Upon hearing the system's complaint, Gu Yifeng felt a sharp pain in his heart and instinctively tossed a Spirit Gathering Pill into his mouth, chewed it, and swallowed it.
It wasn't until the effects of the Spirit Gathering Pill took hold that he remembered he was still cultivating the Devouring Heaven Record. His spiritual energy was already insufficient, and it was being compressed. If he wasn't careful, he would suffer a qi deviation.
At this moment, one can only focus one's mind, drawing spiritual energy from the dantian to maintain the activation of the first acupoint, while simultaneously absorbing spiritual energy from the outside world, compressing it, and then channeling it into the dantian.
About an hour later, the effects of the Spirit Gathering Pill wore off, and Gu Yifeng finally felt relieved and began to activate the second acupoint by channeling his spiritual energy.
With the activation of the second acupoint, he could clearly feel the sensation that had been emanating from his body before. It was clearly the hunger of a ferocious beast smelling flesh and blood, as well as the weakness brought about by extreme hunger.
With a thought, the cultivation outline from the Devouring Heaven Record flashed through Gu Yifeng's mind:
"The bodies of all living beings possess treasures. There are three ways to unlock them: bloodline inheritance, cultivation methods, and refining techniques. The Devouring Heaven Record contains two or three of these. By using cultivation methods to unlock the refining techniques, one can summon the treasures within the physical body, which are called—the Gluttonous Beast."
Simply put, the Devouring Heaven Record is a technique used to develop the physical body. Once successfully cultivated, the person will become like the ancient ferocious beast Taotie, capable of devouring all things in heaven and earth.
This demonstrates the domineering nature of the Devouring Heaven Record.
Therefore, this is why Gu Yifeng felt uneasy, because what he activated was the ferocious beast hidden in his body, Taotie. Although it can devour everything, once there is nothing left to devour, it will devour the body along with it.
However, now that he had begun his cultivation, there was no turning back; he could only grit his teeth and persevere.
After a night, Gu Yifeng had only activated two major acupoints. He could not continue to activate the others due to insufficient spiritual energy.
Even so, he was still considered to have succeeded in his cultivation. His cultivation speed increased threefold, and his physical body was constantly absorbing spiritual energy from the outside world. If activated during battle, he could hide the power of devouring within himself and freely devour the opponent's power when facing an enemy.
The biggest advantage of the Devouring Heaven Record is that there will be no backlash when devouring. The only risk is that if you devour too much, you will not be able to digest it. Under normal circumstances, you can use the power after devouring it at will.
Having reached a certain bottleneck in his cultivation, continuing his seclusion was no longer useful. After completing his sign-in for the day, Gu Yifeng began to ponder.
Today's system reward is Jade Dew, which can temper the physical body. After consumption, it can slowly nourish the body and absorb external spiritual energy to nourish the limbs and bones, which is extremely magical.
"System, system! Give me some advice! Although the sign-in rewards are tempting, they're just too boring. I want to improve my combat experience, but there's nowhere to do it."
Gu Yifeng cried out in frustration.
"Idiot host, where do you think you are?"
The system unusually responded with a few more words in a cold voice, then cursed again before falling silent again. However, Gu Yifeng's eyes lit up, he slapped his forehead, and then called over the jailer.
"Do any of you know where there's a spacious area in the imperial prison?"
Gu Yifeng came up with his idea and then asked the jailers.
"Your Highness, of course there are, but they are not on the three floors that are visible to the world, but on the fourth floor. Starting from the fourth floor, there are a total of six floors, all built within small spaces."
"However, these individual small spaces are all sealed, and those imprisoned inside are the most vicious and wicked people since the founding of our Great Gan Dynasty. The key to open the space needs to be bestowed by His Majesty."
The jailers immediately told Gu Yifeng everything they knew. He didn't say much, just waved his hand and told them to return to their places.
Speaking of the key, Gu Yifeng's mind stirred, and some memories of his past life flashed through his mind. He took out a jade pendant from his chest. This was the jade pendant given to him by the old emperor when he conferred the title of Crown Prince. The old emperor once said that this jade pendant was the key to unlocking the future of Daqian.
Thinking of this, he immediately wrote a letter and asked the jailer to send it to the Taihe Hall. The gist of it was that he wanted to go to the sixth level of the Heavenly Prison to temper himself. Then he walked out of the cell, went down the stairs, and came to the deepest part of the third level of the Heavenly Prison.
Before Gu Yifeng stood an enormous bronze stone gate, sealed by chains. In the center was a recess just large enough to hold the jade pendant.
Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately took off the jade pendant from his chest and placed it in the recessed area. The bronze stone door immediately trembled violently, and beams of seven-colored light enveloped it. Then, the jade pendant slowly floated up and was put back on him.
Before Gu Yifeng could react, the light completely enveloped him, and a teleportation force was transmitted. The next moment, he arrived in another space, where a surging and boiling lava lake was right beneath his feet.
However, the jade pendant on his chest kept flashing, giving him the power to stay airborne for a short time.
"Interesting. Fortunately, I'm at the Opening Realm, so my ability to ride the wind should be sufficient."
Gu Yifeng muttered to himself, then snapped his fingers, and a vortex of wind condensed beneath his feet. His figure instantly transformed into a streak of light and flew out.
After flying for about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, he arrived at a red stone island. On the island stood a volcano, and in an open space, a human figure knelt with its hands outstretched, locked tightly by chains from somewhere and unable to move.
"Little brat, how dare you come before me! Aren't you afraid of being turned to ashes by the lava?"
Before Gu Yifeng could get close, an aged voice came from the figure. Only when he got closer could he see that it was an old man with a bare upper body, a withered body, and white hair. He looked like a demon from hell.
"He's only at the late stage of the Opening Mansion Realm, and this is already a monstrous old monster causing so much trouble?"
Gu Yifeng became interested upon hearing this and immediately sensed the old man's cultivation level. Compared to the oppressive aura emanating from the old emperor, it was much less, and his cultivation level was naturally around the late stage of the Opening Mansion Realm.
"court death!"
Upon hearing this, the old man instantly flew into a rage. His right hand, which had been bound by chains, made a grabbing motion, and a stream of flame rose from the lava lake below, crashing towards Gu Yifeng.
The terrifyingly high temperature melted and evaporated everything around it in the blink of an eye, even spiritual energy. This is the terrifying aspect of the fourth level of the Heavenly Prison.
"The Record of Devouring Heaven, Begin!"
Gu Yifeng had anticipated the old man's sudden attack. His spiritual energy was already prepared, and he instantly activated two major acupoints to devour the power within the flowing flames.
In about three breaths, the ball of flames turned into ordinary stones, and before it even got close to Gu Yifeng, it was blasted into ashes by a spiritual pressure.
"return!"
With a low shout, Gu Yifeng struck out with another palm, unleashing the power he had previously absorbed, which was also accompanied by high temperature.
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