Chapter 103: Breaking Through to Marrow Cleansing Stage

He threw a Spirit-Charging Pill into his mouth and quickly operated the cultivation method to dissolve the medicinal power in the spirit pill.

At the same time, the spiritual power of the five attributes of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth formed a cycle in his body, using the endless momentum generated by the five elements cycle to launch an impact on the rock-solid bottleneck.

Long Xuan instantly felt a majestic force flowing everywhere in his body, giving him a feeling of being about to be burst, and his whole body was aching with swelling.

Sweat flowed from his body instantly, and the severe pain made his whole body tremble. He clenched his teeth and forcibly didn't let himself roar out.

There is no other way; the breakthrough must be carried out by the main body personally, and the clone cannot do it for him.

He could only personally endure this inhuman torture.

Time flew by for a month. Long Xuan finally opened his eyes on this day, and a flash of essence flashed and disappeared from his eyes, as if his eyes were brighter than usual.

A slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He clenched his fists and felt the power brought by the new realm. The smile on the corner of his mouth became more and more intense.

"Is this the power possessed by a Marrow Cleansing Stage Gu cultivator? It is simply more than ten times stronger than a Spirit Gathering Stage Gu cultivator. No wonder there are geniuses in this world who can fight across levels, but there is no news of geniuses who can fight across major realms."

"The gap between major realms is simply a difference between clouds and mud, a chasm that cannot be crossed."

Long Xuan was shocked by the power of the Marrow Cleansing Stage Gu cultivator, and at the same time, his mood became more and more excited.

The breakthrough difficulty of the Ten Extremes Body was greater than he imagined. It took a full five Spirit-Charging Pills to break through successfully in one go. He was also lucky that he was well prepared.

From now on, he is a small Gu cultivator at the Marrow Cleansing Stage.

It cannot be said to be a small Gu cultivator; it can already be called a small expert.

In a great clan as strong as the Long family, there are only more than one hundred Marrow Cleansing Stage Gu cultivators, which is enough to see the gold content of this realm and how rare it is in this region.

As long as one crosses this hurdle, he has basically surpassed 99% of the Gu cultivators in this world.

Gu Kings are rarely encountered, and Spirit Sea Stage Gu cultivators who are one major realm higher than him may not be able to catch up with his star-treading speed.

His current strength is enough to protect himself in this place. Basically, it is very difficult to encounter danger from people again. He can officially declare that he can say goodbye to the newbie village.

Long Xuan stood up, twisted his neck, moved his sour muscles and bones, and finally walked out of the array formation.

Just after coming out of the array formation, Long Xuan saw Long Lao sitting on the ground meditating, and his heart felt slightly warm.

It is not hard for him to guess why Long Lao sat here. This array disk is simply too poor and cannot play a protective role at all. It is presumably that Long Lao was worried and personally ran over to protect him.

Hearing the movement behind him, Long Lao turned his head and saw Long Xuan radiating the aura of the Marrow Cleansing Stage, revealing a look of surprise. Clearly, he was very surprised that Long Xuan could break through.

Looking at his expression, Long Xuan could judge that he was not optimistic about his breakthrough this time. Otherwise, it would be impossible to reveal such a shocked expression.

It seems that the possibility of Spirit-Charging Grass helping the Ten Extremes Body break through is minimal. Long Lao had no confidence in his breakthrough this time.

Long Xuan had to rejoice that he was cautious and refined the Spirit-Charging Grass into a spirit pill. If he didn't want to waste time self-creating the Spirit-Charging Pill formula, he would probably not have been able to break through successfully today.

"What kind of expression is this? It's as if my being able to break through makes you very puzzled. Do you have so little confidence in me?" Long Xuan looked at Long Lao and said.

"It's truly incredible. I didn't expect you to really be able to break through. Although you have dozens of Spirit-Charging Grasses, the breakthrough object is precious for its essence, not its quantity. I don't think Spirit-Charging Grass has the power to break open the rock of the Ten Extremes Body."

"Your breakthrough this time is truly beyond my expectations. Maybe the ancestral grave of your family is smoking green smoke!"

Long Lao suddenly frowned again and said: "Once your Ten Extremes Body breaks through, it is truly too terrifying. Most of the Marrow Cleansing Stage Gu cultivators in the clan will not be your opponents. Your status in the clan will rise in a straight line, and the degree of being valued will basically be at the same level as Long Ziyan, and you will be fully cultivated by the clan."

"Take some time to find the family head to report. Every newly broken through Marrow Cleansing Stage Gu cultivator has the qualification to independently open up a cave abode and will be rewarded by the clan with a mountain peak with rich spiritual power."

"When you choose a cave abode, try to choose a place close to the hinterland of the Long family. On one hand, the closer to the center of the Long family, the higher the spiritual power concentration. On the other hand, once you encounter a dangerous situation, the clan can support you in time."

"You go to choose a cave abode now. After choosing, go to the family head to ask for it."

After the words fell, Long Lao finally got up and left, seeming to have important things to do, and no longer chatted.

Long Xuan nodded and also went to choose his cave abode in a good mood. Since it is something given for free, why not take it? Not taking it is not taking it.

He walked out of the Long family, first found the highest mountain peak, then found the highest tree on this mountain peak, used the tip of his toes to lightly step on a leaf at the highest point of this tree, and then opened the Heavenly Mechanism Eye, looking into the distance in all directions with super strong vision.

Standing higher, one can see further. Standing in this position, all the mountain peaks in the Long family range are in full view.

The spiritual power required for Marrow Cleansing Stage cultivation is too huge. Basically, one Marrow Cleansing Stage lives on one mountain peak to satisfy the daily cultivation needs, so the clan will give each Marrow Cleansing Stage Gu cultivator a mountain peak as a reward.

Mountain peaks have large and small ones, and there will be subtle differences in spiritual power concentration, but the first to arrive gets it. Unless the Gu cultivator living on the best mountain peak dies accidentally, the mountain peak will be taken back by the clan for redistribution. Otherwise, the latecomers can only settle for the second best.

Some mountain peaks have huge medicine gardens, fish ponds, ranches... and other various industries that can earn income left by the previous owners. The different industries on various mountain peaks are also plus points and are included in the selection criteria.

The wealth of each mountain peak is different. Even if one cannot take care of the industries on the mountain, one can hand them over to those mortals to manage. Most Gu cultivators do exactly this.

Long Xuan first looked at the position closest to the center of the clan and the mountain peak with the largest area, discovering that there were array formations protecting them. It was a place with an owner, and there were a large number of mortals working hard inside.

All the rich and large mountain peaks had already been occupied, and what was left were all edge-side, poor and small mountain peaks. Long Xuan frowned slightly.

Speaking of which, this is also the evil result he caused. He handed over a large amount of Spirit-Charging Grass to the clan last time, leading to a sharp increase in the number of newly promoted Marrow Cleansing Stage Gu cultivators in the Long family recently. All the good mountain peaks were divided up, and what was left for him was all one small poor peak after another.

Thus, Long Xuan's mood immediately became unhappy. Helplessly, he could only pick the tall among the short among those barren mountain peaks, but he still couldn't find a mountain peak that satisfied him.

So he constantly expanded the search range, gradually beginning to get further and further away from the center of the clan.

No one will choose to open up a cave abode at a position very far from the clan. Spiritual power is thin on one hand, and once there is demonic cultivator looting or war, then the position at the very edge of the clan will bear the brunt. Due to the remote distance, the clan also cannot launch rescue in the first time.

So everyone will choose the mountain peak closest to the clan. Only Long Xuan, because he has too many secrets and likes quietness, will consider the position remote from the clan.

Just like this, after Long Xuan didn't know how long he had been looking, his line of sight finally stopped on one of the huge mountain peaks.

This mountain peak is truly too huge, more than ten times larger than the largest mountain peak with an owner close to the clan. The territory is so large that it can be described as boundless.

Although this mountain peak covers a large area, it is truly too far from the clan. To date, no Long Clan Gu cultivator has ever established a cave abode on this mountain peak, and there is no trace of human activity on it.

This also means that there is no medicine garden, no fish pond, and no industry on this mountain peak. It requires the occupant to spend time to arrange it from scratch.

Of course, Long Xuan hadn't considered that he must choose this place. The reason why he stopped his line of sight on this mountain peak was entirely because he saw a progress of 【86.583214%】 in the center of this mountain peak.

There were actually a full six digits after the decimal point. What exactly was that?

Long Xuan was shocked, ecstatic in his heart, revealing a curious look.

Although he didn't know what exactly was hidden in the center of the mountain peak, it was eight out of ten a good thing. Long Xuan's heartbeat accelerated, revealing a joyful look. After jumping down from the leaf, he rushed toward that mountain peak at the fastest speed.

That mountain peak was very, very far from him, but at his star-treading speed, it still took less than half a day to arrive.

He didn't stop at all, running fast toward the position where the progress appeared.

Because the progress appeared in the center of the mountain peak, he had to stop somewhere on the mountainside.

He certainly didn't have the ability to drill into the soil and couldn't directly earth-escape into the center of the mountain to check what exactly the progress with six digits after the decimal point was.

But this couldn't stump him. The Earth Mover Beetle he refined hadn't been thrown away yet. He didn't have the habit of throwing away his Gu insects at will.

That Earth Mover Beetle was placed in the second team and was not intended to be cultivated as a main force. Only on occasions when it was inconvenient to use top-quality Gu insects would he use his second-team Gu insects to hide his clumsiness.

Currently, his second-team strength was only the Earth Mover Beetle, the Cockroach Gu, and the Bee King Bing Bing.

After the Earth Mover Beetle appeared, it opened its bloody mouth and frantically shoveled soil into its mouth. Not long after, a big hole was eaten out of the mountain body.

Although the Earth Mover Beetle's soil-eating speed was amazing and the storage space it carried could temporarily store a large amount of soil, it still dug for a long time before finally digging to the center of the mountain body.

There was a huge crack in the center of the mountain body, and the mountain body space created by the crack was very large. Many glowing plants grew inside, so it was not dark here, but rather very beautiful.

Just after digging through here, Long Xuan felt rich spiritual power rushing toward his face, making his spirit lift.

The spiritual power concentration here was much, much higher than the outside world, making him instantly reveal an astonished expression.

"What kind of place is this? How can there be such a high spiritual power concentration?"

Long Xuan was shocked in his heart and immediately looked at the position where the progress appeared. Soon his mouth opened wide, revealing a shocked gaze.

Appearing in his line of sight was a circular spring eye that gushed out spring water incessantly. The area was not very large, the spring water was clear to the bottom, and the water surface emitted rich and amazing spiritual energy, spreading to the entire space.

Long Xuan's heartbeat accelerated. He hurriedly ran toward that spring eye at the fastest speed, scooped up a mouthful of water and sent it into his mouth. Soon his eyes lit up, revealing an excited light.

"This is..."

Looking at this spring eye that kept gushing water, his eyes shone, and his breathing became rapid.

The water gushing out of this spring eye not only contained a large amount of spiritual power, but the spiritual power would also spread into the air. Every bit of spring water that came out of the spring eye had to bring out a large amount of spiritual power, causing the spiritual power concentration in this hidden space to be extremely high, far higher than the outside world.

At this time, he couldn't help but think of the things often mentioned in the cultivation novels of his previous life, Spirit Spring.

The spiritual power concentration in various places in the world is different. In some places, the spiritual power concentration is high, and in some places, the spiritual power concentration is low.

If you ask where the spiritual power concentration is the highest, it is nothing more than spirit veins, spirit mountains, spirit eyes, spirit springs...

The spiritual power concentration in these places may be ten times, one hundred times, or even one thousand times higher than in other places.

Cultivating in these places, the speed of progress is enough to be a thousand miles a day.

When a Gu cultivator family chooses a place to settle, they need to consider factors in all aspects.

But once they accidentally encounter these places, then any factor doesn't need to be considered. Directly occupy this place brainlessly. The benefits these places bring to the clan are enough to make them overcome any difficulties.

If any clan settles at a spirit spring, then the cultivation speed of all Gu cultivators in the entire clan will be much faster than Gu cultivators in the outside world, and even the aptitude of children born here will generally be higher than in the outside world.

It is no exaggeration to say that this clan can become a giant in one party in a few hundred years here. One spirit spring is enough to make a small clan grow into a large clan in a very short time.

The value of that spirit spring is something anyone can imagine. It can be said that a spirit spring is something that can definitely trigger a war. Once exposed, it will surely trigger the flames of war.

Its value is much, much greater than the fossil mine vein.

If he could let his five clones cultivate here every day, then his cultivation wouldn't be like riding a rocket, rising up. This temptation is truly too great for him.

No need to choose, just here. There is no place more suitable as a cultivation cave abode than here.

He immediately decided to treat this mountain peak as his new home. Such a cultivation holy land, if not occupied, is a fool.

At this time, he already had the intention of moving, wanting to move the medicine garden of Big Stone Village here. With the nourishment of the spirit spring, the growth speed of spirit medicine will be faster.

Plus the spiritual power concentration here is high, the growth of spirit medicine will also be better, and even Spirit-Charging Grass will be planted alive in this place.

The spiritual power density of the mortal village is low, plus the fireworks atmosphere of mortals is too heavy, which is definitely not a good place for a Gu cultivator to settle for a long time.

Long Xuan's eyes turned, and he soon made a decision.

However, before moving, the array formation to protect this place should be prepared first.

This place of the spirit spring is truly too important and must not be exposed. Although the Ice Cold Great Array is not bad, it cannot protect this place.

Not to mention that it is a bit difficult to block Spirit Sea Stage Gu cultivators, even those array guests who are proficient in array formations certainly cannot be defended against. Di Xin can break it with a casual move.

The secret of the spirit spring must not be discovered by anyone, otherwise it will surely bring him a fatal disaster, so the array formation to protect this place must be able to block everyone, and it must also be everyone, including Gu Kings.

Because arranging an array formation does not need to be done in one go and can be interrupted and rested at any time, even Gu cultivators with very low realms can arrange very awesome array formations.

It is very normal for array formations arranged by Marrow Cleansing Stage Gu cultivators to block Spirit Sea Stage Gu cultivators. Array formations that can only block the same rank have no meaning.

Of course, limited by the realm, it is very difficult for array formations arranged by Marrow Cleansing Stage Gu cultivators to block Gu Kings.

But as long as the thing pressing the array eye is heaven-defying enough, such as pressing a spirit vein or dragon vein, then it is not a delusion that this array formation can block Gu Kings.

And Long Xuan happens to have a spirit spring at the same level as a spirit vein as an array eye, so it is not a dream that he wants to arrange an array formation that can block Gu Kings.

Not only him, under the same conditions, the vast majority of Marrow Cleansing Stage Gu cultivators proficient in array formations can do the same thing as him, which is a very normal thing in this world, it's just that it is very difficult to find this level of array eye pressing objects.

What's more, Long Xuan also has the method of shrinking array patterns by a hundred times to increase the upper limit of the array formation, making his great array fiercer and fiercer. As long as the array diagram he creates is not bad, and there is a spirit spring as an array eye, then it can definitely block a Gu King one hundred percent.

And the things he can use to press the array eye are not just one spirit spring. The demon flower just obtained is also not bad. Using it as a treasure to press the array eye of the illusion array, the illusion released by the illusion array can definitely threaten Gu Kings.

The Ice Cold Divine Flame is the strongest man-made fire, and its power is infinitely close to the legendary Heavenly Fire. Once used as a treasure to press the array eye, combined with a more awesome array formation, its power will definitely not be bad, and it can even threaten Gu Kings as well.

Many of his array eyes have the power to threaten Gu Kings. Now it depends on how awesome the array diagram he designs can be.

Long Xuan's eyes brightened, revealing an ambitious look.

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