Chapter 799: Eighth Affinity Rank Water Light Phase, A Bountiful Harvest

In the following period of time, news about the "Mystic Yellow Dragon Qi Pool" became a hot topic among the Twenty Banners, with banner members from every banner eagerly discussing who would claim the six Coiling Dragon Pillars in this Dragon Qi Pool.

Although the "Mystic Yellow Dragon Qi Pool" was a first for this generation of the Twenty Banners, everyone had long since memorized every detail of its process.

There was no such thing as an opportunity falling from the sky in this world; only by striving for it could one grasp it.

The Mystic Yellow Dragon Qi Pool was no exception.

This opportunity could only be claimed in its greatest share by a select few; the rest could only get some scraps.

In everyone's discussions, the six Great Banner Leaders who would occupy the Coiling Dragon Pillars this time, if nothing unexpected happened, should be those whose progress in pushing forward the Sha Mo Cave was currently the furthest along.

Because the contest for Dragon Qi could draw on the strength of each banner's members, meaning that with the augmentation of their respective banner members, every Great Banner Leader's strength would be elevated to an extremely formidable level.

In a certain sense, this was almost a competition among twenty "Marquis-tier strong experts."

And reportedly, the six Coiling Dragon Pillars in the Mystic Yellow Dragon Qi Pool also had some differences among them. Simply put, the six Coiling Dragon Pillars were one gold, two silver, three bronze.

The so-called gold meant that pillar was entirely gilded in color, and this Golden Dragon Pillar was located in the very center of the Dragon Qi Pool. The Dragon Qi gathered there was not only purer, but the quantity one might obtain was also the greatest.

The other two silver and three bronze referred to the remaining two Silver Dragon Pillars and three Bronze Dragon Pillars.

The effects of these five Dragon Pillars were naturally a bit weaker than the Golden Dragon Pillar.

But generally, no one should care too much about the differences between them. There were only six Coiling Dragon Pillars in total, and grabbing even one already counted as a winner.

Moreover... judging from the strength displayed by the Great Banner Leaders of this generation of the Twenty Banners, there was more than a ninety percent chance that the Golden Dragon Pillar would fall directly into the hands of Li Li Qingfeng of the Golden Blood Banner.

As for the other Great Banner Leaders, even Lu Lu Qingmei, it was thought, would find it quite difficult to snatch food from the dragon's mouth of Li Li Qingfeng.

Discussions like these filled every corner of the Twenty Banners during this period.

But Li Luo did not pay too much attention to these discussions, because during this period, he could feel that his "Water Light Phase" was drawing ever closer to evolution after being tempered again and again by Spiritual Water Marvelous Light.

Li Luo's Water Light Phase was currently at the Upper Seventh Affinity Rank, and if it advanced one more step, it would step into the Eighth Affinity Rank.

This was a moment Li Luo had been looking forward to immensely, because a phase entering the Eighth Affinity Rank could almost be considered a top-tier affinity. The affinity ranks possessed by the vast majority of geniuses basically fell within this level.

Thinking back to when Li Luo had resolved the issue of his "Empty Phase," the greatest hope in his heart at the time had been to nurture his "Water Light Phase" to the Eighth Affinity Rank.

And now, this simple, unpretentious hope had finally reached the moment of its realization.

In a cultivation chamber at the Qingming Practice Grounds.

Li Luo gazed at a bottle of Seventh Affinity Rank "Spiritual Water" placed on the table before him and could not help feeling a touch of emotion. From the initial awakening of his "Acquired Phase" until now, he had lost count of how many bottles of Spiritual Water Marvelous Light he had used. If the value of all these things were accumulated, he felt it should already have reached a terrifyingly large number.

But if Li Luo told others that his Water Light Phase had been raised step by step from a Fourth Affinity Rank all the way to its current level, probably no one would believe him.

Because raising an affinity was even more difficult than imagined.

The fact that Li Luo had managed it within a year or two was only partly due to having ample Spiritual Water Marvelous Light. More importantly, it was the special ability his former "Empty Phase" had granted his Phase Palace.

Ordinary people ultimately had a limit to how much "Spiritual Water Marvelous Light" they could refine. As the impurities within the Spiritual Water Marvelous Light gradually seeped into the Phase Palace, the Phase Palace would be eroded by those impurities, and over time, the effect of the Spiritual Water Marvelous Light would grow weaker and weaker.

But Li Luo's former "Empty Phase" allowed his own affinity to ignore the influence of the impurities contained within Spiritual Water Marvelous Light.

He had truly achieved the miracle of being able to drink Spiritual Water Marvelous Light like water.

He had a feeling that if he had stayed in Daxia, the Lu Lan Mansion might really have been bankrupted by him. Fortunately, however, Heaven rewards the diligent, and now he had a new patsy to take over the bill.

With the foundation of the dignified Li Li Tianwang lineage, surely they could afford to support him, right?

Li Luo's emotions churned, and then he poured the bottle of Seventh Affinity Rank Spiritual Water before him directly into his mouth. His ten fingers pressed together, and phase power surged through his body like a flood, refining the Spiritual Water.

And as time passed, the medicinal efficacy of the Seventh Affinity Rank Spiritual Water was fully extracted, and finally channeled by Li Luo into his Water Light Phase Palace.

Li Luo's mind had already descended into the Water Light Phase Palace.

He saw that at the center of the Water Light Phase Palace, there existed a lake. The lake appeared extraordinarily bright and clear, with faint ripples blooming across its surface, as if shimmering with flowing light.

Within the lake water, there was also a great sun reflected.

This was precisely the manifestation of the Water Light Phase within Li Luo's body.

And at this moment, the usually tranquil lake surface seemed to be stirred by wind and waves. The lake water began to surge, with layer upon layer of lake water forming tides that ceaselessly battered against the shore.

Within the entire Water Light Phase Palace, there also faintly came rumbling sounds.

The churning of the lake water grew ever more intense, and countless mysterious points of light descended from the sky, falling into it. These points of light were precisely the tempering energy contained within the Seventh Affinity Rank Spiritual Water.

As these points of light fell into the lake water, Li Luo seemed to hear the sound of the rising tide.

The lake surface began to expand at a startling speed, with streams of water splashing outward in all directions.

This lake began to grow ever vaster.

At the same time, Li Luo also felt the strengthening of his Water Light phase power.

He did not know how long this transformation lasted, but by the time the last wisp of light dissipated, Li Luo looked at the lake before him. Compared to a moment ago, its scale seemed to have roughly doubled, and it was beginning to resemble a true great lake and marsh.

Moreover, the great sun within the lake water had also become even more resplendent. Light rays refracted, and the lake surface glittered with ripples, as if countless fish were darting about within, brimming with vigorous vitality.

Joy rose unbidden in Li Luo's heart.

Because he knew that at this very moment, his Water Light Phase had truly broken through the shackles of the Seventh Affinity Rank and evolved to the Eighth Affinity Rank.

Eighth Affinity Rank Water Light Phase!

Nearly two years of painstaking cultivation had finally borne a bountiful harvest at this moment.

"Finally Eighth Affinity Rank!"

Li Luo opened his eyes. Phase power fluctuations were still rising from his body, and this evolution of the Water Light Phase had also caused his phase power to gain some further enhancement.

If comparing the sheer abundance of phase power under equal cultivation levels, Li Luo felt that even those absolute prodigies who possessed a true Ninth Affinity Rank might not necessarily be able to surpass him.

With this, his grasp on contending for the "Mystic Yellow Dragon Qi Pool" had gained an additional measure of certainty.

Li Luo stretched his arms, then glanced at the empty bottle of Seventh Affinity Rank Spiritual Water in his hand, and a touch of worry crept into his joyful heart.

Although the evolution of his Water Light Phase to the Eighth Affinity Rank was very pleasing, it also meant that if he wanted to enhance his Water Light Phase further in the future... he would need Eighth Affinity Rank Spiritual Water Marvelous Light.

And Spiritual Water Marvelous Light of this rank began to become entirely different.

The price of Eighth Affinity Rank Spiritual Water Marvelous Light would be ten times that of the Seventh Affinity Rank, or even more.

In other words, the Seventh Affinity Rank Spiritual Water Marvelous Light from the two monthly stipends Li Luo received each month in the Dragon Fang Branch combined might not be enough to exchange for a single bottle of Eighth Affinity Rank Spiritual Water Marvelous Light.

This was because the refinement difficulty of Eighth Affinity Rank Spiritual Water Marvelous Light was too high. It required an Eighth Affinity Rank Phase Tempering Master to personally refine it, and even within a Li Tianwang-level faction like the Li Li Tianwang lineage, an Eighth Affinity Rank Phase Tempering Master was considered a rare craftsman.

This caused the production of eighth-grade Spirit Water Strange Light to plummet sharply compared to seventh-grade.

With production falling, the price naturally rose with the tide.

Li Luo had once managed the "Sunshine Valley" of House Luolan Mansion, and he himself was also a Tempering Phase Master, so he understood this quite well. Below eighth-grade, Spirit Water Strange Light could still pursue mass production, but once it reached the eighth-grade tier, the volume dropped sharply and began to grow scarce.

In terms of rarity, eighth-grade Spirit Water Strange Light could already begin to rival medicinal pills; the only difference was that pills served multiple functions, while Spirit Water Strange Light could only enhance phase affinity, making it somewhat one-dimensional.

"Sigh, two monthly salaries are already starting to be insufficient to support myself."

Li Luo felt wistful. The price of eighth-grade Spirit Water Strange Light was too high; if he were still staying at House Luolan Mansion now, House Luolan Mansion truly wouldn't be able to afford him.

It seemed he still had to find a way to improve his own treatment.

As such thoughts turned in Li Luo's mind, he was just about to rise when his expression suddenly shifted, his gaze snapping toward the crimson bracelet on his wrist. At that moment, he sensed an unusual fluctuation emanating from within it.

That was...

The Three-Tailed Heavenly Wolf had awakened?!