Chapter One Hundred and Twelve: Ten Years

  Zhaodi picked up the cyan jade ruler, gently stroking it. The jade ruler was smooth and delicate to the touch, with a warm texture. Upon closer inspection, as if under the subtle light of essence, some intricate yet natural symbols flickered, filling the jade ruler with an air of antiquity.

  He tried to infuse some spiritual energy into the jade ruler, but it was like a clay ox entering the sea, disappearing instantly without a trace, and the jade ruler did not change at all.

  Zhao Di hastily stopped the spiritual energy transmission and tried again using his divine sense to control the jade ruler, making it float in mid-air.

  But he was shocked to find that the extremely light jade ruler had become unusually heavy, and his divine sense could easily control some very clumsy instruments, but he couldn't move the jade ruler at all!

  "It's indeed a treasure that only a Foundation Establishment cultivator can use!" Zhao nodded in agreement, as his current cultivation level was still at the early stages of foundation building, and neither his spiritual energy nor divine sense could support the consumption required to use the treasure.

  He again refused to give up and continued to experiment with the golden bell, still getting the same result.

  This also made him certain of their true identities as the two treasures.

  He put the two treasures back into the jade box and placed it in his storage bag. Zhao Di looked around again, but there were no other discoveries.

  "This Western Gate's loose cultivator isn't the destined person for the Foundation Building period and below, so why did he leave two useless treasures, but not even one piece of equipment?" Zhao Di complained in his heart, but soon thought that since this "destined person" could kill a fifth-level demon beast, would they care about one or two top-grade treasures?

  He held a glimmer of hope in his mind, trying to pass through the purple light curtain at the other end of the quiet room, but found that it was like hitting a stone wall, and he couldn't enter even a little bit.

  It seems that I can only explore the secrets behind this light screen after he cultivates the Hunyuan Technique and reaches the Dan-forming stage.

  The island was already extremely remote and desolate, and this cave was even more secretive. Zhao Di decided to disperse all his spiritual power in the cave and start cultivating the "Hunyuan Jue". After achieving a certain level of cultivation that would allow him to protect himself, he would then venture out again to continue hunting down demonic beasts.

  He had previously practiced alchemy and gained a lot of elixirs that were very beneficial for his cultivation during the Qi Refining stage, which could be put to good use now.

  Zhao Di made a decision and first blocked the entrance of the secret cave on the small island with some large stones, then returned to the cave mansion.

  In case of any unexpected event, he set up several arrays in the grand hall and the quiet room, and placed a group of puppets at the entrance of the quiet room.

  Having made these meticulous preparations, Zhao Di began to disperse his skills and cultivate them.

  If you think that dispersing your cultivation is just a matter of exhausting your spiritual energy, then it's far too simple. The pain during the process of dispersing your cultivation is even more intense than when taking the Foundation Establishment Pill to expel impurities from the body, piercing deep into the marrow.

  That experience of forcibly extracting a little bit of spiritual energy from the four limbs and hundred meridians, truly made him feel what it's like to be better off dead than alive!

  After a whole month of time, after suffering inhuman torture, Zhao Di finally dispersed all the spiritual power in his body and became an "ordinary person". If there were cultivators breaking into the quiet room at this time, he had no power to resist.

  After resting for a day, Zhao sat quietly for half a day, calming his emotions to the point where his heart was as still as water, and then began to cultivate the first layer of Hunyuan Jue.

  The nine layers of Hunyuan Gong recorded in the Jade Simplified Scripture are divided into three stages: the first three layers belong to the Qi-refining stage, the middle three layers correspond to the foundation-building early, middle and late stages, and the last three layers belong to the Dan-forming stage.

  Each time you complete a layer of Hunyuan Jue practice, your cultivation will also be elevated by one level.

  Zhao Di relied on the help of dozens of top-grade Gathering Spirit Pills to complete the first layer of Hunyuan Technique's cultivation method in just a few months, breaking through to the second layer. At the same time, he also raised his own cultivation level to that of a 4th or 5th layer Refining Qi period cultivator.

  Then he started taking the Extreme Spirit Purification Pill and continued to cultivate the second layer of the Hunyuan Divine Art...

  Cultivation knows no age.

  Time flies, ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

  In these ten years, Zhao Di's cultivation grew extremely rapidly with the help of a large number of top-grade elixirs and five high-grade spirit stones.

  In addition, during the re-cultivation of San Gong, he only needs to continuously absorb and refine his spiritual power, without having to face various bottlenecks including foundation building again. Therefore, within a short period of six years, he completed the cultivation of the first three layers of Hunyuan Jue, allowing his cultivation to be raised again to the standard of the initial foundation building stage.

  He then started taking the ordinary and top-grade foundation-building pills that had been refined from the third-class spirit dan and further cultivated in a small cauldron, and after four more years, he finally completed the fourth layer of the mixed yuan mantra and successfully broke through the bottleneck of the initial stage of foundation building, becoming a mid-term foundation-building cultivator.

  What delighted Zhao Di just the same was that his spiritual beast, Ice Wind Snake, had also been rapidly growing and increasing its cultivation through the constant consumption of top-grade spiritual medicine over the past decade. Now this spiritual beast had already reached the peak level of a first-class demon beast, only one step away from breaking through to the equivalent of a human's early Foundation Establishment stage, that is, a second-class demon beast.

  This beast still has the appearance of a green back and white belly, but its body has grown much larger, with a thickness of about a bowl mouth and a length of more than one zhang. Moreover, this beast can now instantly release two attack spells, Ice Cone Technique and Wind Blade Technique, although it is absolutely no problem for ordinary Qi Refining stage cultivators, but for Zhao Di's help, it is still extremely small.

  It's probably necessary to wait until this beast grows into a second-level or higher demon beast before it can reveal the unique talent ability of a variant demon beast!

  But to let the Ice Wind Snake continue to advance, the ordinary spiritual medicine bought in the market is already too low-grade. This Jiaolong bloodline's spiritual beast can only be advanced by taking the same Jiaolong inner elixir-refined spiritual medicine - Huajiao Dan. Otherwise, it will take hundreds of years for the spiritual beast to advance through self-cultivation.

  The lifespan of a demonic beast is generally much higher than that of humans, but the time required to cultivate and advance in rank is also much longer than that of human cultivators. If one does not feed their demonic beast large quantities of spiritual pills and medicines, it's likely that before the beast has even grown up, its master will have already reached the end of their lifespan.

  However, the number of Jiaolong nearby Island Five is scarce and rarely appears. Zhao Di doesn't even have a single inner elixir of Jiaolong, so he can't refine the Huajiao Dan for Bingfeng Snake to take.

  At the same time, considering that he may not have cultivated only one cycle of Hunyuan Jue, the number of demon pills needed may need to be increased several times. Therefore, he did not continue to cultivate Hunyuan Jue, but instead planned to go out to sea to continue killing demon beasts.

  Zhao threw out a dozen or so fire snake talismans, which transformed into a python as thick as a bowl in mid-air. Then he pointed with his right index finger, and a purple gas shot out, pouncing on the python.

  The giant body of the fire python and that purple gas several feet long were completely disproportionate, but when the flames spewed out by the fire python encountered the purple gas, they actually seemed to have met their nemesis and quickly extinguished and disappeared!

  The giant python opened its huge mouth and swallowed the purple creature whole. A moment later, it began to churn and struggle, and the python's body started shrinking rapidly, eventually decreasing by more than two-thirds.

  Seeing the purple energy he casually released, Zhao Di was very satisfied and nodded his head. He then pointed a finger, turning the thin Fire Python into red lights that disappeared into the air.

  This purple gas is a kind of spiritual power called "Hunyuan Yiqi" that he grasped after cultivating the Hunyuan Technique to the fourth layer. At first, it took a lot of spiritual energy and time to use this spiritual power, but after Zhao Di cultivated the Hunyuan Technique to the fifth layer and his cultivation reached the middle period of foundation building, he could instantly use this spiritual power.

  This purple energy can both attack and defend, and when facing pure five-element spiritual energy, it often has the upper hand, increasing its power by several folds. With this alone, Zhao Di has a certain degree of confidence in winning against ordinary mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, even without using his puppets or Skyfire Blade. Moreover, because he is simultaneously refining five types of elemental spiritual energy, Zhao Di's magical powers are much deeper than those of the same-level cultivators. Although he is currently at the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment, his divine sense and magical powers are not inferior to those of an ordinary late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

  This is a world of difference compared to the "Haiyun Jue" he practiced before! That "Haiyun Jue", apart from having a faster cultivation speed, only came with a divine ability called "Huashui Tuo". It can be used in critical moments to dive into the water, not only is the diving speed extremely fast, but also the spiritual light and the surrounding flowing water blend together as one, making it extremely difficult to detect, considered a relatively practical life-saving escape divine ability.

  It's not surprising that the water attribute skill, apart from its fast cultivation speed, has poor offense and defense. Cultivators who practice this skill often can't defeat cultivators of the same level, but having a life-saving divine ability is actually the most useful thing.

  The Hunyuan Jue, because it is the simultaneous refinement of the five elemental spiritual energies, has a cultivation speed that is far lower than that of the Luohai Jue. However, with the assistance of large quantities of top-grade elixirs, Zhao Di's cultivation speed was not too slow either. Moreover, in terms of breaking through to the formation of the Golden Elixir and subsequent techniques, the Hunyuan Jue far surpasses the latter, which is where the incredible power of this supreme technique lies.

  This is also why Zhao Di once obtained the "Hunyuan Jue", he didn't waste any more time, and decisively abandoned all his previous efforts!

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