Chapter 119

At night.

Wang Yu returned to the stone room inside a cave in the mountain belly.

The Heavenly Pillar Mountain spirit domain possessed a large second-rank spirit vein and a medium first-rank spirit vein. Although it could not be compared to the Four Symbols Sect's original mountain gate, it was already the greatest sincerity the Thousand Bamboo Sect could offer, barely enough for the thousands of disciples of the Four Symbols Sect to cultivate.

Wang Yu was sitting cross-legged on a yellow cushion at this time, flipped one hand, and a crimson wooden plaque appeared in his hand. After scanning it with his divine sense, he immediately saw the merit points '1013' displayed inside.

The 13 merit points among them were the merit points issued by the General Affairs Hall for repairing the flying boats these past few days.

The other 1000 merit points were a sky-high merit reward issued to him on the spot through the General Affairs Hall when he accompanied Ximen Mei back to the mountain gate and sent her to the Array Hall, where the several stewards who came out to welcome her were overjoyed.

Such a large number of merit points almost made Wang Yu bite his own tongue at the time.

Is an array apprentice so important to the Four Symbols Sect now?

Or does this Ximen Shijie have some other important identity?

Wang Yu had faint guesses in his heart, but fortunately, when the two parted, Ximen Mei gave him an additional communication disk, saying he could contact her if he had anything.

With so many merit points, he naturally couldn't not use them.

Therefore, on the way back earlier, he had already gone to the General Affairs Hall to verify the price of the pills.

The General Affairs Hall Pill Hall now has mid-grade Essence-Increasing Pills stocked, priced at '50 merit points and two hundred and fifty spirit stones', while top-grade Essence-Increasing Pills require a full 1000 merit points.

According to the steward in charge of exchanging pills at the Pill Hall, although mid-grade and top-grade Essence-Increasing Pills have pure medicinal properties and excellent effects in increasing mana, they still contain pill toxins and impurities, which can cause disciples to develop more drug resistance.

Therefore, a disciple can take at most ten mid-grade Essence-Increasing Pills and three top-grade Essence-Increasing Pills; any more will greatly reduce the effect, affect the purity of mana, and be disadvantageous to later cultivation.

Wang Yu pondered, took out a storage bag from his person, poured it onto the ground, and spewed out a pile of colorful mid-grade spirit stones and four small bottles.

There were about sixty mid-grade spirit stones, and each of the four small bottles contained one mid-grade Essence-Increasing Pill, three of which were found in the cold youth's storage bag, and the other bottle was a reward from the last mission.

And according to the Pill Hall steward's explanation, because Essence-Increasing Pills allow the user to generate mana directly in the body without needing to cultivate, they ignore the quality of the user's spirit root, and the amount of mana that can be generated is about the same.

The only difference is the cultivation time saved, which is calculated individually for each user.

For example, a three-spirit-root disciple taking one low-grade Essence-Increasing Pill can save about two or three months of time according to their own cultivation speed, while for a dual-spirit-root disciple, because their usual cultivation speed is faster, they might only save a month or so.

The same applies to mid-grade and top-grade Essence-Increasing Pills; the worse the spirit root cultivation aptitude, the more cultivation time can be saved.

Although Wang Yu is now a four-spirit-root, because his mental power is six or seven times that of disciples of the same rank, the time he can usually spend on breathing and cultivation is long enough. Although it is still not as good as dual-spirit-root disciples, it is faster than three-spirit-root disciples.

The cultivation time saved by mid-grade and top-grade Essence-Increasing Pills is usually advertised based on three-spirit-root disciples.

One mid-grade Essence-Increasing Pill is claimed to save half a year, and a top-grade Essence-Increasing Pill can save about three years, so it won't deviate too much for him.

If he could take ten mid-grade Essence-Increasing Pills and one top-grade Essence-Increasing Pill, he could save eight or nine years, which could almost allow him to step into the seventh level of Qi Refinement in one step and enter the late stage of Qi Refinement.

He already has four mid-grade Essence-Increasing Pills, and the remaining one thousand merit points can be directly exchanged for one top-grade Essence-Increasing Pill, while the remaining six mid-grade Essence-Increasing Pills can be exchanged by slowly accumulating merit points.

If this might have been extremely difficult before, now that the sect has just relocated to Jingzhou, the upper echelons of the sect have taken out their treasury reserves and issued a large number of tasks that reward merit points. With his artifact-refining ability, there should be no problem in saving up enough of the remaining merit points.

Wang Yu made a decision in his heart, rolled his sleeves, swept away everything on the ground, put them into the storage bag, and then submerged his divine sense into his divine sense sea.

He saw that in the divine sense sea, in two independent spell imprint areas, a total of twenty crimson spell spirit-pattern symbols were floating quietly there, their surfaces covered with strange pale silver markings, slightly flashing with cold metallic luster, appearing somewhat eerie.

Wang Yu looked at these pale silver markings, but his expression was somewhat strange.

He suddenly shouted "Overclocking", and in an instant, his five senses were magnified, everything around him slowed down, and his thinking entered a wonderful super state.

Wang Yu closed his eyes, pinched a spell with one hand, and muttered words, and immediately his mental power was rapidly depleted at a terrifying speed.

At the same time, in the divine sense sea, a golden spirit-pattern symbol was rapidly condensing under the precise control of the overclocking power, but the surface of the completed part constantly surged with pale silver markings resembling a circuit board.

"Huchi."

Wang Yu suddenly opened his eyes, a trace of paleness and fatigue vaguely appearing on his face.

In just these few short breaths of time, his mental power had been consumed by seven or eight tenths.

But in the divine sense sea, a newly condensed complete spirit-pattern symbol was floating there alone, without the slightest sign of collapsing or disintegrating.

If others in the cultivation world were to see this kind of thing, they would absolutely be unable to believe the scene before them.

The spell imprints in the divine sense sea absolutely cannot be stopped halfway before the entire spell spirit-pattern diagram is condensed, otherwise, it will cause the entire spell imprint condensation to fail and cause the caster to suffer mental backlash.

A single spell-pattern symbol can never exist in the divine sense sea; this is common knowledge that any cultivator in the cultivation world knows.

But Wang Yu looked at the new spirit-pattern symbol in the divine sense sea with a calm expression, as if he were already accustomed to it.

In fact, when he first used the overclocking power to comprehend the Flame Shield spell spirit-pattern diagram of the original spell, it took him nearly a year, and he still couldn't condense a spell imprint in the divine sense sea even once.

Just when he was nearing despair and preparing to give up on this spell, he cultivated the third level of Star Thought Power, causing his mental power to double and surge again.

Feeling that his mental power far exceeded that of disciples of the same rank, he carefully tried to condense spell imprints in the overclocking synchronization mode, which he had failed at before.

As a result, after his mental power was terrifyingly extracted and he barely condensed a Flame Shield spell spirit-pattern symbol, his mental power was forced to stop because it was no longer sufficient.

He originally thought that he would definitely suffer the mental shock of a failed spell.

But an accident occurred.

That completed spell spirit-pattern symbol actually stayed safely in the divine sense sea, not collapsing because of the interruption of the subsequent spell spirit-pattern diagram, and even less did it cause any mental shock to him.

This scene greatly shocked Wang Yu at the time.

For the next ten days or so, after his mental power recovered, he continued to condense the remaining eleven spell spirit-pattern symbols of the Flame Shield in the divine sense sea with the help of the overclocking power.

As a result, the other spell-pattern symbols were the same; as long as they were completely condensed in overclocking mode, they would not collapse or disintegrate, and it would not affect the condensation of other subsequent symbols in the slightest.

These spirit-pattern symbols were somewhat different from those condensed under normal circumstances, which was that they all had extra silver markings resembling circuit boards on their surfaces.

When he truly completed the spell imprint diagram of the twelve spirit patterns and tried to cast the spell once, he was even more dumbfounded.