Purple Firmament Pavilion.
Ignoring the turmoil in the Black-Corner Region, after obtaining the Bodhi Transformation Saliva, Chen Xiao and his group turned their focus to single-minded cultivation.
After all, the conflict with the Demon Flame Valley would not yield results in just a day or two, and with the talent of Chen Xiao and the others, every extra day of cultivation meant a greater increase in their confidence.
As more and more resources were gathered and continuously converted into usable resources through auction channels, everyone no longer had to worry about resource issues. With such solid logistical support, everyone was rapidly strengthening their foundations.
One day, half a month later.
The bamboo building in the city center.
Heaven and earth energy gathered like a whirlwind, continuously surging towards the room on the third floor.
Any strong person with a discerning eye could see that the person inside was attempting to break through to a higher realm.
And that was exactly the case.
Stimulated by the Little Fairy Doctor, Chen Xiao became even more eager to improve his strength. He consumed Qing Yuan Pills from start to finish, further boosting his cultivation speed.
After half a month of such arduous cultivation, he finally welcomed the long-awaited breakthrough opportunity today.
The violently surging heaven and earth energy lasted for a quarter of an hour before slowly subsiding like a receding tide.
In the room on the third floor, Chen Xiao remained in a cross-legged posture. His tightly closed eyes slowly opened, and a sharp glint flashed within them.
Circulating the Dou Qi within his body, feeling the power that was even more vigorous and pure than before surging through his limbs and bones, Chen Xiao couldn't help but curve his lips into a satisfied arc. He nodded slightly, quite pleased with the results of this breakthrough.
"Two-star Dou Huang. I have Royal Extreme Pills available. I only need to accumulate up to eight stars to be eligible to attempt breaking through to Dou Zong. With the help of the pills, reaching the peak of Dou Huang in one year will be difficult, but a year and a half should be enough!"
After silently estimating the time, the joy of the breakthrough was instantly extinguished by more than half.
Reaching Dou Zong was a long and arduous journey.
Of course, this estimation was based on continuous normal cultivation and did not consider any unforeseen circumstances during the period. If there were delays due to events or if he obtained other opportunities, it would be normal for the time to reach the peak of Dou Huang to be either earlier or later.
Without rushing out, after a slight adjustment, Chen Xiao closed his eyes again and formed a strange cultivation hand seal with both hands.
"The Great Void gives birth to myriad apertures, spiritual essence nurtures the void..."
As the murmur in his heart sounded, Chen Xiao silently began to cultivate his soul power.
Since pre-empting the Nine Nether Soul Scripture, Chen Xiao would spend some time cultivating his soul power after each Dou Qi cultivation session.
Unfortunately, there were no instruments to test soul power in the Northwest Continent. Chen Xiao still didn't know how strong his soul power was or how far he was from the Spirit Realm.
The only thing he could be sure of was that his soul power was improving every day. This could be confirmed by the continuously expanding range he could sense when releasing his soul perception.
As Chen Xiao entered a state of cultivation, the bamboo building he was in, and even the surrounding area within several hundred zhang, were enveloped by a strange power. People within it would involuntarily lose focus, as if their minds were being drawn by an invisible vortex.
Below the bamboo building.
Hai Bo Dong and Cao Xi, who were playing chess to pass the time, noticed this familiar and mysterious power and frequently became distracted, so they reluctantly stopped.
"This soul power, which cannot be seen or described, is truly strange. When little Chen cultivated before, it had almost no effect on the surroundings, but these days it often disturbs people's minds," Hai Bo Dong sighed with emotion.
Cao Xi's lips curved into a smile, and his gaze unconsciously turned towards the third floor of the bamboo building, a hint of envy flickering in his eyes.
"This is a good thing. It just shows that his cultivation method is very profound and has unique aspects. The increasingly obvious influence in recent days means that his soul power has silently risen to a new level."
The division of soul realms had always been very general.
Below the Emperor Realm was the Heaven Realm.
The Heaven Realm still had divisions of early, middle, late, and Great Perfection, but the Spirit Realm and Mortal Realm below the Heaven Realm had no established standard for division.
This was actually somewhat unreasonable. However, soul power was ethereal, and soul cultivation methods were rare in the current Dou Qi Continent. Even some strong individuals who wanted to change this situation were powerless.
Looking at the room on the third floor again, Cao Xi slowly stood up.
"Ice Emperor, you go ahead and be busy. I'll go see Chen Xiao."
As his voice fell, Cao Xi stepped towards the bamboo building.
Inside the room.
Chen Xiao, who was cultivating, noticed someone entering the bamboo building, but he did not end his cultivation.
It wasn't until half an hour later that he slowly opened his eyes and looked at Cao Xi, who was waiting by the window.
"Sorry to keep Fourth Elder waiting."
"It's fine, I have nothing else to do anyway."
Cao Xi smiled and shook his head, not asking about Chen Xiao's soul cultivation method.
As a family of alchemists, no one understood the preciousness of such cultivation methods better than they did.
Such things, let alone in the Cao family, even in the Pill Tower, would be regarded as a collection of foundational secrets that could not be passed down. Perhaps only those ancient races would treat them as ordinary secret techniques.
"I was playing chess with the Ice Emperor downstairs just now and noticed that you had made some progress. After thinking about it, I decided to come up and tell you something."
Meeting Chen Xiao's inquiring gaze, Cao Xi smiled slightly and took out a very strange scroll from his storage ring, handing it over.
This scroll was made of a special metal material, neither copper nor iron, and was dark yellow.
Even stranger was that when opened, there was not a single word or any pattern on it.
"This time, when Cao Ying brought the Shapeshifting Pills, she prepared some pills for Zi Yan as snacks and gifts. She actually prepared a portion for you too."
"It's just that according to her, she wanted to keep you in suspense and give it to you the day I leave. She's quite mischievous, so don't mind her. Seeing that your soul power has increased significantly recently, I thought I'd give it to you first. When you see her in the future, just don't let it slip."
Hearing Cao Xi's explanation, Chen Xiao couldn't help but laugh.
From their previous interactions, Cao Ying was just a small fry, a keyboard warrior.
He didn't expect her to be quite vengeful.
Giving Cao Xi so many instructions was clearly to regain the face she lost when she was bullied last time.
Unfortunately, she was sold out by Cao Xi in the blink of an eye...
"Fourth Elder, don't worry, I definitely won't betray you."
Hearing Chen Xiao's playful remark, Cao Xi chuckled and didn't linger any longer. He greeted him and left first.
Watching Cao Xi leave, Chen Xiao finally withdrew his gaze and focused on Cao Ying's mysterious gift.
After careful examination, whether it was roasted by fire, frozen by ice, or even dripped with blood, the scroll remained unchanged.
Thinking of what Cao Xi had just said, that he noticed his soul power had improved significantly, which was why he took it out in advance.
Then, thinking of some of the methods of that demonic girl from the Cao family in the original trajectory, Chen Xiao's eyes suddenly lit up, and he vaguely had a guess in his heart.
Without any hesitation, Chen Xiao's heart stirred, and the invisible and intangible soul power immediately surged out from between his eyebrows, all of it invading the scroll in his hand.
"Chirp~"
Like piercing through a layer of foam, accompanied by a slight sound, Chen Xiao suddenly found that his consciousness had already entered a special space.
It was completely dark here, with only a light in the very center, where a transparent figure sat cross-legged, unable to distinguish gender.
Chen Xiao concentrated and looked, and in an instant, streams of information poured into his mind.
"Soul Skill..."
"Soul Profound Seal Palm!"
"A total of ten demonstrations, now five remain."
Before Chen Xiao could carefully sort through this information, the figure sitting cross-legged in the light seemed to sense someone entering, as if triggering some process, and immediately stood up abruptly.
The next moment, he saw it slowly extend its hands in front of its body, forming a strange hand seal.
Under Chen Xiao's gaze, the figure's hand seal changed rapidly, making Chen Xiao feel as if he saw a scene in a trance. A middle-aged man stood on the mountaintop, and as his hand seal formed, a vast and boundless soul power rapidly formed in his palm. Faintly, he could see a looming giant hand seal from the distorted space.
"Soul Profound Seal Palm!"
A loud shout fell from his mouth, and the vast soul power on his palm instantly solidified, shooting out like lightning. Then, it actually tore a black crack dozens of feet wide in the space in front of him!
Chirp~
The scene ended here, and Chen Xiao also came back to his senses.
Immediately, he saw the figure in the light slowly withdraw its stance and sit down cross-legged again.
At the same time, another piece of information entered Chen Xiao's mind.
Only four demonstrations remaining...
The next moment, an irresistible pushing force surged, directly pushing Chen Xiao's consciousness out of this space.
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