Free Web NovelChapter 328: Chapter 324: Preparing for a Breakthrough, Day Flame Sea Region
News from the Far South Continent had not yet reached Nanyaoguang.
Jade Dew Island.
Xuankong Peak, the Seclusion Chamber.
Atop his meditation throne, Su Ye sat cross-legged, circulating the Taiqing Cold Jade Skill and absorbing Spiritual Qi.
Seven years had made his aura even more profound and unfathomable.
After a long while, Su Ye finished his final Magical Power Circulation.
He opened his eyes.
A flash of deep blue vanished in an instant.
’Three months and six days until the Late-stage Crystal Realm.’
Su Ye precisely assessed his cultivation progress.
With the help of Harmony, he had faced no bottlenecks before the Golden Core Realm.
As for the Crystal Realm, another major difficulty in advancing one’s cultivation was the progress of nurturing one’s divine seed.
But for Su Ye, this wasn’t an issue either. The nurturing of his divine seed had always outpaced his cultivation level!
This was thanks to the advancement of his Circulation Magical Power, the Glazed Golden Pattern etched upon his Magic Power Crystal, and the heavenly blessings he received from pioneering the Far South Continent.
’Therefore, for me at this stage, all I need to do to advance my realm is simply accumulate Magical Power.’
’This really is... quite easy, isn’t it? Like playing on simple difficulty?’
Su Ye propped his chin in his hand. His black hair cascaded like a waterfall, and a faint, self-deprecating smile appeared on his handsome, celestial face.
Compared to an ordinary Loose Cultivator, he possessed a Tier Four Spirit Vein and enjoyed the full support of the Nanyaoguang Corporation—a major power that spanned several sea regions.
It really could be called simple difficulty...
’No!’
’What am I thinking? It’s clearly because I manage things well!’
Su Ye scoffed, pushing the thought aside and turning his mind to other matters.
’Advancing to the Late-stage Crystal Realm... I should be able to use this opportunity to raise my Body Refining level to Tier Four...’
Tier Four Body Refining would provide a very significant boost to his combat strength.
With a Mid-stage Crystal cultivation, Tier Four Divine Sense, and Tier Four Body Refining, he could contend with an ordinary Tier Four opponent even without the Ghostly Flood Dragon.
It would be a qualitative leap in combat power!
’But... can I really do it?’
Su Ye repeated, asking himself.
His tone revealed a hint of uncertainty.
Compared to his Divine Sense, Su Ye’s physical body was his weakest link.
Even though he had used the Spider Spirit Blood Orchid to raise his Body Refining to Tier Three Perfection, trying to use that as a foundation to break through to Tier Four Body Refining in the Crystal Realm...
No matter how Su Ye calculated it, the probability was about four to six...
A forty percent chance of success, sixty percent chance of failure.
’Hmm...’
’Not a big problem!’
Su Ye was already prepared for this.
If your foundation is insufficient, make up for it with resources!
Several years ago, Su Ye had a faint feeling that breaking through to Tier Four Body Refining with his current foundation would be quite difficult.
Therefore, under Su Ye’s direction, the Nanyaoguang Corporation had spent the last few years preparing several Body Refining treasures for him through exploration, secret-seeking, external purchasing, and crafting!
By stacking the effects of these Body Refining treasures, Su Ye’s probability of advancing to Tier Four Body Refining was pushed to...
’Eighty-six percent?’
An increase of forty-six percent!
The power of Spirit Stones!
’But this really burns through money...’ Su Ye clicked his tongue.
For this batch of Body Refining treasures, he had approved a budget of three million Spirit Stones, and now... that budget was almost entirely gone.
After all, the effects of Body Refining treasures had clear diminishing returns... In the later stages, raising the probability by even one percent could cost hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stones!
Therefore, even with his wealth, Su Ye hadn’t thought of stacking the success rate all the way to one hundred percent.
’A one hundred percent guarantee... I’m not that demanding...’
’But a ninety percent chance is still something I can shoot for!’
’If He Muyun can successfully bring back a portion of ’Seven-Colored Profound Flowing Paste’ from the Day Flame Sea Region this time, it should push the probability to ninety percent...’
Su Ye calculated in his mind, and at the same time, information about the region surfaced in his thoughts.
The Day Flame Sea Region.
Located northwest of the Cyan Profound Sea Region and directly north of the Spirit Realm Sea Region, the Day Flame Sea Region, unlike the other two, boasted a superior geographical location, bordering the Central Sea Region!
Moreover, compared to other routes, traveling through the Day Flame Sea Region was the relatively safest route to the Central Sea Region!
Thus, this sea region had become a natural transit hub for the various domains of the southern Outer Sea heading to the Central Sea Region!
The diffusion of technology from the Central Sea Region and the constant stream of cultivators from the Outer Sea—these two factors made the Cultivation Realm of the Day Flame Sea Region more developed than those of Cyan Profound and Spirit Realm!
Furthermore.
The Day Flame Sea Region contained a Tier Five Spirit Vein!
A Tier Five Spirit Vein, sufficient to support a Golden Core cultivator in their attempt to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm!
Of course, even with such conditions, to this day, although there were several Golden Core cultivators in the Day Flame Sea Region, not a single Nascent Soul True Monarch had yet been born.
"It’s too dangerous, after all..." Su Ye murmured.
Unlike most Spirit Veins, the Tier Five Spirit Vein of the Day Flame Sea Region was a super-volcano!
Compared to ordinary Spirit Veins, the Spiritual Qi particles of this Tier Five vein were violent and turbulent, which could easily interfere with a cultivator’s attempt to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm!
Furthermore, this super-volcano was still active. If a cultivator tried to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm here, the resulting resonance between heaven and earth had a certain probability of triggering a volcanic eruption!
If that happened, the entire Day Flame Sea Region could be turned into a dead zone!
This was not an exaggeration.
One thousand six hundred years ago, this king of volcanoes had a recorded eruption.
According to records, this eruption completely wiped out the two Golden Core sects originally settled in Volcano State, along with their sixty million mortal subjects!
Moreover, after the vast amounts of spewing lava and volcanic debris cooled and solidified, the area of Volcano State expanded by more than seven million square kilometers!
—That was equivalent to adding an area nearly the size of Australia to its original territory!
At the same time, a searing cloud of volcanic ash covered the entire Day Flame Sea Region in a very short time and spread outward... This ash cloud lingered over the Day Flame Sea Region for decades!
Obscuring the sky, blocking out the light, turbid dust, poisonous acid rain... all the negative debuffs were maxed out!
This caused a catastrophic change in the Day Flame Sea Region’s ecosystem. Flora and fauna died in large numbers, and even the fish population plummeted!
Food became scarce and toxic clouds permeated the air. Mortals struggled to survive, dying from plagues and diseases until barely one in ten remained... As for the cultivators who could have helped them, they were overwhelmed with their own problems and had no time to spare!
The volcanic dust made the Spiritual Qi in the sea region turbid and violent, making it difficult for cultivators to advance. The slightest mistake could easily lead to cultivation deviation.
At the same time, the cultivators of the sea region also had to face the invasion of the Dragon Calamity!
What came to the surface with the king of volcanoes’ eruption was not only scalding lava but also numerous Fire Meteors—which, in the eyes of the cultivators at the time, was a good thing.
After all, although these Fire Meteors caused some destruction, their materials were rare metals and minerals hidden deep within the earth’s crust, impossible to mine through conventional means!
Among them were many Tier Three and even Tier Four ores!
Extremely valuable!
However, just as the cultivators of Day Flame were preparing to collect a wave of rare materials to console themselves, they were shocked to discover that some of these meteorites didn’t seem to be ore at all, but rather... the eggs of some kind of creature?
With brilliant golden vertical pupils, covered in crimson scales, they stood upright like humans but had the heads of dragons. They had long tails with tips as sharp as blades, capable of cleaving gold and severing iron!
The cultivators gave them a descriptive name.
—The Dragonmen!
And this strange species, born from meteorite eggs, became the other major source of danger in the Day Flame Sea Region, besides the environment itself.
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My mentality and health have improved.
I’m back to writing.
During this time, I’ve organized the outline and built up a small stockpile of Chapters.
Yaoyao wants to finish this story!
