Chapter 86: Twenty Years Passed in the Blink of an Eye (Seeking Recommendations and Bookmarks)

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  Yang Tian asked, and with a single breath, he swallowed it all down. If someone saw Yang Tian swallow the entire batch of Xuanjing Zengyuan Dan in one go, they would likely be shocked. It would take an extremely robust physical body to withstand such a massive amount of spiritual energy, equivalent to 600 years of arduous cultivation by an ordinary cultivator. Even a Foundation Establishment stage cultivator would need to absorb and refine this spiritual energy one pellet at a time, taking dozens of years or more.

  Yang Tianwen, in order to save time and also to efficiently compress this spiritual energy into the purest Xiantian purple gas, relied on his physical body strengthened by the Luopan's power and swallowed a few more Xuanjie Zengyuan Dan. Yang Tianwen dared to do so, not only because of his robust physique but also due to his strong confidence in the Taigu Cultivation Method, this massive spiritual energy was simply unable to overwhelm him.

  Also don't know how long it took, Yang Tian refined this vast spiritual power, and the Dantian was filled with as many as 68. This is the benefit of taking them together, if one were to refine and absorb them one by one, they would absolutely not reach 68 in number, at most around 65 or 66.

  Still 240 to go, Yang Tianwen took the remaining 20 Earth-stage Replenishing Pills and swallowed them in one gulp without any hesitation. After refining them, he then devoured the Heaven-stage ones as well.

  Also, no one knows how long it took, Yang Tianwen reopened his eyes again, feeling the vast and powerful true energy surging through his body. At this time, after Yang Tianwen absorbed and refined all the Enhancing Yuan Dan, 365 major acupoints in his body had only 108 empty ones left, while the remaining 257 major acupoints were filled with pure Xiantian purple gas. In other words, at this moment, Yang Tianwen possessed the equivalent of 257 ordinary foundation-building cultivators' strength, which could also rival that of three Nascent Soul stage cultivators. The thick and terrifying Xiantian purple gas was absolutely not inferior to the true energy of a Nascent Soul stage cultivator in terms of quality.

  Yang Tianwen now has no more spiritual pills, so he simply takes out the pill furnace again and refines a new batch. A few days later, Yang Tianwen refined over 200 yuan-yuan pills, but among them, only 4 were heavenly-grade, 12 were earth-grade, and there were about 40 xuan-grade pills. The remaining 160+ pills were all yellow-grade. Yang Tianwen could only helplessly sigh that his luck was bad, and casually grabbed a handful of yellow-grade pills to swallow...

  "Damn it! Unbelievable." Yang Tian cursed, opening his eyes gloomily after a while. Why? This batch of Huang Jie's Xuan Yuan Dan actually didn't even fill one major acupoint, what was going on here?

  Yang Tian thought carefully for a moment, and roughly estimated that it might be because his cultivation had increased, the effect of this Yuan-yuan Dan was getting lower and lower. It seemed that the Huang-stage Yuan-yuan Dan was no longer effective. He counted them, there were more than 140 left, divided into 7 bottles, he couldn't eat them himself, so he might as well sell them off. The higher his cultivation, the higher the level of alchemy required, and the cost would also become higher and higher.

  Yang Tian thought for a moment, then put away the Xuanjie's as well, dividing them into 4 bottles. He decided to use the Di Jie's directly, anyway it wouldn't make much of a difference. After the Qi Refining stage of the "Unrestrained Great Way", comes the Embryonic Breathing stage. The so-called Embryonic Breathing is actually the Spirit Nourishing stage, where one gathers the power of the 365 acupoints in the Lower, Middle and Upper Dantians to open up the Upper Dantian, merge the Three Souls and Seven Souls, and give birth to the Indestructible Primordial Spirit! However, the Embryonic Breathing stage is a depressing stage. During this stage, one cannot afford to have any lapses in attention, as more than half of one's energy is used for spirit nourishment. It can be said that this stage is even weaker than the Qi Refining stage. Nevertheless, this stage has a special characteristic - its duration is unpredictable, varying greatly from person to person. In other words, this stage is quite unique and can last anywhere from a hundred years to just a few months, depending on the individual.

  Yang Tianwen swallowed the Xuan Yuan Dan of the Heavenly and Earthly stages, and then filled up 72 more large caves, leaving only the last 36. Yang Tianwen came out of seclusion, and this time he spent over 20 years in one go. The Spiritual Exchange Conference in Jingyang City was missed, but that didn't matter, wasn't there always next time?

  Yang Tianwen spent another half year getting familiar with his current cultivation. Yang Tianwen rarely saw Xiaobai take the initiative to cultivate, and it seemed that he wouldn't wake up for a while.

  More than 20 years have passed like a sleep, and it feels so fast. Looking at my still youthful face, I thought of another friend from the orphanage in another space, Pangzi, who is almost fifty now? The children are probably all married, and maybe not even grandfather yet. I also thought of Shui Xilan and Bi'er, took out the communication jade symbol, tried it, and found that the array method on the other side was closed, it seems that they are still in retreat, Bi'er said that the retreat for a hundred years looks like it's too early.

  Yang Tianwen, who is about to enter the fetal breathing period, has also begun preparations for this period. First, a safe place for closed cultivation, which barely meets the standards, but it's clear that safety cannot be compromised during the fetal breathing period. Next, the Lingdan, as recorded in the "Dan Jing" of "Dan Qi Mi Jie", is a kind of spiritual elixir called the Nourishing Spirit Elixir. This elixir is essential for the fetal breathing period, and with it, the process can be shortened by half. The Nourishing Spirit Elixir nourishes the spirit, strengthens the three souls, and cleanses the seven poisons. Only when the power of the three souls and seven poisons is pure can the resulting yuan Shen be stable and strong. Unfortunately, the main ingredient in the formula for the Nourishing Spirit Elixir, apart from the 500-year-old Rougui grass, is the hundred-year-old Qidi Jinlun flower. Alas, it's unknown where to find this spiritual medicine, which typically grows in humid depressions with abundant wood element energy, making it extremely difficult to find.

  The matter of the Nourishing Spirit Pill can be put aside for now, it's better to learn the unpracticed spells first. Yang Tian's magical powers have made great progress, and he can cast Thunder Magic: Five Thunder Bombardment and Heavenly Thunder Summoning. The Five Thunder Bombardment is nothing special, but the Heavenly Thunder Summoning belongs to mid-level thunder magic, with extraordinary power, used to subdue demons and evil spirits, defend against strong enemies, and achieve victory over them, an excellent thunder spell.

  Yang Tian asked if he dared to delay, carefully studying this self-defense and life-saving attack technique. In other times, Yang Tian asked, except for taking out time to study the compass, all of it was used to deduce array methods. The "Array Way Ten Volumes" had five volumes that explained the complex connections and contained array principles of the natural world, the universe's vastness, yin-yang wuxing, four images eight trigrams. Another three volumes, the first volume recorded primary high-level commonly used array methods, its characteristics were practical and easy to set up, using local materials, convenient and extensive, which naturally included the law arrays used for refining instruments.