Chapter 343

The white ring of light trembled unsteadily, and just as it condensed into a mostly blurry form behind Wang Yu, it suddenly dissipated into nothingness without a sound.

The white ball of light between his hands also flashed and disappeared at the same time.

"As expected, it won't work. I am still far from truly condensing the Yang Ring." Wang Yu opened his eyes, and after an unnatural flush of red flashed across his face, he muttered to himself.

According to the first level of the Red Yang Great Art's oral formula, to master the Red Yang Great Art, one must first condense the so-called "Yang Ring," and then use this ring to collect external fire spirit energy and refine it into the body.

Fire spirit energy is the most violent of the five elements' spirit energies; without the Yang Ring, one cannot directly absorb fire spirit energy into the body.

The Fire Spirit Art he practiced before, although it claimed to be a fire-attribute cultivation method, actually inhaled ordinary spirit energy mixed with the five elements. While the mana converted into the body was primarily fire-attribute due to the cultivation method, it was also mixed with other attributes.

Not only the Fire Spirit Art, but other Qi Refinement stage cultivation methods, and even most Foundation Establishment stage cultivation methods, were the same.

Only a very small number of Foundation Establishment cultivation methods like the Red Yang Great Art required the inhalation of single-attribute spirit energy to ensure the mana in the body was sufficiently pure, allowing the practiced cultivation method to exert its power to the extreme.

If it were other five-element spirit energies, it might be fine, but fire spirit energy is extremely violent. Only by mastering the Yang Ring can one contain and refine fire spirit energy, which counts as mastering the Red Yang Great Art and officially practicing this cultivation method.

This is also why the Sunset Sect occupies a huge fire crystal vein and can maintain special cultivation venues like the Fire Cloud Cave and Essence Fire Chamber to provide abundant fire spirit energy; otherwise, relying solely on a few second-rank spirit veins would truly be unable to satisfy the needs of practicing the Red Yang Great Art.

However, the difficulty of mastering the Red Yang Great Art is indeed far beyond what ordinary people imagine.

Even though Wang Yu had already cleansed his meridians with the Green Yang Bright Fire, allowing his body to contain violent fire spirit energy, a mere month of practice had made him understand the true difficulty of condensing the Yang Ring.

According to the introduction of the cultivation method, to condense the Yang Ring, one must inhale a sufficient amount of fire spirit energy in one breath and then manipulate this fire spirit energy to condense into shape.

To inhale enough fire spirit energy to meet the conditions at once, one must first practice the first level of the Red Yang Great Art's oral formula to a certain degree. To skillfully manipulate fire spirit energy, one needs to conduct countless attempts and trial-and-error based on a sufficiently strong foundation of divine sense.

The first point is easier to say; as long as the meridian cleansing is passed and one is willing to spend resources, most Foundation Establishment cultivators can always do it.

The second point is truly extremely difficult, and might even require a little bit of luck.

Because this so-called "Yang Ring" is essentially a special spirit pattern diagram composed of nine fire-attribute spirit pattern symbols, and these nine spirit pattern symbols are all composed of pure fire spirit energy.

In reality, constructing a spirit pattern diagram outside the body is a hundred times more difficult than condensing one in the sea of divine sense.

Condensing a spirit pattern diagram in the sea of divine sense is constructed using pure divine sense power; as long as the divine sense is strong enough, it can be formed in a single thought.

Condensing a spirit pattern diagram outside the body not only requires strong divine sense but also requires relevant cultivation methods to mobilize spirit energy, and the complexity far exceeds the former.

The process of condensing the Yang Ring not only requires constructing each spirit pattern symbol, but the size, position, and even the amount of fire spirit energy used to condense each of the nine spirit pattern symbols must be coordinated perfectly, making this spirit pattern diagram extremely stable, only then is it possible to successfully condense the Yang Ring.

As such, condensing the Yang Ring requires the practitioner to undergo countless trials and errors.

But every failure to condense the Yang Ring will cause a certain amount of mana backlash to the practitioner. Although not very serious, one must rest for several days before continuing, which will greatly slow down the practice of the first level of the Red Yang Great Art.

According to the introduction of the cultivation method, once one begins practicing the Red Yang Great Art, one must successfully condense the Yang Ring within three years to master the cultivation method. Otherwise, if one practices this cultivation method for more than three years, one will spontaneously combust due to the body's long-term inability to refine fire spirit energy, turning into a pile of ashes.

As such, those who have just started practicing the Red Yang Great Art, if they want to practice and attempt to condense the Yang Ring more often in a short period, the only way is to invest more spirit stones and pills and use more cultivation resources.

And Wang Yu had only been practicing the first level of the Red Yang Great Art's oral formula for a mere month.

During this period, he rented the Essence Fire Chamber for a long time and took several kinds of high-quality auxiliary pills, including Fire Refining Pills, but he was still far from inhaling enough fire spirit energy to condense the Yang Ring at once.

On the contrary, what was harder for others, the matter of condensing the "Yang Ring" spirit, was progressing smoothly, and he could already condense multiple spirit pattern symbols outside the body with fire spirit energy at once.

Next, as long as he masters the method of condensing the remaining spirit pattern symbols, inhales enough fire spirit energy, and slowly coordinates and balances the nine spirit pattern symbols to make the spirit pattern diagram they construct as perfect as possible, he can truly attempt to condense the Yang Ring into shape at once, stabilize it thoroughly, and thereby master the cultivation method.

That he can achieve this level is naturally related to his divine sense power, which is nearly ten times stronger than that of cultivators of the same rank.

More importantly, he also repeatedly entered the Taiyuan Login Interface during this month, constantly practicing and familiarizing himself with the method of condensing the "Yang Ring" using the first level of the Red Yang Great Art's oral formula.

After all, no matter what situation he encountered within the login interface, he could return to normal as soon as he left it. He did not fear the backlash of the cultivation method at all, and instead, it allowed him to quickly accumulate a large amount of condensation experience.

Wang Yu's expression quickly returned to calm. After taking out a thick candle from his bosom and inserting it into the nearby Dharma array, he closed his eyes and began to practice again.

Next, he only needed more time for practice and more attempts at trial and error.

A month ago, he was not sure if he could really master the Red Yang Great Art, but now, he had seven or eight tenths of certainty.

If he still failed to condense the Yang Ring under such circumstances, then it could only be heaven's arrangement.

One day, two and a half years later.

The news that the Four Symbols Sect's exchange true disciple Wang Yu had successfully condensed the Yang Ring and mastered the Red Yang Great Art spread like a gale to every corner of the internal affairs area of Tianyang City.

The Sunset Sect disciples who heard this news, whether internal or external, or the Sunset Sect Foundation Establishment elders and deacons, were all dumbfounded and filled with shock.

One must know that in the current Sunset Sect, those still practicing the Red Yang Great Art, from the Golden Core ancestral elders down to the Foundation Establishment true disciples, totaled only four people. Everyone in the Sunset Sect took pride in practicing the Red Yang Great Art!

Now that there was suddenly an outsider who had mastered the Red Yang Great Art, the sensation caused was imaginable.

But this sensation only lasted for a few short days before another shocking piece of news came out.

Wang Yu, who was learning the Red Yang Great Art at the Sunset Sect, had suddenly left the Sunset Sect without the slightest warning, and very few Sunset Sect elders and disciples knew about this.

Consequently, the Sunset Sect, which had been undercurrents because an outside disciple had learned the Red Yang Great Art, quickly returned to its former calm under the deliberate guidance of the upper echelons.