Chapter 110: Fire System Breakthrough to Foundation Establishment, Reverse Fire Curse Appears (1)

It's strange that those sands aren't particularly heavy; although they are a bit heavier than the sands of the lower realm, they aren't exaggeratedly heavy like those stones.

He packed those sands into a specially made box and placed them specifically in a storage bag.

The water taken from the Xiao family's pond was likewise packed by Wang Ping into a box refined from special spirit jade.

The most troublesome were those stones, which wouldn't fit in the storage bag; helpless, he could only temporarily place them in the silvery-white space.

Before absorbing the Spirit Realm sand, Wang Ping needed to perfect the first layer of the fire-system cultivation method; only after fully entering the first layer could he absorb the fire source power from the sand, that is, enter the first layer of Qi Refining.

Cultivating another Qi Refining method with a different attribute does not require re-establishing the foundation; Wang Ping's fire spiritual root has already reached top-grade spiritual root, and he has already established a foundation once.

Thus, cultivating during the Qi Refining stage is not limited by the spiritual root; one only needs sufficient spirit stones and pills, the only trouble being the suppression of wood spiritual power, which is unavoidable.

Wood spiritual power has completely occupied the dantian; to condense fire spiritual power, one can only expand the dantian again, so the first step is the most difficult.

However, Wang Ping's divine sense is strong; he directly released ninety percent of his divine sense to gather in the dantian, completely suppressing the wood spiritual power and reducing this influence to a minimum.

One hour passed.

As the spiritual liquid condensed from Spirit Realm spirit qi dripped down, Wang Ping circulated the Scarlet Flame Heart Tribulation, and soon a hint of red appeared in his dantian.

This is the sign that the first thread of spiritual power is beginning to condense, and at this moment the fire spiritual root within his dantian is unusually active.

Having experienced this before, Wang Ping knows this is the sign that the fire spiritual root wishes to transform into the core of fire-system spiritual power.

Finally, under the pressure of wood spiritual power, the first thread of fire-system spiritual power condensed successfully; the fire spiritual root, which had been alone in the dantian, trembled slightly.

That thread of fire spiritual power also wandered near the fire spiritual root, constantly moving.

Having the first thread of spiritual power, the subsequent condensation became quite smooth.

After two hours, he broke through the first layer of the cultivation method, and Wang Ping took out one-tenth of the Spirit Realm sand.

He held a small clump in each hand; as his fire-system cultivation method circulated and spiritual power condensed, the fire source power contained in the sand was also drawn into his dantian!

Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!

Wang Ping, scorched, sucked in cold air; who knows how many tens of thousands of years these sands have been baked by the Spirit Realm's great sun.

One could say their structure has been completely altered; the fire source power hidden in the sand grains, having absorbed only a little, made Wang Ping feel as if his dantian were ablaze with scorching heat.

The entire cultivation process was extremely painful; only then did Wang Ping understand why Master Chiyanzi said cultivating this top-tier method would be very painful.

If not for the fire spiritual root, Wang Ping estimated his dantian would be pierced!

A full seven days passed, and Wang Ping once again cultivated to the Great Perfection of Qi Refining.

Next came the breakthrough to Foundation Establishment; for Wang Ping, this stage was extremely simple—provided he had sufficient spiritual power, he could enter Foundation Establishment without hindrance.

However, after entering Foundation Establishment, the fire spiritual power in his dantian might not exceed the wood spiritual power.

In the Refining Room, Wang Ping remained calm; after breaking through Foundation Establishment, perhaps he could then glimpse the secret of the Reverse Fire Curse!

Closing his eyes, Wang Ping swallowed thirty drops of spiritual liquid in an instant; instantly, violent spirit qi filled every part of his body.

The Scarlet Flame Heart Tribulation operated at maximum speed, strand after strand of spiritual power being refined and entering his body.

At the same time, the sand grains in his hands were quickly having their fire source power extracted by him.

From the early stage of Qi Refining to its Great Perfection, he had absorbed only half of the fire source power contained in the sand grains.

Now, however, it is disappearing at a visible speed; the sand grains that originally emitted a gold-red glow rapidly dimmed.

Boom!

The fire-system cultivation method broke through the Foundation Establishment level; Wang Ping's expression remained unchanged, his hands swiftly forming seals, his mouth chanting, and the fire energy he had absorbed from the sand grains in his dantian was continuously compressed into the fire spiritual root.

Bang!

The fire spiritual root suddenly burst forth with a thumb-sized ball of golden flame; though the flame was tiny, its light was dazzling, dyeing the entire dantian golden-yellow, a splendid sight.

In Wang Ping's dantian, it seemed as if a small sun had risen.

Is this the sun's essence fire?

Wang Ping was somewhat surprised, then realized it was not right; it is purer than the sun's essence fire.

He had seen the sun's essence fire before; its emitted light is gold with a hint of dark red—could this be the sun's true fire?

Although this guess seems fantastical, it is not impossible; who knows how many years these sand grains have been baked by the Spirit Realm's great sun—having some aura of the sun's true fire is not surprising.

Just as Wang Ping was secretly speculating, the thumb-sized golden flame in his dantian suddenly dimmed, turning dark gold and nearly losing its golden light.

Seeing this, Wang Ping panicked; this is a sun's true fire even more formidable than the sun's essence fire!

If it were to disappear just like that, he would die of heartache.

After the time it takes to finish a cup of tea, Wang Ping breathed a sigh of relief; this ball of flame should still be in the formation stage, and just now was merely a manifestation of its potential.

Although it was merely a manifestation of potential, it still represented a possibility.

He patted his storage bag, took out all the remaining sand grains, circulated the Scarlet Flame Heart Tribulation, and drew strand after strand of fire source power into his dantian.

The dim flame originally floating on the fire spiritual root, sensing the presence of fire source power, suddenly swayed, and those strands of fire source power were swiftly devoured by it.

Seeing this, Wang Ping pondered; according to the mantra recorded in the Scarlet Flame Heart Tribulation, after chanting for only ten breaths, a thumb-sized dark-gold flame appeared before his chest.

When this thumb-sized flame appeared in the Refining Room, the room's temperature suddenly rose by more than one level.

The blazing earth fire inside the Refining Furnace suddenly paused, then suddenly burned fiercely toward Wang Ping's direction.

Wang Ping glanced sideways, revealing a faint smile; this further verified his guess—this flame is indeed the sun's true fire.

Only the sun's true fire can make these earth fires submit.

Wang Ping beckoned with his hand, summoning a small clump of sand grains and placing them near the flame.

As Wang Ping had expected, that flame directly wrapped the sand grains, quickly absorbing the fire source power within them, a speed far greater than Wang Ping's.

After only the time to finish a cup of tea, this flame had completely absorbed the fire source power from one-tenth of the sand grains.

It also became slightly brighter; Wang Ping smiled faintly and placed the flame among the remaining sand grains.

Bang!

The flame the size of a thumb suddenly exploded into a fireball the size of a head, enveloping all the remaining sand grains.

After one hour, all the sand grains Wang Ping brought from the Spirit Realm were completely absorbed by that thumb-sized flame.

And the dark gold flame also grew a little brighter.

The temperature in the forging room also rose, and with the fire-source energy contained in all those sand grains replenishing it, this mass of true solar fire can now be used for forging.

Now his fire-element cultivation has broken through Foundation Establishment, so he no longer fears suppression by wood-element spiritual power, and thus Wang Ping withdrew his divine sense.

At the moment Wang Ping withdrew his divine sense, mysterious fiery-red patterns suddenly appeared on his body, quickly spreading all over him and then extending toward his dantian.

For some unknown reason, when the red patterns appeared, Wang Ping felt a faint sense of familiarity.

Could this be the Reverse Fire Curse?