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Chapter 138: Magic and Elixir Pills, Shearing the Sheep Before Departure
Chapter 138: Magic and Elixir Pills, Shearing the Sheep Before Departure
Without consuming any Elixir pills or relying on external aids, Chu Ning solely depended on his breathing technique to absorb the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
At this moment, if someone were to carefully sense it, they would find that the energy Chu Ning was absorbing through his breathing was pure fire-attributed spiritual energy.
This energy entered Chu Ning's body, settled into his dantian, and then merged with his spiritual power rings.
It was very similar to when Chu Ning first cultivated the Green Wood Eternal Spring Art, but the speed was incomparable.
Half a day later, Chu Ning opened his eyes and nodded in satisfaction.
"Even without the aid of any Elixir pills or spirit fruits, the abundant spiritual energy in this cave helps me cultivate the Blazing Divine Wood Technique quite quickly.
It's a pity I can't stay here for too long; otherwise, at this rate, I would need about a month to completely convert my spiritual power and consolidate my cultivation at the ninth level of Refining Qi.
Though I think this way, Chu Ning has no intention of changing his plans. There's plenty of time for cultivation, but staying in this sect poses too great a risk if I don't find a way to leave.
Chu Ning checked the proficiency levels in his mind, and as expected, they had changed.
【Blazing Divine Wood Art (High-Rank Profound Grade), First Layer (0/5000)】
【Nine Transforming Body Refining Art, First Volume, Tendon Toughening 702/1500】
【Spirit Refining Technique, Second Layer 83/2000】
Chu Ning was slightly surprised to see that the proficiency of the first layer of the Blazing Divine Wood Art had jumped directly to 5000.
However, upon further thought, it made sense as the Blazing Divine Wood Art was a high-rank profound-grade technique.
Moreover, if one cultivated it to the first layer, their cultivation would probably be close to the Foundation Establishment stage, so it wasn't that surprising.
As for not gaining any proficiency points in the past few days, Chu Ning didn't feel too discouraged.
After all, he had just started, and he was cultivating purely through meditation without any external aids.
For the next few days, Chu Ning remained in the cave, wholeheartedly cultivating the Blazing Divine Wood Art.
After cultivating for five days, Chu Ning once again stepped out of the cave.
"My proficiency in the Blazing Divine Wood Art has increased by five points, which is about one point per day. This indicates that I'm still compatible with this art.
Now that I've confirmed this, there's no need to wait any longer."
Holding the three technique jade slips, Chu Ning once again made his way to the library pavilion.
Zhao Zhishi, the librarian, was quite surprised by Chu Ning's choice of the Blazing Divine Wood Art.
However, the sect had indeed given Chu Ning the option to switch to a more advanced technique.
As he hadn't received any instructions not to let Chu Ning cultivate this art, he didn't make things difficult for him. After retrieving the other two jade slips, he removed the restrictions on the Blazing Divine Wood Art jade slip that Chu Ning held.
Taking this opportunity, Chu Ning spoke up:
"Uncle Zhao, I've decided to switch to the Blazing Divine Wood Art. But previously, I've only practiced wood-attributed magic.
I wonder if I can also learn a few fire-attributed magic techniques."
This was Chu Ning's other purpose for coming to the library pavilion. One of the innate talents of the Mid-Day Fire Spirit Body was that using fire-attributed magic could double the attack's power.
Such a powerful ability was naturally something Chu Ning wanted to utilize.
However, aside from the Fireball Technique, he didn't know any other fire-attributed magic.
Later on, he could try to condense the Crimson Flame Fire Seal, but to be honest, the power of the Crimson Flame Fire Seal wasn't top-notch.
If he could obtain one or two powerful fire-based attack techniques from the sect, it would undoubtedly be excellent.
Zhao Zhishi didn't seem too surprised by Chu Ning's request.
"You can go to the second floor to choose a fire-attributed magic technique. Don't bite off more than you can chew; just choose one technique."
After performing a few incantations on Chu Ning's jade talisman, Zhao Zhishi added, "Know your limits. The difficulty of intermediate and advanced magic techniques can double with each tier.
You're only at the seventh level of Refining Qi, so extremely advanced magic might be beyond your capacity."
"Yes, thank you, Uncle Zhao," Chu Ning replied as he took the jade talisman from Zhao Zhishi and quickly ascended to the second floor.
Unlike the third floor, which had a large room with various shelves, the second floor consisted of several individual rooms.
Chu Ning found the room labeled "Fire-Attributed Magic" and used his jade talisman to lift the restrictions on the room.
Upon entering, he discovered that the collection inside consisted mostly of intermediate magic techniques, with only a handful of advanced magic techniques and no peak techniques at all.
"I wonder if the sect doesn't have any peak magic techniques, or if they just don't let us learn them freely?
As for the higher-level spells being more challenging, it wasn't a problem for someone with the Mid-Day Fire Spirit Body like him.
He had experienced this firsthand when he possessed the Yin Wood Spirit Body and found that learning the lower-intermediate level Azurewood Sword Technique came easily to him even though he was only at the mid-stage of Qi Refining.
Browsing through the options, he found that there weren't many advanced mid-tier spells to choose from in this room, only a few like the Bloodflame Blade Technique.
And in the advanced upper-tier spells, there was only one, called the Blazing Inferno Technique.
The introduction to this technique immediately captured Chu Ning's attention.
It described how the spell enabled the caster to launch attacks by transforming into different levels of demonic beasts, with a strength far surpassing that of ordinary fire-attributed spells.
Furthermore, if one could cultivate it to the highest level and understand the attack methods of high-level demonic beasts, transforming into those beasts could rival even top-tier spells.
The introduction also mentioned that this technique was not created by the Qingxi Sect but rather obtained by serendipity by one of the sect's predecessors.
However, due to its extremely challenging cultivation requirements, even Foundation Establishment or Golden Core cultivators would need to invest a significant amount of time to master it.
It was speculated that only those with exceptional talent in fire-attributed spells, possibly even those with a fire-attributed spiritual root, would be able to cultivate this technique successfully.
After being offered in the sect for some time with no takers, the sect eventually placed it among the advanced upper-tier spells.
Chu Ning's eyes narrowed slightly as he read this.
Challenging to cultivate? High talent requirements? This technique seemed tailor-made for him. Moreover, from the introduction, it seemed like the potential of this technique far exceeded what was described.
He's chosen!
Without the slightest hesitation, Chu Ning used his jade talisman to unlock the restriction and took the jade slip down.
The jade talisman Zhao had given him only allowed him to unlock the restriction once, so he couldn't take any others.
However, he had no intention of looking at anything else and immediately turned to leave.
"Blazing Inferno Technique?"
Zhao Zhishi, the librarian, looked at the jade slip in Chu Ning's hand with a strange expression.
He shook his head and took out a jade slip to register the transaction.
Chu Ning understood the look on his face but didn't mind it.
However, he did ask about another concern.
"There doesn't seem to be any restriction on this spell jade slip. I can see all the contents. Please take care, junior disciple." Zhao Zhishi's voice held a hint of teasing.
Chu Ning pretended not to notice and, with a beaming smile, left the library pavilion with the jade slip in hand.
As Chu Ning walked away, Zhao Zhishi chuckled and muttered, "At most a month, no, half a month, and he'll definitely come back to exchange it."
Chu Ning, now far away, couldn't hear these words. He put the jade slip into his storage bag and turned towards the Thousand Machines Pavilion once again.
Now that he had decided to leave, he intended to take full advantage of his current identity and gather as many resources as possible.
It had been almost two months since he last collected the Wood Origin Pills, so it wasn't unreasonable to ask for more pills.
Arriving at the Thousand Machines Pavilion, he saw the familiar figure of Ji Mengliang on duty. Chu Ning quickly approached and bowed.
"Uncle Ji."
"Oh, it's Junior Disciple Chu. Have you finished the Wood Origin Pills from last time? How many more do you need?" Ji Mengliang's face remained kind and amiable.
"Uncle Ji, I didn't come for the Wood Origin Pills this time," Chu Ning replied, shaking his head.
"I've switched to cultivating a dual wood-fire attributed art, and I wanted to ask if there are any suitable pills for this type of cultivation. If not, I'll take some Spirit Origin Pills."
"A dual wood-fire attributed art?" Ji Mengliang looked at Chu Ning with a hint of surprise.
However, he didn't ask further questions and instead smiled.
"What a coincidence. If it were in the past, we wouldn't have had any, but now we do have a batch of high-quality pills for this type of cultivation."
"An elder's beloved disciple, who cultivated wood-fire dual attributes, seemed to have met with an accident in the Spirit Realm. The sect recently cleaned up his residence and discovered some Green Wood Prime Yang Pills, so they brought them all to the pavilion."
As he spoke, Ji Mengliang turned and, with a casual wave of his hand, retrieved five bottles of pills from a cabinet.
"These pills haven't been cataloged into the pavilion yet, so they're still here."
Ji Mengliang handed the five bottles of pills directly to Chu Ning.
Shang Rui, the Inner Sect disciple with the Fire-Wood-Earth spirit root whom he had killed.
Chu Ning had been concerned that Shang Rui might have connections with high-ranking members of the sect, so after returning to the sect, he hadn't dared to inquire about him.
Now, upon hearing Ji Mengliang's words, he began to suspect that his guess might be correct.
Of course, at this moment, he naturally wouldn't ask any further questions.
"Green Wood Prime Yang Pills?" Chu Ning murmured, repeating the name of the pill, then asked, "How many pills are there?"
"One hundred and fifty!" Ji Mengliang replied, then added seriously, "These Green Wood Prime Yang Pills are low-grade second-tier pills. It won't be easy for a Refining Qi cultivator to refine them.
With your current cultivation, it would take you a year to consume all these pills without any problems."
Hearing this, Chu Ning, who had originally intended to ask for more pills, naturally didn't press the matter further.
He thanked Ji Mengliang and took the pills, returning to his cave abode.
"Little White, we're leaving tonight. Are your abilities ready?" Chu Ning summoned Ling Xiaobai and transmitted his thoughts to the beast.
"Meow!"
Ling Xiaobai let out a reply.
"There's no need to worry about the sect's barrier. With my abilities, I can easily get us out," Ling Xiaobai boasted confidently.
Chu Ning nodded, feeling reassured by Ling Xiaobai's words.
After all, he had personally experienced Ling Xiaobai's abilities when they entered and exited the spirit realm, and he had witnessed the wonders of that small world.
Compared to the spirit realm's restrictions, the Qingxi Sect's protective barrier was insignificant.
During this period, Chu Ning had learned more about spirit realms by perusing various records in the library pavilion.
According to the information he gathered, the appearance of spirit realms was entirely random. They varied in size and were always related to a particular object—the spirit seed.
Once the spirit seed was obtained or left the small world, the spirit realm would collapse and disappear.
Additionally, spirit realms often came with various restrictions.
For example, the spirit realm that Chu Ning and his companions had entered previously could only be accessed by cultivators at the Refining Qi stage. Those at higher cultivation levels couldn't pass through the restrictions.
Moreover, beasts born in these small worlds couldn't truly attain the strength of their supposed tiers. For instance, even a beast with the strength of a second-tier beast couldn't become a true second-tier beast.
There were also spirit realms that only allowed Foundation Establishment or Golden Core cultivators to enter, some where flight was impossible, and others where the use of spiritual power was prohibited.
They were varied and unpredictable.
Chu Ning had also gained a deeper understanding of spirit seeds.
He learned that spirit seeds couldn't be refined, and if obtained by a cultivator, they would absorb the spiritual energy within and comprehend the mysteries contained within.
Once the spirit seed fled and hid, it would gather spiritual energy again.
It could take hundreds or even thousands of years for a spirit seed to reappear.
In the past, whenever a spirit seed appeared, those who could comprehend its mysteries often became prominent figures in the cultivation world.
It was said that among the top powers on the East Sacred Continent, there were individuals who had comprehended the secrets of spirit seeds.
Additionally, in other regions of this continent and beyond, there were also cultivators who had gained insights from spirit seeds.
Reading this information, Chu Ning could understand why Xin Wuyao was so determined to obtain this particular spirit seed.
He also guessed that Xin Wuyao wouldn't give up easily.
As long as the spirit seed hadn't been obtained by another cultivator, who then absorbed its spiritual energy and comprehended its mysteries, it wouldn't enter a state of hibernation.
Of course, all of this was no longer Chu Ning's concern.
Chu Ning glanced around the herb garden and began to dig up the iron-stemmed orchids one by one.
He no longer had any seeds of this plant, and the iron-stemmed orchids he had planted previously had all borne golden orchid fruits.
Since he didn't even have any iron orchid fruits, he had to take the entire plant with him.
Fortunately, these plants weren't very large, so it would be convenient to take them along.
Chu Ning also dug up the spiritual plants he had brought back from the spirit realm and planted in his garden, placing them into his storage bag.
As for the other spiritual plants he had recently cultivated, he left them untouched. These were merely meant to create the illusion that he was still present.
He wanted to create the impression that he hadn't run away but had disappeared for some other reason.
So, he even rearranged these plants slightly to ensure that the garden didn't look too sparse after he took some of the spiritual plants with him.
Chu Ning cooked a pot of spirit rice and intentionally left some spirit rice in the rice jar.
Then, he waited quietly for nightfall.
(End of Chapter)
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