Chapter Thirty-Six: Absorption

  Hun Dun Lao looked at Ye Xuan's excited appearance, but poured a bucket of cold water on him: "Don't get too excited too early, it's also possible that it's a trap waiting for you to jump into!"

  "Whether it's a trap or a treasure, since heaven has given me this information, there must be a reason for it." Ye Xuan smiled with his mouth open. He wasn't stimulated by the cold water because he was a person who liked stimulation, no matter whether it was a trap or a treasure, as long as it was full of stimulation, he would rush to take a look.

  "Not bad, a cultivator should have this kind of aura." The Old Man of Chaos stroked his beard and looked at Ye Xuan, he was more and more fond of this little guy.

  "Where is this place marked on the map?" Ye Xuan suddenly thought of this question.

  Hearing Ye Xuan's question, Hun Dun smiled awkwardly and said: "It seems that my memory doesn't have this part, so I don't know where this map is either."

  "What? You don't know? Never mind, the Jiuxuan Continent is where I am, in the Tai Xuan Ancient Country. In the middle is the Lei Feng Empire, to the north is the Shan Guo country, and it's said that there's a Tuóluó country to the west. We can just search for them one by one later." Ye Xuan said with a hint of excitement.

  "Just take a look? Haha, you little brat really knows how to talk big, let me tell you that the Jiuxuan Continent is not just these few countries. The Jiuxuan Continent has a total of seven continental regions, each separated by the Xiūmó Sea. What you mentioned are just one of the continental regions."

  "What? The Nine Profound Continent has seven continents? My god, isn't it like finding a needle in the ocean to find the places marked on this map?" Ye Xuan exclaimed, he had not expected the Nine Profound Continent to be so vast.

  "Heh heh, everything is predetermined by heaven. I think you should focus on cultivating yourself well, and don't stop your spiritual power cultivation." The Chaos Old Man stretched his waist and disappeared into the Chaos World.

  After Hun Dun's disappearance, Ye Xuan's spiritual body returned to Dan Tian Palace once again.

  Ye Xuan slowly opened his eyes, he was still thinking about the words of Hun Dun Lao just now. The Jiuxuan Continent was so big and had spiritual power. He took out the Qiankun bag and waved at it. A blue scroll flew out from inside.

  Ye Xuan opened the scroll, initially it was the Condensation Chapter. Now that he had already condensed his spiritual body, he flipped to the back and saw three big words "Absorption Chapter". Absorption refers to absorbing spiritual energy from nature to solidify the spiritual body in the dantian palace. As the spiritual energy fills up, the spiritual power transformed from the spiritual energy will cause the spiritual body to change from semi-transparent to solid color, also proving the improvement of the level of spiritual power.

  The spiritual energy in the natural world is extremely rare, and the artifact refiners can only improve by absorbing the spiritual energy, which is why it's so difficult for them to advance. However, miracles do happen in nature, and there are special cases where some forests or mountain ranges have dense spiritual energy. Once someone discovers such a place, it may lead to fierce competition and bloodshed among artifact refiners. Apart from this, there are also rare and exotic fruits that contain rich spiritual energy, which are highly sought after by artifact refiners.

  "Hundreds of gatherings in the heavenly court, the heavenly mind seeks pregnancy, the gathering condenses into the elixir field..."

  After reading the absorption mantra, Ye Xuan closed his eyes again, and his mind began to condense. A thread of spiritual energy emanated from the Tianxin acupoint, and this thread of spiritual energy began to sense the spiritual energy of nature. According to the scroll, this was the process of seeking out the location of the natural spiritual energy. When he felt the spiritual energy, through the coordination of the Tian Ting and Bai Hui, the absorbed spiritual energy would first condense into the Dan Tian before being further condensed into the Dan Tian Palace to fill the spiritual body.

  As the spiritual energy of Tianxin Acupoint gradually dissipated, Ye Xuan finally discovered a thin thread of spiritual energy in the air after half an hour. Under his first clumsy operation of the incantation, it took another half an hour to absorb this thread of spiritual energy into the Dan Tian Palace. However, when this thread of spiritual energy filled the spiritual body, it seemed insignificant and had no visible effect.

  Ye Xuan opened his eyes, this time he felt the scarcity of spiritual energy, and this thread of spiritual energy was obviously not enough to have a great effect. At the same time, he also realized that his absorption method was still unskilled and needed more practice. However, before that, he had to put in extra effort to break through the Second Heavy Star Realm, after all, there wasn't much time left until the tournament.

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  The next day, Ye Xuan first went to the Ye family's book pavilion. With Ye Zhenhu's consent, Ye Xuan finally got another set of Xuanji books, which was the "Bao Feng Zhang" that Ye Chen Tian and Si Tu Ran used against each other. Bao Feng Zhang is an attacking palm technique, a mid-level Xuanji in the wilds, with a sharp palm like a violent storm. This Xuanji consumes just the right amount of energy for the first star Xuanjing stage, allowing for sustained combat power in battle.

  After learning the Storm Palm, Ye Xuan came to the arena of the Tai Ri Merchant Guild and started by choosing to challenge people of the same level as him. As he gained an obvious advantage over those of the same level, he began to try challenging those at the Second Heavy Mystic Rank. However, the Second Heavy Mystic Rank was still a great pressure for him at this time. Nevertheless, with the assistance of his invisible spiritual power, he could also catch his opponents off guard. In order to keep his spiritual power a secret, every time he burst out with spiritual power, it was under the cover of a mystic technique, confusing his opponents.

  Soon, Ye Xuan's daily challenges made him a well-known figure in the arena. Every day, he would enter the arena and challenge seven or eight people, sometimes even exceeding ten people. Although he was occasionally beaten by his opponents and left lying on the stage, unable to get up, he would still return the next day. As a result, Ye Xuan became known to them as a good fighter who was eager for battle, but what they didn't know was that Ye Xuan was actually using these battles to improve his physical speed and control over the mysterious energy, all thanks to the guidance of Old Man Hun Dun.

  At first, Ye Xuan won several matches in a row. Gu Sun Jianan, the steward of the Situ family who was in charge of the arena, thought that Ye Xuan was just there to cause trouble. However, after seeing Ye Xuan being beaten and unable to get up from the stage time and again, he stopped paying attention to him. After all, the arena was a business venture, and anyone who came to participate would bring profits to their shop.

  These days, every time after a daytime battle on the arena, Ye Xuan would not go to sleep immediately at night. Instead, he sat cross-legged on his bed and started refining the Small Mystic Pill, absorbing the mystic energy to fill up the extra space in his Mystic Gate. The next day, he would run to the arena again and use actual combat to temper the thin and loose mystic energy from the previous night into a thick and solid one.

  As he went through these days of continuous training, he could feel the sense of fullness in his body's Xuanmen growing stronger and stronger.