Chapter 199 - 98: Spiritual Treasure: Golden Marrow Source Liquid, Melting Gold and Refining Iron

Chapter 199: Chapter 98: Spiritual Treasure: Golden Marrow Source Liquid, Melting Gold and Refining Iron

But this was all Jiang Xuan could do—the Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid was incredibly tough, allowing him only to warp it with his bite, not break it down.

Seeing this, Jiang Xuan wasn’t worried. He simply began to chew it slowly. He chewed for a full fifteen minutes.

Only after thoroughly chewing the drop of Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid did Jiang Xuan finally swallow it.

Then, he clearly sensed that his previously invincible Feast Ceremony had finally met its match.

After the Spiritual Liquid entered his stomach, it wasn’t quickly digested and broken down like his past ingredients. Instead, it was like a Stabilizing Needle, hanging motionless within him, stubbornly resisting the corrosive power of the ceremony.

Of course, the Feast Ceremony was a Purple Skill of Treasure Level Grade, so it wasn’t entirely without effect.

Jiang Xuan could clearly sense the profound power of the ceremony gathering in his stomach. The area had transformed into an Innate Furnace, pouring all its strength into the Refinement and dissolution of the drop of Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid.

After this Refinement continued for a quarter of an hour, Jiang Xuan felt... hungry.

’...Is it because the Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid is too hard to digest that the Feast Ceremony can’t extract any Energy from it? Instead, its own activation and continued operation are madly consuming my own reserves, causing my body’s Energy to fall short?’

Understanding the reason for this, Jiang Xuan wasn’t annoyed in the slightest. In fact, he was overjoyed. The more difficult the Spiritual Liquid was to refine now, the more its resilient and indestructible qualities would become a part of his own foundation once it was fully integrated.

"Since you can hold out, I’ll just wear you down. The Hundred-Day Exam is still two months away, anyway. I’m in no hurry."

Muttering to himself, Jiang Xuan raised his hand, took out a high-quality Spiritual Grain Pill, and swallowed it.

Although Jiang Xuan hadn’t been poached during his trip to the Chen Family, the Elders of Four Seasons Valley had truly felt a sense of crisis.

Thus, they had sprung into action the moment he returned to the valley.

Yu Xian had been busy arranging for the transcription of cultivation manuals for him, while Yan Shouzhuo and Xiao Ningxiang had directly stuffed a large handful of high-quality, long-lasting, and exceptionally delicious special Spiritual Cuisine into his hands—these very Spiritual Grain Pills—to serve as his daily Spiritual Food.

With these, Jiang Xuan had no need to worry about his Energy supply.

And so, as the Spiritual Grain Pill entered his stomach, a vast and pure surge of Energy instantly spread through him. With its Energy replenished, the Feast Ceremony’s operation stabilized, and it managed to hold on for much longer.

In the end, this session of the Feast Ceremony lasted for a full thirty minutes.

By the time the power of the ceremony had completely dissipated, one-third of the drop of Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid had been refined.

’The golden attribute, symbolizing immortality and Perfection, is truly difficult to refine.’

Of course, despite the difficulty, Jiang Xuan had also noticed some good news.

First, one-third of the Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid had indeed been refined, and this portion had already integrated into his limbs and bones.

And thanks to its extreme malleability, just one-third of a single drop was enough to bring about changes throughout Jiang Xuan’s entire body.

HUMMM...

As Jiang Xuan closed his eyes and used the Celestial Heart Mirror merged with the Clear Heart Mirror to observe himself, he discovered that his bones, which had once glowed with a jade-like luster from being nourished by Spiritual Qi, were now entwined with fine golden threads.

Although these golden threads were currently as fine as hair, they possessed an innate, extreme resilience that deeply branded itself into his very bones.

More importantly, the Divine Seed of the Eternal Golden Bell was inextricably linked to Jiang Xuan’s Flesh Body. As his Flesh Body changed, the Eternal Golden Bell underwent a transformation as well.

A profound, crimson-gold pattern had quietly appeared on the Bell Wall of the Golden Bell.

’My Flesh Body is becoming even tougher!’

Besides this benefit, another thing that pleased Jiang Xuan was that the act of pushing the Feast Ceremony to its limits to refine the Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid was, in itself, an extreme form of "training."

And since it was a form of training, it naturally increased his Class and Skill experience. Thus, after thirty minutes of Refinement, the experience for both his Gourmet Class and his Feast Ceremony Skill had increased by several hundred points.

This result made Jiang Xuan feel even more relaxed.

’This is good, too. Even if I can’t completely refine the Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid in a short amount of time, continuously tempering it with the Feast Ceremony will allow my Gourmet Class to advance rapidly until it reaches Perfection.’

’At that point, I’ll be able to advance my Class again.’

’One more advancement and my digestive ability will increase by at least tenfold. By then, refining this Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid will be effortless.’

While Jiang Xuan was in high spirits over his steady increase in strength, on the other side, within the Shenxiao Sect, a young woman was on pins and needles, filled with anxiety over Jiang Xuan’s reply. She was in a luxurious immortal estate, one perennially shrouded in spiritual mist and rosy clouds.

’The duel is set for three days from now... Jiang Xuan, why is he being so cold to me?’

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