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Chapter 90: Chapter 87 Breakthrough to the True Pill Realm (Second Update, Please Subscribe)
Li Qian suddenly asked.
"I’m not sure if there is a library, but our Divine Sword Sect has a retired elder, Elder Gu, who comes from a scholarly family and is extremely obsessed with studying exotic scripts. I heard that he has collected many books about exotic scripts. If you’re interested, you can go and look for Elder Gu..."
Zhou Buping said.
He then described Elder Gu’s situation to Li Qian.
Li Qian took note of it.
The next day, after striking the Chen Bell and completing his cultivation practice, Li Qian went down the mountain, ready to find Elder Gu in Lijian City.
He even purposely tore a page from a large book to take with him.
If someone asked about the origin of this page, he would just say he obtained it by chance.
After arriving in Lijian City, he first visited Li Mo before heading to the address provided by his master to Elder Gu’s retirement residence.
It was a large mansion, with the words "Gu Mansion" written on it.
After announcing his identity, the servants at Gu Mansion hurriedly led Li Qian into the living room and served him tea.
It wasn’t long before a white-haired elder with a strong scholarly aura appeared.
"You are Zhou old devil’s disciple. What do you need from this old man?"
Elder Gu looked at Li Qian curiously and asked.
Li Qian hurriedly paid his respects, "Elder Gu, I have inadvertently acquired a page of unknown exotic script origin, and I heard that you are an expert in various exotic scripts, so I’ve specially come for your guidance."
"I do know a bit about exotic scripts, but I dare not claim to be an expert,"
Elder Gu stroked his beard.
Li Qian directly took out the page of beast skin paper from the package he carried.
Elder Gu’s eyes lit up suddenly and he quickly approached, taking it from Li Qian’s hands to closely examine it.
"This seems to be tanned from the hide of exotic beasts, but unfortunately the processing is not up to standard, a bit too crude and simplistic."
He fiddled with the beast skin paper, muttering to himself, "And these exotic scripts... seem like barbarian language... no, even more complex and primitive than that..."
He then inspected it closely again, carefully identifying the row after row of crude, hardly aesthetically pleasing text.
"My goodness, it’s an even older form of demon text than the barbarian language..."
Elder Gu finally recognized it.
Although he couldn’t recognize ninety-nine percent of the text, there were a few specific characters which he had studied before and left a deep impression...
"Where did you get this thing?"
Elder Gu couldn’t help but ask.
"Elder Gu, I obtained it by chance,"
Li Qian replied.
"Such a complete sheet of demon text is really rare. Perhaps only very few ancient factions and the imperial family libraries in Yujing might have such complete ones..."
Elder Gu’s eyes sparkled.
In his life, he had a great fondness for exotic scripts.
After retiring, he devoted even more energy to studying and searching for exotic scripts.
Especially for this mysterious demon text, he was even more obsessed.
Regrettably, the demon text script sources he could access were far too few, and even if there were any, they were often merely briefly mentioned.
"Young man, do you think I can understand this?"
Li Qian, seeing Elder Gu holding onto the paper dearly, couldn’t help but ask.
"Ha ha, young man, you overestimate me. Of the demon text on this beast skin paper, I can recognize less than one percent. As for understanding it... that would be a fairy tale,"
Elder Gu laughed, "But... give me time, I am confident I can decipher some of it."
"Then I’ll have to trouble Elder Gu."
Li Qian quickly said.
"No trouble, no trouble at all..."
Elder Gu shook his hand continuously, very excited.
After all, being able to study a complete demon text ancient book... This was something he had never even dared to dream of.
Thus, Li Qian left the page of demon text ancient book for Elder Gu to slowly study.
Anyway, in his black iron ring, there were still many such demon text ancient books; just one page wouldn’t make much difference, especially since he had already memorized it.
...
Divine Sword Sect’s experts returning from Yujing brought back more detailed information about the Yujing rebellion.
The Divine Sword Sect suffered considerably in this revolt, Xuanyang Peak Master was seriously injured, retirement was inevitable, a Sword Master was fatally wounded and fell, along with another three influential elders and eleven ordinary elders... Not to mention the numerous injured ones.
Most importantly... the sole Heavenly Person of the Divine Sword Sect was also seriously injured and stayed in Yujing to recover.
With such losses, one can imagine how fierce the battle of the Yujing rebellion was.
It is said that the frontline of the great battle saw the fall of over a dozen Heavenly Persons, including top-level Heavenly Persons, and even more were injured. 𝔫𝖔𝔳𝔭𝔲𝔟.𝖈𝔬𝔪
...
Time flies.
Before one knew it, a year had passed.
This year was destined to be an eventful one.
Due to the severe injury and retirement of Xuanyang Peak Master, and the fall of a Sword Master, two True Inheritors from the True Inheritor Hall stepped forward and took over the positions of Xuanyang Peak Master and Sword Master.
Furthermore, several elders, influential elders were injured and retired, and many core disciples who had reached Grandmaster level were promoted to elders.
Additionally, elders with Great Grandmaster level cultivation who had participated in the quelling of the Yujing rebellion and had sufficient achievements were promoted to influential elders.
Moreover, the Divine Sword Sect conducted another round of True Inheritor selection, adding one True Inheritor from the younger generation of inner disciples.
Outside the Divine Sword Sect, the waves caused by the Yujing rebellion were far from over; it was just the beginning.
This has nothing to do with Li Qian.
Except for the twice-yearly internal sect missions, he never left the Divine Sword Sect.
Every day he would practice by striking the Chen Bell, progressing at a miraculous speed.
Late at night.
On the Chen Bell Platform.
Li Qian slowly opened his eyes, exhaling deeply.
His mind stirred, summoning the system interface to check the latest information.
Host: Li Qian.
Cultivation: Innate True Essence (Late Stage 99/100).
Sacrificial Artifact: Chen Bell (Legal Power 4453/10000).
Martial Arts: Sword Stabbing Fist (Perfect), Heartless Sword Technique (Perfect), Pure Holy Body (Great Success 77/100), Soul Chasing Sword Skill (Perfect).
Martial Intent: Heartless Sword Intent (True Image 42/100).
Secret Skill: Ten Thousand Transformation Sword Qi, Blood Burning Technique.
...
"My cultivation is finally about to reach the True Pill Realm."
Li Qian murmured to himself.
Additionally, the speed of advancement of the Pure Holy Body is extremely astounding.
It has already achieved Great Success 77.
The reason for such rapid progress is related to his daily three-time absorption of demon stones, and the amount absorbed each time has also increased significantly.
At this rate, he suspects it would take at most another half a year to perfect the Pure Holy Body.
What will happen when the Pure Holy Body is perfected?
He felt a great anticipation in his heart.
Swoosh!
Li Qian put on a black cloak, moved his body, and soared into the sky, leaving the Chen Bell Platform, flying towards a distant place.
To break through to the True Pill Realm, he definitely needed to go elsewhere.
This time, he chose to stay far from the Divine Sword Sect.
After all, he had Primordial Stones, no need to worry about insufficient concentration of Heaven and Earth Essence Qi.
The Primordial Qi contained in the Primordial Stones is very dense and pure, and in this year’s cultivation, he had used less than four stones.
He still had several hundred such stones in the Black Iron Ring.
Deep in a mountain range tens of miles away from the Divine Sword Sect.
The trees were dense and there were no villages around.
The only downside was that the concentration of Heaven and Earth Essence Qi was much lower than that of the Chen Bell Platform.
But no matter, he had Primordial Stones to aid his breakthrough.
Li Qian sat cross-legged on a rock.
In his palm, he held a Primordial Stone.
"Let’s begin."
He took a deep breath and immediately operated the Heartless Sword Technique mental method, his True Yuan surged within his body, and his Pure Holy Body began to absorb the Primordial Qi between Heaven and Earth.
Waves of Primordial Qi converged.
The Primordial Stone in his palm released a massive amount of pure Primordial Qi, which he absorbed into his body, merging with his blood and spirit, turning into even purer True Yuan.
As more and more True Yuan accumulated, he only felt his body’s meridians swell and ache.
It was like breaking through some kind of bottleneck.
Inside his Qi Sea and Dantian, six streams of True Yuan vibrated intensely, the originally stable Six Trigram Qi Field structure dissolved by itself, more True Yuan gathered, gradually forming a seventh stream of True Yuan.
However, this was far from over.
As the seven streams of True Yuan circulated and transformed, they gradually combined to form a stable Seven Stars Qi Field.
Most importantly, at the core of the Seven Stars Qi Field, a peculiar crystal was born.
"Is this the True Pill?"
Li Qian sensed the crystal within his Qi Sea Dantian.
This True Pill was incredibly formidable.
It appeared the size of a sesame seed yet it gathered more than ninety percent of his Innate True Qi.
"It seems that the Seven Stars Qi Field is necessary to compress the True Yuan into a True Pill."
Li Qian mostly understood the mysteries of different levels of Qi Fields.
The subsequent Eight Trigrams Qi Field, Nine Palace Qi Field... would make the condensation of the True Pill even more thorough.
Until the ultimate transformation of the True Pill is complete, achieving Heavenly Person...
It really wasn’t easy.
He had finally broken through to the True Pill Realm.
Li Qian opened his eyes and couldn’t help but breathe deeply.
After the formation of the True Pill, his strength had once again skyrocketed.
The True Pill was not on the same level as True Yuan.
Much like the difference between True Qi and True Yuan.
No, it was even greater.
