Chapter 955: Pill-Powered Breakthrough (1/2, Requesting Moon Tickets)

The elders of the Extreme Ice Sect suffered heavy casualties; only two elder slots remained available to accompany Fang Yue back to Jingcheng.

These two elders barely reached Cloud Tier Low Grade, and even their realms were unstable.

Even so, across the entire Qing Guo, they were still formidable combatants.

The remaining human-grade martial artists numbered over a hundred.

The elite disciples who responded to the Blood-Ice Lotus from all directions were mostly at the human-grade level.

Moreover, they did not truly wish to return to Jingcheng; they merely aided Fang Yue out of gratitude, for he had just saved the entire Extreme Ice Sect.

Additionally, if Qi Ba Jiu Daren awakens, and Fang Yue makes a request, he will likely agree to send reinforcements.

Gazing at the thick, churning Black Clouds above Jingcheng, with lightning flashing and thunder roaring as if Night Rain were about to fall, everyone felt uneasy.

Yet under Fang Yue's command, carriages and swift horses were prepared, along with various pills looted from the Flame Sect's treasure vault.

Fang Yue sat inside the carriage, entering meditation to cultivate, while others rode swift horses, guarding the carriage on all sides.

System Prompt: Congratulations, player 【Yese Liming】, you have slain 【Flame Sect Grand Elder】, Comprehension +5.

System Prompt: Congratulations, player 【Yese Liming】, you have slain 【Flame Sect Grand Elder】, Gain Control +0, Offload +0, Lifespan +10 years, 【Ghost Realm】 progress +0%.

System Prompt: Congratulations, player 【Yese Liming】, your Gain Control and Offload values have reached the realm's upper limit and have been converted into 【Realm Breakthrough Progress】.

Reviewing the system records, Fang Yue wondered if it was because 【Ghost Realm】 had reached its limit—now, when he killed human martial artists, the reward values increased significantly, as if the rewards originally meant for 【Ghost Realm】 had been redirected into attribute points.

The consecutive kills of Flame Sect's high-level disciples, and especially the solo slaying of the Flame Sect Grand Elder, had once again greatly boosted Fang Yue's strength—he was now barely short of the Cloud Tier High Grade realm.

Beyond Cloud Tier lay the legendary Rain Realm!

The Rain Realm seemed within reach!

Yet facing the thunderous, rolling Black Clouds on the horizon, Fang Yue still felt uncertain.

How powerful must the Uyu tribe's anomalies be, hidden within such vast Black Clouds?

Fortunately, this was Jingcheng—when the sky falls, the tall ones will hold it up.

The Guardian Stone Lions, the Four Great Families, and several princes would surely step forward to shield Jingcheng.

He only needed to ensure the safety of those around him.

With this thought, Fang Yue relaxed slightly.

Once inside the carriage, he immediately pulled out the massive stash of top-grade pills looted from the Flame Sect, swallowing them one after another while cultivating.

Name: Yonghua Pill.

Rank: Cloud Tier Mid Grade.

Effect: Stimulates internal energy, activates acupoints—a top-grade pill for assisting Internal Energy Heart Method cultivation, rarer than one per century!

Description: A top-grade pill for assisting cultivation—only a few exist in an entire nation!

Note: Oh wow! It's sweet-tasting candy!

For this 【Yonghua Pill】, Fang Yue, to aid his Internal Energy Heart Method cultivation, swallowed an entire bottle—about thirty-plus pills—at once.

He had no idea how many years the Flame Sect had hoarded these treasures; now they were swept away by Fang Yue and eaten like candy.

Besides 【Yonghua Pill】, there were also 【Pingshui Pill】, which allowed direct seated cultivation of Lightness Skill; 【Jianyi Pill】, which aided Sword Art cultivation and enhanced Sword Intent comprehension; 【Taojian Pill】, and many other auxiliary cultivation pills.

Fang Yue took them all without hesitation, swallowing them like candy.

If anyone from the Extreme Ice Sect saw Fang Yue swallowing pills like this, their eyes would pop out.

You should know that even an auxiliary cultivation pill like this is still a pill! The higher the grade of the pill, the more terrifying the pill toxins. Eating them the way Fang Yue did, he probably wouldn't have enough lives to burn through.

Yet Fang Yue paid no heed—now it was night, and with Night Breath as his foundation, he had little reverence for pill toxins.

But soon, he realized something was wrong: Night Breath was indeed working, but the toxin dissolution rate was not fast enough.

Fortunately, the cumulative positive effects of dozens of pills allowed Fang Yue to fully immerse himself in cultivation, temporarily eliminating the need to swallow more.

While his martial realm surged like a runaway horse, his martial techniques and inherited arts lagged far behind.

With his current Comprehension and the pills just consumed, cultivating Lord Han's martial arts became absurdly efficient—what once took three days of normal practice now took mere minutes!

This surge in efficiency left Fang Yue stunned—no wonder they say "Law, Wealth, Companions, Ground." Wealth, indeed, is a cornerstone of cultivation.

In the past, Fang Yue relied almost entirely on Ghost Stone and basic pills to advance; he had never consumed such potent cultivation pills.

Now that he had tasted them, he felt himself growing addicted—once cultivation speed surged, who could possibly stop?

Without hesitation, Fang Yue threw himself fully into cultivation.

The sensation of charging toward a higher realm made Fang Yue feel he was steadily, step by step, catching up to the greats of old.

After all, Lord Han at his peak was Rain Grade Peak—his gap with Fang Yue now was no longer so vast.

As his internal energy circulated, Fang Yue felt himself at the center of an internal energy vortex, every drop of energy responding to his will.

The surging internal energy rushed forward eagerly, obeying Fang Yue's commands as it completed the Microcosmic Orbit.

Simultaneously, as internal energy merely passed through an acupoint, Fang Yue's understanding of the Frozen Heart Method instantly deepened.

Those once mystifying elements—the incomprehensible internal energy pathways—now revealed their inner essence, as if their outer layers had been stripped away; he could see everything, even discerning that certain acupoint connections were merely compensations for cultivators with insufficient training time or weak acupoint strength.

For cultivators like him who had reached a certain level, these fragile, useless acupoints could be abandoned entirely, bypassing them via direct, shortened circuits.

After this adjustment, Fang Yue's cultivation progress skyrocketed.

After consuming 【Pingshui Pill】, 【Jianyi Pill】, and others, he did not even need actual combat practice—simply simulating internal energy flow allowed him to master the Frozen Step and Void Ice Sword Art.

Of course, the efficiency was still slower than real combat gains.

But with his extraordinary Comprehension, his progress remained rapid.

System Prompt: Congratulations, player 【Yese Liming】, cultivation achieved, 【Frozen Heart Method】 upgraded to Level 6, Internal Energy +180,000, Gain Control +0, Offload +0.

System Prompt: Congratulations, player 【Yese Liming】, cultivation achieved, 【Frozen Step】 upgraded to Level 2, Gain Control +0, Offload +0.

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System Prompt: Congratulations, player 【Yese Liming】, cultivation achieved, 【Frozen Step】 upgraded to Level 6, Gain Control +0, Offload +0.

System Prompt: Congratulations, player 【Yese Liming】, cultivation achieved, 【Void Ice Sword Art】 upgraded to Level 4, Gain Control +0, Offload +0.

「……」

「System Prompt: Congratulations, player Yese Liming, your cultivation has made progress. 【Kong Bing Sword Art】 has advanced to Level 6. Control Power increased by 0 points. Dissipate Power increased by 0 points. 」

(End of Chapter)