Breakthrough to the Thirteenth Level of Qi Refining

Next, he would charge toward the ultimate goal: the thirteenth layer of Qi Refining!

He intended to completely max out his Qi Refining limit before the sect's grand competition.

His seclusion continued.

For the next entire month.

The spiritual energy in the stone chamber never ran dry, and piles of spirit stones burned away.

From the tenth layer of Qi Refining, he continued to push forward!

The further he progressed in his cultivation, the more Su Yun realized the terrifying consumption required for high-level Qi Refining.

After the tenth layer, the spiritual energy required to break through each subsequent level skyrocketed geometrically.

It was a difference of ten times, even dozens of times!

It was completely incomparable to the earlier layers.

The resources consumed by an ordinary cultivator breaking through to Foundation Establishment from the ninth layer didn't even amount to a fraction of what he spent just going from the tenth to the eleventh layer.

The moment he stepped into the eleventh layer.

Su Yun clearly felt a qualitative change in his physical body, his meridians, and his resonance with heaven and earth.

Ancient texts recorded that anything above the tenth layer was considered transcendent Qi Refining.

It moved beyond the category of ordinary cultivators; the physical body approached that of a spirit body, and the efficiency of drawing in energy and resonating with it increased significantly.

Book descriptions were shallow after all.

Only by experiencing it personally did he realize the terrifying gap.

His ability to attract, resonate with, and control the spiritual energy of heaven and earth had surged several times over!

The spiritual energy around him seemed to submit, moving at his whim and arriving at his thought.

By the time he broke through to the twelfth layer of Qi Refining.

His dantian's capacity exploded.

If the dantian of an ordinary ninth-layer Qi Refining cultivator was a common well.

And the dantian of a Foundation Establishment cultivator was a small pond.

Then his dantian at this moment was a large pond!

Its capacity crushed that of a Foundation Establishment Early Stage cultivator!

His meridians had transformed to the extreme.

At the tenth layer of Qi Refining, his meridians were as wide as a four-lane road.

After the twelfth layer, they had expanded directly into a twelve-lane highway!

Coupled with the constant scouring of the Thousandfold Amplification and the foundation laid by his perfected body-refining technique.

His physical body was comparable to a high-grade magical artifact, and the resilience of his meridians far exceeded that of any cultivator below the Golden Core stage.

The violent scouring of spiritual energy not only failed to harm him, but instead continuously tempered and strengthened his foundation.

The speed at which the Golden Spirit Art operated reached a shocking level.

In the past, one major cycle took a minute.

Now, he could complete a full major cycle in just a few breaths!

The faster the spiritual power circulated, the higher the conversion efficiency of his technique, the more monstrous his breakthrough speed, and the more invincible his endurance.

But what followed was the terrifying consumption of spirit stones.

After a full month of frantic cultivation.

The mountain of low-grade spirit stones he had piled up was completely exhausted, not a single one left!

Even Su Yun was shocked by this rate of consumption.

Such a massive reserve of spirit stones.

Would be enough for an ordinary genius to cultivate all the way from Qi Refining to the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, or even touch the threshold of the Golden Core!

For anyone else, this would be a lifetime of accumulation.

For him, it was only enough to reach the twelfth layer of Qi Refining.

At this moment, he finally understood.

Why, throughout the ages, no one had been willing to push beyond the tenth layer of Qi Refining.

It wasn't that they didn't want a perfect Dao foundation.

It was that their resources simply couldn't sustain it!

Ordinary cultivators could never afford such a monstrous level of consumption.

With the fifty-year lifespan shackle ahead and the massive resource consumption behind.

Who would dare to gamble?

It was no wonder that no ancient texts recorded the complete cultivation states for the twelfth and thirteenth levels of Qi Refining.

Because those who could reach this step were few and far between.

Su Yun grew more determined in his heart.

Just because others couldn't do it didn't mean he couldn't.

He possessed Thousandfold Amplification, massive resources, and a heaven-defying physique.

The limits of others were merely his starting point.

Su Yun held nothing back.

He raised his hand and took out all the inventory from his storage bag.

Over fifteen hundred medium-grade spirit stones were stacked neatly before him, their spiritual light soaring to the heavens!

"The final step."

"Qi Refining thirteenth level, succeed!"

Su Yun centered his mind and closed his eyes slightly.

His cultivation technique ran at full speed.

Rumble—

The spiritual energy in the stone chamber poured in frantically.

A brilliant river of spiritual energy turned into a tangible stream of light, surging madly into his seven orifices, pores, meridians, and dantian.

Su Yun was like an engine running at super speed.

He devoured frantically, converted frantically, and accumulated his foundation frantically.

His dantian expanded, compressed, solidified, and increased in capacity time and time again.

His meridians continued to widen, his physical body continued to be tempered, and his soul continued to be nourished.

A faint golden light emanated from his body; he glowed all over, with spiritual energy coiling around him.

He did not know how much time had passed.

The final shackle within his body shattered completely!

Qi Refining thirteenth level! It was done!

In an instant, Su Yun felt as if his entire body had undergone a second cleansing of the marrow.

Every minute impurity, blockage in his meridians, and flaw in his physical body was completely eliminated.

He slowly opened his eyes.

A golden light flashed across his pupils and vanished; his aura was as heavy as a mountain, yet restrained without a trace.

He looked within himself and was stunned.

His dantian's capacity had surged several times over again; he estimated that even a cultivator at Foundation Establishment Perfection could not compare to it!

He casually grabbed a medium-grade spirit stone.

He guided it with his fingertips.

In less than a minute, the spiritual energy of the entire medium-grade spirit stone was completely drained!

This absorption speed was something even a great cultivator at Foundation Establishment Perfection could not match!

Su Yun stood up and looked at the Foundation-Grade Testing Stone on the side of the stone chamber.

This testing stone could withstand the full-force strike of a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator without shattering.

He lightly pinched a spell gesture with his fingertips.

A golden blade instantly condensed into shape.

The golden light flashed past.

The next instant, the incredibly hard testing stone, capable of resisting attacks from a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, was pierced straight through!

A smooth, clear hole ran through the entire boulder.

The cross-section was flat, and the lingering power of his spiritual energy exploded outward.

Su Yun nodded in satisfaction.

At this moment, it was no exaggeration to say:

Within the Qi Refining realm, he was invincible!

He could kill those of the same rank in seconds and crush those of higher ranks!

Time slipped away rapidly.

Only a few days remained until the Azure Cloud Sect's grand tournament.

The atmosphere throughout the entire sect grew quietly tense.

Disciples who had been in secluded cultivation one after another ceased their training and emerged from their retreats.

Every training ground in the outer sect was filled with figures sweating profusely, honing their techniques and familiarizing themselves with their moves.

Everyone was seizing these final moments to sprint toward their goals, all for the sake of securing a better ranking in the tournament and competing for the precious spots in the Magneto Secret Realm.

Only the Cloud Abode remained tranquil.

Ever since Su Yun broke through to the thirteenth level of Qi Refining, he had not continued to push his cultivation base.

His cultivation had reached the pinnacle of Qi Refining; any further progress would mean Foundation Establishment.

Thus, Su Yun poured all his energy into improving his side professions.

He began to immerse himself in the study of second-tier talismans.

With the Thousandfold Amplification, the success rate, power, and quality of the talismans he drew remained heaven-defying.

Although second-tier spirit talismans were more complex, for him, it was merely a matter of spending a little more time familiarizing himself with the patterns.

Beyond drawing talismans, he simultaneously refined second-grade medicinal pills.

With pills and talismans being produced in tandem, once the grand tournament concluded, selling off a batch would bring in a massive sum of spirit stones.

In addition to his money-making crafts, he also set aside time to delve into the foundations of formations.

In the cultivation world, the status of a formation master was exceptionally high.

Offense, trapping enemies, concealment, mountain-protecting arrays—formations were indispensable everywhere.

A top-tier formation master would be treated as an honored guest by every major sect and faction wherever they went.

One can never have too many skills.

Mastering an extra craft meant having an extra path to retreat to and an extra trump card.

Since he was idle anyway, he might as well learn a few more skills during the lull before the tournament to make traveling the world easier in the future.