Chapter Thirty-Three Suddenly Became Poor

  Bang! Bang!

  A large amount of spiritual stones, directly turned into powder, the entire secret room has completely become a vast ocean of spiritual energy, sticky and dense, fog-like, liquidized, quantitative changes have produced qualitative changes, the air in this small world has undergone intense chemical changes.

  These spiritual energies directly penetrated through Wang Qiang's entire body and were absorbed by him through his 480 million pores.

  Breathe!

  He is now fully devoted to inhaling and exhaling spiritual energy, his breathing like thunder, each breath seeming to shake the sky. It's clear that his inhalation and exhalation are incredibly powerful, and what he's breathing in isn't air, but spiritual energy, making it even more terrifying. In almost a single breath, over a thousand pieces of spiritual stone are crushed into spiritual energy and absorbed into his body.

  The elixir of the sea is boiling, the source of the blue divine power, thoroughly stirring up a wild storm. Wang Qian's lifespan, strength and physical strength are all being infinitely enhanced.

  "Not enough, this is still not enough, my soul realm is too high and profound, absorbing and refining the spiritual energy is simply like a whale swallowing water, no matter how much spiritual energy comes in, I can bear it!"

  Wang Gan was overjoyed in his heart. This feeling of constantly increasing one's power was too blissful for a cultivator.

  The spiritual energy absorbed from the Ling Stone was no longer enough to satisfy his needs, so he opened his mouth and swallowed, and a dense array of True Yuan Pills formed a long river of elixirs that poured into his mouth with a gurgling sound, transforming spiritual energy and enhancing his cultivation.

  His current cultivation method is too frightening, fortunately there is only one person here, otherwise if someone saw it, they would probably be scared to death, even his master Yunshan, although he has a very deep understanding of his cultivation methods, absolutely wouldn't think that he would crazily absorb spiritual energy and increase his cultivation like this.

  Fast, fast, incredibly fast!

  One breath, two breaths,... ten breaths!

  After ten breaths, the elixirs beside Wang Qian were all consumed, not a single one left. These True Origin Elixirs were exchanged by him at the Hundred Herb Hall of Qingyun Gate after killing the Underworld creatures from the underground, with sufficient medicinal power and pure spiritual energy, totaling over 8,000 pellets, which he swallowed clean in just ten breaths.

  Pfft!

  Innumerable spirit stones all turned into powder, their spiritual energy lost completely, becoming useless waste that could never be recovered or reused.

  In less than half a moment, all the low-grade spirit stones on Wang Gan's body were used up, but he felt as if he had been hungry for too long and could swallow any amount of spirit stones. With a fierce determination in his heart, he directly took out the two high-grade spirit stones exchanged from Blackstone City, as well as all the mid-grade spirit stones, this time he was going all out.

  The top-grade spirit stone was indeed extraordinary, as a vast amount of spiritual energy burst forth, causing Wang Qian to feel momentarily oxygen-deprived. The dense spiritual energy in the secret chamber finally managed to keep up with Wang Qian's consumption rate.

  The Nine Turns Body Refining Technique is a profound and mysterious skill. Simply put, it's about refining the spiritual energy and tempering the body. However, it's also extremely difficult because if one's soul cultivation isn't up to par, they'll be unable to control the massive amount of spiritual energy, and may even struggle to grasp their own physical strength. If they're not careful, they might lose control and suffer a catastrophic explosion.

  However, these troubles are completely useless on Wang Qian's body, because his current spiritual realm is several times higher than his own cultivation, even ten times or more, and he can absorb spiritual energy without worrying about other things.

  The blue divine power in the sea of suffering was expanding at a visible speed, one zhang, two zhang, three zhang, without stopping.

  A vast amount of blue divine energy circulated within Wang Qian's body, seeping into his blood, flesh, bones, and meridians, tempering and forging him thoroughly, treating his body as a piece of refining material.

  The 9th turn of refining the body starts with crazy progress. The early stage of the second turn, the middle stage of the second turn, and the late stage of the second turn!

  What is this concept after the second turn?

  It was the divine power of Wang Qian's Dan Tian, which had already filled a nine-zhang-square area. His divine consciousness could observe that the current bitter sea was just a small lake, and the cyan divine power formed his source of strength.

  Pfft!

  The last spirit stone shattered, and the concentration of spiritual energy in the secret room gradually decreased, eventually returning to normal levels.

  Wang Qian's slightly closed eyes suddenly opened, and a beam of cyan light pierced through the void, making a "whooshing" sound as it directly pierced two small holes in the wall of the opposite secret room. This secret room had been operated by Ji Shi Xiong into an old nest, with its entire body cast in gold and engraved with array talismans. Now, it was torn apart by Wang Qian's two beams of light, completely destroying the defense of the entire secret room.

  "I...fainted!"

  King Qian opened his eyes, and a curse burst out. He finally knew why so many people practiced the Nine Turns Body Refining Technique, but very few could achieve anything remarkable. As for those who reached the pinnacle of cultivation, it was unknown how many tens of thousands of years it had been since anyone appeared. Even whether there were any immortals in the legendary Realm of the Gods was still an unknown quantity.

  This technique is too costly, so much so that it can bankrupt a cultivation sect and force them to beg on the streets.

  Wang Qian's cultivation this time consumed over 8,000 True Yuan Pills and roughly several hundred thousand pieces of low-grade spirit stones. This was an enormous wealth, but it was all spent by him in a short period of time, without leaving any leftovers. Now, he probably can't even afford to buy the most ordinary talisman.

  One moment he was a small rich man, the next moment Wang Qian returned to the pre-liberation era and became extremely poor.

  Originally, with his soul cultivation, he could cultivate to the peak of the second turn without any problem, but this time, due to insufficient spiritual stones, his cultivation was cut off directly, and the depression in it made Wang Qian feel very uncomfortable.

  He couldn't rely on the massive amount of spiritual energy to cultivate, which made his cultivation progress extremely slow. Having experienced that rapid and violent surge, it was unrealistic for Wang Qian to diligently absorb the spiritual energy from heaven and earth every day.

  It's just like a person who is used to wearing fine clothes and eating fine food, but suddenly has to eat cabbage and buns every day, how can he possibly accept it?

  So he simply stopped practicing the Nine Turns Body Refining Technique and began to ponder the combat skills of the Pu Du Jin Gang Jue, the Big Golden Fist.

  This boxing technique is not a secular martial art, but has risen to the level of Taoist art. It is a kung fu that can enter the Tao, and for Wang Qian now, it also plays a very important role, allowing his combat skills to be more diversified.

  Intoxicated and unaware of the passage of time, Wang Qian practiced in a secret room on Yan Dan Mountain for three days. After three days, he felt that he had cultivated the Great Golden Fist to its current limit, only then did he stop.

  "This gold cannot be wasted either, it can be refined into purple gold and then upgrade my Divine Halberd. This divine weapon is still a bit low-level for now, fortunately I don't need it urgently yet."

  Wang Gan looked at the large amount of gold beside him and suddenly a thought rose in his mind.

  So he came to Yandang Mountain this time, and it was really a clean sweep, with nothing left behind. All the spiritual materials that could be found were packed up and taken away without exception.

  He is now extremely poor, with his mind full of thoughts on how to obtain spirit stones, whether it's by killing people and stealing their treasures or by cheating and deceiving others, in short, countless ideas are swirling around in his mind.

  After descending from Yanxia Mountain, Wang Qian didn't stay any longer and returned to Heishi City. He sold all the magic treasures of Ji Shi Xiong's group of scattered cultivators, but the final result wasn't very satisfying. In the end, he only got about 30,000 low-grade spirit stones, which was not enough for his use. However, temporarily, he had no other way and still needed to return to Qingyun Gate.

  Qingyun Mountain is in sight, Wang Gan thinks about his gains over the past four or five days, overall he is very satisfied, just experienced a grand cultivation, which made him exhausted from head to toe, he starts planning, going back and discussing with Zhou Qing and others on how to get spirit stones, resources, and wealth as soon as possible.