For a time,
More than 150 third-order divine thoughts, as if responding to a command, swarmed in from all directions.
Some of them transformed into barriers to neutralize the aftershocks of the explosion, while others greedily devoured the scattered lightning spirits.
When the number of divine thoughts exceeds one hundred and fifty...
Chen Yi discovered that even if he triggered a wisp of electricity and it exploded in his soul sea, it would only paralyze his consciousness for a quarter of an hour before he could recover.
After getting used to this tingling sensation,
He feels like something's missing if he doesn't shock himself a few times a day.
then,
Half a month later,
Crack! A bolt of lightning, several times thicker than usual, exploded in the sky above his sea of consciousness!
"Holy crap! This is a disaster!"
Chen Yi originally thought his soul had adapted to the stimulation of a single strand of electric arc.
The 250 strands of third-order divine thought formed by the depletion of the spiritual essence of those demonic crystals were also imbued with a trace of lightning attribute by the ordinary electric arc, giving them strong resistance to electricity.
He felt they could expand it further and try something bigger.
This time, it attracted a burst of electricity formed by the fusion of five electric arcs!
result,
Like a thunderclap in the void, a bolt from the blue.
A terrifying bolt of lightning appeared throughout his soul sea, instantly paralyzing the more than two hundred and fifty strands of third-tier divine sense.
Chen Yi's entire soul sea trembled for quite a while.
A full half hour passed.
He had just recovered when his consciousness began to spread out again like a tidal wave.
The scenery outside gradually appeared in my mind's sea of consciousness.
Unbeknownst to him, Chen Yi's divine sense now covered a range of 450 zhang.
It reached the range of a pseudo-core cultivator's spiritual sense.
And his divine sense, under the repeated shocks of these electric bolts, even without the spiritual presence of those dark crystals, was completely extinguished.
It is also slowly improving.
Approximately one wisp of third-order divine sense is gained each day.
At this rate, as long as he persists in electrifying himself every day, it will take him approximately ten thousand days to raise all his divine senses to the third level.
That means you have officially acquired third-order divine consciousness!
Thirty years is definitely not a slow time for a Foundation Establishment cultivator.
It's important to know that Foundation Establishment cultivators have a lifespan of over two hundred years, and ninety-nine percent of them never even reach the threshold of Core Formation in their entire lives.
Even with divine sense, one can never reach the third-tier level in a lifetime.
Chen Yin possesses a stable method to advance his divine sense to the third level.
If this ability were unleashed, it would be extremely terrifying.
Moreover, this is only one method Chen Yi uses to stimulate his divine sense and enhance his spiritual awareness with electric sparks.
He is also preparing to seek opportunities to break through to the fourth divine aperture. Once the four divine apertures are opened, he may directly break through to the third level of divine consciousness.
More importantly, the third-tier divine sense, after being struck by countless bolts of lightning,
It now has relatively strong lightning resistance.
Ordinary electric wires no longer have any effect on him, and even stronger electric sparks only cause temporary numbness before he recovers.
Chen Yi estimated that it wouldn't be long before he would be able to adapt to the divine soul tribulation that Qin Chengcheng experienced when his divine soul broke through to the third level.
At least now, if one encounters demonic thoughts invading one's soul again near the underground minefield,
It can instantly unleash several soul-strike lightning bolts comparable to those of that day.
Even if the invading demonic intent were stronger, truly reaching the third tier,
Chen Yi was confident that he could cleave it in a daze, and even if he didn't completely obliterate it, he would at least ensure that it would never return.
"However, this is far from enough; I need to become even stronger."
That demonic thought was only at the initial stage of the third rank. What if it were a demonic thought at the mid-to-late stage of the third rank, or even at the fourth rank?
Chen Yi decided that he would never take any more risks until he raised his divine soul to the point where countless thunderbolts could be generated with a mere thought.
at least
"Yes, it should at least reach the intensity of lightning from an underground minefield."
Isn't that a bit too conservative? But even if it's conservative, there's nothing to fear. The world of cultivation is full of wonders. I'll just train myself to become incredibly strong.
Even if you don't want to hurt others, you should at least be able to protect yourself.
Chen Yi didn't want to encounter that kind of dangerous situation again, like being near the underground minefield.
I chop—
I chop—
Chen Yi continuously summoned the lightning in his mind to bombard his soul.
His spiritual power was noticeably increasing every day.
Especially after the lightning increased, some of the lightning spirit power dispersed throughout the soul sea space and no longer emanated.
Sometimes, Chen Yi could generate lightning power in the void simply by thinking about it, without even needing to draw lightning power from the Golden Bone Lightning Pattern!
Although the lightning generated from the void is very weak and few in number,
But Chen Yi also knew that he should have entered the next realm.
However, since there was no clear cultivation lineage, he didn't know the exact situation.
But in either case
This is absolutely not the kind of cultivation content that ordinary second- or third-tier cultivators should have.
Because he at least had a basic understanding of the cultivation methods for Foundation Establishment and ordinary Core Formation cultivators, and he had never heard of anyone possessing such abilities in their spiritual power.
Even the [Refining Spirit Technique] he cultivated only recorded methods for opening the divine apertures and increasing the quantity and quality of divine consciousness.
There is no method to directly control lightning by increasing soul power, or even to generate lightning within the soul and merge with it.
Chen Yi guessed,
Could this be related to the legacy of the Thunder Soul Sect?
Time flows by quietly like water.
Chen Yi immersed himself in seclusion, spending his days with thunder and dancing with divine thoughts, thus improving his magical power.
This peaceful life, far removed from the conflicts of the secret realm, actually allowed his cultivation to progress rapidly.
In the quiet room, lightning patterns appeared and disappeared around him, and two hundred and eighty strands of third-order divine sense intertwined in his soul sea, each strand containing a trace of electric light.
As the power of the divine soul continues to increase, the operation of the Taiyi Longevity True Talisman becomes smoother and smoother.
The magical power within his dantian flowed like a gentle stream, steadily increasing every day.
Chen Yi estimated that at this rate, he would be able to break through to the second level of Foundation Establishment in less than half a year.
Of course, Foundation Establishment cultivators are almost never divided into nine levels; they are only considered in the early, middle, and late stages.
Chen Yi looked at the pure magical power flowing through his meridians and silently estimated it.
At his current cultivation speed, reaching the mid-Foundation Establishment stage within one or two years is not difficult.
This feeling of steady improvement is much more reassuring than venturing into secret realms to fight for opportunities.
However, the peaceful life of cultivation was shattered one night two months later.
That night, a strong fluctuation of divine soul energy suddenly rippled across the sky above the Immortal City of Lake and Sea.
The strength of this fluctuation far exceeded that of ordinary forces, reaching a level above the middle grade of the third rank.
Since Emperor Qi set up a third-tier protective array at the entrance of the secret realm, the Immortal City has not experienced such a large-scale spiritual attack for more than a year.
"boom--"
An invisible wave of divine consciousness swept across the entire city, and even the protective array could not completely block it.
Chen Yi awoke with a start, feeling the tremors of his divine sense within his sea of consciousness, and the long-awaited boost in his divine sense power from absorbing divine sense attacks.
He pushed open the window and looked towards the secret realm. He saw the spiritual light in the night sky flickering, indicating that a major change had occurred inside.
Fortunately, the geniuses who remained in the secret realm were all highly skilled, and they each used their own methods to protect themselves in the face of the sudden attack on their divine senses.
It wasn't until several days later that Chen Yi learned the specifics of what happened that night.
On this day, a large table of distinguished guests arrived at Chen Yi's private kitchen.
Several prodigies and disciples from various sects gathered at Chen Yi's private kitchen.
Qi Wuba, Qi Yourong, Qi Yunxi, Long Xitian, and even the most annoying Feng Qingjun have all come.
In addition, there was another of the eight prodigies whom Chen Yi had never met before, named Leng Jianfei. He was a sword cultivator with striking features, and he was extremely cold towards male cultivators.
However, they were extremely enthusiastic towards the two Qi women and Qin Chengcheng.
correct,
Qin Chengcheng has now been recognized and has regained her original appearance.
Her jade-like skin and ethereal beauty made her seem like a celestial being, her black hair cascading like a waterfall, and the hem of her skirt billowing with ethereal lotus blossoms as she walked. Her stunningly beautiful face made her the most dazzling among the group of prodigies.
This time, the idea of holding a gathering at Chen Yi's private kitchen to discuss follow-up matters was also proposed by Qin Chengcheng.
Subtly, she had already integrated into the group of the eight prodigies, and with the added benefits of her appearance and the inheritance of her divine soul,
It holds a prominent position.
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