Chapter 70: Stepping into the Embracing the Pill Realm! The fire is very big!

That true fire followed the breathing rhythm he had adjusted, surging into his body from his nasal cavity, from his throat, from every passage of breathing.

That scorching heat was like a thin stream, slowly flowing along the meridians, bringing an unprecedented sense of fulfillment wherever it passed.

Finally, this wisp of fire qi quietly burrowed into his dantian.

"Is this... yang fire qi?"

A sense of indescribable realization surged in Jiang Ye's heart.

He closed his eyes, quietly feeling that wisp of yang fire qi in his dantian that was as thin as a thread yet truly existed.

It was very weak, so weak it seemed it could dissipate at any time, yet it truly existed in his dantian.

The first mouthful, succeeded.

A hint of an arc curled up at the corner of his mouth.

If that old man in the Merit Pavilion knew he had nurtured a wisp of fire qi in the blink of an eye, he really didn't know how wonderful his expression would be.

However, he quickly threw this absurd thought out of his mind and calmed his heart to continue absorbing fire qi.

The sunset slowly sank, the clouds in the sky changing from golden red to dark purple, then fading from dark purple to deep gray.

Jiang Ye's breathing rhythm became increasingly steady, like the rising and falling of the tide, quietly fitting into some rhythm between heaven and earth.

Those wisps of yang fire qi, following his breathing, surged into his body continuously, flowing slowly along the meridians, and finally gathered into his dantian.

When only the last trace of sunset remained, the Golden Crow illusion in his eyes finally dissipated, and that fiery red great sun returned to being an ordinary sun wheel.

His breathing rhythm also came to an abrupt stop.

"Absorbed about ten wisps of fire qi..."

Feeling the warm and fulfilling scorching sensation in his dantian, Jiang Ye nodded inwardly.

He looked up at the sunset that was about to sink completely below the horizon, a hint of confusion in his aged eyes, muttering softly:

"That Golden Crow... was it just an illusion..."

The sunset fell completely, and the night followed.

Jiang Ye stood up slowly, shook his head slightly, and stopped thinking about that complex question.

After the sun was gone, he should go brew the secret medicine and practice the "Jin Gang Body-Refining Technique."

He arranged his time very properly.

During the day when there was sun, he practiced the Qi-Nurturing Method to nurture fire qi.

After nightfall, he brewed secret medicine, polished that hard-training martial art, and practiced the Blood Moon Blade by the way.

Time passed quickly.

In the blink of an eye, it was seven days later.

On this day, at noon.

A figure sat cross-legged on the open space in the center of the Tiankui Herb Garden, looking up at the great sun in the sky.

The sunlight was blinding, but he didn't avoid it, his eyes slightly closed, his mouth slightly open, his breathing rhythm sometimes slow and sometimes fast, sometimes heavy and sometimes light, as if he were spitting out some invisible existence.

It was none other than Jiang Ye.

At this very moment, his cultivation had reached a critical juncture.

In his dantian, the yang fire qi accumulated over the past seven days was no longer small wisps of flame, but had gathered into a surging sea of fire.

Red-gold flames tossed and jumped in the dantian, almost filling that square inch of space.

It's time!

It's time to embrace Qi into a pill!

Jiang Ye knew that if he didn't embrace the pill now, this nurtured fire qi would overflow.

He took a Blood-Replenishing Pill to replenish his blood and Qi.

Immediately after, his mind sank into his dantian, and he let out a low shout: "Condense!"

As his intention arrived, the sea of fire changed abruptly.

Those tossing flames seemed to have received some silent command, starting to collapse inward, rotate, and condense.

They were no longer scattered flames, but gathered into a huge flame vortex, with the center of the dantian as the core, rotating crazily.

Every rotation made that fire qi become more condensed, more pure, and more heavy.

The rotation became faster and faster, the flames brighter and brighter.

Finally—

Boom!!!

A silent roar exploded in the depths of Jiang Ye's mind.

That flame vortex suddenly contracted to the limit, compressed into a single point.

A point where gold and red intertwined, a dazzling light.

That light was only the size of a grain of rice, yet it contained indescribable scorching heat and power.

It hung quietly in the center of the dantian, rotating slowly, and every rotation, a trace of warmth, whether there or not, radiated out, nourishing the surrounding meridians and flesh.

Pill formed!

Jiang Ye opened his eyes abruptly.

In those aged eyes, two red-gold flame shadows flashed by, then slowly faded.

He exhaled a long breath of clear air, and that clear air actually carried a faint scorching heat, drifting away in the air.

"Is this... the Embracing the Pill Realm?!"

He stood up slowly, feeling the unprecedented power in his body.

That small pill in his dantian was like an inexhaustible source, continuously radiating warm true qi outward.

That true qi was completely different from the force practiced before.

More condensed, more at will, as if as long as his intention moved, it could penetrate his body and injure people from a distance.

He raised his hand, his five fingers slightly spread.

A wisp of red-gold true qi as thin as a thread emerged from his palm, jumping like a flame.

Jiang Ye looked at the red-gold true qi in his palm, and a heartfelt smile finally appeared on his aged face.

Embracing the Pill Realm, succeeded!!!

Host: Jiang Ye

Lifespan: 70/150

Strength: Embracing the Pill Realm (Early Stage)

Fate: Ladder to Divinity 【Effect 1: Superb Comprehension!】

Qi-Nurturing Method Mastered: Great Sun Heavenly Flame Qi-Nurturing Method (Entry, 8/1000)

Martial Arts Mastered: Five Animals Fist (Perfected), Blood Moon Blade (Major Success, 166/5000), Jin Gang Body-Refining Technique (Entry, 318/1000)

Intent Mastered: Tiger Walk Like Sickness, Spirit Ape Thousand Changes, Startled Deer No Trace, Riding the Wind Soaring Sky

Looking at the system panel, Jiang Ye smiled with satisfaction.

Ordinary martial artists, after embracing Qi into a pill, are free from illness and disaster, and can live for two sixty-year cycles.

And his lifespan was actually thirty years longer than ordinary Embracing the Pill Realm martial artists.

The Five Animals Fist wasn't practiced in vain! And Xu Qinghuan's true yin wasn't taken in vain!

"Hmm?!"

Once he thought of Xu Qinghuan, Jiang Ye suddenly felt that his fire was very big now.

Ever since practicing the "Jin Gang Body-Refining Technique" and the "Great Sun Heavenly Flame Qi-Nurturing Method," his physical body had become more and more fierce, and the yang energy in his body had become more and more prosperous.

Now he could barely hold it in!!! ===== CHAPTER 71 =====