Free Web NovelChapter 547: Chapter 42: Waiting with Bated Breath
The chaos of the outside world was unbeknownst to Li Ji’an.
He only knew that the first step of solidifying his core, spirit absorption, was unexpectedly challenging.
In his past life, during his first core formation, he carefully adapted to the Spiritual Qi within the cave mansion for half a year before beginning to devour and absorb, but on the first day, he could only absorb the Spiritual Qi from a one-li radius before running out of strength.
Three days later, he completely reached his limit, which was only half of Xiao Changfeng’s and equivalent to a tenth of the current third Dao Field he was in.
Besides the lack of purity and slightly low concentration of Spiritual Qi from the Tier Three Middle Grade Dao Field of the Biyun Sect at the time, the main issue lay in the inferior cultivation technique he practiced in his past life. The magical power was not thick enough, and without the tempering and refinement from magical combat, the magical power was not pure, offering limited nourishment to the dantian, which in turn affected the dantian’s ability to absorb Spiritual Qi.
Additionally, his mid-range inferior Spirit Root in his past life affected his affinity for Spiritual Qi.
In this life, his Upper Grade superior Spirit Root, with just double the affinity compared to his past life, and the cultivation technique he practiced had reached the Earth Level Upper Grade, although these hardware were still inferior compared to the prodigies of the Ten Thousand Merchants Domain.
However, the day-and-night absorption of Wood Magic Power by the Little Fire Spirit, which then nourished the dantian, not only had a strong purification effect on the magical power but also greatly enhanced the dantian.
The first gateway in spirit absorption, essentially boils down to the dantian, grounded on meeting the standard for Spiritual Qi affinity.
Li Ji’an’s magical power density was clearly less compared to the prodigies of this era, and its purity could barely keep up. Coupled with his personal experience from devouring and absorbing in his past life, he previously estimated that attaining three times the spirit absorption capability of Xiao Changfeng in the first gateway would be enough.
But he hadn’t expected the benefits of dantian nourishment by the Little Fire Spirit to become apparent now.
Another point, the previous Core Formation cultivator in this Dao Field perished a year ago, allowing the Spiritual Qi to stabilize for a year, which offered some advantage.
Of course, this checkpoint also emphasized the dantian’s capacity to absorb and the physical body’s endurance.
For a prodigy here, the ultimate limit of devouring and absorbing Spiritual Qi also hinged on the dantian and the body’s endurance.
Tu Yifei, with such a Celestial Grade Spirit Root, practicing the true Ancient Immortal Scripture and constantly tempered by magical combat, had enough dantian capacity, and his magical power in nourishing the physical body had reached approximately the level of a Tier One Body Cultivator, about one and a half Dao Fields of Spiritual Qi would be his limit.
Under ordinary circumstances, with the separation of the strengths of three Dao Fields, he would have no problem absorbing the Spiritual Qi of one and a half Dao Fields this time.
But at this moment, he was embroiled in a contest with Li Ji’an over the Dao Field’s Spiritual Qi.
More pitifully, when it came to the dantian’s absorption capacity for Spiritual Qi, his dantian was clearly inferior to Li Ji’an’s.
"Keep pushing!" Li Ji’an remained mentally clear, continuing to stimulate the absorbing power of his dantian, and with the endurance of his physical body and dantian, he was clearly not at his limit yet.
However, the scene outside had already descended into chaos.
As the fifth day was about to pass and the sixth day was approaching, the Spiritual Qi of the entire Feihong Dao Field ceaselessly flowed towards Li Ji’an’s third cave mansion.
Spiritual Qi accumulation in Tu Yifei’s first Dao Field not only halted but showed signs of spilling out.
Though plenty of Spiritual Qi remained in Bai Cailin’s second Dao Field, and her own absorption into the cave mansion wasn’t affected for now, should all the Spiritual Qi from her Dao Field be absorbed by Li Ji’an, the prospects of a slow, additional ten percent stabilization in the latter half of the month would dissipate.
"Stop immediately!" Gu Tianfeng from Taian Commerce Association had completely lost his composure.
Seeing Steward Tong hesitating, he promptly ignored other considerations and leapt towards the third cave mansion.
As the president of Taian Commerce Association, a giant in the Business Domain, Gu Tianfeng, with Mid-stage Core Formation Cultivation, was by no means weak, coupled with his presidential position, Steward Tong couldn’t stop him.
"Hold on!" Yet, just as he arrived outside the third Dao Field, Master Yuxiao blocked his path.
"President Yuan, it’s come to this, and you still don’t understand?" Gu Tianfeng spoke sternly.
"What is it that I should understand?" Master Yuxiao slightly tilted her chin, calmly responding with a question.
"The young man from your Commerce Association clearly experienced an anomaly; don’t you understand his talent and level? Not stopping him in such circumstances, do you intend to let his Fake Pill qualifications affect the potential Golden Core qualification of my Taian Commerce Association?"
Master Yuxiao’s lips curled into a faint cold smile, "So, President Gu, you know that it’s someone from my Si Shui Commerce Association attempting Core Formation inside."
"Yuan Yuxiao, what do you mean?" Gu Tianfeng grew increasingly anxious.
"I mean no harm; I am merely adhering to the Business Alliance’s rules and the Dao Field’s regulations, protecting my Commerce Association’s Elder Huang in his Core Formation attempt," Master Yuxiao stated calmly, not yielding a step.
"You... Hmph, I’ll not argue with you any further." Gu Tianfeng snorted coldly, decisively ignoring her and attempting to forcibly act upon the restrictions of the third Dao Field.
"Stop him!" Master Yuxiao immediately ordered.
Though her cultivation was merely at the Fake Pill level, the Commerce Association had Mid-stage Core Formation tributors on standby.
The old tributor immediately acted to intercept Gu Tianfeng.
"Yuan Yuxiao, do you really want to oppose me?" Gu Tianfeng’s heart was racing with anxiety, even if he called upon his Commerce Association’s tributor, unable to quickly overcome the obstruction of a sociable True Man of the same stage, restrained mainly for being unable to use deadly force, given this was the Business Alliance Headquarters’ Feihong Dao Field.
"I harbor no intention to oppose anyone. At this moment, our Commerce Association’s elder is fully committed to forming his core, and although there is an anomaly, it’s evidently not to the point of being unsustainable or causing a collapse of Spiritual Qi, so there’s still hope. On the other hand, President Gu, to ensure your Commerce Association’s Immortal Seedling forms their core, you resort to preventing our elder’s core formation? What’s your reasoning?"
"Someone from your Commerce Association is already affecting Yifei’s core formation!"
"The Dao Field rules dictate that once entered, it’s down to one’s abilities; previously, your Commerce Association’s Immortal Seedling was clearly absorbing the remaining Dao Field Spiritual Qi, yet you did not stop it. Why, now, should you stop our elder?"
