Chapter 496

Li Yi was hiding in the cave of the Purple Gold Gourd at this moment. Although he was shielded from the outside world, he could infer some of the situation outside through the condition of the Purple Gold Gourd. At the beginning, the situation was indeed dangerous, and the temperature of the small cave world inside the Purple Gold Gourd rose sharply.

But as the temperature faded later, he breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as the Purple Gold Gourd didn't melt, it would be fine; otherwise, if he were exposed again, he would really be doomed.

About an hour passed.

There was still no movement outside, and everything seemed to have returned to normal.

However, Li Yi still didn't rush to leave here. He wanted to wait for the giant dragon to fall asleep again and also needed to let the tree spirit of the golden apple tree believe that he had been melted by the dragon flames. Only in this way could he find a chance to escape.

"Might as well wait a few days. Anyway, I have already picked the golden apples, and this time's goal has been completed. There is plenty of time to slowly wear down the giant dragon and tree spirit outside." Li Yi was very cautious. He simply stayed in the Purple Gold Gourd; anyway, he had complete supplies on him, and he didn't have to worry about food and drink.

At this time, he took out a golden apple from the Five Elements Bracelet.

It was heavy in his hand, truly as if cast from gold, and it also emitted an alluring fragrance that one couldn't refuse, making one want to take a bite impatiently to taste what this tasted like.

Li Yi stared at the golden apple in his hand for a while, finally resisted the impulse in his heart, and then looked at the exotic beast, Shanyi, which was healing in the cave of the Purple Gold Gourd.

"Old rules, you eat first." He strode to the heavily injured Shanyi and then generously handed over the golden apple in his hand.

Shanyi had previously been parasitized by the black hair hanging down from the dark sky, causing half of its body to be destroyed. Although Xuan Yuezi cast a spell to stabilize the injury and there was no risk of death, its essence of flesh and blood had been taken away, and its aura was abnormally withered at this moment. To recover, even with the physique of an exotic beast, it would take a long time.

Shanyi looked at the golden apple in Li Yi's hand. It was also attracted by this alluring fragrance. Without any hesitation, it reached over its head and swallowed it in one gulp.

Seeing this, Li Yi slowly stepped back a few steps. He wanted to observe the changes in Shanyi after eating the golden apple.

He didn't dare to eat things from this dark world randomly. Just like the previous Age Pills, he only dared to take them after someone helped him test the medicine first. If he accidentally ate something bad and lost his life, how unjust would that be?

And even if one golden apple was wasted, it didn't matter. Li Yi still had seven in his hand, enough for his own use.

Once the golden apple was eaten.

A miraculous thing happened.

Shanyi's whole body was emitting a layer of faint golden light. Under this golden light, a dark aura on its body was dispelled, and at the same time, it couldn't help but open its mouth to vomit, actually spitting out a ball of hair again. That ball of black hair was like a living thing, actually crawling and wriggling on the ground.

"There's still black hair that wasn't cleaned up?" Seeing this, Li Yi's face couldn't help but change.

Then, he saw a crack open in the black hair ball, and a weird eyeball filled with bloodshot eyes drilled out. It seemed very angry, jumped up, and quickly ejected, wanting to parasitize Li Yi's body.

But Shanyi let out a cry, its claws fell, and it stepped on this weird hair ball under its feet. Moreover, accompanied by the golden light, a strange energy spread, and this black hair ball began to rapidly lose its vitality, and then shriveled up amidst a weird scream.

This evil little thing seemed to have died, and the black hair also withered rapidly, then turned into a wisp of black smoke and dissipated completely.

"The golden apple can really wash away the evil god's curse." Li Yi looked, and he could now confirm the first effect of the golden apple.

Then, he saw Shanyi's previous wounds recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye. New flesh, blood, and bones grew out, and the skin and scales also recovered. In just over ten seconds, it had completely recovered, and its own aura was also rapidly becoming stronger.

In less than a minute, Shanyi's withered aura was swept away, and it returned to its peak state again.

Shanyi let out a high-pitched cry, flapping its wings, looking very happy.

"Not only can it dispel the curse, but it can also regenerate bones and flesh... recover from injuries immediately... Observe again to see what other effects it has." Li Yi continued to observe.

He felt that the effect of the golden apple shouldn't be just this.

Because the golden apple tree grew on a giant dragon, absorbing the essence of the giant dragon's energy and blood to bear fruit. If it were just this, it would be too disappointing.

Soon.

Li Yi noticed that Shanyi was not only emitting golden light all over its body, but even the scales, claws, and skin on its body seemed to be affected by some kind of power, and its whole body began to turn golden. At the same time, a special aura was emitted. This aura was sacred, immortal, and carried the power to destroy all evil.

"This is... the power of bloodline."

He felt the fluctuation of this power; there is no doubt that this is the power of bloodline.

After eating the golden apple, Shanyi obtained the giant dragon's bloodline power, just like the situation when Li Yi awakened his divine bloodline.

And Shanyi's body also seemed to have undergone some changes. It awakened some of the giant dragon's abilities. At this moment, it let out a cry and spat out a mouthful, actually spraying pale golden flames. The temperature of this flame was also shocking; although it was not as good as the giant dragon outside, it could also incinerate Golden Core cultivators, which was extremely domineering.

"So that's how it is. Are golden apples similar to divine fruits? After eating them, one obtains the giant dragon bloodline, and at the same time, the body and strength will also get a qualitative leap. That tree spirit was not wrong; after eating a golden apple, one can obtain power, authority, wealth, status... As for luck, it makes sense in this world."

"With the blessing of this giant dragon bloodline, the evil things and monsters in the darkness dare not approach you, and your luck will naturally be very good."

Just as he was thinking this here.

Suddenly, Shanyi opened its mouth and spat again. It spat out something like a golden melon seed at this moment.

That was a seed.

It couldn't be digested after eating the golden apple.

"Golden apple seed." Li Yi's gaze moved slightly, and he immediately collected the seed. He felt that this seed might be useful in the future.

After understanding the effect of the golden apple, he then took out another golden apple.

However, he didn't intend to eat it directly, because he had already obtained the divine bloodline and didn't want to obtain the giant dragon bloodline again. While avoiding bloodline conflict, it was also to keep the divine bloodline pure; after all, in terms of the upper limit, the divine bloodline is still a bit higher.

"Heaven and Earth Qi Gathering Technique." Li Yi pinched the magic formula at this moment, operated the Daoist technique, and tried to gather the power on the golden apple.

His Heaven and Earth Qi Gathering Technique can gather the energy of heaven and earth, the essence of living things, and plunder all vitality.

The plump golden apple shriveled at a speed visible to the naked eye at this moment, and then rays of golden light poured into Li Yi's body. Although his body surface was also emitting golden light, he couldn't feel the appearance of bloodline power, because his Heaven and Earth Qi Gathering Technique only gathered the essence energy.

And after swallowing this aura, a wisp of black smoke immediately emerged from the back of Li Yi's hand, and then his evil god curse was dispelled by this sacred aura. At the same time, he also felt a majestic and pure Five Elements Gold Qi.

"That's fine, take advantage of this opportunity to swallow this Gold Qi and see if I can reach the second layer of the Five Qi Realm."

Li Yi immediately took this opportunity to practice. The Five Qi Realm emphasizes swallowing the five qi, and the five qi refer to gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Previously, Li Yi gathered fire qi, entering the heart orifice. According to the experience of most Daoist practitioners, the next step is to gather water qi, entering the kidney orifice, so that water and fire can assist each other, yin and yang can be harmonized, and it is easier to succeed.

Of course, there is another cultivation method, which is to reverse the five elements, using the fire of the heart orifice to refine the gold of the lung orifice, reaching the point of heart fire refining true gold, thereby breaking through to the second layer of the Five Qi Realm.

Both cultivation methods have their own benefits. The cultivation method of water and fire assisting each other can increase a person's yang lifespan, strengthen a person's body, and restore youth.

The cultivation method of heart fire refining true gold is useless for extending lifespan, but it focuses on killing and has the strongest combat power. Once a mouthful of true gold is refined and Daoist techniques are cast, it is invincible.

Li Yi originally thought about gathering water qi and entering the kidney orifice, but since the opportunity is here, he couldn't care about that much.

"Open the lung orifice, gather Gold Qi." He adjusted his energy and blood, and the divine bloodline emitted silver light in his body, which now gathered at the position of the lung orifice as quickly as possible.

There was no orifice point here originally, but Li Yi visualized the divine fighting method and comprehended three hundred and sixty-five orifice points, so he forcibly opened the lung orifice and lit up another star in the human body.

However, opening an orifice is not something that can be successful in one day.

He swallowed this pure Gold Qi into his lungs, slowly gathered and refined it, and at the same time adjusted his energy and blood to try to open up the orifice point.

Using one mind for two purposes.

Although it is a bit difficult, Li Yi is not without experience. The twelve major orifice points opened before had some places to learn from.

Reading the original text!

"Insufficient energy and blood, the divine blood is not gestated enough, this thirteenth major orifice point is not easy to open."

Li Yi immediately discovered where the bottleneck was. He had accumulated too little, the divine blood in his body was insufficient, and the degree of evolution was also not enough. Wanting to open the lung orifice in one go and reach the point of heart fire refining true gold was still a bit unrealistic; after all, he had only broken through to the first layer of the Five Qi Realm not long ago.

It is very difficult to break through again in such a short time.

Unless he takes an Age Pill.

But Li Yi hesitated.

Because he was not fully prepared and could not exert the effect of this Age Pill to the maximum.

At the very least, he needed Xuan Yuezi by his side, letting Xuan Yuezi cast the spell of subduing dragons and tigers, pouring in cosmic energy to promote body evolution.

Now the cosmic energy inside the Purple Gold Gourd is insufficient and cannot support Li Yi's cultivation at all.

"Forget it, can't care about that much. If the Age Pill is gone, I can go to the Profound Immortal Continent to rob. This golden apple is a rare treasure; it would be a pity to waste it."

Li Yi simply gritted his teeth, took out the Age Pill, and ate it directly.

One Age Pill can reduce ten years of lifespan, but correspondingly, you will also possess ten years of accumulation in a short time.

After the Age Pill was eaten.

He immediately felt the energy and blood of his whole body boiling, and then it began to wither rapidly. At the same time, the silver divine blood was also increasing at an unimaginable speed.

Fortunately, Li Yi was well-prepared; he grabbed a handful of Spirit Blood Pills from the Five Elements Bracelet and swallowed them.

Under the pouring of majestic energy and blood, his just-shriveled body became robust again.

Energy and blood were still being consumed crazily, and the body was also aging, but what was exchanged was the increase of divine blood and the evolution of genes.

Don't forget.

Li Yi himself is also a gene warrior. This gene thing only needs time to settle. As long as there is enough time, you can easily reach the pinnacle of a gene warrior.

Unfortunately, there is insufficient cosmic energy here.

His body could not evolve, wasting part of the effect of the Age Pill.

"The thirteenth major orifice point, sensed it."

Li Yi felt that his previous twelve major orifice points were filled with silver divine blood. At this time, he adjusted his energy and blood, condensed the remaining divine blood in one place, and tried to open the lung orifice.

At first, the gathering of divine blood was not enough, and it lacked stamina as soon as it was opened. Under normal circumstances, cultivation would definitely be interrupted at this time.

But under the blessing of the Age Pill, the divine blood was quickly replenished, and under the continuous succession of divine blood, his whole person was emitting silver radiance, which gave him the confidence to break through in one breath.

"Divine blood opens the lung orifice, heart fire refines true gold."

Li Yi felt that the heat was enough, and suddenly let out a long whistle. A certain orifice point in his body was opened, and it succeeded in one go. Obviously, under the blessing of the Age Pill, he made up for the problem of insufficient accumulation, allowing this thirteenth orifice point to be opened easily.

Then the divine blood entered the orifice, the Gold Qi returned to its position, and the heart fire refined it. His lungs lit up with golden light, echoing the firelight of the heart.

But at this moment, the fire is prosperous and the gold is weak, because there are twelve heart fire orifice points. If he wants to reach the second layer of the Five Qi Realm, he must open at least twelve orifice points to accommodate the Gold Qi. Similarly, there must be twelve kidney orifice points later to accept water qi, twelve liver orifice points to accept wood qi, and twelve spleen orifice points to accept earth qi.

Only in this way will the five elements be balanced; otherwise, once the five qi are unbalanced, the moment the five qi return to the origin in the future, his soul will be destroyed by the unbalanced five elements qi, thereby dying and disappearing.

Powerful strength requires a price.

So if Li Yi wants to break through to the Five Qi Returning to the Origin, he must open a total of sixty orifice points; otherwise, he will never be able to open the three flowers on top.

And to open sixty orifice points, the time required is at least several hundred years. Under normal circumstances, it is estimated that he would find it difficult to return the five qi to the origin and gather the three flowers even if his lifespan were exhausted.

However, Li Yi now has a shortcut to take.

That is to take Age Pills to consume lifespan to accumulate divine blood to open orifice points, then take Lifespan Pills to extend lifespan and gather the five elements qi.

But at the moment, Li Yi no longer has any Age Pills in his hand, and the medicinal effect of this Age Pill is also rapidly flowing away. The speed of divine blood increase in his body has slowed down, and the fourteenth orifice point can no longer be opened.

However, at least the thirteen major orifice points have been filled with silver divine blood essence, and there is still some left. Similarly, a lot of the majestic Gold Qi brought by a golden apple was also wasted.

Although it is a pity.

But at least Li Yi's strength has made some progress now, and he has more confidence in dealing with the dangers outside.

(End of chapter)