Chapter 203

Time passes.

Inside the cultivation chamber.

Several jade bottles lay scattered on the ground; from the medicinal fragrance drifting out of them, it could be seen that they originally should have contained not a few rather extraordinary elixirs.

Yunhe sat on the futon, the five-colored flowing light flashing intensely, then suddenly contracting into his body at great speed, a brand-new and exhilarating surge of magical power arose.

"Mid Jie Dan Stage. Is that it?"

Feeling the "Great Longevity Five Elements True Scripture" cultivation method following the newly opened eighth layer's route circulating continuously, endlessly converting heavenly and earthly spiritual qi into vast and surging magical power, which finally poured into the enlarged "Five Elements Golden Elixir", Yunhe's face involuntarily showed a hint of joy.

This breakthrough ultimately succeeded!

Recalling the arduous cultivation of this period, Yunhe's joy in his heart could no longer be contained.

"This time, I really had a bit of dog-shit luck; I never expected that just a few simple attempts would actually let me smoothly achieve a breakthrough of the bottleneck."

"However, this is also a rare opportunity; every second counts, and not trying to push forward would indeed be a great pity."

This breakthrough of his counts as Yunhe's luckiest since he successfully established his Foundation Establishment up to now.

Since he returned to the He family after his last trip to Lei Shan and entered seclusion again, he has continuously improved his cultivation through practice and consuming elixirs; although he did many things in his spare time.

But over the past two years he has almost set aside all his affairs, pushing forward with all his effort to increase his cultivation.

Relying on the overbearing yet remarkably effective power of the "Spirit Grain Elixir", he spent roughly twenty-seven or twenty-eight years in total, cultivating himself from the initial magical power of early Jie Dan Stage all the way to the peak of early Jie Dan Stage, filling the magical power capacity of his Five Elements Golden Elixir to fullness.

Originally.

According to his plan, after raising his cultivation to the peak of early Jie Dan Stage, he would end his seclusion and seek methods, elixirs, secret arts, or opportunities to help him break through the bottleneck.

To that end, he could even abandon the He family, which had continually brought him many benefits over the years, taking advantage of the time of He Wen's peaceful passing to depart silently without causing any trouble.

However.

Originally, that was his plan.

But when he actually raised his magical power to the peak of early Jie Dan Stage, a thought suddenly arose in his mind: "Should I try to break through?"

You should know that, as he was already an early Jie Dan Stage cultivator and his spiritual sense was absolutely not inferior to that of a late Jie Dan Stage cultivator, his fleeting thoughts and spiritual intuitions often subtly aligned with some opportunity or law.

In other words, it was a sudden impulse.

Moreover.

Attempting to break through from early Jie Dan Stage to mid Jie Dan Stage, even if it fails it would only cause some damage to the body and magical power, but the risk is far smaller than that faced when breaking through to form the golden elixir.

At most, it might only waste several years of his painstaking cultivation.

Of course, those few years for him are years of continuously consuming elixirs; if converted to another early Jie Dan Stage cultivator without elixir aid, those years could be several decades, or even centuries of arduous cultivation, depending on each cultivator's talent, spiritual roots, and cultivation speed.

However, for Yunhe, who has ample elixirs, although he might spend a few extra years, he indeed has a margin for error and opportunity.

Fact proves that Yunhe's thought was not unfounded; when he completely filled his Five Elements Golden Elixir with magical power, his magical power began to fluctuate.

Subsequently, Yunhe directly stuffed five Spirit Grain Elixirs into himself!

Because it was a sudden spiritual intuition, he had not prepared any auxiliary elixirs for breaking the bottleneck; he could only use stronger and more violent elixir power to thoroughly stimulate that fluctuating magical power.

Finally.

Although he swallowed too many Spirit Grain Elixirs at once, causing his internal magical power to overflow to the point that his meridians, dantian qi sea, and golden elixir felt like they were about to burst, it also allowed him to successfully seize this opportunity!

He successfully advanced to mid Jie Dan Stage!

The risks, turmoil, and proportion of luck involved are probably known only to Yunhe himself.

"No matter how the process went, as long as the outcome is correct, that's enough."

He inwardly inspected himself, feeling that his Jie Dan magical power had increased by about half, and the joy on his face grew even richer.

The stronger the magical power, the greater the total amount that can be mobilized and the amount usable each time; thus the power of casting spells and operating magical treasures naturally increases accordingly.

Moreover.

Yunhe's spiritual sense limit also broke through again!

He does not know whether his current spiritual sense strength can rival that of a cultivator whose cultivation has reached perfect Jie Dan Stage, but it is certainly much stronger than that of an ordinary late Jie Dan Stage cultivator.

And the increase in spiritual sense directly makes his spiritual sense attack power and influence more considerable.

More importantly, the number of bee swarms and poisonous insects he can control will inevitably increase, and the range of influence he can command will expand as well.

In fact, not only the bee swarms and poisonous insects, but also his ability to refine and control puppets will improve; however, compared to the bee swarms and poisonous insects, puppets are rather insignificant to Yunhe.

"The most important thing is actually that the third layer of the 'Thousand Poisons Myriad Insects Scripture' finally shows signs of loosening."

Initially, in order to increase the chance of condensing the golden elixir, he forcibly cultivated the "Thousand Poisons Myriad Insects Scripture" to minor achievement in its third layer.

But after that, the progress of cultivating the "Thousand Poisons Myriad Insects Scripture" became extremely slow.

However, with this breakthrough, after his cultivation reached mid Jie Dan Stage and his spiritual sense surged again, the advancement speed of the "Thousand Poisons Myriad Insects Scripture" has significantly increased.

Yunhe is very clear about the importance of this technique for him.

Although he inherently possesses two bodies, making his spiritual sense relatively strong, the true reason his spiritual sense can overwhelm peers and even cultivators one or two realms higher is still this "Thousand Poisons Myriad Insects Scripture"!

His insect-controlling ability also largely stems from this technique.

"I don't know if there's a chance to cultivate the 'Thousand Poisons Myriad Insects Scripture' to the fourth layer during the Jie Dan Stage; if so, would my spiritual sense be able to rival a Yuan Ying Cultivator?"

But one can tell without thinking that this is definitely not an easy matter.

After he broke through to mid Jie Dan Stage, what lay before him, aside from late Jie Dan Stage, was the far more distant Yuan Ying Stage!

No Jie Dan cultivator has ever failed to look forward to condensing a nascent soul, and no Jie Dan cultivator can resist the temptation of doing so.

"Given my lifespan, there will surely come a day when I must attempt to condense a nascent soul."

Actually, after breaking through the third stage in his demon beast body, Yunhe had tried using the "Year Ring Technique" to measure his lifespan at that time.

Unfortunately.

"The Year Ring Technique is merely a minor secret art he learned during the Qi Refining stage; it can no longer accurately measure his current lifespan, only giving a vague estimate."

However.

According to Yunhe's estimate, his current lifespan is at least three thousand years, perhaps five thousand years?

After all, the lifespan of demon beasts is inherently extremely long, and my Demon Beast Body is not only a turtle species with an even longer lifespan, but its bloodline is also quite extraordinary.

He lightly finger-calculates.

"At my current age of 151, I am already considered relatively young among ordinary Golden Core cultivators; if I base it on my true lifespan, I am not even an 'infant', merely a 'child'."

Even if he grinds slowly, he has absolute confidence to be able to touch the threshold of the Yuan Ying Stage.

"But there is still a problem, a not insignificant one staring me in the face: my cultivation method!"

His "Great Longevity Five Elements True Scripture" technique has only ten layers, meaning it can only support his cultivation up to early Yuan Ying Stage.

By then, he will have to worry about obtaining the subsequent technique.

If he wants to continue enjoying the advantages brought by the Small Five Elements Spirit Body, as well as the later Five Elements Spirit Body and Great Five Elements Spirit Body, he must find the subsequent parts of that technique.

Not only the Great Longevity Five Elements True Scripture, his Thousand Poisons Myriad Insects Scripture also only has the first four layers.

He obviously also does not want to abandon this technique that has brought him great convenience and benefits.

"The Thousand Poisons Myriad Insects Scripture is easier to say; at least I know there's a high probability I can find it in the ruins of the Heavenly Insect Sect, just need to figure out how to deal with the Heavenly Corpse Insect. But the subsequent information of the Great Longevity Five Elements True Scripture seems to still need to be obtained from the Qingzong Sect?"

But no matter what, obtaining the subsequent parts of his two techniques will require returning to the Eastern Border to have a chance.

"Consider in advance. However, I have just broken through to mid Golden Core; the distance to late Golden Core and even perfection of Golden Core is at least several decades."

Yunhe stood up from the mat.

He slightly moved his somewhat stiff body.

He then clenched his hands and formed a seal.

Hum—

As his palm opened, a ball of white, green, black, red, and yellow light appeared.

This is a secret technique attached to the Great Longevity Five Elements True Scripture technique, and one of its most powerful secret techniques—the Five Elements Divine Radiance.

Only after condensing the Five Elements Spirit Body can one cultivate and execute it.

When he was only at mid Foundation Establishment and had just condensed the Small Five Elements Spirit Body, he was already preparing to cultivate this secret technique.

But on one hand, at that time his Small Five Elements Spirit Body had just condensed and was not yet refined; moreover, the Eastern Border was constantly troubled due to the righteous-demonic war, so he never had the chance to cultivate it.

After arriving in the Cloud Realm, he was also preparing to break through to Golden Core, so he did not get overly distracted.

However, after successfully reaching Golden Core, he indeed began cultivating this secret technique.

But the cultivation difficulty of the Five Elements Divine Radiance is far greater than he imagined.

Yunhe speculated that perhaps it was because he had only condensed the Small Five Elements Spirit Body and not a true Five Elements Spirit Body, after all the Small Five Elements Spirit Body is merely a simplified version of the Five Elements Spirit Body developed for cultivating the Great Longevity Five Elements True Scripture.

Until now, after intermittently investing time and his cultivation base increasing to compensate for some deficiencies in the spirit body, he finally managed to cultivate this secret technique to minor accomplishment.

At the same time, he also understood why this secret technique is so difficult to cultivate.

Because the essence of this secret technique is not mutual generation or mutual restriction of the Five Elements, but an inversion of the Five Elements!

This method can be used not only as an offensive means but also as a defensive means, entirely depending on how the user employs it.

You should know that in the entire cultivation world, the vast majority of cultivators cannot bypass the Way of the Five Elements.

Inverting the Five Elements, for cultivators who use Five Element techniques and treasures, is almost equivalent to sealing their magical power and abilities!

Of course, due to Yunhe's own Small Five Elements Spirit Body and cultivation limits, this secret technique cannot seal everything; it still depends on the enemy's means and abilities.

Specifically, how strong this secret technique is needs to be tested by Yunhe in actual combat to gauge a rough idea.

He flipped his palm, closed it, and the five-colored light vanished.

"Another defensive technique has been added."

Yunhe had a premonition that even if this secret technique struggles to exert much effect in actual combat, the factor limiting its power is his insufficient spirit body level, not the technique itself.

Including the Beast Soul Banner that has become quite effective, having absorbed many beast souls, even without using the Five Elements Thunderbolt Sword and the Red Shadow Golden Winged Bee, his combat ability is not weak.

He flicked his robe, hands behind his back, and walked out of the cultivation chamber.

He arrived at the Spirit Insect Chamber.

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