jdhmnovel Chapter 1635
Chapter 1635
"Nine times is enough." Chen Xuan smiled. Activating the small tower's hundredfold time flow rate requires forty bottles of innate spiritual liquid each time, which is a trump card used only when enough has been accumulated and one is preparing to break through a major barrier.
For daily practice and refinement like this, a nine-fold time flow rate is sufficient.
The little tower snorted, and faint ripples of time immediately appeared in the area it enveloped. Chen Xuan stepped into it, sat down cross-legged, and began to close his eyes and regulate his breathing, adjusting himself to his peak condition.
When he slowly opened his eyes, two streams of immortal energy immediately appeared around him: one was entirely blue, shaped like a blooming blue lotus, flowing with the vitality of creation, and it emanated wherever it passed, even causing tender shoots to sprout from the ground outside the main hall.
The other, entirely crimson, resembled a burning red lotus, carrying karmic fire and the aura of destruction, scorching the air and causing it to distort slightly. The two streams of immortal energy swirled and chased each other around him, perfectly harmonious.
"rise!"
Chen Xuan activated the Ninefold Immortal Qi Cultivation Method, and a golden wheel of merit, 198 feet tall, immediately appeared above his head, its golden light cascading down like a waterfall, sacred and majestic. He guided the golden light into his body, attempting to refine and shape it into the embryonic form of the third strand of immortal qi.
"Congeal!"
The crimson lotus suddenly exploded, transforming into a fire dragon that shot straight at the golden wheel above its head. As the karmic fire surged, it even made the golden light of merit sizzle and emit wisps of blue smoke.
The celestial aura of the Azure Lotus was not to be outdone, transforming into a towering blue wave that swept upwards, dissipating the golden light of merit wherever it passed.
"It really works!" Chen Xuan looked at the scattered golden embryonic form, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes - although the golden light of merit was destroyed, it had already shown signs of being able to be refined.
"Take a look at your Golden Wheel of Merit before you speak," Little Pagoda said with a hint of sarcasm.
Chen Xuan scanned the area with his divine sense and couldn't help but curse under his breath: "Damn it! One refining and shaping process has consumed ten feet of my golden merit light?"
"So, the merit I painstakingly accumulated by annihilating the Gu God Sect, which had plagued this world for two hundred thousand years, and the golden light of manifested merit I finally made, isn't even enough for me to try cultivating twenty times?"
"So you were really lucky to be able to cultivate the Crimson Lotus Immortal Qi." The little tower snorted, then, remembering Chen Xuan's purchase of the immortal qi category record from the Void Heaven Pavilion, added...
"If you failed to master the Crimson Lotus Immortal Qi last time, the karmic fire in your soul would burn you continuously. If you wanted to cultivate again, you would have to slaughter billions of mortal beings to draw the karmic fire upon you once more. But if the karmic fire descends a second time, and you add the karmic fire left over from the first time, the two forces will collide, and you will probably immediately fall into an endless explosion of inner demons and die without a burial place."
Chen Xuan did not refute it; he knew that Xiao Ta was telling the truth.
The path of cultivation with completely opposing attributes is like dancing on a knife's edge; one wrong step and you're doomed.
Having learned from his first failure, Chen Xuan dared not squander his remaining golden merit light so easily. Before each attempt, he would first use his divine sense to simulate the attack trajectories of the two immortal energies, repeatedly deducing methods of defense, until he was somewhat confident before taking action.
"Freeze! Go!"
The second time, he tried to control the outline of the merit immortal energy to descend, trying his best to protect the embryonic form, but he only managed to hold on for a few breaths before the golden embryonic form was dispersed by the combined immortal energy of the green lotus and the red lotus.
Once, twice, three times...
After ten attempts, the golden wheel of merit above his head had shrunk to only ninety-eight feet.
Chen Xuan's forehead was covered in cold sweat, and his clothes were soaked through, but his eyes grew brighter and brighter - with each failure, he glimpsed more of the attack patterns of the two immortal energies, bringing him one step closer to success.
Time passed day by day, and three years had passed in the blink of an eye.
During the three years that Chen Xuan was in seclusion, the Zhengyi Sect remained calm and undisturbed.
During this time, Chen Yingying emerged from her cocoon as scheduled, with skin as white as snow and lively eyes. Although she had lost 90% of her memories, what she lost was mostly the pain of being used as a test vessel for Gu poison and that demonic senior sister. However, she had a kind of affinity for Gu Ying that originated from her soul.
The intense obsession and emotions that arose in despair in the previous life have finally found their home in this life.
With the resources left behind by Chen Xuan and a transformation in his mindset, Gu Ying's cultivation steadily improved. He had only one thought in his mind: to become stronger so that he could better protect his junior sister.
For the first three months after Chen Yingying was born, the two relied on each other for survival in a small fenced courtyard in the mountains.
He chopped wood and cooked for her, hunted for spirit fruits, and they lived a simple yet warm life. After making some preparations, Gu Ying took her down the mountain to fulfill the promise he had made to her years ago: "to take you to see the world."
Like childhood sweethearts in an ordinary world, they walked hand in hand through one ordinary city after another: munching on steaming roast chicken on the street, grabbing a string of sweet and sour candied hawthorns, and drooling over the snow-white sweet cakes in the pastry shop...
On a snowy day, they lit a campfire in a cave and huddled together for warmth.
In the wind and rain, he took off his outer robe to shield her from the wind and rain.
The two were destined to be intertwined, their hearts connected. On this day, after the rain, a magnificent rainbow streaked across the sky, its seven-colored rays spreading across the entire valley.
"Junior sister, I want to protect you for the rest of my life." Gu Ying wasn't good at sweet talk, but looking at the lively girl before him, he regained his usual seriousness and earnestness, his voice hoarse and trembling, "You... can you be my Daoist partner?"
"Hehe..." Chen Yingying had lost 90% of her memories, and had long forgotten the torment she had suffered. In this life, she was lively and cheerful, and also had a bit of a mischievous streak.
Upon hearing Gu Ying's heartfelt confession, she immediately pouted, huffed, and deliberately turned her head away, saying, "I don't want to."