Chapter 5: Pure Spiritual Liquid, the Path of Body Refinement

Originally about to withdraw his consciousness, Wang Ping unintentionally glanced and found the energy bar's length seemed to have increased a bit.

Looking more carefully, it indeed had grown a little, about the width of a hair.

As for the energy bar, Wang Ping has looked at it countless times over the past three years; he has long memorized its appearance.

Now, having grown only a tiny amount, he has already noticed it.

Wang Ping wondered: could an increase in cultivation also let the energy bar upgrade?

It must be!

The Qi Refining-stage me and the Foundation Establishment-stage me are utterly different; I can't have reached Foundation Establishment and still be stuck in that ten-zhang place.

Seeing the energy bar, Wang Ping inevitably focused his attention on the adjacent silver-white block.

Actually, this is his biggest gain from this Spirit Realm trip; relying on it alone lets him bring Spirit Realm items down to the lower realm, making its function enormously great.

It is obvious that sneaking into the Spirit Realm has a time limit; that brief one day in the Spirit Realm can still let him break through his cultivation now.

Once he breaks through to the late stage, great completion, a short day basically cannot accomplish anything.

Certainly, as his cultivation increases, the time he can stay in the Spirit Realm might be extended again, but Wang Ping knows that no matter how it is extended, there will no longer be such rapid progress.

Unless he can stay in the Spirit Realm for a year or so.

But is that possible? Wang Ping holds no hope for that.

But if he could bring back spirit herbs, spirit medicines, and ores from the Spirit Realm, they need not be precious; merely ordinary items would be extraordinarily rare divine objects for him now.

Whether used for exchange or personal use, they would greatly increase his strength.

Thus the silver-white block becomes increasingly important going forward.

Thinking of this, he involuntarily extended his spiritual sense again to touch the silver block; upon this touch, Wang Ping instantly felt something different.

Originally the interior of the silver block was empty, but now it is actually filled with liquid.

What is this?

Wang Ping, doubtful, used his spiritual sense to draw out a drop of liquid from within.

Boom!

The moment that strand of liquid appeared in his mind, it instantly transformed into a large amount of pure spiritual energy.

After the liquid completely evaporated, Wang Ping's mind was filled with misty spiritual light, and vast pure spiritual energy spread throughout his mind.

He has not yet formed a sea of consciousness or given birth to divine sense, so the sudden appearance of such a large amount of heavenly and earthly spiritual energy in his mind makes him somewhat unable to bear it.

He immediately set aside other concerns and hurriedly circulated the Azure Wood Longevity Technique, preparing to refine it.

But just as he was about to begin the practice, he stopped circulating his energy.

The reason he did this is because he suddenly realized that refining this large mass of spiritual energy might cause his internal spiritual power to increase again.

The sect periodically checks disciples' cultivation; when the time comes, they will find that this low-grade spiritual root disciple of his has not only broken through to the middle stage but also cultivated at such a speed, which will undoubtedly put him in the spotlight.

Wang Ping's face alternated between sunny and cloudy; finally he gritted his teeth, using his spiritual sense as a bridge, slowly guiding the pure spiritual energy in his mind into his body.

Then he merged these spiritual energies into his flesh and blood.

This process is very slow, since spiritual sense is ultimately inferior to the divine sense of a Foundation Establishment great cultivator, requiring careful and cautious guidance.

The entire process took him three days to finish drawing out the spiritual energy from his mind.

Wang Ping estimated that, if the heavenly and earthly spiritual energy he drew this time were used to increase his cultivation, it could add at least ten strands of spiritual power.

Now he uses it all to increase his physical strength; if only he had a body-refinement technique, Wang Ping thought.

The cultivation world not only has cultivators who inhale and exhale heavenly and earthly spiritual energy, but also body-refiners who follow the path of the physical body.

The body-refinement path differs from cultivation; it focuses on enhancing the physical body.

In battle, they often use their flesh to directly clash with cultivators' magic treasures.

Wang Ping's earlier method of merging heavenly and earthly spiritual energy into his body is quite similar to that of body-refiners.

The heavenly and earthly spiritual energy capable of condensing ten strands of spiritual power was melted into his body; furthermore, during his time in the Spirit Realm, his body was also washed by heavenly and earthly spiritual energy once.

Wang Ping felt that his body's current strength is comparable to that of an early-stage first-rank body-refiner; perhaps slightly inferior, but certainly not far behind.

At this moment, a thought suddenly sprang up in Wang Ping's mind: perhaps he could walk the body-refinement path; among low-level cultivators, body-refiners' attack power is undoubtedly strong.

If he succeeds in cultivation, it will become the foundation for his future survival and establishment.

The body-refinement path consumes cultivation resources immensely, but thinking of the pure spiritual liquid inside the silver block, Wang Ping cracked a smile.

The heavenly and earthly spiritual energy released from the spiritual liquid just now, Wang Ping can feel is purer than the heavenly and earthly spiritual energy he absorbed in the Spirit Realm.

Without a doubt, these spiritual liquids are the result of refined and purified essence then compressed.

The heavenly and earthly spiritual energy comparable to a sixth-grade spirit vein is more effective than any spirit pills or elixirs of the lower realm.

Moreover, given the three-part poison of medicine, the body-refinement path often requires some medicinal herbs to assist training; using too much will inevitably accumulate medicinal poison in the body.

In that case, how could those medicinal herbs compare to the heavenly and earthly spiritual energy comparable to a sixth-grade spirit vein?

Perhaps he could use merit points to exchange for a body-refinement technique at the Technique Pavilion.

Setting those aside, the silver block actually also has the function of compressing and purifying heavenly and earthly spiritual energy, which also made Wang Ping overjoyed.

Now it is only one cubic centimeter in size; if its space were expanded, wouldn't it be able to hold more spiritual liquid?

If it were expanded again, then he could pack those stone fragments back, refine them into a magic treasure; needing no other function, just its weight would be able to smash through anything.

However, thinking that increasing its space by one cubic centimeter would consume ten strands of spiritual power, he felt a bit troubled, wondering if he would have to use up these spiritual liquids.

No! No! No!

Wang Ping shook his head; if he did that, he himself would feel it was a waste of heavenly treasures.

Huh!

Perhaps he could use spirit stones; a single low-grade spirit stone can condense thirty strands of spiritual power, and four spirit stones would be enough to expand it.

However, spirit stones are not easy to obtain; the spiritual energy in Zhao State's cultivation world is scarce, and spirit stone mines are even rarer; otherwise, the entire Zhao State would not have only a single Golden Core true person!

But it is still far better than using the spiritual liquid.

After this consolidation is finished, one can use merit points to enter the Treasure Technique Pavilion to select a body-tempering cultivation method.

Over the past three years, Wang Ping still has plenty of merit points; aside from the Bigu Pill, he cannot buy any other medicinal pills, and even if he exchanges merit points for spirit stones, he cannot absorb them, and even the chance to exchange merit points for entry into a cave dwelling to cultivate has been repeatedly postponed.

He still has 1,300 merit points, more than enough to exchange for a body-tempering cultivation method.

As for spirit stones, he exchanges a batch at the merit shop, and privately can only secretly inject a batch, thus avoiding notice.

Having worked out his follow-up plan, Wang Ping then entered cultivation with peace of mind.

Cultivators have a faint sense of time; his this retreat lasted three months.

Each day, besides besides taking the Bigu Pill and sleeping, the rest of the time is spent consolidating cultivation.

As for Bamboo Green Peak, Wang Ping's analysis was correct; Bamboo Green Peak is situated in a remote spot, rarely visited, and during his three-month retreat it remained just as usual, tranquil and serene.