A Fancy of Exploiting Bugs

While Tang Ya absorbed her Soul Ring, Qian Chaoguang and Bei Bei studied his Light Mimicry together.

After half an hour of studying it, he felt he might have underestimated this skill somewhat.

In theory, Light Mimicry could indeed produce the same effects as Light Impact, or even Light Interference. It was just that it consumed more Soul Power and Mental Power, and also required Heart Separation Control, making it somewhat not worth the cost.

As Qian Chaoguang saw it, he was still more willing to attach the Extreme Ice Light to his own blade and cut his way through in a shower of sparks and lightning. That was more practical.

Low consumption, long duration, and good effects.

He could chop all the way from Chenghua Avenue to Erxian Bridge without stopping.

Faced with this utterly absurd skill, Bei Bei did not know how to evaluate it either.

He thought it over and over, but no matter how he looked at it, he felt a Wind Baboon could not possibly have condensed such a skill.

However, the facts were right before his eyes, so he could only chalk it up to the strangeness of the Extreme Ice Light Martial Soul.

Absorbing a Thousand Year Soul Ring took quite a long time. Bei Bei scattered some beast-repelling powder he carried with him around the area to guard against a sudden attack from Soul Beasts.

After some time, Tang Ya slowly opened her eyes. A sharp light flashed in her bright pupils, and her entire spirit and vitality had greatly improved.

"I did it!"

Tang Ya excitedly sprang up from the ground, threw herself onto Bei Bei, and gave him a huge hug.

"Bei Bei, thank you."

Bei Bei held her delicate body, and the smile on his face gained a few traces of indulgent affection.

"I promised I would help you realize your dream, so I definitely will."

Tang Ya leaned happily in Bei Bei's arms, but by chance she saw Qian Chaoguang standing off to the side with a cheerful look on his face, staring at them with wide eyes.

Only then did she suddenly realize there was still a third wheel here. Her face filled with bashful embarrassment, and she hurriedly broke free from Bei Bei's embrace.

"What are you looking at? Haven't you ever seen a teacher-student romance before?"

A teacher-student romance?

That's it? That's it? That's it?

What was so new about that?

Could it compare to Dam Bro's XP?

Could it compare to Riverbank Bro's XP?

Could it compare to the Tang family's ancestral furry fetish?

Making a fuss over nothing!

Although Qian Chaoguang very much wanted to answer like that, in order not to break character, he could only pretend to look innocent and honestly shake his head.

"Sister Tang Ya, I really haven't. All these years, I've been cultivating hard with my younger sister."

Bei Bei coughed awkwardly and quickly changed the subject.

"All right, since your Soul Ring has already been absorbed, we should hurry up and leave this place. In recent years, more and more incidents have been happening in the Star Dou Great Forest, so it's better if we don't delay."

"Let's go."

By now, the sky had already begun to darken, and the Star Dou Great Forest was obviously not a good place to spend the night.

After spending about an hour returning to the small woods where the three of them had first met, they ate another meal of roasted meat. Tang Ya soon fell asleep, Bei Bei kept watch, and Qian Chaoguang immersed himself in cultivation.

If the Qi Refining Art during the Three Refinements Stage had purely been something to mess around with, then the current Qi Refining Art had completely and utterly stepped onto the right track.

Within his broad and resilient meridians, energy surged freely like rivers, making Qian Chaoguang feel comfortable throughout his entire body. A faint burning warmth radiated from him from head to toe.

Inside his dantian, the golden cyclone spun rapidly, like a black hole capable of devouring all things in the world, drawing in the surrounding Heaven and Earth Origin Power with extremely high efficiency.

After this mist-like Heaven and Earth Origin Power entered his dantian, it was swiftly refined by the Soul Power cyclone into droplets of lustrous liquid, which flowed continuously downward along the pale golden trapezoid foundation, solidifying and causing it to constantly thicken.

At the same time, this Soul Power also continuously stimulated the Bloodline Power within Qian Chaoguang's body, condensing and circulating together with it, once again driving his body to improve as well.

The Golden Body Art had entered the second level, and the surging, vigorous Bloodline Power in his body, heavy as lead and mercury, had also undergone a special change.

When his blood and qi circulated to the extreme, it could form a special power state called Blood Qi Wolf Smoke.

Because it resembled the wolf smoke released after a beacon was lit, it received that name.

The second level realm of the Golden Body Art was also named after this.

If Blood Qi Wolf Smoke was circulated along the meridians and blood vessels in a specific trajectory, it could even be released outward to attack opponents, or form a protective layer to guard oneself.

Therefore, to activate this powerful force, a strong physique was indispensable.

Tempering his blood vessels and meridians to complete their transformation had become Qian Chaoguang's most important cultivation direction at the current stage, and it was also an indispensable prerequisite for advancing to Soul Elder.

When the dark sky gradually turned deep blue and a touch of white gradually appeared in the distance, Qian Chaoguang's full night of cultivation finally began to draw to a close.

Several hours of accumulation had already formed an almost imperceptible raised layer beneath the foundation. When this raised layer formed a complete second foundation someday, Qian Chaoguang's cultivation would undergo a qualitative change.

According to his estimate, this second foundation would only fully take shape after he advanced to Soul Elder at the earliest.

There was no hurry in cultivating Mental Power. When the Qi Refining Art circulated, the Spirit Connection Art would be driven to circulate along with it.

After the Spirit Connection Art fully entered the Divine Sense Realm, the Visualization Diagram had already completely manifested in his mind.

The pattern each person visualized was different. What appeared at the center of Qian Chaoguang's Sea of Consciousness was the shape of a long saber.

Once the Visualization Diagram materialized, even if he did not actively cultivate, his Mental Power would still steadily rise at an extremely faint pace.

"Whew."

Qian Chaoguang slowly ended his cultivation and breathed out a mouthful of stale air.

Bei Bei and Tang Ya had already taken advantage of this time to cultivate the Tang Sect's Purple Demon Eye.

Qian Chaoguang, who already possessed Divine Sense, also faced east and saw that faint wisp of Purple Qi.

He tried using his Divine Sense to capture a trace of it and draw it into his eyes.

A cool sensation slowly flowed through his eyes, making his vision seem slightly clearer.

After refining it, his Mental Power increased by a tiny amount that was almost impossible to detect.

For Qian Chaoguang, who cultivated the Spirit Connection Art, relying on the Purple Demon Eye to cultivate Mental Power progressed far too slowly.

The daily cultivation time was only that tiny bit, roughly fifteen minutes or so.

Without some immortal herb like the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew as a cheat, it was almost impossible to cultivate it to the final Vast Expanse realm.

Looking at Tang Ya and Bei Bei's serious expressions, Qian Chaoguang could not help letting his imagination run wild, thinking of the method used by a certain country on Blue Star that called itself the Empire on Which the Sun Never Sets.

If he could keep moving at high speed when the sun was first rising, would that mean he could keep capturing Purple Qi and cultivate the Purple Demon Eye twenty-four hours a day?

Once his own cultivation reached a certain level, he could use a Flying Soul Tool to take Xiao Tong and try it out.

Cultivating continuously for twenty-four hours a day would be equivalent to more than three months for an ordinary Purple Demon Eye cultivator. It would definitely let him quickly max out his proficiency.

After Bei Bei and Tang Ya finished cultivating, the purple in Bei Bei's eyes gradually faded. Having gone a whole day without sleep, his face was somewhat pale.

He patted Qian Chaoguang on the shoulder and said, "Chaoguang, I'll rest for a while first. We'll leave later."

Qian Chaoguang nodded. "All right, Brother Bei."

An hour later, Bei Bei woke from his cultivation, his exhaustion swept clean away.

At this moment, Qian Chaoguang was seizing the time to cultivate, leaving only a wisp of Divine Sense outside to prevent any accidents.

A night of cultivation made him realize that his Soul Power reserves were far too deep. If he wanted to break through, it was likely going to be even harder than he had previously estimated.

After all, what restricted his breakthrough was not only his accumulation of Soul Power, but also his Mental Power and physical constitution.