Chapter 274: Wool-gathering, Five Elements Perfection

The Hunyuan Jin Dan hung in the center of the dantian, the radiance of the four-element origins on its surface flowing endlessly, only the Metal Element ring was as dim as a crescent moon.

The Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light was trapped by the Bai Hu Saint Beast's chains, and the Geng-metal laws that spilled out during its struggle surged like a tide.

Su Chen drove the "Hunyuan Jin Dan True Explanation" with all his might, wanting to guide that law power to pour into the Hunyuan Jin Dan.

But the trapped Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light resisted violently, and a burst of wild backlash exploded; Su Chen let out a muffled groan, and the guidance failed.

The origin power of the Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light was too violent; it was too difficult for Su Chen to refine it for tempering the Hunyuan Jin Dan.

Su Chen did not give up; he adjusted his breath for a moment and tried again.

But every time, that violent backlash would interrupt his refining.

After constant failures, Su Chen stopped.

He sat cross-legged on the spot, looking at the Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light trapped by the chains overhead, still struggling crazily, and was silent for a long time.

`He couldn't eat this tempting fruit before him. `

It wasn't that the method was wrong; it was that his current realm was not high enough.

The Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light was an origin power born when the world was opened, and after growing through these endless years, for him, a Tai Yi Jin Xian, to try to refine it directly was no different from an ant wanting to swallow an elephant.

Considering that the Bai Hu Saint Beast could only trap the Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light for him for one year, Su Chen felt he could not waste any more time.

So his gaze moved away from the main body of the Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light and fell on the light that spilled out around it.

The Innate Spiritual Light was trapped by the chains and struggled continuously; every time it struggled, it would strip away a portion of spiritual light from itself.

Although the quality of those spiritual lights was far inferior to the main body of the Innate Spiritual Light, they were still comparable to top-tier heavenly spiritual objects.

That was the Acquired Geng-Xin Spiritual Light mentioned by Doumu Yuanjun.

He immediately changed his strategy, no longer attempting to refine the Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light directly, and instead turned his attention to those spilled Acquired Geng-Xin Spiritual Lights.

The Hunyuan Jin Dan operated again.

This time, he did not go to hard-shake the origin of the Innate Spiritual Light, but carefully guided the Acquired Geng-Xin Spiritual Light drifting around into his body, wisp by wisp.

The moment the Acquired Geng-Xin Spiritual Light entered his body, the pale golden pattern on the surface of the Jin Dan lit up slightly; there was no backlash, and it merged steadily into the Metal Element Dao foundation.

It worked! The corners of Su Chen's mouth curled up.

The next things were simple.

The Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light was trapped by the chains, struggling continuously, and spilling out Acquired Spiritual Light continuously.

And Su Chen sat beside it, like a diligent old farmer, collecting those spilled spiritual lights into his pocket without leaving a single one.

Not long after, Su Chen discovered an interesting phenomenon.

The Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light seemed to have developed some kind of consciousness.

In the first few days, it just struggled instinctively, and the Acquired Spiritual Light that spilled out was very dense.

But when it discovered that every time it struggled, a large amount of spiritual light would be wool-gathered away by the human beside it, the frequency of its struggles decreased significantly.

So Su Chen began to take the initiative.

The Hunyuan Jin Dan drove the origin powers of the four elements, condensing the law powers of water, wood, fire, and earth, taking turns to stimulate the Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light.

The Innate Spiritual Light was stimulated into a rage, struggling crazily, and spilling out a large amount of Acquired Spiritual Light.

Su Chen accepted everything as it came, beginning to wool-gather nakedly.

And it was the kind where he caught one sheep and wool-gathered it to death.

Half a year later, the volume of the Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light had visibly shrunk by a circle.

And on the Hunyuan Jin Dan in Su Chen's dantian, the Metal Element Dao patterns had gradually lit up.

The Metal Element Dao foundation was initially formed.

At this time, the struggles of the Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light became more and more violent.

It seemed to realize that if this continued, it would sooner or later be wool-gathered away by this person.

The light of the chains trapping it had dimmed by more than half.

This was the power of the Bai Hu Saint Beast constantly decaying.

Su Chen accelerated the speed of wool-gathering.

Time passed continuously, until the eleventh month.

The Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light no longer had any movement, almost completely retracting its own spiritual light.

And at this time, the light on the chains was so weak it was almost invisible.

Su Chen, however, was not anxious or impatient, because he had already collected enough Acquired Geng-Xin Spiritual Light.

Time came to the twelfth month.

The light on the chains trapping the Innate Indestructible Spiritual Light completely extinguished.

The Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light regained its freedom; it did not launch an attack on Su Chen.

It ran away directly.

The Innate Geng-Xin Indestructible Spiritual Light, which had been silent for a year, directly tore through space, drilled into the void fissure, and disappeared without a trace.

Su Chen looked at the disappearing space fissure, was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head and laughed.

`If it ran, let it run; I've already gotten what I should get. `

"Time is up." The Bai Hu Saint Beast's voice came from overhead. "This seat trapped it for a year; in this year, you wool-gathered thirty percent of its essence; it would be strange if it didn't run."

Su Chen stood up and cupped his hands toward the overhead. "Many thanks, Senior."

The Bai Hu Saint Beast's will was already extremely faint, and the golden light on the stone statue was almost invisible.

"This seat's clone power ends here." The Saint Beast's voice gradually weakened. "Before leaving, this seat has already informed Bai Diyuan that your status in the Bai Hu clan will be second only to him in the future. The Bai Hu clan will be your backing."

"In addition..." The voice almost dissipated in the air, "Cultivate well. This seat is waiting for the day you fulfill your promise."

The golden light on the Bai Hu stone statue extinguished completely.

The stone statue returned to silence.

After the Bai Hu Saint Beast left, Su Chen did not leave the Geng-metal Ancestral Vein.

Bai Diyuan, following the Saint Beast's instructions, carved out an independent cultivation cave dwelling for Su Chen inside the Ancestral Vein, sealed all passages, and forbade anyone from disturbing him.

Su Chen began his seclusion.

He used the method of tempering the Dan from the "Hunyuan Jin Dan True Explanation" to refine the collected Acquired Geng-Xin Spiritual Light into the Hunyuan Jin Dan, wisp by wisp.

This process was very slow and very boring.

Refining every wisp of Acquired Geng-Xin Spiritual Light required first harmonizing it with the four-element origins, then introducing it into the Jin Dan. If one was not careful, the violent Geng-metal power would conflict with the other four elements in the Dan.

But Su Chen had plenty of patience.

One year... two years...

In the fifth year, in the cave dwelling, Su Chen opened his eyes.

"After refining this wisp, my Hunyuan Jin Dan's Metal Element should be able to be perfect."

He took a deep breath and sent that wisp of spiritual light into his dantian.

The moment the Hunyuan Jin Dan refined that wisp of Geng-Xin Spiritual Light, the Metal Element Dao marks on the Hunyuan Jin Dan lit up with brilliant light, echoing with the other Dao marks.

An invisible shock erupted from his dantian.

On the Hunyuan Jin Dan, the deep blue of water, the emerald green of wood, the crimson red of fire, the bright yellow of earth, and the brilliance of gold—five-colored radiance bloomed simultaneously, intertwined and rotated, merging into one.

The five elements generated and restrained each other, circulating endlessly, naturally formed.

The next moment, the gods of Su Chen's five internal organs each spat out a wisp of Qi, lingering over Su Chen's five internal organs in his chest.

That was the Five Qi in the chest.

Water Qi, Wood Qi, Fire Qi, Earth Qi, Metal Qi—the five strands of Qi were naturally conceived, rose up, and merged into his chest cavity.

Five Qi toward the Origin; this was the sign of attaining the Golden Immortal Dao.

But Su Chen's Hunyuan Jin Dan already contained Yin and Yang; the moment the five elements were perfect, Yin and Yang and the five elements naturally blended, and the last missing link of his Dao foundation was filled.

At this time, his cultivation base rose as a matter of course.

He broke through directly from the mid-stage Tai Yi Jin Xian to the peak of Tai Yi Jin Xian.

The Geng-metal Ancestral Vein trembled violently, and the five-element spiritual energy within a radius of ten thousand miles surged crazily toward the direction where Su Chen was, forming a huge five-colored vortex above the mountain range.

In the distance, Bai Diyuan opened his eyes suddenly and looked toward the direction of the depths of the Ancestral Vein.

"Peak Tai Yi Jin Xian..."

He was silent for a while and suddenly laughed.

"The Saint Ancestor's eye for people is indeed not wrong."

In the cave dwelling, Su Chen stood up slowly.

The five-colored radiance flashed on his body surface and then returned to calm. ===== CHAPTER 275 =====