Chapter 694: Breaking Through Bottlenecks

"Ah..."

He Pingsheng let out a scream, his face instantly turning bright red.

Large beads of sweat dripped from his forehead and all over his body.

Sweat poured down like rain.

Pain!

This kind of pain was even more unbearable than when he was refining his body with the Nine Poisons back then.

Moreover, this was still fusing under the condition that the Nine Heavens Profound Fire was cooperating; if the other party didn't cooperate, one could imagine.

No wonder the Body Integration stage great power back then hadn't fused with this Nine Heavens Profound Fire.

This kind of pain made He Pingsheng unable to circulate his cultivation technique to refine the Nine Heavens Profound Fire at all.

He could only adapt to the intensity of the flame's scorching and the pain first.

Just consider it body refining.

Moreover, he could only persist for about three breaths, and then this fire had to be expelled from his body.

Because if it stayed in his body for more than three breaths, He Pingsheng felt that his meridians would be completely burned by these flames.

The flames were released from his body by He Pingsheng, and after resting for about ten breaths, he would absorb the Nine Heavens Profound Fire into his body again.

Like this, over and over again!

Let alone refining, even persisting was very difficult.

"How about..." The pain of He Pingsheng made even the Nine Heavens Profound Fire unable to bear watching: "Wait a little longer..."

"Your cultivation is really too weak right now!"

"It will be much better to refine it after you reach the Void Refinement stage!"

"No need... come again!" He Pingsheng insisted on continuing.

Just like that, every time he refined for three breaths, he had to stop for ten breaths.

He Pingsheng persisted amidst this kind of pain.

One day!

Two days!

One year!

Two years!

Three years!

Slowly, he had adapted to the flames, and the time he could refine each time also improved from three breaths to the time it took for half a stick of incense.

No...

It should be said, the time he could persist, not the time he could refine!

Ten years later, he finally could try to mobilize the magic power in his body to circulate through his meridians!

Finally, he could try to refine it.

And once he began to refine, it was endless pain.

Ten years!

Ten years!

Another ten years!

By the sixtieth year, He Pingsheng could barely suppress this heart-tearing pain and could continue refining without interruption.

And by this time, his refining of the Nine Heavens Profound Fire had only just completed less than ten percent.

But, it was a good start after all.

Later, it stabilized.

Ninety years later, He Pingsheng had refined about fifty percent of this Nine Heavens Profound Fire.

At this time, he could no longer feel the pain.

Later, it was just a matter of time; when the time came, it would naturally fall into place.

At this time, He Pingsheng took out the 【Heavenly Moon Divine Array】 and began to contemplate the array.

Time flowed slowly!

One year, one year, and another year!

Unknowingly, another thirty-plus years passed.

When He Pingsheng had been in seclusion for a full one hundred and twenty-two years, he finally refined the entire Nine Heavens Profound Fire completely.

Phew...

The moment after refining, He Pingsheng exhaled deeply, and then his whole person flopped and fell to the ground.

At this time, he felt an endless sense of pleasure surging within his body.

It was as if some kind of shackle within his body had been broken.

Boom...

He Pingsheng waved his hand, and a cluster of flames flew out from the palm of his hand, slowly burning.

On this flame, he couldn't feel any heat.

Because all the fire-attribute energy had been restrained.

This flame appeared dark red, and there was even a trace of black mixed within it.

This was the Nine Heavens Profound Fire.

After lying down for about the time it took for half a stick of incense, He Pingsheng sat up again.

He looked inside his body and was surprised to find that with the complete refining of the Nine Heavens Profound Fire, his cultivation had also broken through.

From the previous tenth layer of the Soul Transformation stage, he had broken through to the twelfth layer now.

"This... this, this, this..."

He Pingsheng was so shocked he was almost speechless.

Just a moment ago, he felt some kind of shackle in his body open, and there was also an extreme sense of pleasure transmitted.

It turned out he had just broken through his cultivation.

The key was, this was the bottleneck of the Soul Transformation stage.

Just like that, in an instant, he broke the bottleneck?

After being surprised for a few breaths of time, He Pingsheng understood: In an instant?

How could that be.

The breakthrough was indeed a matter of an instant!

But before the breakthrough, he had suffered for a solid one hundred and twenty years!

That kind of pain, He Pingsheng guaranteed he didn't want to experience a second time.

These two bottlenecks of the Soul Transformation stage were broken through just like this.

Previously, breaking through bottlenecks relied on all kinds of heaven-defying treasures; this time, he finally relied on himself to break through.

Too good!

He Pingsheng jumped up happily.

Now he was at the twelfth layer of the Soul Transformation stage; not only had his combat power improved terrifyingly, but the key was that he could immediately try to break through the Soul Transformation stage and reach the Void Refinement stage.

And once he reached the Void Refinement stage, he could immediately refine a clone!

By then, he would have another layer of survival guarantee, right?

He Pingsheng had a thought and walked out of this magic treasure space.

Then he opened the array and walked out of the Daoist field.

His vast spiritual sense boomed out.

After one hundred and twenty-two years of seclusion, this Mount Brother Gu Song had undergone great changes.

It was no longer as desolate as before, but had become a holy land for cultivation; within the sect, there were more and more disciples, and it had become lively.

Some disciples had even cultivated from the Qi Condensation stage to the Nascent Soul stage within a hundred years.

This made He Pingsheng very satisfied.

"Young Master!"

Sensing He Pingsheng coming out of seclusion, Zhou Qingmei and Hao Cang were the first to run over.

He Pingsheng nodded, looked at Hao Cang and said: "Notify the Lady, say that I have come out of seclusion, and have the other Elders in the sect come over to meet as well!"

It had been over one hundred and twenty years; he didn't know what changes had occurred in these people's cultivation.

He Pingsheng casually pushed aside the array and returned to the Daoist field to sit down.

Now, his array level had also improved, and he could easily set up fifth-tier grand arrays.

As for sixth-tier, he still needed to contemplate for a while longer.

Before long, the important figures of the sect all arrived.

Seeing Qiao Huizhu, Zhou Qingmei, Zhou Qingmei's clone, Hao Cang, Biyun Xianzi Longyue, and one more, who was actually True Person Xihu.

He Pingsheng's gaze landed on True Person Xihu and he looked at her twice more.

This woman was already at the eighth layer of the Nascent Soul stage; not bad.

Back then, after he bought Xihu from the auction, he first took her to the True Fire Immortal Sect, and later threw her to Mount Brother Gu Song; he had forgotten to arrange for her.

Fortunately, now it seemed she had already become a mainstay of the Mount Brother Gu Song sect.

He Pingsheng's gaze retracted and looked at Seeing Qiao Huizhu.

Seeing Qiao Huizhu's cultivation was even higher; she had broken through.

First layer of Void Refinement?

This...

Faster than me!

Besides Seeing Qiao Huizhu, there was another one who had stepped into the Void Refinement stage, and that was Biyun Xianzi Longyue.

As for Hao Cang, this guy's cultivation had also reached the second layer of Void Refinement.

"Wife, have you refined a clone yet?" He Pingsheng looked at Seeing Qiao Huizhu.

Seeing Qiao Huizhu smiled: "No... this concubine only broke through to the Void Refinement stage twenty-plus years ago, and hasn't prepared to refine a clone yet!"

"Mm!" He Pingsheng said: "You haven't refined it yet... later I have something to discuss with you, it's about your clone!" ===== CHAPTER 695 =====