Chapter Seven: The Return Journey
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Qin Yu's heart stirred, and he controlled the liquid true energy to return to his body. Those true energies were originally cultivated by Qin Yu, and it was easy for him to control them.
Suddenly——
Qin Yu's face showed a hint of extreme joy, an extremely intense joy.
Just now, Qin Yu's mind moved, and the purple misty true energy returned to his body. These purple true energies naturally followed Qin Yu's intentions and entered his body. At first, Qin Yu controlled all the purple true energies in his body to gather in his dantian. The returning purple true energies also surged into his dantian once again.
Qin Yu's strange Dan Tian's 'centrifugal force' caused these purple true energies to rotate once again, and then scatter away.
Loop!
An almost perfect cycle!
A whirlpool like a nebula appears inside the dantian, with endless purple true energy entering from within the body, influenced by centrifugal force and rotating, then dispersing again along the trajectory of the nebula.
From Dantian breaking through muscles and bones to the outside of the body, then from the outside of the body passing through muscles and bones back into Dantian.
Perfect cycle!
And because of the centrifugal force naturally produced by the dantian, a whirlpool-like nebula is formed in the dantian.
"Haha, heaven is helping me out! This strange sensation in my dantian isn't a bad thing, on the contrary... it's a huge stroke of good luck!" Qin Yu suddenly opened his eyes wide, and they were filled with wild excitement. At this moment, he didn't need to worry about controlling his body at all.
Qin Yu was excited at this moment.
"Starry clouds, this starry cloud trajectory is almost perfect, even more perfect than the one Master has sensed. Haha... This, this is really...” Qin Yu was so excited that he couldn't speak properly. Anyone who knew the content of "Stellar Transformation" would understand what it meant for the "Starry Cloud Stage" trajectory to be closer to the natural way.
Qin Yu took a deep breath to calm his emotions, then sat down cross-legged and began to focus on his cultivation.
Although it can be cultivated automatically without control, cultivating with concentration speeds up the process.
A purple mist-like aura emanated from Qin Yu's body, covering an area of two to three meters around him. The purple clouds swirled continuously, and Qin Yu seemed to be enveloped by a cluster of purple clouds. These purple mists absorbed the power of the heavens and stars, then surged into his muscles and bones.
When the power of the stars breaks through muscles and bones, the muscles and bones naturally absorb part of it, while being tempered. Later, these purple mists carrying the power of the stars returned to the dantian, and when they passed through the star cloud vortex in the dantian, more than half of their energy was swallowed up. These purple mists dispersed again.
Each cycle absorbs the power of the stars, tempering muscles and bones, making the energy within the star cloud increasingly powerful.
Time and time again, Qin Yu was completely immersed in that wonderful feeling. Gradually, he didn't know how long had passed, the purple cloud's color gradually faded away, but the energy became even more refined. For an entire month, Qin Yu continued to cultivate quietly.
A few months later.
Qin Yu's body was currently surrounded by a faint, shimmering silver mist that seemed to appear and disappear at will, constantly absorbing the power of the stars. After more than a month of tempering his body with the power of the stars, Qin Yu's physique had become as strong and resilient as jade or gold.
In the lower abdomen.
A perfect nebula is in it, this nebula is composed of silver particles, these silver particles are distributed throughout the dantian, and all of them are the essence formed by absorbing a large amount of star power. They are also the source of energy for Qin Yu later on.
In the center of the nebula is a flame, a pale blue flame.
Qin Yu, who had been sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed, opened them and stopped cultivating. The pale silver energy immediately surged into his body, and the star cloud continued to be affected by the power of his dantian, slowly rotating, only making the energy of the star cloud more refined.
"A pale blue flame, indeed. The Starlight True Fire obtained from cultivating the Stellar Transformation is much more powerful than the Samadhi True Fire." Qin Yu suddenly stood up.
Every cultivator has true fire in their body, generally referred to as 'Samadhi True Fire' by immortal cultivators, 'Demon Extinguishing True Fire' by demon cultivators, and 'Yao Hun True Fire' by Yao cultivators. As the Star Transformations is neither immortal cultivation nor demon cultivation, nor is it Yao cultivation, the true fire in the body is named 'Star True Fire'.
Qin Yu walked up to the entrance of the training hall, and the doors automatically swung open.
A black shadow appeared beside Qin Yu, like a wisp of smoke. It was Xiao Hei, who had been alone for over a month and had been worried about Qin Yu, who had been in seclusion for just as long. Now that he saw Qin Yu come out, he finally felt at ease.
"Big brother." A hint of joy flickered in Xiao Hei's eyes.
Qin Yu smiled and said: "Xiao Hei, come with me."
"Where are we going?" Xiao Hei wondered, but Qin Yu didn't say a word and walked in another direction. Xiao Hei followed behind Qin Yu, who headed straight to the Refining Room on the first floor of Leishanju.
The door of the refining room opened automatically.
"Big brother, are you going to refine equipment?" Little Hei was now completely awake.
Qin Yu smiled slightly and said, "Right, when I first obtained the Stone of Blazing Fire, Uncle Feng's Threefold True Flame was not powerful enough, so it only refined into a mid-grade spiritual artifact. In fact, the Stone of Blazing Fire can be refined into a high-grade spiritual artifact. Moreover, I still have some high-grade crystal stones that can be fused together to re-refine my Blazing Fist Set and Blazing Sword."
"Top-grade crystal? Big brother, you have top-grade crystal?" Little Hei's excited voice echoed in Qin Yu's mind.
Qin Yu nodded slightly and smiled: "What's wrong, are you also going to?"
Xiao Hei's eagle head nodded repeatedly, and his spiritual sense transmitted: "In my memory, there is also a method of using 'Yao Ling True Fire' to refine equipment. Unfortunately, I have been troubled by the lack of good crystal stones. The top-grade crystal stones in the storage room are visible but out of reach. I didn't know that Big Brother had high-quality crystal stones here."
"Alright, how many pieces do you want?" Qin Yu's heart skipped a beat, the crystal stone in the Dream Ring was completely aware.
Most of the crystal stones in this ring are medium-grade, and there are also some high-grade crystal stones. Although not many, there are still more than a dozen pieces, each of which is quite large, about half the size of that piece of Starfire Iron.
"That's enough, big brother, can you help me pick one? I want one with electric properties." Little Hei said.
Qin Yu waved his hand, and instantly more than a dozen top-grade crystal stones appeared in the refining room. Xiao Hei immediately took a liking to a blue crystal stone, and with a joyful chirp, he sucked it up into the air and swallowed it in one gulp.
"Big brother, you're cultivating here, I'll just find a place to cultivate too." Little Hei transmitted with a smile.
Qin Yu nodded and then chose two top-grade crystal stones, one golden crystal stone and one black top-grade crystal stone. Originally, the Flame Fist Suit and Flame Sword would have many impurities refined away by the Starlight True Fire, making them smaller in size.
Moreover, the fire attribute of Shi Zhong Yi is not very good. The two crystal stones that have merged with the gold and dark attributes, the hardness of the Yi Fist and Yi Sword will increase greatly, and the light will also become dimmer, even to the point of having a devouring function.
"The Alchemy Room, Master has already set up so many formations, so my alchemy will be much simpler." Qin Yu smiled and pointed with one hand, the Yan Fei Sword and Yan Fei Fist Suit immediately flew out of his body and directly landed on the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
At the same time, a pale blue flame flew out of Qin Yu's body and drifted into the Eight Trigrams Furnace, where it suddenly flared up.
"Tianmen, Bagua, Zheng!"
Qin Yu's single hand emitted several illusory pale silver star powers, shooting into the small cavities of the Bagua Furnace. Instantly, the Bagua Furnace lit up, and rays of light shot out, forming mysterious symbols. The temperature of the pale blue flames suddenly soared.
Qin Yu smiled, Xing Chen True Fire has two sides, through the formation method control, can change Xing Chen True Fire into Tai Yang True Fire and Tai Yin True Fire.
"Hehe~~~"
At this moment, the Xīng Chén True Fire is in a state of extreme heat, and the Huǒ Jì Sword and Huǒ Jì Fist Set are completely melted in an instant. Meanwhile, impurities are being burned away, leaving everything spotless, and its volume has naturally decreased significantly. With a single finger, Qín Yǔ sent two top-grade crystal stones flying into it as well.
The true fire of the sun once again melted two top-grade crystal stones, burning away the impurities within them. The volume of the two crystal stones shrank by four or five times.
……
Qin Yu still remembered the simplest method of refining equipment described in "Xing Chen Bian", where the true fire of Taiyang melts away impurities and the true fire of Taiyin shapes it into form. However, even with this simplest of methods, Qin Yu was left scrambling, with the most difficult part being controlling the fire timing.
"Earth Gate, Eight Trigrams, Reverse!"
As several strands of pale silver stellar energy shot into the other cauldrons, the Eight Trigrams Furnace emitted a different glow from before. The temperature of the Stellar True Fire seemed to drop suddenly in an instant, and the outer flames were also a faint icy blue color.
……
After a long period of refinement, the Yan Fei Fist and Yan Fei Sword have finally taken shape again. Qin Yu simply engraved two arrays on the Yan Fei Fist and Yan Fei Sword, one was an attacking array and the other was a defensive array.
These two formations were seen by Qin Yu from a secret book in his study.
"I'm too weak in studying formation techniques. According to that secret book, a powerful master can carve nine attacking formations on the flying sword with one breath, forming a cycle, and its power is great." Qin Yu thought to himself, if Wind Jade Child knew what he was thinking, she would probably be ashamed to death.
The cultivation manual that Qin Yu was looking at was some of the top-grade cultivation manuals that Lei Wei had obtained in the Cultivation Realm. The two array techniques that Qin Yu had carved were extremely abstruse and not usually passed on to outsiders.
At first, Feng Yu Zi was just setting up a simple and rough attacking formation for Qin Yu.
The Blazing Fist and Blazing Sword floated in front of Qin Yu.
At this moment, the Flame Fist and Flame Sword both turned dark gold in color and became top-grade spiritual artifacts. The size of the Flame Sword was roughly the same as a flying sword, and it could be used for either close-range attacks like a short sword or long-range attacks like a flying sword, truly ingenious.
July has passed, and tomorrow is the day when the Qin family will decide to take up arms. In a military camp near the Black Water Mountains, the four great generals and Qin De and Qin Zheng are all gathered together at this moment.
Qin De and Qin Zheng wore brocade clothes, while the four great generals Qin Feng, Jiang Tao, Fu Bing, and Fan Yu wore battle armor.
"Gentlemen, my Qin family has been preparing for hundreds of years, and we will set off tomorrow. The first battle will be your responsibility, the four counties of Xiyu, and Leixue County must be taken down in one battle." Qin De said firmly to the four great generals in front of him.
Fan Yu General is the only female among the four generals, and she also has another identity - the leader of the Black Water Mountain Bandits.
"Your Highness, rest assured. The Black Water Mountain Range has been accumulating power for hundreds of years, just waiting for this day. With a single order, the 300,000-strong army can directly capture the Lei Blood County." General Fan Yu said firmly, the Black Water Mountain Range had been passed down for hundreds of years, and it was waiting for this very day.
It is claimed that there are 200,000 bandits abroad, but in fact there are 300,000.
"General Fan Yu, don't be impatient. This battle must be won in one go, which is why I'm having the other three generals accompany you as well. Thirty million Qin regular troops, plus thirty million Blackwater Army, a total of sixty million, must be like a flood bursting through the dam, winning in one battle." Qin De's eyes shone brightly.
Qin Feng said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. The garrison of Lei Xue Prefecture is only about 200,000 troops, and they are scattered in various cities. It's actually quite easy to break through. What we need to guard against is the three prefectures of the Southern Domain under the Mu family. Lei Xue Prefecture is right next to the Mu family."
"General Qin Feng, we have an army of 600,000 strong. The three southern provinces combined only have a population of 600,000 and they still need to garrison the land, posing no threat to us." General Jiang Tao said with a smile.
"Generals, the Emperor's arrangement also implies a warning to the three southern provinces and four western provinces. With an army of 600,000, it would be difficult for either side to conquer."
"Alright, I'll leave the first battle to you all." Qin De said with a hearty laugh.
The four generals were also confident, and then the high-level military personnel began to chat with each other in a relaxed manner.
"Huh? General Qin Feng seems to have reached the Late Pre-Heavenly stage. General Qin Feng is still under 28 this year, right?" General Jiang Tao's eyes lit up in surprise.
Qin Feng smiled and nodded slightly.
"General Qin Feng is indeed formidable, not yet twenty-eight years old and has already reached the Late Heaven Stage. In this generation of young people on the Hidden Dragon Continent, I estimate that General Qin Feng will be in control." Fu Bing also smiled and said, while Fan Yu's eyes lit up beside him, staring at Qin Feng.
"What's gotten into you?" Qin Feng shook his head and smiled wryly.
Qin De and Qin Zheng also let out a sigh, with Qin Zheng saying to the several generals: "My third brother was eighteen years old when he first cultivated his external skills to the Xiantian realm, and it was even the Xiantian Dàyuánmǎn realm! Even historical figures like the Western Chu Overlord were far inferior!"
The Qin government at this moment had a suffocating atmosphere.
My third brother was a genius, but unfortunately he died so young that his name didn't even get to be widely known.
"External skill? Innate Great Perfection Realm? At eighteen years old?" Several generals were all stunned. Since ancient times, no one in the Profound Dragon Continent had cultivated external skills to the Innate Realm. Now they heard that an eighteen-year-old youth had reached that realm, and it was naturally hard for them to believe.
"Where is His Highness San?" Fan Yu asked curiously.
"To save the king, Yu'er killed five pre-heavenly great masters in a row, and then followed that Wuxia's top immortal Wu Xing to die together!" As soon as Qin De said this, several generals took a deep breath, looked at each other, but couldn't say a word.
……
In the vast and desolate wilderness.
"Xiao Hei, get ready, we're leaving soon." Qin Yu stood outside the Lei Shan residence and shouted at Xiao Hei, then muttered to himself in a low voice, "It's been seven months, I wonder how Father Wang and the others are doing. They probably still don't know I'm alive."
Thinking of this, Qin Yu's desire to return home became more urgent.
Having cultivated the "Stellar Transformation", he entered the Star Cloud stage and refined two more top-grade spiritual artifacts, thereby gaining the ability to traverse the Desolate Expanse. Qin Yu naturally hastened his return.
