The two quickly returned to the sect. Just as Lu Wangchuan requested, Lin Qingxue did not expose her current cultivation level, nor did she even mention Yuan Wang's name, merely stating that they had encountered a Condensing Truth Realm expert.
After briefly recounting the course of this mission and taking the sect's so-called "consolation reward," Lu Wangchuan immediately returned to his own cave dwelling and opened the Storage Bags of the few people to inspect them.
He would not have known without inspecting them, but a single inspection gave him a fright.
The resources inside the Storage Bags of these few people were truly exceptionally bountiful.
Those small fry of the Bone Forging Realm and Source Opening Realm did not possess many things, but above the Dantian Realm, the Storage Bags already held some medicinal pills and Low-Grade Spirit Stones, while bank notes were somewhat more abundant.
Yuan Wang and the other Condensing Truth Realm individual were precisely the opposite, having more medicinal pills and spirit stones with almost no bank notes.
The higher the cultivation level and the loftier the tier, the more the things one contacted leaned toward the direction of cultivation, with extremely rarely any worldly gold or silver vulgarities.
Lu Wangchuan tallied them up, totaling twenty-one Mid-Grade Spirit Stones, two hundred forty-two Low-Grade Spirit Stones, seventy-one medicinal pills akin to the Divine Blood Pill, and bank notes worth exceeding one hundred fourteen thousand liang.
There were also over a dozen fine swords that should likely be able to sell for tens of thousands of liang of silver.
Overall, this was yet another massive harvest.
There are still twenty-four days until the opening of the Sect Grand Ceremony. Having obtained so many good things this time, I wonder if they can assist me in breaking through to the Transforming Sea Realm. Let us begin cultivation.
Saying and doing, Lu Wangchuan immediately began his cultivation. He placed spirit stones around himself to intensify the concentration of spiritual Qi surrounding his body, then swallowed several medicinal pills in one gulp.
The medicinal pills of each sect were not entirely identical, and their names were also bizarre and varied, such as the Divine Blood Pill and Divine Bone Pill. Yet, the general materials and effects were the same—that was, to replenish Qi and blood while supplying a certain amount of spiritual Qi to elevate cultivation and nourish the body.
The Heavenly Martial Sect's medicinal pills were quite decent, not yielding in the slightest to the Divine Water Sect's Divine Blood Pill in effect. In the past, Lu Wangchuan could only swallow one pill at a time because the energy contained within them was truly too vast; his cultivation art could not rapidly digest it, resulting instead in a waste.
Now it was different. With the eighteenth-layer Azure Emperor Longevity Art, digesting medicinal pills was simply as easy as turning over one's hand.
Just like that, time flew by in a flash, and the twenty-four days slipped away in the blink of an eye.
When the final day ended, Lu Wangchuan's entire cave dwelling had become damp all over, and even he himself sat amidst a pool of water.
Yet upon careful observation, one would discover that this water was exceedingly pure, unexpectedly devoid of even the slightest impurity in its color.
In reality, this was not water; this was liquid spiritual Qi transformed from overly dense spiritual Qi, representing a far more condensed spiritual Qi!
From Lu Wangchuan's Dantian region, wave after wave of roaring echoes transmitted forth with towering momentum.
A moment later, he opened his eyes, two streams of sharp spiritual Qi bursting forth to shoot into the ground several meters away, directly blasting out a deep pit.
Lu Wangchuan exhaled a breath of mist, the corners of his mouth lifting as his face filled with joy.
Finally, I have broken through to the second stage of the Celestial Human Realm—Transforming Sea!
Although it shortened his expectation by two months, it still took over a year's time.
Yet there was nothing to complain about, for this speed in itself was already fast enough.
The primary reason ordinary people could not achieve Lu Wangchuan's step was aptitude. With insufficient aptitude, one practiced cultivation arts slowly; not everyone could cultivate directly holding a Great Perfection-level internal mental cultivation method like Lu Wangchuan.
Even though the Life Nurturing Art possessed the slowest elevation speed among internal mental cultivation methods, it could not withstand Lu Wangchuan cultivating twenty-four hours a day without interruption.
For other cultivation arts, being able to cultivate for two double-hours a day was already considered having a sufficiently good physical constitution.
Accompanied by his cessation of cultivation, lacking the cultivation art to absorb spiritual Qi, the spiritual Qi within this cavern finally began transforming into gas and once more scattered outward, causing the entire cave dwelling to fill with mist.
Lu Wangchuan introspected his Dantian. The spiritual Qi inside the Dantian completely transformed from gas into liquid.
This represented that the capacity for storing spiritual Qi within his body would greatly elevate, amounting to severalfold and more of what it was before.
With a slight shift of his mind, Lu Wangchuan's body unexpectedly moved without wind, beginning to drift into the air out of thin air and bizarrely suspending midway up.
This was the hallmark of achieving the Transforming Sea Realm, the second stage of the Celestial Human Realm!
Because the spiritual Qi within his body was overly dense, he was already capable of utilizing spiritual Qi to prop up his body and suspend it in the air. To put it colloquially, he could fly.
The Transforming Sea Realm is truly powerful. My strength right now can surpass the Condensing Truth Realm by far too much. Wielding a single layer of the Prajna Dragon Elephant should completely attain a strength of one hundred twenty thousand jin!
The single-layer strength of cultivation arts would also increase along with the growth of one's cultivation level, and each layer added this much. After stacking multiple layers, the terrifying disparity grew increasingly obvious.
Lu Wangchuan opened the light screen to inspect his information.
Name: Lu Wangchuan. Cultivation: Transforming Sea Realm. Qi and Blood: 11,890. Cultivation Art: Azure Emperor Longevity Art (Eighteenth Layer), Prajna Dragon Elephant (Second Layer).
Relaying upon the Heavenly Martial Sect's medicinal pills, Lu Wangchuan cultivated another ten thousand points of Qi and blood within a month, making him ready to allocate points.
Light screen, allocate points.
The next instant, the Qi and blood within his body began to boil violently. Lu Wangchuan endured it silently. After approximately an hour and a half, his Qi and blood finally gradually returned to calm, while the Prajna Dragon Elephant cultivation art also elevated from the second layer to the third layer.
Previously, other cultivation arts were too trashy, and Lu Wangchuan had not paid attention to the disparity in time. Now, he seemed to have discovered yet another pattern among them.
When cultivation was low, the time consumed to elevate a cultivation art's tier was lengthy. Once cultivation grew high, elevating the same cultivation art tier again consumed a much shorter time.
This was undoubtedly another favorable matter, representing that whenever he allocated points to cultivation arts in the future, he could suffer slightly less torment, accelerate his speed, and reduce dangers, since the moment of allocating points was also when he was at his weakest defense.
After the third layer of the Prajna Dragon Elephant, coupled with the bonus brought by the Transforming Sea Realm, my full-strength strike is thirty-six hundred thousand jin. This figure is likely already capable of rivaling others in the late Transforming Sea Realm.
Lu Wangchuan's heart experienced a wave of elation; every instance of growing stronger allowed a person's heart to feel more grounded.
Letting out a long breath, Lu Wangchuan released his fists and stood up, walking toward the outside of the cave dwelling.
The Sect Grand Ceremony should also have begun. It is time to make a conclusion with Yun Mengyao.
Now that he had already broken through to the strength of the Transforming Sea Realm, in view of the fact that he could fight beyond his own tier, to deal with Yun Mengyao he would at most need to display one or two tents of his strength—namely, the cultivation level of the early Condensing Truth Realm.
This was also fine. Lu Wangchuan was inherently cautious by nature; short of a true moment of crisis, he would not easily expose his genuine strength in full view of the public.
In the event that malicious individuals targeted him, he could still secretly turn the tables in a counterattack.
He did not wish to stand out excessively; so long as he displayed the cultivation level tier of the Condensing Truth Realm to reclaim Still Water Peak and repay his master's kindness, that would suffice.
Do not endlessly rant about boring questions every day, including why the protagonist did not go find his senior sister first. At that time he was only at the Dantian Realm; going would not have provided anything for his senior sister anyway, not even being able to beat the Celestial Human Realm, what use would it have been?
There are also those saying he did not come straight to the sect earlier, but instead stayed in the canyon for a year. Please, coming to the sect does not mean having abundant resources; the sect was not opened by his family. At the time, the Black Scale Snake Meat provided plenty of blood Qi in the canyon, and it all belonged to him, making it certainly much more suitable for him.
If we offer opinions, let's offer opinions, but let's not pick petty faults. My period came on the eighteenth, and it stopped in three days!
I am thoroughly fed up as well.
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