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Chapter 806: Chapter 812: Awakening
The Executor looked at Li Xianxun with some suspicion upon hearing his words. Although Li Zhirui had always had the practice of lending out Contribution Value, such a large sum, amounting to several hundred thousand, was unprecedented!
Moreover, in the past, it was only lent to those clan members who were on the verge of breakthrough but could not afford a Gold Core Formation Pill due to insufficient Contribution Value.
However, since Li Xianxun had said so, the Executor, despite his many doubts, could not possibly question him.
The difference in their status was too vast. If he were an Elder, he might have been able to question him based on his status, but he was just an Executor.
It took some time, but Li Xianxun managed to obtain all the Wind Spiritual Root Cultivation Techniques. Of course, for those whose grade exceeded Fourth Order, one either had to make a vow or use a Soul Jade Slip to ensure they would not be leaked.
Li Xianxun found it troublesome and chose to make vows, which was a more time- and effort-saving method. Then, with his bountiful harvest, he returned to his own Cave Mansion.
According to the family’s rules, after breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, he qualified to establish a Cave Mansion at the peak where the Spiritual Energy was most abundant.
Nevertheless, this wasn’t a matter of great consequence. More than anything, Li Xianxun hoped to perfect his Cultivation Technique as soon as possible.
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Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, more than a decade had passed.
Li Zhirui was still sitting cross-legged under the willow tree, ’watching’ the Purification Laws gather in front of him. He suddenly sighed and said to himself, "The path to Divine Transformation is so difficult to advance upon; no wonder the Fusion Qi Pills are so valued by those great powers."
After all, as the founder, with all the Spirit Seeds in his hands plus the mysteries of space, a countless number of Spirit Stones had been spent. Within ten years, Li Zhirui had refined several dozen furnaces of Purified Primordial Pills.
Including those refined in the Sky Palace years ago, he had never lacked Essence Pills for over a decade!
Moreover, with the significant advantage of the Spirit Realm environment, his cultivation should have made substantial progress, if not leaps and bounds.
But reality was not as such!
Indeed, Li Zhirui had become stronger than he had been more than a decade ago, whether it was his control over the Purification Laws or the increase in his mana. But there was still a considerable gap from the results he had anticipated!
And this gap was not due to a problem with his mental state, nor had he encountered a bottleneck; it was purely because the difficulties of cultivating in the Divinity Transformation Realm were too great.
If the difficulty in cultivating other realms was increasing bit by bit, then in the Divinity Transformation Realm, it was increasing exponentially!
Today you might use the Purified Primordial Pill to refine ten strands of Purifying Primordial Qi, but after a few times, you could refine only nine strands when ingesting them again.
"Alas!" Thinking of this, a touch of worry appeared between Li Zhirui’s eyebrows and eyes.
Despite knowing that in a few decades, Da Qing and Xiaoqing would successively undergo breakthroughs, their breakthroughs would only increase Li Zhirui’s mana and not help much with refining the Primal Qi of heaven and earth.
Of course, the benefits of increasing mana were not insubstantial—at least Li Zhirui would need to spend less time absorbing and polishing his mana.
To transform the Spiritual Soul into a Sun God and thereby induce Ascension Tribulation, one roughly needed to refine thirty-six thousand five hundred strands of Primal Qi.
According to Li Zhirui’s calculations, his cultivation speed had doubled by taking the Purified Primordial Pills. Without accidents, he could possibly reach Divine Transformation Completion Stage in three to four hundred years and, after accumulating another hundred years, directly induce the Heavenly Tribulation.
In the Profound Origin Realm, breaking through from Nascent Soul to Void Refinement had one great advantage: as long as one reached the stage of perfection, one could sense the Heavenly Dao and draw down the Thunder Tribulation!
But now it seemed Li Zhirui’s calculations had a significant error, and he would have to delay it at least by another two to three hundred years.
Although compared to other Nascent Soul Cultivators, Li Zhirui was already much faster, and he was young enough. He was not even a thousand years old and still had a lifespan of over a thousand years.
But compared to the timeline he had anticipated, it was still much longer, which left Li Zhirui rather discontented. After all, everyone knew that the sooner one broke through, the better, because the difficulty of cultivation would definitely increase as time passed, and the time needed for a breakthrough would become even longer.
As he thought about this, a faint grey aura suddenly diffused in Li Zhirui’s Sea of Consciousness, making his Mental State even more unsettled.
And that, in turn, spurred the growth of the gray qi.
Hum!
The Purification Principle fused into his Spiritual Soul suddenly reacted. Spirit Light burst forth, and the gray qi could no longer spread in the Sea of Consciousness; it began to confront the Purification Spiritual Light.
At this moment, Li Zhirui also calmed down and started to actively stimulate the Purification Principle. The gray qi, which had been nourished by his own thoughts, instantly became like rootless duckweed, and under the illumination of the Purification Spiritual Light, it completely vanished.
"Phew—"
Li Zhirui exhaled a turbid breath and said with a wry smile, "I didn’t expect to encounter such obsession."
He was extremely pleased with the might of the Purification Principle. Although it didn’t possess great destructive power, it proved to be highly effective against Heart Demons.
He dared not claim that he would never fear Heart Demons again, but at the very least, compared to other cultivators, Li Zhirui had gained a much stronger ability to strike back.
This incident also reminded Li Zhirui that he must not solely pursue the refinement of Primal Qi; his mental state was equally important.
"Let’s go check on Xiaoqing and Cang."
Howling Moon Silver Wolf, which Li Chengshuo had entrusted to Li Zhirui, had successfully broken through to Fourth Order a few years ago.
However, he didn’t personally intervene, instead having Xiaoqing and the others help out.
It wasn’t that Li Zhirui was being pretentious about his own status, but after his breakthrough to the Divinity Transformation Realm, his aura had strengthened considerably, and he needed to maintain a great distance during others’ transcendence to avoid the Heavenly Tribulation.
In such situations, it would be better to be nearby and able to assist promptly if anything actually went wrong.
Speaking of which.
Daqing was still advancing his bloodline, but judging by his aura, he seemed to be nearing the end.
As for Xiaoqing and Cang, Li Zhirui ordered them to take a forced break and relax a bit, not to be too tense.
"Jiu, you’re holding up my cultivation!" Xiaoqing complained unhappily.
Cang, who stood beside her, although silent, also wore an expression of refusal and reluctance.
Li Zhirui teased, "I never thought that Xiaoqing, who once hated seclusion, would now be so proactive about it."
"But cultivation must balance work and rest. Relax with me for the next few days."
Regardless of whether they were willing, their current strength was no match for Li Zhirui, so they would have to listen to him.
"Jiu, where are we going?" With resistance proving futile, Xiaoqing could only accept her fate.
Li Zhirui thought it over seriously and said, "We’ll just take a casual look over the Boundless Sea."
"In the vast ocean, what is there to see? Why not go straight to the deep sea and hunt a couple of Fourth Order Water Devils? Speaking of which, it’s been many years since I last tasted Fourth Order Water Devil—a taste I still miss." Since it was decided to truly relax, Xiaoqing quickly adjusted her attitude and started making suggestions.
Generally speaking, the higher the order of the Devil Beast, the better the quality of its flesh, for their physical bodies have been nourished by Spiritual Energy for a long time.
And in the eyes of Devil Beasts, cultivators were seen the same way.
"Good!"
Li Zhirui readily agreed, taking Xiaoqing and Cang and stealthily left Wanxian Island, heading straight for the deep sea in the Boundless Sea thousands of miles away.
