Perfect Qi Refinement (Please Follow)

Perfect Qi Refinement (Please Follow~)

With a boom.

After the Violet Origin Pill was crushed, surging waves of qi spilled in every direction.

Deng Baiyi staggered a step back.

Her reaction was extremely fast. At once, she set up Purification Talismans. Xie Zhen had taught her that these talismans could not only block sound, but also isolate qi and spiritual-soul perception.

Xie Zhen's condition was terrible now.

Deng Baiyi knew she could not help, but at the very least, she could use talismans to protect this place.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

One Purification Talisman after another flew from Deng Baiyi's hand.

She had drawn all of these while cultivating in seclusion during the journey east. Normally, she treasured them in her pocket, but now she scattered them outside as though they were worthless sheets of paper.

Purification Talismans fluttered throughout the sky, hanging suspended in midair as they suppressed all directions.

The qi spilling out from Little Barren Mountain once again vanished beneath the night.

Xie Xuanyi's physical condition was exceedingly "complicated" at this moment.

He had never experienced such contradictory agony.

His marrow was icy cold, his blood scorching hot. Extreme cold and burning pain alternated over and over... If it had been any other cultivator, their physical body might not even have rotted before their spiritual soul collapsed.

Gu Blood from the Southern Borderlands was one of the world's deadliest poisons.

Yet Xie Xuanyi endured it all without uttering a sound.

His body trembled, but his spiritual soul stood as steady as Mount Tai.

Though the spreading Gu Blood hurt to the depths of his lungs, he had endured pain far worse than this.

He suppressed the heart-piercing agony of the Gu Blood with sheer force of will, only to be met immediately by the vast qi of the Violet Origin Pill!

The medicinal power of this Violet Origin Pill was nearly ten times that of the Azure Origin Pill from before!

Xie Xuanyi clenched his teeth and gathered the qi at his forearm...

Accompanied by a booming roar of churning blood and qi.

Boom!

The long-blocked forty-fourth major aperture was ignited!

Rolling qi, like mighty rivers, nourished the dried-up meridians of Xie Xuanyi's new body.

Having recovered from the pain, Xie Xuanyi was no longer content with attacking just one aperture... After the Violet Origin Pill was crushed, qi flooded into his body, but it was also spilling out into the world!

With the power of his spiritual soul, he controlled the qi and drew it into his body from all directions.

It completely suppressed the Gu Blood that had already spread through him!

White smoke immediately rose in great billows from the body eroded by Gu Blood!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Explosions rang out one after another. Xie Xuanyi's complexion gradually changed from pale to ruddy. In less than a hundred breaths, he had ignited more than thirty major apertures. The qi of the Violet Origin Pill had not even been half consumed... Meanwhile, the Gu Blood that had originally spread to the tips of his limbs was forcibly compressed back into his dantian.

"In one breath... Foundation Establishment."

Xie Xuanyi simply went all the way and began directly attacking Foundation Establishment!

This Violet Origin Pill had come at exactly the right time.

Xie Xuanyi focused all his mind on his dantian.

He had already gone through Qi Refinement cultivation once before... But this "recultivation" had become exceptionally difficult.

The apertures he had once ignited with effortless ease had now expanded tenfold, or perhaps even more—

The qi of the Violet Origin Pill had to be condensed until it turned golden before it could ignite them!

But at the same time.

Once these apertures were ignited one by one, and their number reached a hundred, Xie Xuanyi sensed a change in his body.

He became lighter, as though he were a feather that could rise with the wind!

So-called Qi Refinement was an act of defying fate, through which mortals used the qi of heaven and earth to alter their own constitutions.

Naturally, Qi Refinement cultivators also varied in strength.

Setting aside all external objects and fighting solely with one's own strength... Those lucky people born with robust bones and physiques would most likely crush those weaklings born sickly and frail.

This was "talent."

It was not as though Xie Xuanyi had never experienced the legendary cleansing of meridians and marrow. Back then, a great True Person of the Dao Sect had personally bestowed enlightenment upon him and cleansed his sinews and bones, yet even that had not given Xie Xuanyi this feeling.

This was practically "shedding his mortal frame and exchanging his bones"!

Sitting cross-legged atop the mountain, Xie Xuanyi opened his eyes. Wind and thunder had already gathered within his gaze.

At that moment, he subconsciously threw a punch.

A booming sound of tearing wind rang out.

A massive boulder roughly a zhang across exploded with a spiderweb of cracks.

That punch contained no sword intent. It was merely the wind from his fist... yet it had created such a scene.

A sharp light flared in Xie Xuanyi's eyes. "The force of this punch is at least five times that of a Qi Refiner at the same realm. It can almost compare to a genius among body refiners."

Drawing upon the qi of heaven and earth to nourish the body... Though the Qi Refinement realm was the most basic cultivation realm, the strength of a Qi Refiner far surpassed that of ordinary mortals.

Body refiners walked another path.

They placed greater emphasis on cultivating the physique.

In close combat during the early stages, body refiners generally held the advantage.

But Xie Xuanyi's Qi Refiner body could already crush the vast majority of body refiners.

"There is still some Violet Origin Pill qi left. Continue."

Xie Xuanyi came back to himself and held his breath.

Eight major apertures remained. This opportunity from the Violet Origin Pill was truly rare. If possible, it would be best to ignite every aperture today!

He began his all-out assault—

The sight was rather ironic.

Xie Xuanyi lowered his eyes and gave a self-mocking smile. His entire back was now soaked in cold sweat.

If his former self from ten years ago had seen this scene, he probably could never have imagined it.

The thing that had brought him into an unprecedented state of concentration... was actually a minor breakthrough in the Qi Refinement realm.

"All this Golden Qi is gathering toward my dantian."

Xie Xuanyi entered a state of inner spiritual-soul inspection.

More than half of the Gu Blood Rank Six had left inside his body had already been burned away. The rest had been forced into his dantian by the Golden Qi. This was actually the most important place for a cultivator, yet the Gu Blood was being incinerated at an astonishing speed... because all the Golden Qi throughout Xie Xuanyi's body was converging here.

It roiled, it drew together, it condensed.

It was becoming a tiny droplet of water.

Countless people coveted and thirsted after this droplet.

As Xie Xuanyi's progress in attacking the one hundred and eight apertures gradually reached its end, the tiny droplet slowly took shape as well. Rank Six's Gu Blood was utterly eradicated, and the Golden Qi took on the snowy-white color of "returning to simplicity." Countless vaporized golden mists gradually condensed into a single drop of water.

At last, heaven and earth fell silent, while blood and qi roared.

Xie Xuanyi successfully ignited the final major aperture. Every aperture throughout his body burst with the sound of wind and thunder, and the Golden Qi could circulate and connect, flowing freely through one another.

He had successfully advanced into the "Second Realm."

Xie Xuanyi showed neither joy nor sorrow. At this moment, all his attention was drawn to the droplet suspended within his dantian.

It was an incomparably pure, snow-white droplet. Xie Xuanyi could only describe it with the word perfect.

Just like the one hundred and eight Qi Refinement apertures he had now ignited.

Perfect and flawless, without the slightest defect to be found.

This ordinary, unremarkable droplet would make one's gaze sink helplessly into it, unable to break free, after only a single look...

This droplet contained an incomparably vigorous aura of life.

It was the power to "break the rules," transcending the shackles of heaven and earth.

Legend had it that the Immortal Spring could revive the dead and regrow white bones... That sounded far too mysterious, and Xie Xuanyi was not certain whether this tiny droplet before him could accomplish such a thing.

But he vaguely felt.

The vigorous vitality contained within this droplet should be enough to let a "dying man," who ought to perish at once, linger in this world a little longer.

So the Immortal Spring truly could extend one's life.

Even if it was only for one more instant.

That instant still broke through the iron law dividing life and death.

Xie Xuanyi murmured softly, "This... is the Immortal Spring?"