Enhancing the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes and Star Sucking Pupil

Before dawn, Li Yue woke up in the Ice Room.

To cultivate the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes, he rose before the hour of the Rabbit every day, and it had already become his biological clock.

After getting up and dressing, he saw that the ice bed beneath him had melted considerably. The ice had been harvested in winter and stored in the cellar. As long as enough was stored, it could still be used to ward off the summer heat.

Cultivating while sleeping on an ice bed was worth ten years of ordinary practice in a single year. When Li Yue was first getting used to it, he found it somewhat uncomfortable. It was simply too cold. Fortunately, his internal energy was profound, allowing him to circulate it to resist the chill.

Now, it had practically become second nature. The moment he lay on the ice bed, he would instinctively circulate his cultivation method, continuing to train even in his sleep.

Thus, in only a few months, Li Yue's cultivation had increased greatly.

But without the ice bed, he could not cultivate in his dreams.

The ice bed's coldness made him involuntarily circulate his energy to resist it. Moreover, the chill quelled the fires of the heart, leaving his mind as clear as ice, unshaken even if the heavens collapsed. This was also beneficial to cultivation.

It was like having only one concern when you were hungry.

When he was cold, Li Yue had only one thought: circulate his energy to warm himself.

To house the ice bed, Li Yue had ordered this Ice Room built. In truth, it was no different from an ordinary house, except that its indoor drainage had been properly arranged.

The cellar he had ordered excavated and built had yet to see use, but how could a great aristocratic family lack an ice cellar? The Tang Sect, a family sect centered around the Tang Family, was arguably the largest reclusive clan in Ba-Shu. Naturally, it had no shortage of ice cellars.

Ba-Shu did not often see snow, but it was now the frigid Little Ice Age. Even Guangdong Qiongzhou Prefecture suffered continual rain and snow. In Chaozhou, winter snow could pile up several feet deep, let alone here in Ba-Shu.

"Another new day."

Arriving in the courtyard, Li Yue took a deep breath and felt the slightly cool air before dawn. Then he lightly tapped the ground with his toes and unleashed the Lingbo Step.

His figure was like a wisp of white smoke as he swiftly weaved through the Tang Sect. Every step was incomparably light, and after only a few flickers, he had left the courtyard and arrived outside the gates.

Tang San was already waiting for him.

The two left the Tang Sect together and raced toward the mountaintop.

One left countless ghostly afterimages, using the Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track.

The other drifted with an immortal grace, using the Lingbo Step.

The Tang Sect was built halfway up the mountain, while the peak Li Yue and Tang San were heading toward was called Ghost's Worry—the place where Tang San had leapt from the cliff in Douluo Continent.

The view from the summit was beautiful. Li Yue liked this place very much, so he climbed to the mountaintop every day to cultivate the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes and practice the Lingbo Step along the way.

As for Tang San, Li Yue had secretly passed the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record on to him. He could not let anyone see him cultivating it, so he also came to Ghost's Worry to cultivate the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes.

Ghost's Worry was perilous terrain. If one threw a stone from the cliff, it took nineteen seconds before the echo could be heard. In other words, the cliff was over a thousand meters high.

Since the Tang Sect was built halfway up the mountain, cultivating the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes only required stepping outdoors, making it quite convenient. Normally, no one would come all the way to Ghost's Worry just to cultivate the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes.

Thus, Ghost's Worry became Li Yue and Tang San's private territory.

As the rising sun ascended, Purple Mist Eastward appeared.

Li Yue and Tang San hurriedly began cultivating the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes.

Before long, the purple mist on the horizon faded away.

Now that Tang San had become the Outer Sect Supervisor, he had outer sect affairs to handle. After finishing his cultivation, he respectfully bade farewell and left.

Li Yue alone was left deep in thought. The Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes could only be cultivated during that fleeting moment of Purple Mist Eastward at sunrise. It was far too slow.

The period of Purple Mist Eastward was short to begin with, and cultivation was impossible during cloudy or rainy weather. Yet the weather was beyond human control.

Thus, the already limited cultivation time became even scarcer, and progress was exceedingly slow.

If only there were a way to extend the cultivation time.

"Perhaps I can also cultivate at dusk, when the sun sets. That would double my cultivation speed."

Li Yue recalled that purple mist did not appear only in the morning. It also appeared in the evening.

So, at dusk, when the sun set, Li Yue tried cultivating the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes as well. He discovered that it was indeed possible.

But he was still not satisfied.

After all, even counting the evening, the time available for cultivation was still so little.

The Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes involved spiritual power. To Li Yue, it could be considered his most useful cultivation method, because he intended to reincarnate in Douluo Continent, and only his spiritual power could be carried over.

Cultivating other martial arts was merely to improve his proficiency, but the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes were his guarantee of rising to prominence in his next life.

Cultivation methods for spiritual power were exceedingly rare. Li Yue had barely seen any even in the Scripture Library, and the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes were already the most supreme method involving spiritual power.

Therefore, he could not give up on increasing the cultivation speed of the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes.

And because the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes involved spiritual power, Li Yue did not dare casually experiment on himself. He did not dare try replacing the purple mist with starlight, moonlight, or solar essence.

Nor did he dare alter the energy-circulation route of the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes to increase its cultivation speed.

After all, if something went wrong, he would be the one to suffer.

If he turned himself into an idiot, became mentally deranged, or had his soul scattered, he did not know whether the system could save him. Li Yue did not dare gamble on it.

Therefore, the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes could not be altered. He could only find a way to increase the time spent cultivating them.

After eating, Li Yue returned to the Ice Room, still pondering the problem.

When he saw the ice in the Ice Room, inspiration suddenly struck him.

Ice was harvested in winter and stored in cellars, making it available throughout the year.

Although he could not increase the duration of Purple Mist Eastward.

That did not mean he could not increase the time spent cultivating the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes.

He could store a large amount of purple mist in the morning and evening, then slowly refine it at other times to train his eyes.

Wouldn't that greatly increase the time available to cultivate the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes?

"But what method could store such a large amount of purple mist?"

Li Yue once again sank into thought.

He recalled that the principle of the Great Star Sucking Method was to make the dantian "ever like an empty chest, always like a deep valley."

Perhaps he could use the principle of the Great Star Sucking Method to store purple mist.

He could empty a dantian and turn it into a "vacuum," then absorb and store purple mist when Purple Mist Eastward appeared.

Both the lower dantian and the Middle Dantian had their uses.

The Mysterious Heaven Skill and Lingbo Step required the lower dantian, while the Bei Ming Hand required the Middle Dantian.

Only the upper dantian had no particular use.

Thus, he chose the Mud Pill Palace in the upper dantian as this "storage room."

After repeated attempts, consulting a great many martial arts manuals, and experimenting on his own body.

At last, Li Yue combined the principles of the Great Star Sucking Method with the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes, creating the Star Sucking Pupil—making the Mud Pill Palace in the upper dantian "ever like an empty chest, always like a deep valley."

When Purple Mist Eastward appeared, he gathered the purple mist and stored it in the Mud Pill Palace, then used it at other times to train his eyes.

As he cultivated the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes, the purple mist within the Mud Pill Palace would be completely depleted. Once the Mud Pill Palace was empty, he could gather purple mist again.

With the Star Sucking Pupil, Li Yue could cultivate the Purple Extreme Demonic Eyes for one day and achieve what others did in twenty.

If he released all the purple mist stored in the Mud Pill Palace in an instant, it would become a beam of immensely powerful Purple Extreme Divine Light.