Qi Refining Stage: Mana Realm

"They're all dead!"

"I saw it!"

Although the live stream was interrupted, Yang Ning could still see what was happening on Tian Heng Peak through someone else's phone.

Since they were no longer of any use, Lin Tianheng had no reason to keep them around.

They have no respect for life and trample on human rights at will. They believe in the principle of "those who obey me prosper, and those who oppose me perish."

At that moment, Yang Ning suddenly understood why Huang Chao had wiped out the Seven Clans and Five Surnames, not even sparing newborn children.

He understood why Zhu Yuanzhang harbored such deep hatred for corrupt officials, even going so far as to skin them alive and exterminate their entire families.

He understood why the people in the liberated areas could be so enraged by the mere sight of "The White-Haired Girl" that they would rush onto the stage and kill Yang Bailao.

Because they have truly experienced this kind of hatred and resentment, which could never be washed away even by pouring out the three rivers and five lakes!

Can a feud spanning nine generations still be avenged?

Even a feud spanning ten generations can be avenged!

Yang Ning also struggled with the idea that if a hydrogen bomb were launched, all living beings would be equal.

The Kelin Lineage estate, along with innocent maids and servants, should not have died.

But now?

Whatever!

You can only blame the place you live in.

If you were forced into it, then the Lin Family will be buried with you, so you won't lose out.

If you've been a servant for generations, a loyal dog of the Lin Family, now is the time to show your loyalty, isn't it?!

"Boom!"

A muffled thunderclap exploded in Yang Ning's mind.

"I'm going to Qi Induction!" Yang Ning said.

"But you haven't even started cultivating the Yang God Method yet!" Deep Blue hurriedly advised, "Don't mess around like that! If your physical body dies, your spirit can still exist, but if your spirit dies, you'll have nothing left!"

"No need, I feel the time is right!"

The sky has rain, clouds, thunder, and wind; this is the weather!

Taiheng Palace is protected by Hengming Tower, so no one will dare to disturb it; this is its advantageous location!

Yang Ning has been practicing the Myriad Manifestation Star Art for four months, visualizing 480 million stars. His practice has been perfected, and Twelve Earthly Branches of the Star God Incarnation Method have been born, vividly and Divine Charm. It is believed that no one has cultivated it more profoundly than him.

Furthermore, with his mind wavering and emotions surging, he was completely unable to contain himself!

Yang Ning was already able to detect the Spiritual Qi in the sky. Now, all he had to do was to guide it, causing it to rise from the Baihui Acupoint and enter his body!

Yang Ning carefully placed a wisp of the Five Phases Spiritual Qi on his Baihui Acupoint.

The Spiritual Qi seemed to sense something and rushed into the acupoints.

In an instant, starlight burst forth before Yang Ning's eyes, and a magnificent scene, as if the world had been created, unfolded before him.

An endless stream of information poured in from above, accompanied by an infinite and vast will, as if standing in the sky, or as if omnipresent!

Celestial Person!

This is the Heavenly Dao!

Yang Ning instantly understood his situation.

Those who cultivate immortality steal the creations of heaven and earth into their own bodies, using their spirit to sense the energy of heaven and earth, uniting their will and mind, their spirit and heaven, achieving oneness with Celestial Person and man, and thus seeing the Way of Heavenly Dao!

This is the only opportunity for a cultivator to meet the Heavenly Dao before becoming an immortal; the next time will be the time to achieve immortality!

This time was extremely short, passing in the blink of an eye. Yang Ning sensed something and, with a thought, a stream of energy surged from his soul and merged into the Heavenly Dao.

The Primordial Chaos Qi!

This is something that forms Innate Divine Ability; how could I let you get away?

However, there is absolutely no indication that Innate Divine Ability have been born!

Yang Ning considered one possibility.

If you don't even know what you want, how can Heavenly Dao give it to you?

In an instant, a strong sense of hatred instantly filled my mind.

That was the innocent look in Yang Cai'er's eyes when she was only four years old.

That was Su Bai Ning Rong's unwavering resilience—she would rather die than betray her principles!

That was Xun Hu's magnanimity in never hating himself until his death.

That was the most heart-wrenching cry a mother uttered upon witnessing her daughter's death.

Everything, in the end, transformed into an unwavering will.

"I want revenge!"

"I want to change!"

I'm going to overturn all of this!

"I want those who are high above, those who were born to belong to heaven, to taste the dust!"

"I will become the curse hanging over the heads of these beasts!"

"Boom!"

The Primordial Chaos Qi that was surging towards the Heavenly Dao not only returned instantly, but also brought back even more Primordial Chaos Qi!

A directional talisman, accompanied by a strong mental will, gave birth to a phantom image, which gradually solidified and became resilient under the influence of the Primordial Chaos Qi.

Finally, it even emitted a faint, dazzling light!

The next second, Yang Ning screamed, "Ah!"

Spiritual Qi has begun to infiltrate the mind and body!

Endless pain began in his brain and gradually spread throughout his body, as if ten thousand piranhas were tearing Yang Ning's body apart not only from the outside but also from the inside!

He tried to block out his nervous system, but it was no use. The Spiritual Qi was not only eroding his physical body, but also his soul. And how could he block out the pain that came from his soul?

"This is supposed to be Qi Induction? It hurts, it hurts so much! I was told that cultivating immortality would be comfortable!" Yang Ning gritted his teeth in anger, but dared not enter the Spirit Realm to escape the pain.

What if I lose willpower and my body can't take it anymore?

Yang Ning finally understood why cultivators needed to do more missions and experience more battles.

If your willpower isn't strong, this intense pain alone can kill you!

"Lin Tianheng, no!" Yang Ning thought of Lin Tianheng. With his hatred for him, he could definitely hold on!

But Yang Ning immediately forgot about this person.

He seeks revenge, but his life cannot be defined solely by revenge.

I would rather have only sweetness in my mind when facing pain, than be filled with hatred!

So!

Lin Yuanxi, come here!

Li Suxiao, come here!

You Ruo? I wonder what You Ruo looks like!

Then let's switch to the goddesses from our past lives!

Little Dragon Girl, come here!

Nie Xiaoqian, come here!

Bai Suzhen, come here!

Huang Rong, come here!

A Zhu, come here!

Oops, it's A Zhu from Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, not that internet celebrity.

Yang Ning suddenly realized that the pain had disappeared, replaced by a tingling, electric-like sensation.

It's itchy, but it feels so good!

"Deep Blue, what's the situation now?" Yang Ning asked.

"It seems you've successfully Qi Induction!" Deep Blue said. "Now it's the final stage!"

"I knew it! I could do it!" Yang Ning breathed a sigh of relief; she had finally made it through!

He struggled for a moment, then regained feeling in his body. He was covered in sweat, and felt weak and sore, unable to get up at all.

If you can't get up, just lie down and feel your body's condition.

"Meridians!" Yang Ning noticed immediately that countless wide Meridians had appeared in his body.

The Meridians of the past were not actually a real thing, but rather a pathway formed by the interference of force fields on muscles, which is different from other muscles.

But now, the force field has transformed into Law Power, and the path that the Law Power travels has become a true Meridians.

"Oh right, I have Law Power now!" Yang Ning felt the Law Power within his body. This thing was a product of the fusion of spirit and Spiritual Qi, so even though his body was pitch black, he could still perceive color.

Colorless and transparent!

Yang Ning asked Yuanxi, and Yuan Xi said that there is no such thing as Spirit Root in the Taiheng Realm. It absorbs and refines all kinds of Spiritual Qi, so the Law Power refined from it is naturally of all attributes. As long as there is a corresponding spell to match, one can use the corresponding Law Technique.

Of course, Yang Ning only absorbed the Five Phases Spiritual Qi, so he could only use the five Law Techniques and definitely could not use demonic Law Technique.

The Five Elements do not refer specifically to Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, fire, and earth, but rather to attributes related to mid-grade Spiritual Qi such as Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, thunder, yin and yang, ice, and snow.

Mobilizing Law Power is somewhat difficult; it feels like a skinny person trying to lift a tire.

It's obvious that Yang Ning's mental strength when Qi Induction was actually not quite enough, or rather, it barely met the standard, which resulted in a somewhat heavy burden on his Law Power. However, it's not a big problem, as cultivators in the Qi Refining Stage have far more ways to improve their mental strength than those in the Body Refinement Realm.

In addition, Yang Ning also felt that his spirit had changed after experiencing the Qi Induction.

The reconnaissance range has been expanded from 140 kilometers to 1652 kilometers!

Now, taking the enemy's head from a thousand miles away is no longer a dream!

The strength is also much higher. Before, his telekinesis could only lift things weighing tens of kilograms, but now he can lift a 1,400-kilogram iron lump!

In the blink of an eye, an adorable wild beast appeared before Yang Ning and then vanished just as quickly.

The Twelve Earthly Branches of the <Star God Incarnation Method> can also be conjured using Law Power!

Of course, this is only a change in quantity; there are also changes in quality.

With a thought, a ball of flame appeared in front of Yang Ning, and with another movement, the flame turned into a ball of water!

The mind can directly interfere with Spiritual Qi and cast Law Technique!

Although these Law Techniques are low-level and can only frighten mortals, the fact that one can only slightly manipulate them in the Body Refinement Realm and then directly control spiritual Spiritual Qi in the Qi Refining Stage, turning the illusory into the real, is clearly a sublimation of a level!

"Modern people believe that cultivating immortality is actually an evolution of one's life level, and this statement is indeed true!"

His spirit was elevated, and his physical body was naturally not neglected either.

The Law Power flows like a gentle stream through the Meridians.

Meridians and blood vessels are related; just as blood vessels are distributed throughout the body, so are Meridians.

As Law Power flows through the Meridians, it also continuously dissipates into the body, and the body becomes stronger with each bit of Law Power it absorbs.

The increase in strength with each breath is comparable to a cultivator at the Body Refinement Realm tempering their Qi and Blood for an entire day!

No wonder the first stage of Qi Refining Stage is called: Mortal Transformation Realm!

Naturally, one sheds their mortal form and transforms into True Person!

Therefore, Qi Refining First Level could already call themselves True Person, but that was a rule from High Antiquity times, and nowadays very few people call themselves True Person.

Yang Ning played around for a long time, but still felt like he hadn't had enough fun.

He then focused his spirit on the sea of consciousness, for his powerful mental strength had awakened an Innate Divine Ability!

At this moment, Yang Ning's divine sea had changed drastically. In the very center, it seemed as if another waterfall was falling from the sky and scattering into the divine sea, becoming the pool water in the sea.

The Spiritual Qi here originates from the Baihui Acupoint. After being processed by the Divine Sea, it will flow into the Meridians system, whereby the Spiritual Qi will become Law Power that cultivators can control.

It's also called True Essence or Spiritual Power; they're all essentially the same thing.

Scattered around the Divine Sea were twelve beasts of various shapes. Having entered the Qi Refining Stage from the Body Refinement Realm, the auras of these Twelve Earthly Branches were much stronger and more agile, as if they were truly about to come to life.

Above the Twelve Earthly Branches, a hazy gray dragon Dragon Pearl rotated in the air. It was a projection of the Nightmare Dragon Pearl, but this projection looked much more solid and seemed no different from the real Nightmare Dragon Pearl.

Next to the Dragon Pearl, there is a square, seal-like object with what appears to be a character in the center.

The talisman looks like something from the Cultivation World, but if you look closely at the character in the center of the talisman, it is actually composed of endlessly flowing 0s and 1s, giving it a strong science fiction feel.

Just like Yang Ning himself, a cultivator with a sci-fi-side cheat.

This is the Innate Divine Ability that Yang Ning has awakened.

Yang Ning sensed it with his Divine Sense and immediately understood the function and effect of the Divine Ability. He then understood it completely!

The function of this Divine Ability is actually like this!

It doesn't seem to have any offensive capabilities!

But thinking about it carefully, it perfectly matches what I was thinking at the time!

The Innate Divine Ability only has information, but no name. Obviously, the names that have been passed down later were all chosen by the owners of the Divine Ability power themselves.

Yang Ning pondered for a long time before saying, "Since this is your purpose, let's call it: Deep Blue Contract!"

There are already too many cheat codes, so we won't make this Innate Divine Ability too strong.