True Essence Liquefaction
"System, upgrade the Nine Extremes Essence Condensation Art to the first level."
[Ding! Upgrading the Nine Extremes Essence Condensation Art to the first level requires 10,000,000 Demon Points. Confirm upgrade?]
"Promote!"
As soon as he finished speaking,
A stream of pure and refined True Essence arose out of thin air from the depths of the dantian.
His aura began to rise.
Mid-Stage Grandmaster, Late Grandmaster, Grandmaster Perfection.
The True Qi paused for a moment at the Grandmaster Perfection stage, and then a dramatic change occurred within the dantian.
The True Essence that had been spreading like mist in the dantian began to be compressed wildly.
The volume of the True Essence is getting smaller and smaller, while its density is getting larger and larger.
Finally, dozens of drops of liquid True Essence condensed from the gaseous True Essence and landed heavily at the bottom of the dantian.
His cultivation level also dropped from the Grandmaster Perfection to the Early Grandmaster.
Lu Feng opened his eyes; his cultivation level was still at the Early Grandmaster.
However, he could clearly feel that the total amount of True Essence in his body had increased several times compared to before.
The same move, the same amount of True Essence, now unleashed a power completely different from before.
He opened the panel.
[Host: Lu Feng]
[Cultivation Level: Early Grandmaster]
[Cultivation Techniques: Nine Extremes Essence Condensation Art (Level 1) Progress 0%; Nine Extremes Heaven-Breaking Slash (Level 3); Phantom Sword Art (Mastery); Hundred Beasts Body Tempering Art (Level 4)]
[Perfect Martial Arts: Walking on Air, Phantom Steps, Five Elements Primordial Chaos Art, Immeasurable Golden Body Art, Cold Plum Jin, Golden Bell Shield...]
[Demon Points: 8,000,000]
There are eight million Demon Points remaining.
Lu Feng activated his True Essence.
An unprecedentedly powerful force surged from the dantian, flowing along the meridians and into the limbs and bones.
With a thought, he activated his True Essence to protect his body.
A milky-white light shield appeared around him, solid as armor, with a faint luster on its surface, completely different from the faint white Gang Qi he had used before.
A smile appeared on Lu Feng's face.
He originally thought that the Nine Extremes Essence Condensation Art simply compressed the True Essence, thus increasing the total amount.
Unexpectedly, the True Essence, after being compressed into a liquid state, increased several times in power, intensity, and solidity when used in techniques.
what does that mean?
This means that if he were to encounter Hu Xiaotian again now, even if he couldn't defeat him, he wouldn't be as humiliated as before.
The Phantom Sword Art no longer requires meticulous planning, and the Nine Extremes Heaven-Breaking Slash no longer needs to worry about insufficient True Essence.
It's time to leave.
It took him a while to adjust before he withdrew his protective True Essence.
Just as he was about to get up and leave, his gaze swept over the high platform, and he paused in his tracks.
"I almost forgot, this formation hasn't been dealt with yet."
He walked up to the platform, squatted down, and picked up the Origin Crystal placed in the eight positions of the formation.
He didn't take all the Origin Crystal; he only took most of each one.
This was the solution he came up with after repeatedly considering it over the past two weeks.
If the formation is directly destroyed, the person who set it up will definitely notice.
However, if only most of the Origin Crystal are taken away, the formation will appear unchanged on the surface.
When the setter actually activates the grand formation, the Origin Crystal will be exhausted, and the formation will collapse on its own.
What he wanted was that moment of collapse.
Besides, these Origin Crystal are a windfall in themselves.
He roughly counted them, and there were tens of thousands of them.
If he weren't afraid that taking them all would cause the formation to lose its activation and require the person who set it up to rearrange it, he wouldn't have left a single one.
After storing the Origin Crystal in his storage bag, Lu Feng walked back along the secret passage.
The passage was still pitch black, but at this moment his True Essence was abundant and his five senses were clear, so he could see every fine line on the cave wall clearly.
After walking for a long time, a cave entrance blocked by rubble appeared ahead.
Lu Feng looked at the pile of rubble and gave a bitter smile.
To block Hu Xiaotian, he spent a lot of effort blowing up the passage section by section.
Now, to get out, we have to dig it out bit by bit again.
He drew his Ink-Sunken Saber and began clearing away the rubble.
Use a knife to pry open the larger ones, and use your hands to pull apart the smaller ones.
You cannot unleash your True Essence to bombard it, otherwise the entire secret passage will collapse.
It took him two full hours to crawl out of the tunnel.
The sunlight outside made him squint.
Before he could adjust to the light, he sensed movement around him.
Several demonic beasts peeked out from behind the ruins, and their eyes lit up instantly when they saw him.
"I've been cooped up in the cave for half a month, and I was just wondering where to stretch my muscles."
Lu Feng held the Ink-Sunken Saber horizontally in front of him, channeled his True Essence, and swept the blade across, cleaving the surrounding demonic beasts in half at the waist.
[Ding! Successfully slayed a second-tier bull demon, gaining 10,000 Demon Points]
[Ding! Successfully slayed a second-tier bull demon, gaining 10,000 Demon Points]
System notification sounds rang out in succession.
Lu Feng kept moving, charging back and forth among the demonic beasts.
Most of these monsters are first or second tier, with only a few being third tier.
Two hours later, the last monster fell.
Lu Feng stood amidst the corpses scattered on the ground, and glanced at his internal True Essence. He realized that less than one-tenth of his internal True Essence had been depleted.
Open the panel:
[Demon Points: 65,000,000]
Sixty-five million.
Lu Feng squatted down and collected the essence blood of the third-tier demonic beasts one by one.
He then took to the air, Walking on Air technique to fly towards Shouyun City.
During the flight,
"System, upgrade the Nine Extremes Essence Condensation Art to the second level."
[Ding! Upgrading the Nine Extremes Essence Condensation Art to the second level requires 20,000,000 Demon Points. Confirm upgrade?]
"Confirm."
A moment later, Lu Feng's cultivation level was still at the Early Grandmaster, but there were several hundred drops of True Essence water in his body.
Lu Feng's strength has increased once again.
"System, consume 10 million Demon Points to upgrade the Nine Extremes Essence Condensation Art!"
A moment later, Lu Feng's cultivation level rose to the Mid-Stage Grandmaster.
"That makes sense!"
If he suddenly jumped from the Early Grandmaster to the Grandmaster Perfection or even Great Grandmaster, anyone would find it abnormal.
But for now, I'll break through to the Mid-Stage Grandmaster first, and then find a suitable opportunity to break through to the late-stage and perfect Grandmaster level after returning to Shouyun City.
Although the speed was still very fast, at least in the eyes of others, it wasn't too outrageous.
Lu Feng glanced at the panel.
There are still 35 million Demon Points.
His gaze fell upon the Nine Extremes Heaven-Breaking Slash.
Now that his internal True Essence has increased dozens of times, he no longer needs to carefully calculate when unleashing his killing moves.
It's time to push this sword technique to a higher level.
"System, upgrade the Nine Extremes Heaven-Breaking Slash to level six."
[Ding! Upgrading Nine Extremes Heaven-Breaking Slash to level 6 requires 8,000,000 Demon Points. Confirm upgrade?]
Eight million? Lu Feng was stunned for a moment.
It costs 100 million to upgrade the Phantom Sword Art to its highest level.
The Nine Extremes Heaven-Breaking Slash is clearly more powerful than the Phantom Sword Art, yet it consumes fewer Demon Points.
He thought about it and figured that the system probably had different standards for pricing cultivation techniques.
The Phantom Sword Art encompasses multiple layers, including Sword Intent, phantoms, and sword formations, and may appear even more complex to the system.
The Nine Extremes Heaven-Breaking Slash is purely an aggregation of power and Saber Force, with a simpler approach.