Chapter 154: Ninth level of Qi Refining, summarizing and taking stock of attributes

"It wasn't necessary."

"Was it really not necessary?"

In the stone room, one person sat cross-legged on the bed, and one person stood with his hands behind his back in front of the bed.

Cough cough...

Facing Wang Yuan's emotional gaze, Luo Chen couldn't stop coughing twice.

He said softly, "You once said that a great man can bend and stretch, not losing the true character of a hero. But in the face of a real choice, one must stick to one's original heart; otherwise, if the will is broken, the bent waist will never be able to straighten up for a lifetime."

"I know, yesterday's battle didn't count as a necessary choice."

"But I'm afraid that when the real choice comes, I will habitually calculate and weigh the pros and cons, and finally miss the opportunity and lose my original heart."

Listening to these low words, Wang Yuan was surprised.

It seems Luo Chen is pointing at something?

During the time he was away, what exactly did he experience?

Luo Chen didn't let him think so much, just squeezed out a smile.

"Moreover, a talisman treasure strike always needs someone to take it."

"I could have taken it," Wang Yuan said decisively.

"Then would you have been injured? I'm afraid not only would you have been injured, but you would have also groundlessly exposed your blood-path methods, attracting the attention of Foundation Establishment cultivators!"

Wang Yuan hesitated.

Luo Chen shook his head with a light laugh, "That's it, you taking it would have resulted in injury, and me taking it also resulted in injury; there's no difference!"

"And, I wasn't just hot-headed."

Indeed!

The intelligence that the Fu family had a talisman treasure was very clear to both Luo Chen and Wang Yuan.

Since they could be listed as a Foundation Establishment family, they must have Foundation Establishment means.

A talisman treasure, sealing nearly thirty percent of a magic treasure's power, can be called a super killer weapon below Foundation Establishment.

From the moment they decided to target the Fu family, Luo Chen and Wang Yuan had made various plans to deal with the talisman treasure.

When that giant hammer phantom erupted, Luo Chen knew his plan hadn't been in vain.

"After all, the one who activated the talisman treasure was just a ninth-level Qi Refining cultivator."

"Especially since he had been worn down by Duan Feng and other loose cultivators, and after continuous fierce battles, the so-called nearly thirty percent magic treasure power of the talisman treasure had to be greatly discounted."

"And I am different; the top-grade magic tool was already in my hand, and the Fireball Technique was ready to go."

"What do I have to fear!"

Wang Yuan nodded; with his combat experience, he very much agreed with these words.

A talisman treasure, although it is a talisman, is not quite like a talisman.

Ordinary talismans seal a certain amount of spiritual power, so after activating it, the magic power inside will bloom with that much power.

This is fixed.

It doesn't matter if the cultivator's current state is at its peak or in a trough.

As long as it is activated, the talisman can fully explode its power.

But talisman treasures are different!

What is sealed inside is the power of a magic treasure.

Then the question arises, how should the power of a magic treasure be calculated?

What would be the strongest power?

That depends on the person!

If the Fu family ancestor who made the talisman treasure was a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he would definitely not be able to seal much magic treasure power.

If it was a Golden Core stage, then it would have to be calculated differently.

According to what Luo Chen heard from Sima Xian, earlier from Sikong Shoujia, and others, the Fu family ancestors didn't produce a Golden Core ancestor.

Their ancestors weren't rich.

Even before the Foundation Establishment ancestor passed away, in order to support a new Fu family Foundation Establishment, they exhausted the Foundation Establishment pills in Tianlan Immortal City.

That was why the Fu family decided to move to Dahe Market.

Looking at it this way, the Fu family's legacy talisman treasure was at most the magic treasure power that a Foundation Establishment cultivator could barely seal.

Moreover, after activating the talisman treasure, because it is a magic treasure phantom.

Therefore, it still needs the cultivator himself to control it.

If it were Fu Zhang in his peak state, it would be enough to threaten Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Unfortunately, he was no longer in his peak state at that time.

Plus Luo Chen was ready to go, and he had mastered second-order magic spells like the "Fireball Technique."

Only then did Wang Yuan dare to let Luo Chen take action.

The final result, with Fu Zhang being wiped out and Luo Chen suffering minor injuries, was declared a success.

Wang Yuan sighed, "After this battle, you also have a place among the Qi Refining cultivators in Dahe Market."

"Haha, didn't I already have one!"

"Uh, I mean combat power, not the ability to earn spirit stones."

Luo Chen waved his hand, "Alright, let's leave it at that. These two days, I will use the excuse of recuperating to avoid some people. You help me look after the Luo Tian Society, and by the way, together with Murong Qinglian, count the gains and losses of this battle."

"You know my personality; for the families of those cultivators who died in battle... if there are any, give them some compensation!"

"The Jade Marrow Pills refined can also be taken out for sale. Hand this matter to Gu Caiyi and Zeng Wen to handle."

The nagging instructions came out of Luo Chen's mouth.

Very detailed and comprehensive, almost arranging the Luo Tian Society's affairs in an orderly manner.

Wang Yuan felt his head swell a bit.

After half a day, he shook his head, "You should recuperate well, strive to come back early; I'm annoyed by these things."

After speaking, he left the stone room.

After he left, Luo Chen pressed his chest and coughed heavily several times.

External injuries are easy to talk about, but this internal injury, I'm afraid it will take a while to recuperate.

However, they are all physical injuries, and there is no major obstacle to cultivation.

"Just right, this period of time can allow me to calm down and cultivate a bit."

Luo Chen found joy in suffering, opened the formation, and then quietly went down to the spiritual vein cave.

Familiar place, familiar scene.

Luo Chen looked at the increasingly transparent spirit stone raw ore, and his brows couldn't help but furrow.

"The spiritual energy here has become increasingly thin."

"In Phoenix Falling Mountain, is there really some spiritual vein upgrading project going on?"

"Forget it, don't think too much for now; at least for now, this place can still supply my cultivation."

Gathering his mind, falling into a state of ancient well without waves, Luo Chen operated the Changchun Gong.

Four days later.

Luo Chen opened his eyes, first coughed lightly, and then a look of surprise appeared on his face.

Ninth level of Qi Refining!

Open the attribute panel.

Luo Chen browsed it with a relaxed and happy mood for the first time.

【Realm: Ninth level of Qi Refining 1/100】

【Cultivation Technique: Great Perfection Changchun Gong, Ming Shen Mingshen Posha Entry 71/100】

【Magic Spells: Great Perfection Fireball Technique, Great Perfection Carefree Wind Control, Great Perfection Traction Technique, Great Perfection Breath-Restraining Spirit Technique, Entanglement Technique Grandmaster 810/1000, Spirit Eye Technique Grandmaster 980/1000, Cleaning Technique Grandmaster 775/100, Healing Technique Perfect 470/500, Earth Mountain Technique Proficient 250/300, Wave Technique Proficient 210/300, Soundproofing Technique Entry 71/100】

【Alchemy Technique: Folding Jade Hand Grandmaster 510/1000, Pure Heart Hand Perfect 327/500】

【Wu Gong: Mountain-Opening Stele-Breaking Palm Grandmaster 780/1000, Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers Perfect 319/500】

【Skills: First-order Alchemist, Bigusan Great Perfection, Zhongmiaowan Grandmaster 730/1000, Jade Marrow Pill Grandmaster 850/1000, Burning Blood Pill Entry 62/100】

【Achievement Points: 34 points】

Calculating carefully, he stepped into the eighth level of Qi Refining in the early spring of March.

Now, although the weather is still incomparably hot, it is already considered to have stepped into the golden autumn of September.

A full half a year has passed.

In the past half year, he almost never stopped cultivating Changchun Gong, constantly tempering the impurities in his spiritual power.

Plus the assistance of many cultivation resources such as Dust-Transforming Pills, Calming Incense, and Moonlight Grass, he kept his spiritual power in its peak state at all times.

Especially the bottle of Monkey Wine that Wang Yuan brought back from the Ancient Plains Mountains also provided him with huge help.

Finally, it was the battle five days ago.

That battle provided the most solid foundation for him to take the last step.

Now that his state has recovered to its peak, he has naturally stepped into the ninth level of Qi Refining.

"Half a year, the resources consumed amounted to over ten thousand spirit stones, and finally I took this step."

"Which loose cultivator can be as extravagant as me?"

"However, everything is worth it!"

Luo Chen almost wanted to laugh heartily.

Although the expenditure was huge, it only took half a year to cross a small realm, and it was still a small realm of the late stage of Qi Refining.

If he said it out, others wouldn't believe it.

"I don't count as losing face for a transmigrator; in less than two years, I've come from the third level of Qi Refining to the ninth level of Qi Refining."

With a hehe laugh, Luo Chen first looked inside his body.

In the center of the dantian, there was a faint cloud-like spiritual energy mass.

This is the sign of a cultivator reaching the ninth level of Qi Refining.

After refining the spiritual power once, this peculiar scene will form in the dantian.

Only by forming this spiritual energy mass can the final step of cultivation be carried out.

"According to Mi Shuhua's Qi Refining insights, it is necessary to fill the entire dantian with spiritual energy clouds; only then can it be called the Great Perfection of Qi Refining."

Estimating slightly, Luo Chen was a little shocked.

The spiritual energy cloud mass in his body now only occupies less than one-tenth of the dantian.

In other words, to fill it completely, it would take ten times the time of the eighth level of Qi Refining.

"No wonder many loose cultivators stop at the ninth level of Qi Refining for their whole lives."

"Just breaking through the eighth level of Qi Refining is extremely difficult, and this last step requires ten times more than before."

"Even with my resource-filled conditions, it will take five or six years, and I have to ensure that no accidents occur in the middle."

"The only benefit is probably leaving a root!"

Yes, leaving a root!

This spiritual energy cloud mass in the body is the root of spiritual power.

As long as a wisp remains in the body, even if the spiritual power in the body is scattered seven or eight times, re-cultivating it back doesn't require spending huge amounts of time to refine it bit by bit.

It only needs a little polishing to restore it to its original state, as pure as before.

Of course, this is aimed at sect cultivators, aimed at those sect cultivators who possess complete and pure spiritual power cultivation techniques.

Loose cultivators still have to use stupid methods to polish it bit by bit.

But at this time, because there is a root of spiritual power, it can still save a lot of time.

"So, there is the case of Duan Feng borrowing the Discussion Platform to fight, scattering spiritual power, and then slowly cultivating it back to carry out continuous refining!"

After figuring out this principle, Luo Chen was not discouraged.

What if it's ten times the time before?

It's just five or six years!

His lifespan is already considered sufficient, and he can afford to spend it.

No longer looking inside, Luo Chen browsed other entries.

"Ming Shen Mingshen Posha is about to step into the second stage!"

After sighing, Luo Chen was quite excited.

After stimulating thirty-six acupoints together, Ming Shen Mingshen Posha was considered to have entered the door, and then it appeared in the cultivation technique column of the attribute panel.

This was about the same as he guessed; Ming Shen Mingshen Posha is indeed counted as a cultivation technique.

It's just not easy to categorize.

If one leads evil energy into the body to refine essence into Qi, it counts as a Qi Refining cultivation technique.

But Luo Chen hasn't carried out a single time of leading evil energy into the body yet.

If viewed separately, it has both the effect of tempering the will and the effect of weakly improving the foundation of the primordial spirit.

So, will-refining cultivation technique? Spirit-refining cultivation technique?

Moreover, this cultivation technique originated from a Wu Gong grandmaster's self-creation; after evil energy enters the body, as long as one can bear it, there is an additional effect of tempering the body.

So, body-refining cultivation technique?

Not easy to categorize; this is Luo Chen's evaluation of it.

Let's just practice it for now!

Not to mention anything else, Luo Chen's tolerance for pain has now reached an extremely terrifying level.

That talisman treasure attack, how powerful it was.

After taking a strike head-on, Luo Chen could still squeeze out a graceful smile and perform a graceful posture in front of countless loose cultivators in Dahe Market.

It had the credit of this Ming Shen Mingshen Posha!

There is nothing to say about the magic spell column.

He got three new magic spells; Earth Mountain Technique and Wave Technique are preparations for the second-order magic spell Mountain Collapse.

Soundproofing Technique was picked out by him from a pile of spoils of war; he didn't ask for any power, just practicality!

Healing Technique, on the other hand, has made rapid progress recently.

Thanks to his injuries, he threw it on himself whenever he had nothing to do.

"Eh, Spirit Eye Technique is about to reach Great Perfection?"

Luo Chen's gaze had originally slid to the alchemy technique column, but then jumped back instantly.

【Spirit Eye Technique Grandmaster 980/1000】

"Only 20 proficiency points away..."

Luo Chen rubbed his chin; the stubble had grown out again after closing for four or five days after shaving it not long ago.

Rubbing his chin, it was itchy.

Just like his mood now.

"When it broke through to the Grandmaster level, the vision of rooting in both eyes appeared."

"If it reaches Great Perfection, wouldn't it take off?"

Of course, the effect of magic spell Great Perfection appearing is not necessarily a qualitative improvement.

It's like the Great Perfection Traction Technique, which only made Luo Chen outstanding in the use of complete sets of magic tools.

But for single magic tools, compared to the Grandmaster level, the improvement is not too big, only increasing part of the magic tool manipulation range.

"Perhaps, it will also be related to my own physique?"

Luo Chen thought of the Runming Pearl Liquid.

The Runming Pearl Liquid he got, adding up to about six bottles.

All have been used up, and no special effect of seeing through the nine netherworlds has appeared.

According to his guess, it is estimated that it is still too little.

Or maybe the Yuding Sword Sect hid a hand, and the Runming Pearl Liquid sold to the outside is much worse in quality than what is used in the sect.

So what Qing Yuanzi said back then that this thing is very effective for alchemists is based on the Yuding Sword Sect taking out real goods.

"Let's not worry about it for now; let's work hard next and reach Great Perfection in one go."

Sliding down the attribute column, the alchemy technique column made Luo Chen curl his lips.

There are only two alchemy techniques, Folding Jade Hand and Pure Heart Hand, which is indeed too few.

If he could learn several alchemy techniques recorded in "Qingyuan Alchemy Solution" that are rumored, that would be great.

"It is rumored that the Huanxi Hand can have an excellent processing effect on water-attribute spiritual materials and various liquid spiritual materials."

"If I learn it, it will be like adding wings to a tiger, and I will even dare to refine Blood Evil Pills directly."

The main materials for Blood Evil Pills are Yellow Spring Yin Evil, cultivator essence blood, and purple river car.

Among them, Yellow Spring Yin Evil and essence blood can be counted as water-attribute spiritual materials and liquid spiritual materials.

The reason Luo Chen has been hesitant to start is that he has no grasp of processing the main materials during the alchemy process.

If he could just enter the door, it would be fine, but this is a second-order alchemy recipe, which does not belong to the corresponding realm.

System entry also considers his own conditions.

If his own conditions are not met, the achievement points required will be more.

That's why Luo Chen is so eager for alchemy techniques like Huanxi Hand.

"Huanxi Hand, Qi-gathering Method, Spirit-fusion Technique... I don't know when I will be able to possess these wonderful alchemy techniques!"

Now is fantasy time!

After the fantasy, Luo Chen curled his lips, almost thinking that after the realm breakthrough, his mood was unstable and he had inner demons.

Pfft, low-level cultivators don't have so many inner demons!

Glancing at Wu Gong and skills, Luo Chen finally looked at the achievement points.

Couldn't help but mutter.

"34 points, I don't know if it's enough to enter the second-order alchemy recipe."

(End of chapter)

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