Chapter 52 Purifying Spiritual Energy (Please read on, please vote!)

The Xuan Gu Mountain area is located in the northern part of Fengzhou, close to the Endless Ice Plains. The rocks and soil are black, and the land is mostly barren and devoid of vegetation.

These caves are mostly unique landforms sculpted by the constant howling of the north wind. They are open from front to back, so how could these monsters and strange insects escape?

After discovering this suspicious point, Wang Yu traced the source and finally found that these creatures all came from underground, at the bottom of Xuan Gu Mountain!

This discovery immediately brought to mind Gu Zhengshun's unusual behavior.

He wasn't in a hurry to say anything. He could tell that Liu Jinxian's side had more people, so they would definitely know, and might have already sent people to explore the bottom of those caves.

His most important task now is to experience the effects of the Mystic Essence Flower and see if it is as good as Gu Zhengshun said.

After picking the flowers, Wang Yu had nine second-tier Xuanjing flowers and nearly three hundred first-tier Xuanjing flowers, which he carefully stored in a jade box and a jade bottle for storing pills. This quantity was more than enough for him to use alone.

The Xuanjing Flower is snow-white, resembling a blooming peach blossom. Each petal has intricate bone-like patterns that are very similar to the markings on the body of the Corrupt Poison Bee.

He took out a first-tier Xuanjing Flower, swallowed it, and circulated his internal energy.

This gentle, external force is seeping into the spiritual energy cluster in Wang Yu's dantian. As the cultivation technique is activated, it follows the spiritual energy, circulating through the major meridians and returning.

The number of spiritual energies manipulated was slightly less, but the quality was significantly improved.

At this rate, three hundred first-tier Xuanjing flowers can help him complete his second spirit refinement, break through the bottleneck from the mid-to-late stage of Qi Refining, and condense spiritual power from "Dao" into "strength"!

A surge of spiritual energy, which was once a hundred strands, though the measure words differ.

However, he has only reached the fifth level of Qi Refining. Although he can start refining his spirit ahead of time, there is no rush.

only---

"Three hundred first-tier Xuanjing flowers are needed to help someone break through the bottleneck of the late stage of Qi Refining. Isn't that too much?"

According to Gu Zhengshun, ten flowers could help a Qi Refining cultivator complete the transformation from "Dao" to "Gu", but he felt that three hundred flowers were needed.

If the other party is not lying, that is the only difference between the two.

"Spiritual Root!"

Thinking of this, Wang Yu's expression darkened. He swallowed another Xuanjing Flower and this time, in addition to circulating his energy, he released a large amount of divine sense to sense the subtle changes in himself.

A moment later.

He ended his practice in a bad mood and sighed inwardly.

"It really is because of the spiritual root."

When the Xuanjing Flower takes effect, a large portion of it leaks out, dissipating into some of the finer meridians within the body and being expelled from the body.

His Five Elements Waste Spiritual Roots are too short, limiting the medicinal effects he can convert, and this is not only true for his absorption of the Mysterious Essence Flower.

The same applies to elixirs, but because he only consumed top-grade elixirs, he never noticed the problem with his spiritual root.

In fact, he should have noticed the problem when he bought the first high-grade Cold Blood Pill, but he was too busy with other things at the time and had little time to digest the medicinal effects, so his cultivation did not improve well. He thought it was because he was not diligent enough.

"The price of top-grade elixirs far exceeds that of other grades, and there's a reason for that. Even someone with my aptitude can fully absorb their medicinal properties, making them truly exceptional!"

Therefore, Gu Zhengshun only needs ten flowers to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining, and only ten second-tier Xuanjing flowers are needed to complete the semi-true essence transformation of spiritual power.

But he wants three hundred!

This means that the high-grade Foundation Establishment Pills that others desperately want are basically useless to him; only the supreme-grade Foundation Establishment Pills can increase his success rate in Foundation Establishment.

No wonder I've never heard of anyone with a useless spiritual root attempting to build a foundation.

He should have struggled even to break through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining, but he reached the fifth level of Qi Refining within a few years, entirely thanks to the help of the placement of the railing.

Defying fate and changing one's destiny is incredibly difficult!

Judging from the situation of the Reverse Blood Sect alone, they have never even heard of a top-grade Foundation Establishment Pill. This is not to say that it is enough to refine a low-grade Reverse Blood Pill into a top-grade one.

Foundation Building Pill, Golden Core Pill, Infant Condensation Pill... these pills that help break through to higher realms have different formulas depending on the lineage of each family.

The lower grade is called the Blood Reversal Pill, the middle grade is called the Blood Spirit Pill, and the upper grade is called the Mortal Transformation Pill. These are all Foundation Establishment Pills, but their refining methods and formulas are completely unrelated.

The Reverse Spirit Blood Sect doesn't even have a recipe for a top-grade Foundation Establishment Pill.

Therefore, he either needs to prepare three hundred high-grade Foundation Establishment Pills to eat like candy to win by sheer quantity, or he needs to obtain a demonic secret technique that can reverse aptitude and fundamentally change everything.

The formula for the ultimate Foundation Establishment Pill is unavailable to any other family.

"Perhaps the only reliable method is the one that seizes spiritual roots."

As for whether the placement bar could help him overcome this difficulty, he didn't really know, since he hadn't tried it.

Theoretically speaking, it is possible.

It's unknown how long it will take, since the placement panel is like another version of him, spending every hour cultivating something, essentially identical to him.

However, because of the placement bar's effect, every attempt yields some results, and according to this rule, he could force his way up.

With a heavy burden on his heart, Wang Yu stood quietly in front of the stone house, sorting out his thoughts while waiting for news from Liu Jinxian.

No matter what, he would overcome all difficulties and obstacles, and then... return to Shihu City!

Thus, after most of the day.

A disciple from Gu Poison Peak flew over and tapped the outer layer of the formation.

"Senior Brother Wang, Senior Sister Liu requests an audience."

"They're here."

There was no time to lament these difficulties; all he could do was forge ahead. There were unknown opportunities at the bottom of Xuan Gu Mountain, and he was determined to explore them.

Another incense stick later.

About ten miles from Xuan Gu Mountain, in front of an unnamed cave.

Liu Jinxian was waiting with eighteen late-stage Qi Refining cultivators when she saw Wang Yu arrive and greeted him directly.

"Walk."

Gu Zhengshun's formation was unbreakable, and Situ Hong was unwilling to intervene, but when she shifted her attention from Xuan Gu Mountain to the underground secrets...

It was then discovered that the swarm of bees and the bone lion came from underground!

There may be some connection between the two.

Su Qingshan smiled amicably at Wang Yu in the crowd, and Wang Yu gave him a strange smile in return. The two of them knew Xu Jiaojiao's situation perfectly well.

As for how to deal with it, he preferred to kill the monstrous creature.

If Zhao Shang is a venomous snake still lurking, then Su Qingshan is a cuckoo that has usurped the nest, both petty and vicious, and is surely plotting against him.

At that moment, Su Qingshan was overjoyed to see Wang Yu.

Five months ago, after he learned that the other party had taken over two layers of Xuan Gu Mountain, he did some calculations. Since the flowers had only been picked recently, they certainly hadn't had time to refine them yet.

Hundreds of Xuanjing Flowers, and a large number of second-tier ones, were enough to make him take a risk.

Considering that Xu Jiaojiao died at the hands of Wang Yu, bringing a few more helpers for safety and splitting the profits would make it a good business opportunity, and there would definitely be many opportunities on this trip.

Little did they know that Wang Yu was thinking the same thing. He saw that the disciples of Gu Du Peak had bulging pockets and were devouring resources from the two mountains, so they might be able to collect more second-tier Xuanjing flowers.

soon.

Deep inside the nameless cave, a pit about ten feet wide and bottomless came into view, and a disciple stepped forward and said.

"Senior Sister Liu, those demonic beasts came out from here."

(End of this chapter)