Chapter 21: First Breakthrough

"Miaochun Hall"

Wang Yu stood in front of a pharmacy, looked at the plaque hanging on the gate, and muttered.

This pharmacy was specially selected by him from a dozen pharmacies in Huang Shi City, because big pharmacies might be related to the City Lord's Mansion, and small pharmacies might not necessarily have what he needed.

The facade of this pharmacy is not too big, but people are coming in and out, which shows that the variety of medicinal materials inside will not be small.

Wang Yu walked into the pharmacy wearing a cloak.

After a while, he walked out with bags of medicine of different sizes and went straight to the second pharmacy...

A few hours later, Wang Yu ran to three pharmacies and spent a small gold ingot. Not only were all the medicinal materials for the Blood Refining Soup prepared, but even a portion of the 'Bone-Corroding Water' materials were bought.

Now there is still a month before the arrival of the 'Hundred Treasures Pavilion' magic boat. He naturally will not stay in the inn, and even for safety, he does not intend to stay in Huang Shi City, but intends to find a safe place outside Huang Shi City to practice well.

Now, he still needs to do one last thing.

Wang Yu thought this way, carrying a large package, and went straight to another street in Huang Shi City.

"Iron Essence."

In a blacksmith shop in Huang Shi City, a dark-skinned man with muscles all over his body stared with wide eyes at a small black fragment in his hand, his face full of surprise.

"Does your Excellency know that this thing is called iron essence?" Wang Yu, wearing a cloak, asked in a low voice, using a changed voice.

"Yes, as a blacksmith, how could I not know this kind of material? Ordinary iron materials can become ten-forged iron after ten forgings, and after a hundred forgings, they are called hundred-forged iron. Only iron that has been forged more than a thousand times, and after being refined by the immortal master with earth fire, can become iron essence. But even a piece of the most ordinary thousand-forged iron requires a skilled blacksmith to spend more than a year to complete, and for iron essence, even if you add a piece the size of a fingernail to ordinary swords, it can cut iron like mud. Guest, how much iron essence do you have? How much this shop will collect, the price will definitely satisfy you!" The dark-skinned man looked at Wang Yu with eager eyes.

"There is no extra, it's a pity. If you want to forge a long saber, such a piece of iron essence is definitely enough to be mixed into it. However, this thing is not easy to melt, and it requires hundred-forged iron material to be integrated, and it also requires me to hammer it day and night for three days and three nights, so this cost requires one hundred taels of silver, and half of it must be paid in advance." The dark-skinned blacksmith felt a bit of pity, but also immediately quoted the price for forging the long saber.

"No problem, see if this is enough for the deposit, I will come to take the long saber in three days." Wang Yu agreed without hesitation, reached into his bosom and rummaged for a while, before taking out half a gold ingot and handing it over.

In the past day or two, he had roughly figured out the exchange ratio between gold and silver in Huang Shi City. One tael of gold can be exchanged for twelve or thirteen taels of silver.

"Enough, guest, just come to take the thing in three days." The dark-skinned blacksmith took the gold, glanced at the surface, and found that there were clear fingerprint marks on the surface of the gold, as if it had been torn off directly, so he felt a chill in his heart and replied respectfully.

Wang Yu nodded and left the blacksmith shop, preparing to return to the inn.

But not long after he left the blacksmith shop, there was a commotion on the street ahead. Many pedestrians squeezed in front of a meat shop, seemingly watching something, discussing it.

"What a big one!"

"This is the first time I've seen such a complete monster corpse."

"Move aside, move aside, let me see."

Monster!

Wang Yu was stunned when he heard it, and hurriedly walked over, squeezing into the crowd.

In front of the gate of a meat shop with a large facade, there was a large, dirty, rotten cloth, on which lay a stiff monster corpse with its limbs facing the sky. It looked like a giant rat ten times larger than normal, its abdomen was bloody, but there were two yellow horns a foot long on its head, and its four huge claws were as sharp as sickles, and there were several unusually long fangs in its mouth.

This is a monster? Even if it was just a dead monster, its ferocious appearance made Wang Yu feel a chill in his heart.

Can ordinary hunters really hunt this kind of thing?

"I heard that this one is not an ordinary monster, but a real entry-level monster. Not only is it invulnerable to swords and guns, but it can also dive into the ground and disappear. I heard that to catch it, a whole small team of hunters died, and in the end, the immortal master of the City Lord's Mansion took action to kill this beast." Someone in the crowd seemed to know something and showed off to others.

"Entry-level monster! I said, why is it different from ordinary monsters, and its appearance is so strange? I don't know if there is a monster core in its body. That thing is extremely precious."

"What are you thinking? Didn't you see that there is a big hole in the monster's abdomen? If there was a monster core, it would have been taken away by the immortal master first."

"Tsk tsk, Li's meat shop can receive the corpse of an entry-level monster, which is a big profit."

The crowd discussed it.

Hearing the words 'City Lord's Mansion immortal master', Wang Yu's pupils shrank slightly, and he decided not to go out again after returning to the inn, and leave Huang Shi City immediately after getting the customized iron essence long saber.

Just at this moment, four people walked out of the meat shop. Among them, two burly shop assistants separated the crowd and carried the monster corpse into the shop.

The other two were a big and a small fat man. The big fat man looked to be in his forties, and the fat on his chin could be stacked in several layers. He was trembling when he walked, but he was full of spring breeze, cupped his hands to the crowd, said two polite words at will, and pulled the other sad-faced little fat man back into the shop.

With a "Clang!" sound, the meat shop gate closed tightly.

Wang Yu in the crowd was overjoyed when he saw the little fat man. Isn't the other party 'Dongyue'?

When the two of them fled for their lives from the back mountain of the Bai Yun Temple that day, he was a little worried about the other party's accident. But now it seems that he was a little worried. Dongyue was not only fine but also fled back to his home in Huang Shi City. Now he dares to appear so openly, it seems that his family really has some background and can protect him, a little Daoist acolyte from the Bai Yun Temple.

He naturally wouldn't go to find Dongyue to recognize him again. After looking deeply at the meat shop gate, he quietly left the vicinity with others.

Three days later, Wang Yu drove a small cart pulled by a donkey, mixed in the crowd leaving the city, and left Huang Shi City.

He traveled west all the way and soon reached a pile of rubble less than twenty miles from Huang Shi City, found several abandoned stone houses, and lived there.

Half a day later, he set up a simple stove in a stone house and placed a small iron pot on it.

He then followed the 'Blood Refining Soup' recipe in Master Chongyun's notes, first put in half a pot of water, then poured the processed herbal powder into the water according to a fixed portion, added a lot of wood to the stove, and began to boil it slowly.

Not long after, a familiar medicinal fragrance came from the iron pot.

Wang Yu, who was a little worried, let out a sigh of relief, poured a little out with a bowl he had prepared, tasted it in his mouth, and then truly felt relieved.

The Blood Refining Soup he boiled was almost the same as the one Master Chongyun gave him before. The preparation of this medicinal soup was surprisingly simple.

In the following days, Wang Yu used spiritual stones to assist in practicing the Yin Water Art every day. When his spiritual sense and inspiration were exhausted, he turned to practice the 'Wolf-Running Picture' four-style cultivation technique, and then practiced the 'Blade Drawing Art' and 'Rending Wind Sword Art' by practicing with Yin Spirit Qi and taking a dose of Blood Refining Soup every few days.

With the assistance of spiritual stones, Wang Yu's cultivation of the Yin Water Art was almost a thousand miles a day. More than twenty days later, when the spiritual energy in the last spiritual stone was exhausted, he vaguely felt the bottleneck of the first level of cultivation, and the cultivation speed slowed down instantly.

The so-called cultivation bottleneck, he had heard Master Chongyun say once, is a barrier-like thing that makes the mana in the body unable to be successfully transformed when the breathing cultivation technique is practiced to a certain extent, and must be broken through by various means. If it can be broken through smoothly, the cultivation will increase greatly, and the subsequent cultivation will be smooth again until the next bottleneck is encountered.

Almost all breathing cultivation techniques are divided into levels by cultivation bottlenecks, so it is said that the Yin Water Art has a total of twelve levels, which means Wang Yu must break through twelve bottlenecks to finish practicing this cultivation technique.

Master Chongyun once said that the first six levels of the Yin Water Art are easy to break through. As long as you are not stupid to the extreme, as long as the cultivation resources can keep up, even if you only polish your own mana, breaking through is a matter of time. But after the later six levels, it depends on personal talent. Talented people can still sing all the way, but untalented people may not be able to break through a certain level for several or even more than ten years.

So, Wang Yu was not in a hurry and still practiced the Yin Water Art every day, slowly polishing the little bit of mana in his body.

A few days later, in the morning, Wang Yu, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed in the stone room, was practicing with the small bottle of Yin Spirit Qi in front of him, when suddenly his body trembled slightly, and with a "Buzz" sound, a circle of light blue air waves rippled from his body and disappeared a foot away from his body.

Breakthrough!

Although Wang Yu had never experienced such a thing, he knew what was going on, so he was overjoyed. With a movement of his heart, the first level of Yin Water Art that was originally running flowed into the second level of meridian route smoothly, without the slightest obstruction or pause.

At the same time, he felt that the spiritual seeds at his dantian were constantly emitting wisps of coolness, which turned into wisps of mana and integrated into his body.

After a stick of incense time, the spiritual seeds returned to normal, but at this time, the mana in his body had increased by more than double.

This is the second level of the Qi Refinement Stage!

Breaking through the bottleneck can actually increase mana so much. No wonder Master Chongyun said that only by breaking through to the second level of the Yin Water Art can you learn tricks.

Wang Yu felt the 'abundant' mana in his body and checked other aspects of his body carefully, but there was no abnormality. When he operated the second level of the Yin Water Art again, he could obviously feel that his speed of absorbing spiritual energy from the outside world had become faster, and his spiritual sense had also increased.

Spiritual sense is mental power.

If this is the case, doesn't it mean that his breathing cultivation time will become longer after each cultivation breakthrough, and the overclocking synchronization mode he can maintain will also become longer?

After all, both are related to mental power.

Wang Yu was overjoyed and recalled the situation where Master Chongyun raised his hand and had white cold air flying and rolling that day in the grotto. He immediately operated the second level of the Yin Water Art incantation, poured mana into his palm, and slapped toward the void in front of him. ===== CHAPTER 22 =====

Divine sense is mental power.

If this were true, wouldn't it mean that every time he breaks through in cultivation in the future, the time he can spend on breathing exercises and cultivation will become longer, and the time he can maintain the overclocking synchronization mode will also be longer?

After all, both are related to mental power.

Wang Yu was overjoyed. Recalling the scene where Master Chongyun raised a hand in the cave that day and a vast expanse of white cold air swirled out, he immediately circulated the second-level incantation of the Yin Water Art, poured his mana toward his palms, and then slapped the void in front of him.