Chapter 105

Chapter 105: 270

Inside the jade box, there was a pill that was slowly melting. Half the box was already filled with medicinal liquid, and the aroma of medicine instantly filled the cave.

Xu Qing didn’t know what a Spirit Whale Pill was, but he understood plants and vegetation. After taking a whiff, his thoughts immediately whirled and he quickly distinguished the ingredients of the pill.

“Half-maple flower, hundredgrass leaf, snowbell bud… feathered cockscomb fragrance, trumpetvine lotus…” Xu Qing muttered. He raised his right hand as if to catch a wisp of the aroma, then brought it to his nose to take a closer sniff.

"And seagold mud!"

Xu Qing’s gaze turned deep as he looked at the jade box not far away and deduced internally.

The ingredients of this pill were extremely complex. He couldn’t determine all the ingredients just from the aroma and was only able to distinguish the main ones.

However, based on his knowledge of poisons as well as plants and vegetation, he could determine that the effect of this medicine was nourishment. After all, everything contained a certain amount of spiritual energy, especially plants.

The principle of medicine was actually to extract the spiritual energy in plants and vegetation in a special way, turning it into a form that could be easily absorbed by a cultivator.

“There’s a faint smell of blood coming from this pill. I’m not sure where it comes from... The pill has the word ‘whale’ in its name, so could it be from the blood of a sea beast?” After Xu Qing thought about it, he raised his right hand and grabbed at the air. The jade box immediately flew toward him and fell into his hand.

“Although I don’t know everything about it, if I want to just increase its melting speed, that isn’t too difficult.” Xu Qing narrowed his eyes. Taking out some herbs from his storage bag, he thought it over before starting to mix them together and adding the mixture to the jade box.

Time passed. Several hours later, night fell once again. The wind and snow seemed to be stronger than yesterday, covering the ground in white and completely hiding Xu Qing’s cave.

Only the whimpering sound of the wind couldn’t be blocked out by the snow, passing into the cave and faintly echoing in Xu Qing’s ears. Xu Qing opened his eyes and looked at the jade box in front of him.

The half-melted pill had already disappeared, having completely turned into medicinal liquid. This medicinal liquid was clear and transparent, and the strong aroma had become light and refreshing.

Xu Qing picked up the box and drank all the medicinal liquid in one gulp.

As soon as the medicinal liquid slid down his throat into his stomach, an indescribable wave of heat exploded from within his body. This heat wave was in stark contrast to the icy cold outside, spreading through every meridian in his body and entering deep into his flesh and blood.

His entire body seemed to be breathing as it absorbed the spiritual energy of the medicinal liquid.

Xu Qing trembled, and a strange gleam flashed through his eyes. He sensed the astonishing effect the pill was having on his body and finally believed the Vajra Sect ancestor’s words a little.

With his body’s resistance to poison, he didn’t need to hesitate. He circulated the Sea Transforming Scripture with all h is might, and the 97-meter spiritual sea within his body immediately erupted.

It expanded from 97 meters to 98 meters!

It wasn’t over. With the support of the boundless spiritual energy in the medicinal liquid, the spiritual sea continued to expand, instantly reaching 99 meters, and then… 100!

As soon as the spiritual sea reached a hundred meters, rays of purple light shot out from Xu Qing’s eyes, and his breathing sped up slightly. His Sea Transforming Scripture immediately broke through, from the ninth to the tenth level!

For most Seventh Peak disciples, this was already the limit of the Sea Transforming Scripture!

The Sea Transforming Scripture was divided into ten levels. Each level allowed for more transformations, and the Forbidden Sea aura would grow stronger as well. It was a technique that was far beyond that of any small sect and could be considered an upper-level cultivation technique.

This was also one of the reasons why Seventh Peak disciples were so strong.

But even this technique had a limit. The first level was a ten-meter spiritual sea, and the tenth level was a hundred-meter spiritual sea. This was the cultivation technique’s limit, but… this limit was not absolute!

Occasionally, there would be a few disciples who broke past this limit and widened their spiritual sea even more. However, there were very few such people, and most of them could only increase their spiritual sea by an additional thirty to fifty meters.

But even so, anyone who could break through the limit was a leader of their generation.

Previously, Xu Qing had already looked through the records and analyzed the reason for the different limits of the Sea Transforming Scripture. It was heterogeneity!

When a cultivator cultivated, heterogeneity would continue to accumulate in the body. Even if they got rid of it with pills, those only treated the symptoms and not the root cause.

In the long term, there would still be heterogeneity accumulating deep within the body. Xu Qing had concluded that the more heterogeneity was present in the body, the harder it would be to break through the limits of the Sea Transforming Scripture.

But… he didn’t have any heterogeneity in his body.

“For my spiritual sea, the limiting factor won’t be heterogeneity, but my own endurance.”

Xu Qing’s eyes flashed with purple light, and he felt that the spiritual energy coursing through his body still hadn’t subsided. He was a little surprised at this pill that the Vajra Sect ancestor had prepared.

“This pill must have been extremely precious to him…”

Thinking to this point, Xu Qing’s eyes revealed determination. Whether it was to alleviate the possible dangers in the sect or to fulfill his own desire, he truly wanted to know how much his spiritual sea could grow.

Inhaling deeply, Xu Qing continued to circulate the Sea Transforming Scripture, absorbing the spiritual energy from the pill with his full power. His flesh and blood wasn’t left out, either, and even the Droughtdemon Shadow manifested behind him, inhaling and exhaling with all its might.

An inaudible rumble exploded in Xu Qing’s mind like massive waves crashing around, and the spiritual sea in his body continued to expand.

101 meters, 131 meters, 161 meters…

The spiritual sea expanded with terrifying momentum. As time passed, it slowly reached 230 meters, and it still wasn’t over.

As he broke through again and again, Xu Qing’s seated figure emitted a stronger pressure than ever before.

A vortex formed around his body, causing the blizzard outside to distort. If you looked carefully, the scope of this distortion was the same as that of the spiritual sea in Xu Qing’s body, 230 meters.

It kept expanding!

240 meters, 250 meters, 260 meters…

Finally, the medicinal properties that caused spiritual energy to surge in his body began to subside.

The area where Xu Qing’s underground cave was located had undergone astonishing changes. Within a range of over 200 meters, hurricanes swept out in all directions.

Fortunately, he hadn’t chosen a spot in the Red Plains, instead choosing an even more remote location. With the raging blizzard going on as well, there wasn’t a single person around.

Thus, there was nobody to see this astonishing scene.

“According to the records of the Sea Transforming Scripture, throughout history, the largest spiritual sea of a Qi Condensation disciple was 270 meters…”

Xu Qing opened his eyes and formed hand seals with both hands. The medicinal properties within his body that were gradually fading were instantly wrung out as much as possible, and spiritual energy from the wilderness outside poured into him like crazy.

Although it was filled with heterogeneity and very little of it could be absorbed, it was enough to supplement him at the moment.

As spiritual energy flooded the cave, just as the final remaining efficacy of the medicine in his body was squeezed out, the spiritual sea in Xu Qing’s body swelled up again.

263 meters, 266 meters, 269 meters…

Finally, 270 meters!

The entire cave rumbled, and an area 270 meters wide shook. The blizzard outside disintegrated, and the ground collapsed. Dirt was sent flying everywhere in an explosion. At the center of the explosion was a deep pit, as well as Xu Qing’s figure sitting cross-legged in the center.

Terrifying spiritual energy fluctuations rolled off his body, and the surrounding blizzard didn’t dare to approach him in the slightest. The Droughtdemon Shadow behind him roared at the sky, and its power of fire had obviously become stronger.

More cracks could be seen on the Droughtdemon Shadow’s body, and the magma flowing inside was even redder. Waves of fiery aura spread in all directions, turning the snow into rain, which instantly evaporated into white mist that billowed up into the sky.

Behind the Droughtdemon Shadow, two faint bulges appeared, as if there were fleshy wings struggling to break out of the skin.

Purple light shone in Xu Qing’s eyes as he opened them and looked down at his body. Sensing the spiritual sea inside his body, he felt a majestic aura that even shocked himself.

Gradually, a bright light appeared in his eyes.

"Peak of Qi Condensation!"

Xu Qing compared his current strength to the Vajra Sect ancestor. He concluded that now, he wouldn’t even need the divinity-powered blow of his magic boat. He could suppress the Vajra Sect ancestor with just his spells, heavenly blade strike, and poisons.

Thinking to this point, Xu Qing lifted his right hand and pointed at the sky. Immediately, the plesiosaur-like Forbidden Sea Dragonwhale appeared in midair, rapidly expanding until it reached a length of 270 meters. Xu Qing’s thoughts turned, and the dragonwhale quickly shrank down until it was only 100 meters long.

At the same time, the spiritual sea in his body compressed itself to a mere 100 meters wide.

This was Xu Qing’s habit. He would only reveal his sharpness at the moment he made his move.

After disguising his cultivation, Xu Qing stood up. There was a sharp light in his eyes, as well as deep anticipation.

He felt that his spiritual sea hadn’t reached its limit yet. There seemed to still be room for expansion.

“I’ll know for sure in the future!”

Xu Qing’s body flickered and rushed out like lightning, speeding away from this location and disappearing into the dark night.

He would go to a different city, then return to Seven Blood Pupils form there.

It had already been more than a month since he left. Now that everything had been resolved and his cultivation level had also improved, he was ready to return and see what was happening between the merfolk race and the third highness.

Just like that, Xu Qing continuously used flight talismans to speed up. Three days later, he finally arrived at his destination, a Seven Blood Pupils branch city located outside the Red Plains.

Once he entered, he went straight to the teleportation array without stopping at all.

When he arrived at the teleportation array, Xu Qing paid the fee and stepped inside. Raising his head to look in the direction of the distant Red Plains, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It took a long time, but Xu Qing had finally pulled out the thorn in his heart. Although the Vajra Sect ancestor didn’t die, Xu Qing felt that this sort of ending was still acceptable.

“If everything is still normal in the sect, then I can really have a good night’s sleep.” Xu Qing muttered inwardly. The teleportation array shone, and he was instantly submerged in a sea of light.

A moment later, as the light dissipated, Xu Qing’s figure had disappeared from the teleportation array.

The raging blizzard still filled the sky, covering the earth with layers of snow, making it look like a clear sheet of white paper.

It was very clean.

The wintry chill continued to spread in all directions, invading every inch of the wilderness revealing a hint of ruthless killing intent.

It was very cruel.

Author’s note from Er Gen:

Unknowingly, it’s been 40 days since my new book was released. Time flies so fast. It isn’t easy to keep writing and updating every day.

Last night, I had a dream. This time, I wasn’t the Vajra Sect ancestor, but the captain.

In the dream, I ate fruit all night. When I woke up in the morning, I looked in the mirror. My face feels a little swollen…

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