The fifth watch

Given sufficient Spiritual Qi, the gourd is extremely effective at refining elixirs.

With the help of the green rock staff, the gourd can extract spiritual Spiritual Qi through the Spiritual Qi eye much more easily than extracting spiritual jade through the soil more than ten meters away.

By midnight, the Ten-Ingredient Tonic Pill had been formed.

Around four in the morning, Zhang Xuezhou poured out his potent Spirit Spirit-Forging Pill from the gourd.

Aside from their large size, these two pills are otherwise inconvenient.

"Gah!"

With time running out, Zhang Xuezhou forced himself to swallow the pill.

The immense medicinal power instantly transformed into surging Law Power, continuously impacting the acupoints that had previously been difficult to open.

The gentle and mild Spiritual Qi was insufficient to help him break through his cultivation level, and ordinary Spirit-Forging Pill lacked enough impact, but the Spirit-Forging Pill refined by the gourd had no problem.

When Zhang Xuezhou swallowed it, he felt the impact of the medicine was so strong that his body could hardly bear it.

"This gourd doesn't seem to be used simply to refine medicinal substances!"

The potent effects of the medicine allowed Zhang Xuezhou to leap over the threshold of the Body Integration Realm in one fell swoop. For Zhang Xuezhou, who had already attempted to break through to the Body Transformation Realm once, everything he did was like a textbook example, and the breakthrough in his realm was a natural progression.

Aside from his physical condition, which requires him to use breathing techniques when breaking through minor and major realms, the process itself is almost identical.

But vaguely, Zhang Xuezhou felt that something was wrong with this oversized Spirit-Forging Pill, which brought about a potential change in his body, but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

Zhang Xuezhou had no choice but to temporarily put aside his research.

In any case, his journey of leveraging external resources to advance his cultivation has come to an end, and he has achieved his predetermined goal.

How are you feeling?

Zhang Xuezhou pulled out the green rock staff, then took off the gourd and looked at Yi Shuo.

I feel great!

Zhang Xuezhou's cultivation broke through a major realm, while Yi Shuo's cultivation reached the Great Perfection of the True Spirit Realm, which was half a year earlier than she had imagined.

If she could get one more Spirit-Forging Pill, Yi Shuo felt that she had a chance to break through to the Consciousness Creation Realm.

But Yi Shuo wasn't greedy.

Zhang Xuezhou himself was in a hurry, and by the time Zhang Xuezhou asked, she knew very well that the two of them should return to Chang'an City.

"Ladies, the pills are ready, we need to head back!"

Yi Shuo agreed, which made Zhang Xuezhou shout loudly, and the Holy Mother of Wudang walked out from behind the stone wall.

Her gaze swept over Zhang Xuezhou, then over the bluestone cane in his hand and the gourd held by Yi Zhang Xuezhou.

"You're punctual!"

The Holy Mother of Wudang nodded.

The fact that Zhang Xuezhou rushed back at dawn did not mean he set off from the underground palace at dawn. He had clearly allowed enough time and was not joking about Wei Shao'er's life.

The Holy Mother of Wudang had no good feelings towards Zhang Xuezhou for taking advantage of the situation, but she had to admit that Zhang Xuezhou was a man of his word.

"This gourd-shaped pill is good, but do not take too much!"

She pondered for a few seconds, then spoke up to warn Zhang Xuezhou and the others.

"Have you ever seen a gourd like this before?" Zhang Xuezhou asked with interest.

Having seen some, the "Wu Dang Holy Mother" nodded and said, "Not a single gourd is a good thing!"

"Well!"

Zhang Xuezhou exclaimed in surprise, and Yi Shuo's eyes widened in as well.

"The creation of things with chaotic Spirit Root is profound and mysterious, but few who possess them have a good ending; some disappear, some die, some have their families destroyed, and some are seriously ill," said the Holy Mother Wudang. "The more one relies on such treasures, the more this is the case."

"I thought you were saying that there would be side effects if I swallowed this gourd pill," Zhang Xuezhou said with a sigh of relief.

"Perhaps there are unseen consequences that are hard to detect," the Holy Mother Wudang said earnestly. "You must not rely on this thing in the future!"

"I'm just using it as an emergency measure," Zhang Xuezhou said dejectedly. "I don't normally use it!"

Zhang Xuezhou wanted to use a gourd, but he couldn't afford one.

Without a special secret place to supply Spiritual Qi, he could only extract spiritual jade to condense pills; where would he get so much spiritual jade to nourish the gourd?

He didn't know how much Spiritual Qi the Ten-Ingredient Tonic Pill and the Powerful Spirit-Forging Pill had extracted, but Zhang Xuezhou could sense that the Spiritual Qi absorbed by the Eye of Spiritual Qi seemed to have weakened somewhat after he pulled out the Azure Rock Staff.

This made Zhang Xuezhou not particularly interested in the gourd; he would use it when he had the chance, and not use it when he didn't.

He responded, but the Holy Mother of Wudang ignored Zhang Xuezhou and instead drove the bronze chariot at breakneck speed.

Layers of darkness surged in, interspersed with occasional flashes of dim yellow light from within the passageway.

After traveling through the passage three times and reaching the Body Transformation Realm, Zhang Xuezhou realized that the bronze chariot driven by the Holy Mother Wudang was not always traveling through the passage.

The Holy Mother of Wudang repeatedly unleashed her Law Power, causing the bronze chariot to travel directly through the ground.

The patches of darkness they saw were likely layers of thick soil.

Compared to Kong Zhong and others' earth-walking and earth-escape techniques, Zhang Xuezhou found it hard to believe that the Holy Mother of Wudang was truly skilled in earth magic.

If his perception hadn't been further enhanced, he wouldn't have been able to imagine that he felt as if he were traversing darkness while moving through the soil layers.

He touched his Peacock Great Wisdom King Feather, feeling that the combined effect of top-tier Technique Method Divine Ability with the treasure was beyond his comprehension.

But Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help feeling a bit excited.

The greater the abilities he witnessed, the more likely it was to arouse Zhang Xuezhou's expectations for the future.

The limit should obviously be as strong as possible, rather than being fixed within a certain range.

Just like the sequential deduction in reality, each layer of sequence represents a goal that humanity aspires to, and humanity continues to move towards the unknown.

Zhang Xuezhou and Luo Burang had discussed the special characteristics of the Seventh Sequence individuals. It was an extremely special sequence level. The resistance layer possessed by the Seventh Sequence would weaken most of the striking power, which would render many targeted abilities useless, such as firearms, general sharp and blunt weapon strikes, as well as some of Zhang Xuezhou's techniques. It could even resist mental penetration in a high probability.

Just as Luo Burang's kinetic energy fist would be almost rendered useless, many of Zhang Xuezhou's abilities would also become useless if they did not have a more profound limit.

Seeing the earth magic of the Holy Mother of Wudang, Zhang Xuezhou felt his faith growing stronger.

The most powerful demonstration of technique Zhang Xuezhou had ever witnessed was the collective blindness and explosion that the Venerable One had displayed in Lingnan. However, since the Venerable One was not human, he was not a relevant reference point. Zhang Xuezhou used normal humans as his primary reference.

Seeing the infinitely profound and mysterious Technique Method of the Holy Mother of Wudang, Zhang Xuezhou felt that there were indeed countless possibilities hidden beyond the realm of magic.

He was beaming with joy until the bronze chariot came to a stop, and the Holy Mother of Wudang pulled him and Yishuo into the air.

As I stepped onto the ground, the sky began to lighten again.

Under the glow of the snow, the entire Chang'an City was already faintly visible.

The sound of the night watchman's gong came, and the Holy Mother of Wudang began to urge them on quickly.

"The soul-lighting lamp can only protect a child's soul until dawn. Go quickly!"

The Holy Mother of Zhang Xuezhou grabbed and tossed Zhang Xuezhou, who felt his body float up.

Having witnessed Zhang Xuezhou using his Demon Power to fly, the Holy Mother of Wudang showed no courtesy whatsoever when she was in a hurry.

She threw Zhang Xuezhou over two hundred meters away into the yard, not even worried that Zhang Xuezhou would die from the fall.

"Ahhh~"

When her gaze fell upon Yi Shuo, she saw Yi Shuo choke out several sounds before frantically running away.

This left the "Mother of No Way" speechless for a moment.

She might casually toss Zhang Xuezhou away, but she certainly wouldn't casually toss anyone else, after all, not everyone deserves to be tossed around by her.

"You actually have some skill!"

When Zhang Xuezhou fell over Zheng Wukong's residence, the Holy Mother Wudang saw that the young man's arms did not turn into wings; instead, he stumbled and fell, creating waves.