Chapter 45: Opening the Dantian, the White Bead

Deep in the mountain forest, Chen Yusheng was surrounded by a faint layer of Golden Light Incantation.

Xiao Hui carried him, sprinting at high speed through the woods.

The loli Zombie King, Xiao Jiu, sat on the back of a speed-type Mutant Zombie, following closely behind Chen Yusheng.

Ahead, a Mutant Wild Boar of abnormally large size was fleeing desperately as if crazed.

Yet its speed was still a cut below compared to Xiao Hui.

Before long, Xiao Hui carried Chen Yusheng to a position just over a hundred meters behind the wild boar.

"Crack—!"

A bolt of lightning suddenly shot out, instantly striking the crazed, fleeing wild boar ahead.

Struck by the lightning, the wild boar's body stiffened violently, and it fell straight to the ground.

Chen Yusheng immediately rode Xiao Hui forward, leaped off the wolf's back, and with a wave of the long sword in his hand, cleanly and efficiently chopped off the wild boar's head.

A moment later, an egg-sized Bianyi Shou Crystal was found by him inside the wild boar's head.

Not long after, Xiao Jiu arrived with a group of Mutant Zombies.

"Clean up the battlefield as quickly as possible," Chen Yusheng instructed Xiao Jiu.

At Xiao Jiu's command, the Zombie Group immediately pounced, beginning to gnaw on the wild boar carcass on the ground.

In less than ten minutes, nothing remained of the massive wild boar but a stark white skeleton.

Afterward, Chen Yusheng and his party, along with the Zombie Group, set off once again.

Half an hour later, two mutant monsters that looked like muntjacs died at Chen Yusheng's hands.

As long as Xiao Hui could carry Chen Yusheng within a hundred meters, no matter what kind of Bianyi Shou it was, he could finish it off directly using the Thunder Method.

Time passed quickly; over the course of one day, Chen Yusheng led the Zombie Group to hunt down more than a dozen Mutant Beasts, harvesting over a dozen Mutated Beast Crystal Cores.

At dusk, Chen Yusheng returned to a rock cave with the Zombie Group.

This was his current base of operations, where most of his supplies were stored.

The Mutated Beast Crystal Cores obtained from today's hunt were enough for him to cultivate for quite a while, so he planned to go into seclusion for a period to push for the next realm.

According to the records in the Refining Essence into Qi Chapter, after the Qi Refining Realm comes the Condensing Origin Realm.

To break through to the Condensing Origin Realm, one must first open up all the meridians and acupoints in the body, fill the limbs and bones with True Qi, and finally open the dantian.

Once the dantian is successfully opened, the immense pressure will compress the True Qi into True Essence; this is the origin of the Condensing Origin Realm.

At this moment, Chen Yusheng's cultivation had already reached the Qi Refining Eighth Layer, only one step away from breaking through to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.

The True Qi within his body had also filled most of his meridians and acupoints.

Inside the cave, Chen Yusheng circulated his cultivation technique with all his might.

It was a pity that most of the Mutated Beast Crystal Cores from the beasts he hunted only provided ten times the cultivation speed; high-level Mutant Beasts like the giant mutant snake from before were truly too rare.

However, ten times the speed was not slow; in a single day, he could refine over two hundred and seventy strands of True Qi.

Three days later, Chen Yusheng's cultivation successfully broke through to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.

A week later, he reached the Qi Refining Great Perfection directly.

Having reached the Qi Refining Great Perfection, the True Qi within Chen Yusheng's body was dense to the extreme, almost touching the limit of condensing Qi into liquid.

His Spiritual Power perception range had also expanded to its limit of ten meters.

"Finally, I can attempt to break through to the Condensing Origin Realm."

After breaking through to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, he still had a few Mutated Beast Crystal Cores left in his possession.

Chen Yusheng did not hesitate in the slightest and immediately began the final step of breaking through to the Condensing Origin Realm—opening the dantian.

He urged the True Qi within his body to circulate rapidly through his meridians.

When the speed of the True Qi reached the critical point, he violently guided all the True Qi in his body to charge fiercely toward the same location.

"Boom!"

A loud sound, as if Pangu were splitting the heavens, exploded within his body.

The next moment, the location of Chen Yusheng's dantian felt as if a dimensional space had been forcibly opened up.

Countless strands of True Qi surged madly into this space, causing it to expand continuously, and expand again.

This newly born space was his dantian.

"Hm? What is this?"

Chen Yusheng probed his perception into the newly opened dantian, only to suddenly discover an astonishing thing.

Suspended within his dantian was actually a White Bead.

"A Golden Core? Did I condense a Golden Core directly? But why is the Golden Core white?"

Regarding the bead that appeared inside the dantian, the first thing Chen Yusheng thought of was a Golden Core, because only a Golden Core would be inside the dantian.

"No, this bead... I seem to have some impression of it."

"Isn't this the giant pearl I picked up at an antique market back on Earth!"

Chen Yusheng finally remembered. This bead was a giant pearl he had picked up on Earth.

But how did this pearl-like bead follow him through his transmigration?

Could it be that my transmigration is related to this bead?

Chen Yusheng was completely baffled.

At this time, as True Qi continued to surge in, the dantian space was still expanding.

But Chen Yusheng's attention was almost entirely focused on that White Bead.

When his perception completely attached itself to the bead, his consciousness was suddenly pulled by a force into a strange, vast white space.

This space had no gravity; Chen Yusheng's consciousness floated within it, surrounded by thick, impenetrable white mist.

Immediately following, countless pieces of information surged madly into his mind.

By the time Chen Yusheng came to his senses, his perception had already returned to his body.

At this moment, his dantian had been completely opened, and all the True Qi in his body surged into the dantian, compressed into a fist-sized mass of liquid True Essence.

At the same time, Chen Yusheng clearly sensed that a new channel had appeared within his dantian, capable of connecting directly to the Purple Mansion, the Upper Dantian.

In other words, from now on, he could draw True Qi from his dantian and channel it to the Upper Dantian to nourish his soul.

The moment the dantian was successfully opened, his range of perception instantly surged to one hundred meters.

It was as if his previous Spiritual Power had been blocked by an invisible wall; now that the dantian was open, his Spiritual Power was released completely along this channel.

Only at this moment could his cultivation be considered to have truly broken through to the Condensing Origin Realm.

According to the records in the Refining Essence into Qi Chapter, the subsequent cultivation mainly involved continuing to widen the dantian while nourishing the Upper Dantian to strengthen his soul.

The next realm was to open the Purple Mansion and achieve the Purple Mansion Realm, and to open the Purple Mansion, one's soul strength must reach the corresponding standard.

Moving forward, Chen Yusheng would also need to continuously widen his dantian, increasing the pressure within it until the liquid True Essence was eventually compressed into a solid state.

At the same time, he had to continuously nourish the Upper Dantian to let his soul grow stronger.

As the Upper Dantian was continuously nourished, his range of Spiritual Power perception would also be able to increase exponentially.

But at this moment, Chen Yusheng had no mind to care about the matter of realm advancement.

Because a large amount of unfamiliar information had suddenly appeared in his mind.

This information was a technique for refining magical treasures, passed to him by the White Bead in his dantian that looked like a Golden Core; he could use this method to refine that bead.

The information did not explain what this White Bead actually was, nor did it state what its specific use was.

However, Chen Yusheng had already determined that this thing had nothing to do with a Golden Core.

Clearly, this was an object similar to a magical treasure that required slow refinement.

Chen Yusheng immediately attempted to refine the White Bead according to the technique.

"Strange... when was the first layer of restrictions on this White Bead already ninety-nine percent refined?"

He discovered with surprise that the first layer of restrictions on the White Bead had been ninety-nine percent refined at some point, and it only lacked the final bit to be completely controlled.

To fully master this White Bead, a total of forty-nine layers of restrictions needed to be refined.

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