Chapter 431 - 392: Rapid Absorption

Chapter 431: Chapter 392: Rapid Absorption

The Spiritual Qi contained within 500,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones was like a great river. If it were all extracted, it would be more than enough to replenish a hundred Ultimate Venerables. Yet, the young man before him claimed that this many Spirit Stones could only fill half of his Qi Sea. How could Yi Cheng not be on the verge of a breakdown?

And most importantly, all the assets of his own family, all told, would only amount to three hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones...

Yi Cheng felt like he couldn’t breathe and was about to pass out.

’And to think I’d just shamelessly boasted that he could ask for as many as he needed...’

"What’s wrong, Senior Yi Cheng? Do you find this difficult? If so, then let’s just forget it. Five hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones are indeed not something an ordinary person can produce!"

Seeing his expression, Nie Yun more or less understood the situation. Not wanting to make things difficult for him, he shook his head.

"We can provide them! Qing’er, didn’t you raise over a hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones on your trip? Take them all out!" Hearing the young man’s words felt like a slap to his own face. Yi Cheng snorted and spoke loudly.

’Who told me to run my mouth like that? I just had to say, *ask for as many Spirit Stones as you need...* And the crucial part was, I said it was a gift, no repayment needed...’

Thinking this, Yi Cheng wished he could just seal his own mouth shut.

"Yes!" Seeing her father’s expression, Yi Qing pursed her lips in a smile. With a flip of her palm, a huge pile of Low-Grade Spirit Stones appeared in the room.

It seemed Yi Qing also possessed a Storage Dantian.

Among special talents, the Storage Dantian was very ordinary. Its only function was to store things, and many experts on the Floating Heaven Continent had this type of Dantian.

"HUFF!" Seeing his daughter take out the Spirit Stones, Yi Cheng took a deep breath. Though his heart was bleeding, he still sent someone to open his family’s Treasure Vault and bring over their entire reserve of Spirit Stones.

The massive pile of Spirit Stones added up to exactly 500,000, no more, no less.

"Young friend Nie Yun, Low-Grade Spirit Stones aren’t like High-Grade ones. Their Spiritual Qi purity isn’t high, and absorbing them is very troublesome. For one person to completely absorb this many Spirit Stones would take several months. I think you should store them for now. We can absorb them on the way to the treasure; there will be plenty of time!"

Looking at the Spirit Stones covering the floor, Yi Cheng’s heart ached, but his words were magnanimous.

"Several months? There’s no need!"

Nie Yun chuckled. With a grand sweep of his hand, the 500,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones whistled into the air, filling the entire main hall like a sky full of stars.

"Spirit Stones, shatter! Spiritual Qi, surge forth!"

With a low shout, Nie Yun thrust his palm upward.

CRACK! CRACK! CRACK!

With a series of crisp sounds, all the Spirit Stones in the air shattered simultaneously. In an instant, the Spiritual Qi they contained formed a colossal, straight dragon of energy that coiled and roared wildly within the room.

The main hall felt like it was at the center of a hurricane. Streams of Spiritual Qi shot out in all directions, creating sounds of thunder and tremors like an earthquake. The powerful Spiritual Qi seemed poised to bring the entire room crashing down at any moment.

"Ah... What are you doing? All this Spiritual Qi... Are you crazy? Even if your Qi Sea is vast and needs a lot of Spiritual Qi, there’s a limit to how fast a person can absorb it! By creating this dragon of Spiritual Qi, you’ll burst yourself from the inside..."

Seeing the young man’s actions, the faces of Yi Cheng and Yi Qing changed once again. They were nearly scared to death.

Cultivation was like eating. No matter how much good food there was, no matter how greedy you were or how large your appetite, your mouth was only so big. You couldn’t get fat in one bite, nor could you get full in one gulp!

Right now, it felt like Nie Yun was trying to do just that. Just how much Spiritual Qi would be released from 500,000 Spirit Stones? It was probably enough for 500 Early-Stage Ultimate Venerable powerhouses to cultivate to their Peak!

All those Spirit Stones, and he released the Spiritual Qi from all of them at once. It was like taking a room-sized bar of chocolate, putting it all in a bowl at once, and trying to stuff it into your mouth...

Even if you had a mouth that big, you still had to be able to swallow it...

Yi Cheng felt like he was about to cry. He was a Peak Powerhouse of Primordial Saint Realm. When he cultivated, the fastest he could absorb Spirit Stones was only a hundred at a time. This young man was using five hundred thousand at once...

’It’s over. All this Spiritual Qi is going to be wasted.’

Just as the two of them thought it was impossible for the young man to absorb so much Spiritual Qi, they saw the cellular activity of his entire body instantly increase tenfold. He transformed into what looked like a giant black hole and swallowed the dancing dragon of Spiritual Qi in a single gulp.

GULP GULP!

The Spiritual Qi vanished. The young man stood where he was, a look of satisfaction on his face, though he still seemed to want more.

"This..."

Seeing this, the father and daughter, Yi Cheng and Yi Qing, stared at each other in stunned silence.

"Not bad. Although the quality of Low-Grade Spirit Stones is a bit low, 500,000 of them have managed to replenish half of my Qi Sea. My strength hasn’t increased from before, but with such abundant True Qi, it’s more than enough to last!"

After swallowing the dragon of Spiritual Qi, Nie Yun felt his previously depleted Qi Sea finally become somewhat full. With his True Qi replenished by half, he opened his eyes, which shone with an excited light.

"Half... You still call that a Qi Sea?"

Hearing the young man’s emotional sigh, the father and daughter both felt their minds break.

They hadn’t believed him when he said it before, but now, seeing it with their own eyes, they finally understood just how terrifying this person was. Five hundred thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones had only filled half his Qi Sea... Was that still a Qi Sea? Who had a Qi Sea that massive?

"Hehe, my apologies for using so many of your Spirit Stones. But I won’t take them for free. This is a Cultivation Technique. It’s not considered precious among the Eight Great Sects, but for the Primordial Heart Sect, it would absolutely qualify as a Treasure of the Sect. If Senior Yi Cheng cultivates according to this, breaking through to the Secret Realm Third Layer within five years will be no problem at all!"

Having used so many of their Spirit Stones and nearly bankrupting them, Nie Yun felt a little bad. With a sweep of his spirit, he inscribed a Cultivation Technique onto a jade tablet.

This Cultivation Technique was just as he’d described. It was unremarkable among the Eight Great Sects, but compared to a minor Sect like the Primordial Heart Sect, it was definitely considered high-level.

"It can help me reach the Secret Realm Third Layer in five years?"

Yi Cheng’s eyes immediately widened, his breathing quickening.

The unhappiness from spending so many Spirit Stones vanished in an instant.

Under normal circumstances, with his current constitution and Cultivation Technique, reaching the Peak of Primordial Saint Realm was his limit. He had no chance of ever advancing again in his life. Now, this young man was saying he could reach the Secret Realm Third Layer within five years. This was something he had never even dared to dream of before. How could he not be ecstatic?

"Yes," Nie Yun nodded.

"Thank you!" Yi Cheng hastily put the jade tablet away. If what the young man said was true, he had made a huge profit this time. A Cultivation Technique like this couldn’t be bought for 500,000 Low-Grade Spirit Stones, let alone a million or even five million!

’He casually takes out such a profound Cultivation Technique without batting an eye, and injuring the City Lord was as easy as beating a chicken... Just what is Nie Yun’s identity?’

"Master, it’s bad! The Jiang Family is here! They’ve also brought many of Rongtian City’s prominent figures with them. They’re saying we’re detaining the City Lord without cause, that we’ve broken the criminal law, and they’re going to wipe out our entire Yi Family!"

Just then, an anxious shout came from outside, and an old man rushed in.

’The inevitable has finally happened.’

Hearing the old man’s cry, a thought flashed through Nie Yun’s mind.

He had known that after he had beaten down the City Lord and Jiang Xuan, they wouldn’t just let it go. It seemed his prediction was correct. What was coming had finally arrived.

"Yi Cheng, get your ass out here!"

Before Yi Cheng could even speak, a great roar came from outside. The voice was like muffled thunder, causing the very ground to tremble.

’A powerhouse of the Secret Realm Third Layer, the Immortal Realm!’

Hearing this voice, Nie Yun nodded to himself.

The Heaven-Seizing Creation Secret Realm, like the Sea of Qi Realm, was also divided into nine layers.

The First Layer of Magical Power Realm, where True Qi transforms into Mana, and the body is cleansed by the Heaven-Seizing Creation Qi, resulting in a great increase in strength!

The Second Layer Primordial Saint Realm, where one absorbs Primordial Saint Particles from the air to form the Primordial Saint Body. This allows the physical body to contain more Mana and makes it better suited for circulating it.

The Third Layer is the Immortal Realm. This Realm doesn’t refer to living forever, but rather to the body remaining perfect and flawless after death, never rotting or decaying.

’In fact, that Demon Saint Ancient Corpse was an Immortal Realm powerhouse in life. And if I’m not mistaken, it was likely at the Peak of Immortal Realm!’

The Second Layer Primordial Saint Realm only transforms the human body. In terms of raw power, it isn’t much different from the Peak of Magical Power Realm, only about 50,000 to 100,000 Myriad Phenomena. The power gap isn’t large. The reason Primordial Saint Realm powerhouses are so strong is that the Primordial Saint Body is better suited for circulating Mana. The same amount of power is far more potent in their hands!

It’s like how Xiao Feng’s Inner Strength was a notch below Duan Yu’s, but in a real fight, ten Duan Yus would be no match for him!

This was the beauty of applying power skillfully.

The power difference between the first two layers of the Secret Realm isn’t large, but by the Third Layer, a gap in strength begins to appear. Often, there’s a huge difference between the early and mid stages of the same level. For example, a person at the Peak of the Third Layer Immortal Realm could kill a hundred Early-Stage Immortal Realm cultivators. From this, you can see the disparity!

’Although this newcomer is a powerhouse of the Secret Realm Third Layer Immortal Realm, I can tell from his voice and aura that he’s only at the Early-Stage Immortal Realm. With that level of strength, even if I can’t defeat him, he can’t do anything to me either.’

"Jiang Feng, what is the meaning of coming to our Yi Family, shouting and screaming?"

The three of them walked out. As soon as they entered the courtyard, they saw dozens of people standing there. At the forefront was a middle-aged man with sharp, raised eyebrows, who looked at Yi Cheng with a sinister chill in his eyes.

This must be the Jiang Family’s strongest ancestor, Jiang Feng!

As for the others, they were likely the prominent figures of Rongtian City that Jiang Feng had gathered. Their strengths were not low either; more than half of them had reached the Primordial Saint Realm, though they were all at the Early-Stage Primordial Saint Realm.

’It seems that young man is the Primordial Heart Sect disciple, Jiang Youx!’

After a quick scan of the crowd, Nie Yun’s eyes landed on a youth with a gloomy face.

Every move this person made carried an air of arrogance and pomposity. He even had a small jade stone embroidered on his chest with the three words ’Primordial Heart Sect’ written on it, as if afraid people wouldn’t recognize him as a disciple of the Primordial Heart Sect.

’To be so brazen... that’s really something else.’