Secluded Cultivation

Li Chenfeng emerged from the water, spat out a mouthful of river water, and looked at the vanished Fire Qilin. He finally let out a long sigh of relief.

"Damn it, good thing I ran fast. This trip to Lingyun Grotto was dangerous, but I made it through safely. But the next time I enter Lingyun Grotto, it'll be the day you beast loses its head!"

After swimming back to the opposite bank, he checked that the Fire Qilin Sword and Blood Bodhi on his back were still there. Li Chenfeng did not linger near the Giant Buddha, instead finding a path from another direction, climbing up the cliffside, and heading toward Duan Family Manor.

When the setting sun dyed the clouds crimson, Li Chenfeng finally returned to Duan Family Manor.

Seeing Li Chenfeng return, the Sword Servant, who had been worried sick, immediately breathed a sigh of relief and hurried forward to greet him.

"Young Master, you're finally back. You didn't encounter any danger, did you?"

Li Chenfeng smiled faintly and tossed the Changli Sword in his hand directly to the Sword Servant. "I'm fine. This operation was a huge haul. I'm going into secluded cultivation now, so I'll leave everything outside to you!"

"Uh, yes!" The Sword Servant was slightly stunned, then immediately agreed.

Li Chenfeng hurriedly found a room, went inside, shut the door securely, and sat cross-legged on the floor.

He was incredibly anxious now. Especially after personally experiencing the medicinal effects of the Blood Bodhi, he had long since been unable to wait any longer.

Sitting cross-legged, he calmed his mind and entered a cultivation state. Without hesitation, Li Chenfeng took out a Blood Bodhi and placed it in his mouth.

The Blood Bodhi melted as soon as it entered his mouth, rapidly turning into a scorching medicinal force that surged into Li Chenfeng's internal organs...

The familiar sensation came again, but this time Li Chenfeng no longer had to endure the swelling pain in his meridians. Operating his cultivation method, the inner energy in his meridians swiftly merged with the medicinal force. His inner energy, which had already been unable to increase any further, now began to grow wildly.

Li Chenfeng's cultivation had already reached the limit of the Houtian Realm. Next, he needed to use his inner energy to break through the Heaven's Gate above his head, communicate with heaven and earth, and transform Houtian inner energy into Xiantian true qi. That was the Xiantian Realm.

Li Chenfeng silently endured the almost moan-inducing pleasure brought by the rapid growth of his inner energy.

The pure, scorching medicinal force of the Blood Bodhi continuously followed the circulation of Li Chenfeng's inner energy as he began his first breakthrough.

Under Li Chenfeng's control, his inner energy repeatedly struck at his Heaven's Gate. Meanwhile, the pure medicinal force of the Blood Bodhi constantly replenished the expenditure of inner energy. At a certain instant, Li Chenfeng suddenly felt some kind of shackle within his body break apart, and a sensation of comfort, as though freed from chains, instantly spread throughout his entire body.

"Finally... I finally broke through!"

Li Chenfeng felt faintly excited, but this was a crucial moment in cultivation. He could only suppress his joy and once more focus on circulating the inner energy within his body, continuously converting it into Xiantian true qi.

As the true qi within his body continuously circulated through its cycles, Li Chenfeng finally stabilized his cultivation completely at the Xiantian Realm.

With a thought, the martial cultivation method he had been circulating instantly changed into Raging Wind Tide, the Earth Tier low-grade Cultivation Method he had cultivated in Battle Through the Heavens...

Of course, only a freak like Li Chenfeng would dare do something like this.

After all, these were cultivation methods from two entirely different systems. If not for that mysterious energy where the Myriad Worlds Gate resided filtering it for him, this alone might have caused his meridians to rupture and killed him outright!

As the Cultivation Method changed, Li Chenfeng sensed that not only were the Blood Bodhi's medicinal force and his Xiantian true qi rapidly transforming within him, but even the energy between heaven and earth around him was suddenly rushing toward him desperately.

Seeing this, Li Chenfeng did not dare slack off. He formed a cultivation seal with both hands, then sank his consciousness into his body.

As Li Chenfeng entered his cultivation state once more, the energy surging through the surrounding world became increasingly violent...

In the end, Li Chenfeng's body practically became a Black Hole, endlessly absorbing the worldly energy that crazily flooded into him.

His consciousness sank into his body.

Li Chenfeng hurriedly began guiding the worldly energy that was entering through every pore of his body.

Although this energy was immense in quantity, it contained too many impurities. It had to be refined and purified by his meridians before it could be completely absorbed.

Otherwise, one mistake might even contaminate the Dou Qi he had painstakingly cultivated.

Fortunately, all the energy Li Chenfeng absorbed passed through the mysterious energy in his Dantian for filtering and transformation. In an instant, the originally violent worldly energy became docile.

After Li Chenfeng refined the first wave of worldly energy, the energy gathered around him did not dissipate. Instead, due to the violent suction released by the Qi Cyclone, streams of mixed worldly energy surged directly into Li Chenfeng's body as though being poured in like water.

Faced with this seemingly endless influx,

Li Chenfeng's pale blue Dou Qi cyclone simply opened itself wide and accepted all comers.

However, any energy that entered his body would be refined by the mysterious energy. By then, regardless of what kind of energy it was, it would be refined into drops of pure liquid energy.

Under the scouring of this worldly energy, Li Chenfeng suddenly discovered that his meridians and bones were becoming increasingly tough and broad amid this cleansing baptism.

That was an unexpected delight!

Just like that, Li Chenfeng stuffed Blood Bodhi into his mouth one after another.

The worldly energy around him continued to pour in as well...

His body had completely become a Black Hole!

The energy he absorbed did not merely form drops of liquid within his Dantian...

Many of those droplets also followed the circulation of the Cultivation Method and were carried throughout every part of his body.

Whenever the liquid energy came into contact with his meridians, bones, and flesh, Li Chenfeng discovered that it slowly fused into them!

"Haa..."

He quietly exhaled air that did not exist.

Waves of wild joy surged through Li Chenfeng's heart...

He could clearly sense that as the liquid energy infiltrated him, every bone and piece of flesh in his body was gradually filling with immense power, as though undergoing a transformation!

Time slowly passed. Li Chenfeng no longer knew how many Blood Bodhi he had swallowed. Ten? Twenty? Or thirty!

By now, all the wounds on Li Chenfeng's body had healed. However, the clothes on him had already turned into a pile of ashes beneath the earlier tide of energy.

Layer after layer of scale-like material resembling hardened skin continuously appeared on his body, then fell away. Under the surging Dou Qi around Li Chenfeng, they turned into powder and vanished.

The sun rose and set, and an unknown amount of time passed.

The Sword Servant came once more to the room where Li Chenfeng was cultivating in seclusion, looking worriedly at the tightly shut door.

Five days had already passed. Li Chenfeng, who was cultivating inside, still showed no sign of movement. Only, the previously fluctuating aura within the room had now returned to normal. Thus, in the Sword Servant's view, Li Chenfeng's secluded cultivation should be nearing its end.

Just as the Sword Servant paced back and forth outside the door, Li Chenfeng's voice suddenly came from within.

"Sword Servant, bring me a set of clothes."

The Sword Servant froze, then was overjoyed. That voice belonged to his young master.

Yet he was confused by this order. Wasn't the young master cultivating in seclusion inside? Why was he asking for clothes? What exactly had happened in there?

Though puzzled, the Sword Servant did not dare delay over Li Chenfeng's command. After acknowledging it, he immediately ran toward the room where Li Chenfeng lived.