Free Web NovelChapter 276: Chapter 276: Harvest
Chu Qingyun naturally didn’t spare the Martial Soul Halls in the remaining four towns, sweeping through all of them. freёwebnovel.com
The situation in each was much the same as in Qu Liang Town.
With his Devouring Power, dealing with those monsters became much simpler.
When the Devouring Power erupted both inside and out, their bodies would become extremely unstable and immediately explode!
In one town, Chu Qingyun had a stroke of good luck and found a group of Tier Three Martial Souls they were protecting. He showed no mercy and eliminated them all.
If he let them live, the Martial Soul Hall might have gained a few more Martial Spirit Level experts in the future.
He had swept through all six of the mission’s towns.
On the way back, Chu Qingyun sat atop the Giant-winged Goose, happily taking stock of his haul from this trip.
From the Martial Soul Hall’s Martial Artists alone, he had obtained over 730 drops of Primordial Spirit Liquid!
The Primordial Spirit Liquid from a single town might not have been much, but the total from all six was more than double the reward the Celestial Wind Army Master had given him for the Four Races Martial Arts Competition!
In addition to that, there was an assortment of miscellaneous items.
They were all relatively low-level items that Chu Qingyun had no use for, but selling them would likely fetch a considerable sum of money.
Chu Qingyun made a rough estimate. On this trip, he had gained a total of... one thousand drops of Primordial Spirit Liquid!
And that wasn’t even counting the Primordial Power and Martial Soul Power.
Ever since acquiring his Devouring Martial Soul, he had done his best to devour his opponents’ Primordial Power in every battle.
After making his way through five of the towns, Chu Qingyun had devoured the Primordial Power of over two hundred Ninth-level Martial Artists, completely filling his Qi Sea with Primordial Power.
By this calculation, he had saved himself five to six hundred drops of Primordial Spirit Liquid!
As for Martial Soul Power, Chu Qingyun’s gains were also substantial.
With a thought, a giant Ten-Star Vine appeared behind him. It had ten dark green vines and stood a full three meters tall. Upon closer inspection, one could see a thin, iron-colored thread running through the center of each vine from end to end.
This was its advanced form: the Tier Four Martial Soul, the Iron Thread Ten-Star Vine!
After the Ten-Star Vine evolved into the Iron Thread Ten-Star Vine, although the number of vines hadn’t increased, their sturdiness had been greatly enhanced.
This, in turn, indirectly boosted the effect of his Tough Soul Techniques. It could be said that his Control Power had seen a massive improvement!
It was getting late. He was still about two hours away from the County City.
Sitting on the back of the Giant-winged Goose with nothing else to do, Chu Qingyun decided to start trying to condense the Primordial Power in his Qi Sea and break through to the Half-Step Martial Spirit realm.
He had heard countless techniques and methods for breaking through to the Half-Step Martial Spirit realm before.
Too many people got stuck at the Ninth-level Martial Artist rank, so all sorts of breakthrough techniques and methods were floating around. It was hard to tell which were real and which were fake; the vast majority were just baseless speculation with no real evidence.
However, there were a few that were widely acknowledged and believed to be correct.
To break past the Ninth-level Martial Artist rank, there was one important technique: one should not, right from the start, try to condense and compress all the Primordial Power in the entire Qi Sea, as they would have when breaking through previous levels in the Martial Master Realm.
Instead, one had to work section by section, condensing Primordial Liquid bit by bit until all the Primordial Power in the Qi Sea was completely converted into Primordial Liquid.
This was because the change from gaseous Primordial Power to liquid Primordial Liquid was a fundamental transformation.
Previously in his cultivation, after advancing a level, the more refined Primordial Power would still occupy about one-fifth or one-fourth of his Qi Sea.
But if all the Primordial Power in the Qi Sea was converted into Primordial Liquid at once, perhaps only a tiny amount—a mere few drops—would remain, which would be completely insufficient to sustain the Qi Sea’s existence.
Thus, the concept of a Half-Step Martial Spirit came to be.
The process from Half-Step Martial Spirit to a First-level Martial Spirit was actually one of accumulating a massive amount of Primordial Power, allowing Primordial Liquid to gradually replace Primordial Power in supporting the Qi Sea. As long as the Primordial Liquid could fill about one-fifth of the Qi Sea, it would be enough to stabilize it and further increase its strength. freewebnσvel.cøm
Only then would one be considered to have broken through to become a First-level Martial Spirit!
Following this technique, Chu Qingyun selected a region within his Qi Sea and focused his mind and energy to condense and compress the Primordial Power there. During the condensation process, he continuously supplemented it with surrounding Primordial Power.
Soon, the Primordial Power in that region was condensed and compressed into a single drop of Primordial Liquid, which trembled slightly under Chu Qingyun’s intense concentration.
’Is that it?’
’That was so easy?’
’Is my talent really that amazing?’
Success had come too easily. Chu Qingyun couldn’t help but feel his mind fill with questions.
However, the moment he relaxed and his mental focus left his Qi Sea, the drop of Primordial Liquid immediately collapsed. It diffused back into a misty Primordial Power and was continuously diluted and assimilated by the surrounding power, quickly becoming indistinguishable from before.
"Well... it’s not that simple after all..."
Chu Qingyun couldn’t help but shake his head with a wry smile.
’It makes sense, though,’ he thought. ’If it were really that simple and could be done in one go, there wouldn’t be so many Ninth-level Martial Artists stuck at this hurdle for their entire lives.’
On the journey, Chu Qingyun tried several more times, but every single attempt ended in failure.
As soon as his will left the Qi Sea, the newly formed Primordial Liquid would instantly collapse, diluted and assimilated by the surrounding Primordial Power.
Chu Qingyun even tried condensing and compressing several drops of Primordial Liquid at once and gathering them together.
But it was still useless. Compared to the Primordial Power filling his vast, ten-thousand-meter Qi Sea, a mere few drops of Primordial Liquid were far too few.
According to his speculation, if he wanted to break through using this method, he would need to convert at least half of his Primordial Power into Primordial Liquid all at once to resist the dissipation.
"I really don’t know how those people manage to break through..."
Chu Qingyun shook his head helplessly, but he wasn’t anxious.
In any case, his squad had perfectly completed the mission, eliminating all the Martial Soul Hall Martial Artists in Shilin Town without a single loss. Plus, Chu Qingyun had gone the extra mile and swept through the other five target towns!
No matter what, a Nascent Condensation Pill was definitely within his grasp.
With a Nascent Condensation Pill, breaking through to the Half-Step Martial Spirit realm would be practically guaranteed!
「By the time he returned to Lianshan County City, the sun had set and dusk was falling.」
Riding horses at a gallop was strictly forbidden within the County City, but there were no such restrictions on Flying Demon Beasts, as they wouldn’t affect or harm ordinary people and low-level Martial Artists.
Chu Qingyun landed in the same courtyard from which he had departed.
After jumping off the Giant-winged Goose, Chu Qingyun was stunned to find that the Six Army Commanders of the Great Xia Dragon Guard, along with dozens of their Lord Grand Commanders, were all coming out of the building, every one of them staring at him with piercing gazes.
"Er... greetings, Lord Military Commanders, Lord Grand Commanders..." Chu Qingyun said, cupping his hands in a fist-and-palm salute, completely baffled.
’All this fanfare... could it be to welcome me?’
’This is way too over-the-top...’
