Alchemy Emperor of the Divine Dao c1-1294

by Flying Alone 孤单地飞

  “Oh, save you on what basis?” Ao Yang Ming sneered, “A mere trash with cultivation in the Element Gathering Tier.”

  Liu Yu Tong said no more, as if holding Ao Yang Ming in contempt.

  Ao Yang Ming was furious and about to flip out, but heard Uncle Fu say, “Young Master, it’s dangerous here. Let’s talk after we leave!” Ao Yang Ming could only nod, and say, “Go!”

  The party left the large hall. They heard from afar the fierce sounds of the battle between the eight Spiritual Ocean Tier cultivators and the Silver-Armored Corpse, and a worried expression surfaced on their faces.

  ***

  Ling Han put away the Blood Sucking Origin Gold, his expression gloomy as he walked along. Hu Niu sensed the rage hidden underneath Ling Han’s calm expression, and bared her teeth as if about to bite someone.

  ‘I can’t not save my attendant! However, if I go as I am now, it’s equivalent to suicide!’ Ling Han thought as he walked. ‘The only way is for me to break through to Gushing Spring Tier and obtain the Black Tower’s one-time power-up blessing. With the power of the first layer of the Spiritual Ocean Tier, I’ll find a chance to activate 10,000 Techniques Return to One, killing that old dog with a strike!’

  10,000 Techniques Return to One cultivated to an extreme was essentially forging a thousand sword strikes into one, which allowed Ling Han to kill someone above his tier. However, this move required a terrifying amount of Origin Power; it was impossible for Ling Han to perform now, but with Spiritual Ocean Tier’s power, it was definitely possible.

  “No matter what, I must break through to Gushing Spring!”

  Ling Han set his resolution, found a covert place in the thick forest, and began the last power accumulation.

  Within his Dantian, the origin nucleus hadn’t reached the extreme, but he needed at most only three days. He now was charging through with full force, and it was very possible that within two days he would reach Element Gathering Tier’s true extreme.

  Two days, he only needed two days time!

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  Ling Han charged toward the bottleneck with full force. Hu Niu also seemed to have received a shock; surprisingly, she wasn’t raucous and started cultivating too.

  The two were both on the freakish level—Ling Han spent two days to reach the peak of the Element Gathering Tier, whereas Hu Niu reached the peak of the seventh layer of the Element Gathering Tier, not far from where Ling Han was.

  “Break!” Ling Han took out a few medicinal pills and threw them into his mouth all at once.

  He didn’t need to comprehend the next tier; as long as he had enough energy to support him, the door to Gushing Spring Tier would open.

  “Break!” Hu Niu’s tender and sweet voice followed, and she began to charge toward the eighth layer of the Element Gathering Tier in a similar manner.

  Within Ling Han’s body, an earthshaking change was happening.

  A small tier’s increase was only the difference of one more origin nucleus. Even if he reached the tenth layer of the Element Gathering Tier, fusing nine large origin nuclei into one super-large origin nucleus, that was still a change in origin nuclei.

  However, from Element Gathering Tier to Gushing Spring Tier, it was a qualitative change—a completely new change.

  Transforming origin nucleus into a spring of Origin Power, a gushing Origin Power.

  Crossing this step, a martial artist’s power would increase ten times!

  Power didn’t equal battle prowess, but it made up the core of the battle prowess. Without strong power support, how could one form battle prowess that overwhelmed all others?

  Ling Han had enough knowledge of the next tier, so breaking through to Gushing Spring Tier was supposed to be easy, but the truth was not so.

  …That was because he had only one origin nucleus.

  His experience was based on the breakthrough with nine origin nuclei in his previous life, but now it turned into one. That changed it completely, and all his experience became useless. However, knowledge of the next tier was still useful; it was just the method that needed adjustment.

  The method was essentially the same—turning the origin nucleus into a spring; but, what was different was that while breaking through with nine origin nuclei, one could use the other eight nuclei as supportive power. Now, he could only use one, and his power source became a problem.

  His personal strength couldn’t be used, so he could only shove medicinal pills down his throat.

  Ling Han waved his hands continuously while ingesting medicinal pills, and the medicinal power came into effect within his body, forming a massive power like a tsunami that could crush mountains.

  Waves of abstruse power rushed into Ling Han’s body. This was because his tier was sufficient, and so was his comprehension of the next tier. Heaven and earth resonated, continually softening his origin nucleus like the ripples of water.

  The power of heaven and earth already came into effect; next, it was all up to him.

  Turn into a spring!

  Ling Han initiated the Five Elements Mix Chaos Lotus to absorb the surrounding spiritual qi, and on top of the medicinal pill’s power, he continued to attack the origin nucleus, attempting to liquidize it into the spring’s eye, the source of power.

  This step was very hard, unlike in case of the normal Element Gathering Tier with eight other nuclei as supportive power which made it much easier. Now, he could only rely on medicinal pills and spirit base to absorb power; it was truly too little.

  It was his own decision to break through to the tenth nucleus that gave him immense strength, so he naturally had to pay a corresponding price.

  Shua, shua, shua, Ling Han kept shoving down pills, even taking in the Four Transformations Pill that could only be used at Gushing Spring Tier in order to provide the terrifying amount of energy needed to transform the super-origin nucleus into a spring.

  Normal people’s origin nuclei turned into a spring one by one, and the last nucleus transformed at ninth layer of the Gushing Spring Tier. At that time, there would be eight springs of Origin Power to provide power, and one truly only needed tier comprehension—power needs were nothing important.

  However, Ling Han’s one and only origin nucleus was larger than other people’s nine origin nuclei combined, and not just by a tiny bit, for his large origin nucleus was made up of nine origin nuclei, which in turn comprised five small nuclei, totaling forty-five!

  The energy needed was simply like that vast ocean.

  Eat! Eat! Eat!

  Ling Han swallowed Four Transformations Pills continuously. Crack , under the violent energy’s rush, his skin cracked and veins popped, seeping out large amounts of blood. Four Transformations Pills were used to increase cultivation at the Gushing Spring Tier, but taking it now was almost equivalent to suicide—even Dead Tree Body could not withstand their power.

  Lone Wolf’s Blood, activate! Indestructible Heaven Scroll, activate!

  His body was quickly recovering, but at the same time, the violent rush of medicinal effect constantly damaged it. This sort of pain was definitely not endurable for normal people, but Ling Han didn’t even frown a bit and just withstood it while gritting his teeth.

  How could the road to the peak of martial arts be a smooth one?

  If he couldn’t even withstand this bit of pain, then how could he speak of shattering void to become a god?

  Moreover, the harder it was to break through, the stronger would be the power gained after he suceeded.

  This time, the Black Tower didn’t help, and just quietly floated up and down within his Dantian, surging with mysterious brilliance.

  Ling Han, neither happy nor sad, just kept attacking.

  Dripping water could penetrate a rock—under his continuous efforts, the origin nucleus finally began to liquidize.

  With a pop, the origin nucleus dissolved entirely, turning into a tiny spring eye with torrents of Origin Power gushing
out.

  He succeeded!

  Ling Han, however, did not stop. The spring eye was just the start, and he needed to stabilize his cultivation; otherwise, this spring eye would soon dry up, turning into an origin nucleus again and dropping him back to Element Gathering Tier.

  At this point, there was no difference compared to normal Gushing Spring Tier… expanding the spring’s eye until the limit, it could transform into a vast ocean of Origin Power, thus known as Spiritual Ocean Tier.

  Other people needed to transform their origin nucleus one by one into a spring eye, and then connect nine spring eyes into one, expanding them into an ocean. However, Ling Han only had one origin nucleus and could only form one spring eye, so how would his tier be counted?

  Ling Han couldn’t help but think to himself that others were probably always going to think of him as first level Gushing Spring Tier, right?

  Whatever, he needed only strength.

  The spring eye opened up, continuing its expansion until Ling Han’s spirit power was fully used.

  Gushing Spring Tier!

  Weng , the Black Tower gently whirled as if sending some sort of signal. On the tower’s body, infinite threads lit up, forming a pattern of simple characters that he couldn’t read. Yet, it contained an indescribable marvel profoundly inscribed.

  Ling Han was excited; was the Black Tower finally opening up to him, revealing all its secrets?

  For him, there was nothing more that he thirsted for than to understand the Black Tower’s secrets, for this arrogant idler killed him in the previous life and kept him in an ineffable condition for ten millennia. It would be truly odd if he didn’t feel anxious.

  Xiu , Ling Han felt his spirit spasm slightly, finding himself inside an unfamiliar space.

  This place looked very much like a farmland. There were chunks of mud on the ground, but this place had no plants, appearing extremely infertile. The sky was very high, but there was no sun nor clouds to be seen. It was somewhat similar to a mystery realm’s sky.

  Where was this? How did he suddenly end up here?

  Ling Han was amazed. He lifted his hand to touch his face, which felt extremely real.

  In other words, it wasn’t just his spirit that came here!

  How was that possible!

  Ling Hang was somewhat muddled. Could he have instantly been teleported here by the Black Tower? The Black Tower had a teleportation function?

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  Weng , the Black Tower appeared, floating up and down in front of Ling Han.

  The Black Tower!

  Ling Han was deeply moved. Since seeing the Black Tower ten millennia ago, this was his second time using his physical body to view the Black Tower, realizing thoroughly that he lived twice as human.

  “Wrong, I am not the Black Tower you saw ten millennia ago, but the Black Tower’s spirit.” Small Tower 1 seemed to hear Ling Han’s thoughts and unexpectedly, it gently swayed, telepathically sending a thought right into Ling Han’s consciousness.

  What!?

  Ling Han was shocked as he asked, “You’re a spirit? Then where am I?”

  “Of course within the Black Tower,” Small Tower said.

  Ling Han was somewhat confused as he said, “The Black Tower is within my Dantian, yet I’m within the Black Tower, how is that possible?”

  “Take a look at your Dantian,” Small Tower said.

  Ling Han looked within his Dantian, yet found that the Dantian was already empty and devoid of the existence of the Black Tower.

  “You’ve entered inside the Black Tower, and the Black Tower naturally resides in the world you’re in,” Small Tower said indifferently. In actuality, its intonation had always been dull, without a trace of emotion.

  “Hu Niu!” Ling Han was startled. The massiveness of the Black Tower was something he had seen, and it also had mighty abilities; a ray of light it sent shattered him, who was a Heaven Tier in his former life, to death. Hu Niu, who was meditating by his side, couldn’t possibly have been crushed to death, right?

  Even if she wasn’t crushed to death, with the little girl’s savageness, she’d definitely pounce and bite back fiercely. The result of that would be inconceivable, too.

  “Don’t worry, after you entered the Black Tower, the Black Tower itself turned into a speck no different from dust, and no one shall realize the difference,” Small Tower still spoke in a dead man’s tone.

  Ling Han let out a sigh of relief, then patted his own head and said mockingly, “Why didn’t I feel it odd that a spirit suddenly came out to talk to me…? Wait, are you saying that I’m inside the Black Tower?” Ling Han suddenly came to a realization.

  “Yes,” Small Tower said calmly.

  Ling Han’s jaw instantly dropped, and he said, “How’s it possible! The Black Tower can turn into a speck of dust and has a spirit, which means it is a spirit tool. Then, the space it forms should be the same as that of the spatial ring, so how can it contain living beings?”

  “The space here is a separate world created by it—naturally, it can contain living beings. What’s so strange about it?” Small Tower said indifferently.

  Ling Han was shocked, and then revealed an expression of wild excitement.

  The Black Tower could contain living beings and turn into the size of a speck of dust; what did this mean? When he faced danger, he could enter the Black Tower, similar to how Rong Huan Xuan could hide in the bronze casket.

  The difference was that the internal space of the Black Tower was who knows how much larger, and it could become infinitely small; enemies wouldn’t know what happened, and might assume that he knew how to teleport.

  A godly item, this definitely was a godly item! He had never heard of a spatial vessel that could contain living beings and change its size. Moreover, he was already wearing a spatial ring on his hand!

  One had to know that spatial vessels couldn’t be stacked, meaning that a spatial vessel couldn’t be put into another spatial vessel. He was now inside the Black Tower, yet the spatial ring was still on his hand. This meant that the two things could be stacked.

  “Can I bring others inside?” Ling Han asked.

  “Yes!”

  “How?”

  Small Tower used its will to teach Ling Han how to bring in other things—which included living humans and other living beings. The key was that living beings couldn’t have any thought of resistance, or else he had to first knock the being out.

  Xiu , Ling Han’s body flashed and reappeared in the forest in the outside world. Hu Niu was at a loss, looking around, and when she saw Ling Han appear, she pounced at him and said, “How come Niu couldn’t find you earlier?”

  Ling Han laughed mischievously, and said, “I’ll take you somewhere, don’t resist.”

  “Oh.” Hu Niu nodded, not really understanding.

  Ling Han grabbed onto Hu Niu and followed the method Small Tower transferred with its will earlier—with a thought, xiu , he and Hu Niu already appeared inside the Black Tower.

  “Wow!” Hu Niu revealed an astounded expression and couldn’t help but open up both arms and run in this vast space. She giggled as she ran, seeming to be extremely lively.

  “Can you see what’s weird with this little girl?” Ling Han asked Small Tower.

  Small Tower trembled lightly, as if nodding, and said, “I received a heavy injury, and do not possess any of my past memories.”

  “What!?” Ling Han cried out. The Black Tower lightly trembled and annihilated him when he was once a Heaven Tier cultivator, but a godly tool such as this received a heavy injury, even losing all its past memories… then who exactly attacked it?

  “I have an indistinct feeling that my existence will attract the covetous eyes of many, so before you possess peerless strength, you mustn’t reveal my secret,” Small Tower said coldly.

  Ling Han nodded. Not to mention the Black Tower, the Indestructible Heaven Scroll alone weighed heavily; he wouldn’t r
eveal a shred of that secret even if beaten to death.

  “But, are you really called the Black Tower?” he asked.

  Small Tower trembled lightly, and said, “I already lost all my memories, even of my name.”

  Ling Han couldn’t help but be depressed. He thought that after he broke through to Gushing Spring Tier, he could understand the Black Tower’s secrets. He would’ve never thought that other than getting a “castle” that he could carry around, there didn’t seem to be any other changes.

  Of course, this castle was enough to even make Shattering Void Tier cultivators envious and risk everything to get it.

  “The Black Tower totals nine layers, and when you reach certain strength, you’ll be able to open the corresponding layer, with each layer having different functions,” Small Tower said.

  Ling Han immediately revealed a joyful look, and said, “What sort of functions?”

  “My memory is already lost, so only after you’ve opened a new layer of the tower will I receive the corresponding information,” Small Tower said unhurriedly. “Thus, I can only tell you now the first layer’s function.”

  It paused for a bit, then said, “The first layer is a medicinal garden; the spirit grass planted here will grow as if one year is equivalent to that of a thousand years.”

  Pu!

  Ling Han suddenly choked; one year equaled a thousand years? ‘If I wanted a thousand year old ginseng, then wouldn’t I only have to wait a year?’

  “I have blurry memories, but after opening a certain unknown layer, I can further accelerate it,” Small Tower supplemented.

  Ling Han almost jumped in joy.

  There were two problems that troubled alchemists.

  First, the standard of pill refinement; you couldn’t let a Earth Grade alchemist refine a Heaven Grade medicinal pill. Second, the ingredients; even a skillful housewife couldn’t cook a meal without rice, and so even a Heaven Grade alchemist couldn’t refine Yellow Grade medicinal pills out of thin air.

  And the higher the medicinal pill’s grade, the higher the requirements for spirit grass were too, frequently requiring hundred year or thousand year old ingredients; some highest grade spiritual plants even needed to be ten millennia old!