Over the next few days, Chen Du took the opportunity to explore Qingfeng Temple, a Daoist temple with a history of 100,000 years.
Qingfeng Temple is not large, but every brick and tile is imbued with the marks of time.
He activated [Become a Saint on the Spot] and [The World as a Book] in three different places.
The first place is the alchemy room. The alchemy room of Qingfeng Temple is located deep in the backyard. It is a semi-underground stone chamber with walls blackened by alchemical fire and a medicinal fragrance that has lingered in the air for years.
It is said that this alchemy room has never been extinguished since the temple opened, and countless batches of elixirs have been refined over the past 100,000 years.
Chen Du sat cross-legged in the center of the alchemy room, his palms pressed against the ground. Dao Resonance emanated from the cracks in the stone, so thick that it almost solidified.
The World as a Book condensed into scrolls, the "Nine-Turn Calamity-Crossing Pill Formula," Eleventh Tier.
It can be used to refine the "Nine-Turn Calamity-Crossing Pill," one of which can increase one's cultivation by ten thousand years, and its medicinal properties are mild and will not damage one's foundation.
The required main ingredients are nine, and the auxiliary ingredients are eighty-one. The pill can only be made by refining it nine times with alchemical fire.
The second place is the Ancestral Hall, where the ancestral hall of Qingfeng Temple enshrines the memorial tablets of the abbots of the temple throughout the ages, which are densely packed and cover an entire wall.
Chen Du stood before the memorial tablet, activating his innate talent. Dao Resonance seeped from the tablet, which contained the Daoist intent and insights left behind by the abbots of the past, the World as a Book condensed into a scroll.
The "Hundred-Tribulation Essence-Tempering Pill Formula"... Eleventh Tier, can be used to refine the "Hundred-Tribulation Essence-Tempering Pill". One pill can increase one's cultivation by ten thousand years. Moreover, the medicinal properties are domineering and suitable for people who have experienced tribulations. The more severe the tribulation, the stronger the medicinal effect.
Chen Du looked at the pill formula, and his heart stirred slightly.
Tribulations temper the essence,
It was a perfect match for his newly acquired Tribulation-Transcending Law.
The third location is the top floor of the Sutra Repository. The Sutra Repository has seven floors. The first six floors are open to the disciples of the temple, while the seventh floor is locked year-round. It is said that only the abbot can enter.
Taking advantage of the absence of others, Chen Du quietly went up to the seventh floor.
The seventh floor was small, with only a row of dusty bookshelves containing a few scrolls of bamboo slips and a few jade slips.
He placed his palm on the stone wall behind the bookshelf, activating his talent. Dao Resonance surged from the depths of the stone wall, carrying a unique, cold metallic aura, and the World as a Book.
The "Tiangang Battle Armor Forging Diagram"... Eleventh Tier, details how to use Star Marrow, Black Iron, and Spirit Gold as materials, and the power of laws as fire, to forge a suit of armor capable of withstanding a full-force attack from the Late Stage Eleventh Realm.
The armor is named "Tiangang". Wearing it greatly increases defensive power and allows it to resonate with the wearer's power of laws.
Chen Du absorbed the three items into his sea of consciousness one by one, and slowly exhaled: the Nine-Turn Calamity-Crossing Pill, the Hundred-Tribulation Essence-Tempering Pill, and the Tiangang Armor.
Two alchemical formulas, one forging diagram.
These are all things he urgently needs. Although he has now recovered his understanding of the Eleventh Realm, his physical foundation is too weak, and he needs elixirs to accelerate its tempering.
The Tiangang Armor, on the other hand, provides him with an extra layer of protection when facing even stronger enemies.
He quietly retreated from the top floor of the library and returned to his small hut.
In the days that followed, he secretly refined pills in the alchemy room during the day and studied the Tribulation-Transcending Law in his room at night.
The bell of Qingfeng Temple still rings daily, its sound distant and serene.
He knew that after the assassin's death, the next wave of calamity was already on its way.
Chen Du sat cross-legged in the room, his hands forming a mudra, and the power of the laws within his body slowly surged out.
The Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth gathered before him, and dark light gradually took shape, eventually transforming into a phantom figure resembling his own.
The phantom's face was blurry, its entire body shrouded in a very faint dark halo. Its aura was restrained, yet the pressure emanating from it had clearly reached the Eleventh Realm: Law Avatar.
Based on his insights from the Eleventh Realm Martial Law Master Realm, and with the first level of the Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth Domain as its core, he condensed this avatar.
Although she only possesses the strength of someone who has just entered the Eleventh Realm, she is more than capable of collecting alchemy materials for him at the foot of the mountain.
The clone silently left Qingfeng Temple and sped down the mountain.
Chen Du remained in the room, continuing to comprehend the Tribulation-Transcending Law.
Several days later, the clone returned, bringing back a pile of spiritual materials.
Star Marrow, Black Iron, Spirit Gold, Nine-Leaf Black Ginseng, Century Blood Lingzhi, Earth-Vein Spirit Milk.
Those items are priceless on the market, but for an Eleventh Realm law avatar, it's just a matter of making a few trips.
Chen Du inventoried the spiritual materials one by one. He first refined the Nine-Turn Calamity-Crossing Pill. The pill formula clearly stated that there were nine main ingredients and eighty-one auxiliary ingredients, which could only be refined into a pill by nine turns of alchemical fire.
He used the power of laws as fire and the Dao Resonance as a furnace to throw in the spiritual materials one by one.
The fire surged and roared in the furnace, and the medicinal properties mingled within it.
After nine cycles, a delicate fragrance wafted from the alchemy furnace.
A pill, its entire body shimmering with a nine-colored halo, lay quietly at the bottom of the furnace. Nine fine lines, like nine small dragons coiled on its surface, marked its surface.
He took out the pills, put them into a jade bottle, and then began refining the Hundred-Tribulation Essence-Tempering Pill.
This pill was even more potent, with a domineering medicinal effect. During the refining process, the furnace trembled violently several times, and the array patterns on the furnace wall shone brightly. But in the end, a dark golden pill was still successfully made.
The surface of the pill was covered with some indescribable patterns, like the marks of calamity.
He swallowed both pills at the same time.
The moment the medicine entered his body, a vast energy, almost bursting his body apart, exploded within his meridians.
The Nine-Turn Calamity-Crossing Pill is gentle and long-lasting, Hundred-Tribulation Essence-Tempering Pill is domineering and violent.
A mixture of warmth and intensity, gentleness and strength, intertwined and surged within him.
He gritted his teeth, using the power of the laws of Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth to guide the medicinal effects, and using the suppressive power of the Divine Prison Law to gradually smooth out and absorb the violent medicinal properties.
[Divine Revelation Reading] operates at full power, dissecting the insights and fragments of laws contained within the medicinal power one by one.
Twenty thousand years of cultivation contains not only pure power, but also an understanding of the laws, an comprehension of heaven and earth, and the subtleties of how the cultivation technique works.
He felt as if he were adrift in a vast ocean, with new things constantly flooding into his mind.
The [Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth] law began to loosen under the impact of this force.
The second barrier that had been blocking him for so long finally cracked open, and he concentrated all his Spiritual Power to crash into that crack.
With a deafening roar, the barrier shattered, and the second layer of the [Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth] law took shape in his sea of consciousness.
The power of Eternal Night surged, and the intent of annihilation solidified. Within the domain, the speed at which the enemy's laws, soul, and body were buried in Eternal Night increased by more than double.
He slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of stale air. Bury Heaven, Extinguish Earth, the second realm.
With the addition of the second level of the Divine Prison Law, the ninth level of Wrath of Heaven, the ninth level of Wrath Devouring, and the Tribulation-Transcending Law which he had not yet mastered, his strength had taken another step forward.
Chen Du wasn't the only one at Qingfeng Temple.
They were of varying ages, the youngest being no more than ten years old and the oldest already in their early twenties.
Chen Du wasn't particularly noticeable among the group. Li Xuan was already a man of few words, and after Chen Du arrived, he became even quieter, spending all his time holed up in his room.
Apart from his master and the young Daoist boy who brought him meals, almost no one interacted with him.