by Feng Yise
Su Yishan who was being dragged felt unbearable shame and humiliation. But facing a Tier 3 demonic beast, what could he do?
He did not wish to end up like the Chang Brothers, being torn to shreds by those damnable apes!
Yuan Fei landed far away after a few flashes; roughly a thousand feet away from Ye Yuan.
Even with such a distance, they could still feel that surging essence energy storm.
The expansion of the essence energy storm showed no signs of stopping. Instead, it grew even larger.
Ye Yuan was situated in the eye of the essence energy storm, oblivious to all that was happening in the outside world. Currently, all of his thoughts were placed on refining essence energy.
Unlike the wild essence energy in the outside world, the essence energy inside Ye Yuan's body was impossibly tame.
If the essence energy in the outside world was a violent wild beast, then the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art was a powerful beast tamer. Essence energy which went through its domestication became very obedient.
Ye Yuan was currently revolving the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art, Mortal Chapter's second phase's cultivation method. He also did not expect that breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm would actually require such an enormous amount of essence energy.
No wonder Spirit Bristle Divine King that fellow was so powerful. This was only breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, and the necessary essence energy was already so titanic. If one entered the Divine King Realm, just how terrifying would the quantity of essence energy required be?
Ye Yuan was just like a diligent little bee, refining the essence energy non-stop using the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art, then sending it into his dantian.
The essence energy within the dantian acc.u.mulated more and more, gradually inflating Ye Yuan's dantian to the limit!
And right now, the critical juncture of breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm had arrived, and that was to gather the qi and liquefy it!
However, Ye Yuan did not bother about the essence energy inside the dantian but continued to refine essence energy ceaselessly, steadily pouring it into the dantian.
Ye Yuan's dantian was inflated even much more bigger with the risk of exploding at any time! If he did not take measures right away, it could really be like how Su Yishan d.e.s.i.r.ed; stuffing the dantian so full it explodes!
"No way right? Is Ye Yuan still refining essence energy? His dantian is probably about to explode from fullness, right? Turns out he didn't even know how to impact the Spirit Condensation Realm! To actually wager with me by making such a shameless claim! Hahaha!" Su Yishan was full of delight from his misfortune.
Nanfeng Zhirou glared viciously at him and said angrily, "Shut your mouth for me! If Ye Yuan dies, the Ape King will kill you too! Therefore, you'd better pray for him to survive. At least that way, you theoretically still have the possibility of staying alive!"
Su Yishan was full of disdain as he said, "Even if he breaks through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, it's merely First Level Spirit Condensation Realm! I'm a small stage higher than him! You're so sure that he can defeat me?"
Nanfeng Zhirou sneered coldly and said, "Wasn't Lin Tiancheng also a small stage higher than Ye Yuan back then? And what was his end result? Do you think that Ye Yuan is a fool? To suggest such a duel under the circ.u.mstance where he had no confidence? I dare to bet that as long as he enters the Spirit Condensation Realm, killing you will be as simple as slaughtering a dog!"
"Humph! Then he has to break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm first! You look at him. Right now, what's the difference from suicide?" Su Yishan remained stubborn.
Nanfeng Zhirou did not make any sound this time. Ye Yuan's actions were truly no different from committing suicide!
What Ye Yuan needed to do at this time was to gather the qi and liquefy it, not to refine essence energy. No matter how large a martial artist's dantian was, it also could not contain so much essence energy!
Nanfeng Zhirou looked at Ye Yuan in the distance; her eyes full of concern.
Rather, it was Yuan Fei who stared at Ye Yuan glowing eyes, uncertain whether it was worry or reassurance on that ape face.
Ye Yuan naturally did not know what they were thinking. Just as his dantian was about to blow up, a warm qi flow poured into the dantian, enveloping the violent essence energy.
This flow of qi was precisely the medicinal strength transformed from the Spirit Surge Pill!
This flow of medicinal strength was just like a tight pocket; wrapping up all the inflated essence energy tightly inside. No matter how they swelled up, it was to no avail.
With the assistance of the Spirit Surge Pill's medicinal strength, Ye Yuan's dantian swiftly recovered to its original size, while that newly refined essence energy was compressed by the medicinal strength!
Finally, the essence energy within Ye Yuan's body reached saturation. He was unable to continue refining essence energy, so he started to condense the gathered qi into liquid according to the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art's method!
As soon as the cultivation method was revolved, the essence energy within the dantian started to form a cyclone!
While at the same time, the medicinal strength of the Spirit Surge Pill and the essence energy which were refined had fused together, causing the essence energy inside Ye Yuan's dantian to become even more massive!
The Spirit Surge Pill already contained massive amounts of essence energy to assist martial artists to breakthrough to the Spirit Condensation Realm under the effects of other medicinal herbs.
The pill formula of the Spirit Surge Pill was not much to Ye Yuan, but it could absolute give rise to a storm of blood in the State of Qin.
This was the best supplementary medicinal pill which Ye Yuan knew to attack the Spirit Condensation Realm.
Under the guidance of the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art, the cyclone inside Ye Yuan's dantian became increasingly smaller, and ever more condensed.
The originally formless essence energy actually transformed into a hazy mist inside his dantian!
However, the mist was unstable at the moment and had yet to truly form the liquid state of essence energy.
This was also the most crucial moment of gathering qi to liquefy it!
These mist seemed to be only a step away from liquefied essence energy, but this was also the most unstable period. Once a rebound occurred, the essence energy would swiftly return to its original state.
If it was minor, the martial artist's cultivation realm would fall. But if it was severe, the dantian would suffer damage, affecting future cultivation!
The incredible aspect of the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art was that it was matchlessly tyrannical! With such an overbearing cultivation law, how could it possibly give these mist the opportunity to rebound?
Under the overwhelming oppression of the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art, these mist finally continued to condense together!
Drip!
A liquid state of essence energy dripped down. The first Spirit Liquid had completely taken shape!
However, this was merely the beginning!
Drip . . . Drip . . .
Drops of Spirit Liquid fell down. At the end, nine drops of Spirit Liquid completely took form!
"Nine drops of spirit liquid huh? Didn't expect that the breakthrough this time would actually be so perfect, way stronger compared to my previous life!" Ye Yuan gasped in admiration.
However, the breakthrough to the Spirit Condensation Realm was not over yet!
Chapter 149 - Divine Soul Transformation!
"How is it? Dumbfounded, right?"
Nanfeng Zhirou glanced at the slack-jawed Su Yishan and appeared to be very pleased with herself as if she was the one who broke through.
Su Yishan was truly befuddled.
The essence energy which Ye Yuan absorbed was multiple times of others!
With such a colossal amount of essence energy, s
hould it not burst the dantian?
Could it be that Ye Yuan was a natural-born freak with a dantian several times larger than the average person?
What kind of joke was this?!
This was not a genius but a freak! Looking at Ye Yuan's appearance, it totally did not look like his dantian was multiple times bigger than others!
However, how on earth did he do it?
"Hey, do you want to guess how many drops of spirit liquid Ye Yuan's formed? I guess that it's definitely seven drops, maybe even eight drops!"
Su Yishan jumped like a cat that had its tail stepped on when he heard that. "Eight drops?! How's that possible? Forget about our State of Qin, even in the entire Tranquil Cloud Sect's domain, the current highest record is just six drops! No matter how monstrous Ye Yuan is, seven drops is the pinnacle already. How can it possibly be eight drops?"
"Why can't it be possible? You said that it was impossible for him to break through directly to the Spirit Condensation Realm, but now, didn't he break through? Furthermore, you also saw that essence energy storm just now. It was multiple times the size of when we broke through! Such a terrifying essence energy storm, condensing eight drops shouldn't be strange either, right?"
"Perhaps . . . Perhaps a lot of the essence energy was wasted by him? That must be it!"
"Idiot! You still refuse to accept reality even now!" Nanfeng Zhirou could not be bothered with him anymore.
Nine represented the pinnacle of numbers. As a First Level Spirit Condensation Realm martial artist, the most was condensing nine drops of spirit liquid!
During the process of martial artists cultivating essence energy, it was also the process of using essence energy to strengthen the entire body.
It was just that the strengthening effects for the divine soul were too poor and very hard to detect.
But every breakthrough in a major realm would cause a qualitative leap in terms of body strengthening. The divine soul would also follow and experience a qualitative change, resulting in a one-time transformation!
However, even after martial artists break through to the Spirit Condensation Realm and their dantian received an immense boost, it could at most endure a total of nine drops of spirit liquid.
Any more would only result in the dantian to burst.
Each one of these nine drops of spirit liquid contained a colossal amount of essence energy. Every drop was virtually the total sum of essence energy held in reserve by Essence Qi Realms. One could imagine just how formidable nine drops of spirit liquid was.
However, for a martial artist to achieve nine drops of spirit liquid when breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm, it could only be described using these words: as difficult as ascending to Heaven!
The vast majority of Spirit Condensation Realm martial artists condensed between one to three drops. Some genius martial artists could condense four drops and above.
Such as Nanfeng Zhirou and Su Yishan, they both condensed four drops of spirit liquid!
But above four drops, there would be a huge spike in difficulty!
Because the more spirit liquid that was condensed, the more essence energy would be required. And a martial artist's dantian simply could not support such horrifying essence energy.
The reason why Long Tang could suppress all with his Third Level Spirit Condensation Realm cultivation was that he condensed five spirit liquid drops!
Each realm breakthrough in the Spirit Condensation Realm, due to limitations of the dantian, could only once again condense the same amount formed at the First Level Spirit Condensation Realm.
That was to say, when Long Tang was at the Third Level Spirit Condensation Realm, he already had 15 spirit liquid drops, while other Fourth Level Spirit Condensation Realm students merely possessed 16 spirit liquid drops.
To perception geniuses such as Long Tang, such a minute difference was simply unworthy of being mentioned. Hence, he could firmly occupy the place of number one on the Martial Roll!
In other words, the number of spirit liquid drops condensed when breaking through to the Spirit Condensation Realm represented the kind of heights a martial artist could reach in the future!
Just think about it. When a nine spirit liquid drops martial artist is at the Ninth Level Spirit Condensation Realm, it would be nine by nine, 81 spirit liquid drops! While a one spirit liquid drop martial artist would only have nine spirit liquid drops.
It was simply impossible to compensate for this sort of difference with other aspects!
Of course, the vast majority of martial artists were at three drops and below. Hence, the difference between them would not be overly distinct.
It was just that if three drops and below martial artists did not have any heaven-defying lucky chances, they would stop at the Spirit Condensation Realm in this lifetime. Desiring to breakthrough to the Crystal Formation Realm would be impossibly difficult.
To want to break through to the Crystal Formation Realm, one must possess at least four spirit liquid drops and above. Even so, not everybody could break through to the Crystal Formation Realm.
The more spirit liquid, the greater the chances of advancing to the Crystal Formation Realm.
However, there were merely a meager two martial artists who condensed six spirit liquid drops when they were at the First Level Spirit Condensation Realm in the entire Tranquil Cloud Sect domain!
One of them was the current Tranquil Cloud Sect's Sect Leader, Yan Traceless!
The difficulty of condensing six spirit liquid drops was evident from this.
As for seven drops and above, those were all myths . . .
At least within the Tranquil Cloud Sect's domain, condensing seven spirit liquid drops was completely unheard of!
This was also the reason why Su Yishan was so astonished.
Even if he did not believe Ye Yuan could condense eight spirit liquid drops, he could not refute the fact that Ye Yuan condensed seven spirit liquid drops! That was because the quantity of essence energy which Ye Yuan absorbed just now exceeded the amount he absorbed back then by quite too much!
It far surpassed the volume of essence energy required for six spirit liquid drops.
Which was to say, Ye Yuan had already surpassed everyone in the Tranquil Cloud Sect domain!
This fact made Su Yishan infinitely depressed, endlessly jealous, and also utterly terrified.
Sure enough, the degree of Ye Yuan's monstrousness already far exceeded his understanding.
Seven spirit liquid drops! That meant that no matter how casually Ye Yuan cultivated in the future, he could cultivate to the Crystal Formation Realm!
Furthermore, Ye Yuan was already so terrifying while at the Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm. Now that he condensed seven spirit liquid drops in one go, what extent would his strength soar to?
If he knew that Ye Yuan did not condense seven spirit liquid drops, but instead, the nine drops which he dared not even think about, who knew what he would think.
In reality, not only Su Yishan dare not imagine it, but even Nanfeng Zhirou also did not dare to imagine that.
She said eight spirit liquid drops just to ridicule Su Yishan. Honestly speaking, even she did not really believe that Ye Yuan could condense eight spirit liquid drops.
Because . . . that would be too inhuman!
"Nine drops of spirit liquid huh? Didn't expect that the breakthrough this time would actually be so perfect, way stronger compared to my previous life!" Ye Yuan also felt rather emotional.
In his previous life, Ye Yuan only condensed seven spirit liquid drops. Among the pinnacle powers in the Divine Realm, seven spirit liquid drops were not considered very impressive.
The true-blue geniuses all condensed nine spirit liquid drops!
In the Lower Realms, nine spirit liquid drops were something which only existed in the legends. But in the Divine Realm, there were a few people who could achieve it.
Of course, that was also because Ye Yuan did not hold any interest in the Martial Path.
Otherwise, with his degree of monstrousness, nine spirit liquid drops was not at all that amazing.
But this time around, under the double effects of the Spirit Surge Pill and the Spirit Bristle Nine Yang Divine Art, he finally achieved the perfect nine spirit liquid drops.
Right then, Ye Yuan suddenly felt his divine soul quiver and a head-splitting pain transmitted over.
"Siiii . . . So painful! Is it starting?"
Condensing spirit liquid was only fulfilling half of the breakthrough to Spirit Condensation Realm. There was still another half, which was the baptism of the divine soul!
This was the true sense of the first qualitative change of the martial artist's divine soul. It was of vital importance!
Chapter 150 - Sudden Change in Situation!
Crack . . . Crack . . .
The initially vast clear skies of the Endless Forest had an abrupt change and was covered up by layer upon layers of dark clouds.
Countless streaks of lightning flashed across the sky, while the sound of rolling thunder came from the far away to near.
"What happened? What's going on?"
Su Yishan's complexion turned ashen. He had never seen such abnormal weather and could instinctively sense that things were not quite right.
The feeling that this sudden change in the situation did not seem to have formed naturally. Rather, it seemed like a phenomenon brought about when some powerhouse broke through cultivation realms.
Yuan Fei's eyes shone like he seemed to know what was happening. Hence, he lightly patted Nanfeng Zhirou's shoulder, and his other hand picking up Su Yishan like a baby chick as he shot away even further in the distance.
This time around, Yuan Fei moved away even further away from Ye Yuan. A distance of several miles!
Smack!
Yuan Fei casually threw Su Yishan down, but his gaze was fixed firmly at the place Ye Yuan was breaking through.
Nanfeng Zhirou also caught up right then as she stared at Yuan Fei in total bewilderment. She really wanted to ask Yuan Fei just what in the world happened, but they were unable to communicate so Yuan Fei would not understand even if she asked.