Ji Wuchang thought for a moment, then set himself a small goal: condense ten flawless Dao platforms!
The number of Dao platforms was crucial to gauging a person's future achievements.
Many people believed the Qi Refining Realm had only nine layers, but Ji Wuchang, who possessed memories of his previous life, knew very well that it had another-the tenth layer.
The tenth layer of the Qi Refining Realm did not exist within the cultivation system. It was a special existence.
Even someone blessed with immense fortune like Xiao Fan had been unable to touch this domain in his previous life, which showed just how difficult it was.
To reach the Qi Refining Tenth Layer, one condition had to be met: cultivating oneself to the absolute limit of the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
This limit encompassed the physical body, divine soul, and mental state! In simpler terms, one's essence, Qi, spirit, and physical body all had to reach their peak simultaneously.
Specifically, this meant golden skin, jade bones, and a Divine Treasury!
In this special state, one could touch the domain of the Qi Refining Tenth Layer.
Only by reaching the Qi Refining Tenth Layer could one possibly condense ten Dao platforms directly when breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Realm.
Ji Wuchang recalled that someone on the entire Heavenly Chen Continent had condensed ten Dao platforms, and that person was a woman, but he could not remember who she was!
After memorizing the key principles of the first punch of the Wind and Thunder Fist, Ji Wuchang closed his eyes and began cultivating the purple Qi Heaven-Burning Art!
The best time to cultivate the purple Qi Heaven-Burning Art was when the sun rose in the east, when vast quantities of purple Qi would pour into the body.
But cultivating at night also brought tremendous benefits, allowing one to absorb the power of moonlight and achieve a mingling of yin and yang!
With the cultivation experience of his previous life, Ji Wuchang naturally understood all this.
The night passed swiftly, and Ji Wuchang awoke from his cultivation.
Then he leaped onto the roof and waited for the morning sun to rise in the east!
Vast purple Qi surged into Ji Wuchang's body like a torrent. Without the slightest hesitation, he used all of it to temper his physical body!
He had suffered from this very mistake in his previous life, single-mindedly pursuing cultivation while neglecting his body, causing his path to grow ever narrower.
In this life, you must not only attain golden skin and jade bones, but also temper your viscera into a Divine Treasury!
The Divine Treasury described the state of the internal organs tempered to their absolute limit. The internal organs could create divinity and hold heaven and earth, hence the name Divine Treasury.
If golden skin and jade bones were the exterior of the physical body, the Divine Treasury was its interior.
Of course, he had yet to begin tempering his internal organs. The Divine Treasury was far too distant for him now!
As the last wisp of purple Qi entered his abdomen, Ji Wuchang felt his body slowly transforming, and a faint smile involuntarily appeared at the corners of his mouth.
"System, check in!"
[Ding! Check-in at the Longevity Sect's Little Bamboo Peak successful. Reward: six years of cultivation! Fortune Points +5.]
The system's voice rang out, and a stream of pure spiritual power flowed into Ji Wuchang's body.
Ji Wuchang hurriedly circulated his cultivation art, dispersing this vast spiritual power throughout his limbs and bones.
A series of cracks and pops rang out inside Ji Wuchang's body, like exploding firecrackers.
From time to time, a wisp of black vapor drifted away from Ji Wuchang's body. These were the impurities within him.
Ji Wuchang still had a fifth-grade Marrow-Washing and Meridian-Cleansing Pill, but he was in no hurry to take it. He would wait until he reached the Peak of the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
Ji Wuchang knew very well that good steel should be used on the blade's edge.
Taking it at the Peak of the Qi Refining Ninth Layer would raise Ji Wuchang's overall strength another level, allowing him to find an opportunity to reach the Qi Refining Tenth Layer!
Just then, a figure approached from afar. It was his second senior brother, Zeng Linghong!
"Good morning, Second Senior Brother!"
Ji Wuchang smiled and greeted Zeng Linghong.
Zeng Linghong glanced at Ji Wuchang and could not help but pause. For some reason, he felt that his junior brother seemed to have grown considerably stronger!
But after examining Ji Wuchang's cultivation, he felt it might have been his imagination. After all, Ji Wuchang's cultivation had not changed!
"Junior Brother, I'm planning to train in the back mountains for a few days. Would you like to come with me?"
Zeng Linghong put aside his thoughts and asked with a smile.
Ji Wuchang's eyes instantly lit up upon hearing this. Of course he wanted to go to the back mountains. He could hardly wait any longer for that secret realm!
If someone took the things inside the secret realm before him, Ji Wuchang would surely want to cry but have no tears!
He had been wondering what excuse to find. Now that his second senior brother had asked, nothing could have been better!
"Of course, Second Senior Brother!"
Ji Wuchang readily agreed, while thinking that, if his guess was correct, the Longevity Sect should have finished recruiting disciples in Muye City!
He wondered whether Xiao Fan would become a disciple of the fifth elder, Tang Yiyuan, as he had in his previous life!
Just as Ji Wuchang was thinking about this, in Muye City, the Longevity Sect's disciple recruitment had ended, exactly as he had expected.
Xiao Fan, Ji Bing, Bai Yao, and the others had all been selected by the Longevity Sect.
Unlike in his previous life, however, Tang Yiyuan had not taken Xiao Fan as his disciple.
Xiao Fan's expression had grown much gloomier. The injuries to his meridians had mostly healed because a mysterious person had delivered a pill to him.
In fact, this mysterious person was the old woman at Xiao Xueqing's side. She had brought him a fourth-grade Meridian-Extending Pill.
Although this pill was not specifically intended to treat meridian injuries, it had worked quite well, healing roughly ninety percent of the damage to Xiao Fan's meridians.
Over the past few days, whenever Xiao Fan recalled how he had failed to withstand even a single move from his opponent, his expression instantly twisted into a snarl!
Although he knew full well that Ji Wuchang was in the Longevity Sect, he had come anyway.
Xiao Fan believed in himself. He was no weaker than Ji Wuchang.
Xiao Xueqing and the old woman stood atop a nearby mountain peak, watching the Longevity Sect's flying boat gradually recede, and could not help but sigh!
"Miss, how should we deal with Ji Wuchang?"
The old woman spoke helplessly. Ji Wuchang had planted a Shared Life Curse on Xiao Xueqing, and although it would last only three years, if Ji Wuchang died, Xiao Xueqing would be finished too!
The moment Xiao Xueqing heard Ji Wuchang's name, she felt a sharp pain in her neck, and even breathing became somewhat difficult.
"That bastard really deserves to die!"
Xiao Xueqing cursed under her breath, then said, "Forget it. We're going home!"
The old woman grew anxious at this and hurriedly said, "Miss, what if..."
Xiao Xueqing glanced at the old woman, then said calmly, "Do you think someone that crafty would die so easily?"
"I noticed that day that the fellow was holding a sixth-grade Teleportation Talisman!"
"Even if he hadn't threatened us with the Shared Life Curse, we couldn't have killed him!"
"Brother Xiao Fan endured for years, hoping to step on him to rise, yet he couldn't even withstand a single move from him!"
"The good die young, but scourges linger for a thousand years! So he won't die."
"Come on, we're going home! He'll inevitably leave Boyun Province in the future. It won't be too late to deal with him then!"
Hearing this, the old woman could find no rebuttal and could only nod.
"Miss, what about Young Master Xiao Fan?"
Xiao Xueqing could not help but sigh at this, then said, "Leave it to fate!"