Refine the soul

  Nine borders are easy to pass, but the narrow neck of a bottle is hard. These six words were written in the annals of history. At this moment, Chu Yi finally understood how difficult it was to get through this "narrow neck".

  Ling Dan and other objects are no longer of any help to Chu Yi, unless there is a kind of "Jiu Yang Zhuan Sheng Dan" that can help people break through the bottleneck of cultivation, otherwise taking more elixirs would be useless. This last hurdle needs him to break through himself.

  The spiritual energy in the body converged and merged at an astonishing speed in the hundred pulses, wave after wave, surge after surge, impacting the Lingtai Baihui, that kind of headache-inducing feeling had already become a habit for Chu Yi.

  At first, it was painful to the point of gritting one's teeth, but after several days of continuous impact, the pain had become numb. Now, in Chu Yi's mind, there was only one thought, which was to blast open the Lingtai Dahu, fill the sky with energy, and concentrate his spirit.

  But this step is so difficult, time passed day by day, five days... seven days... fifteen days...

  With a roar like that of a wild beast, Chu Yi's white robe made of ice silkworm was instantly incinerated by the explosive power of fire spirit within his body.

  At this moment, the divine yuan force in Chu Yi's body had condensed and compressed to an extreme degree, unexpectedly taking on a needle-like shape, constantly impacting the Lingtai Dahu at an astonishing frequency.

  A hundred times more intense than the previous few days, the severe pain spread throughout his body. Even if he were to be bitten by ten thousand ants, flayed alive and dismembered, it would still be hard to compare with this extreme agony, forcing Chu Yi to want to give up several times.

  In the midst of Hades' deafening roar, Chu Yi disregarded everything and urged the Godhead's power to impact the Spiritual Platform. His skin turned bright red, his body involuntarily trembling violently, even with his immortal roots and spiritual bones remade by the Godhead's power almost unable to withstand such intense impact.

  "Dad wants to get stronger, get stronger... Open it for me..."

  Under the stimulation of severe pain, Chu Yi actually compressed and converged the divine yuan force that had already condensed in his body again, heavily colliding with the Lingtai Dahu.

  Boom

  At this moment, Chu Yi felt as if his whole body was like a soul escaping from its shell, his mind clearer than it had ever been before, and his thoughts more lucid and clear than he had ever experienced.

  With a slight movement of thought, the divine consciousness ten times stronger than before spread out like an octopus, and although he closed his eyes and sat in meditation, every blade of grass and tree within a hundred feet was clearly visible to him.

  Lingtai opened its eyes, concentrated its mind and gathered its thoughts. After going through a closed-door meditation that lasted for more than six months, Chuyi finally let out a long sigh of relief and flashed out of the room.

  His cultivation strength rose by two levels, and as a result, Chu Yi's overall demeanor also underwent some subtle changes. His eyes became even more profound, his figure more upright, and he even grew several centimeters taller. Although it was still far from the pure Yangzi's transcendent elegance, he now possessed a certain air of a cultivated gentleman.

  "Only two and a half years left..."

  Breaking through the two major boundaries at an astonishing speed didn't bring much surprise to Chu Yi. Thinking of his promise with Bai Qi and the debt of 80 million crystal coins, Chu Yi was unwilling to waste any time.

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  Inside the grand hall of the Inner Gate, a luxurious palace paved with gold and jade, Chu Yi suddenly appeared in front of an old man wearing a green robe.

  After showing the old man the Yuanyang Jade Token symbolizing his inner disciple status, Chu Yi's gaze fell on a jade screen wind behind the old man that was ten zhang long, three zhang wide and two zhang high.

  There are various sect tasks listed on the screen, which are divided into six levels: Peak, Extreme, Elite, Entry, Indoor and Enlightenment according to their difficulty.

  After each task, there is a reward that can be obtained after completing the task, in addition to the fixed contribution degree reward for each task.

  There are also other additional rewards, such as millions of spiritual stones, fifth-grade Taoist pills, and even tasks that reward middle to lower grade treasure-level magic tools, but it is clear that these are not something that Chu Yi can complete with his current cultivation strength.

  For example, one of the reward items "Samadhi Pure Yang Armor" requires killing an elder-level character in the Blood Pool Sect. To say that even if Chu Yi Kai Guang's cultivation is open, even his master, Chunyangzi, who has cultivated to the peak of Jindan's ninth realm, would find it difficult to complete this task.

  Xue Chi Zong is one of the eight demonic sects, and killing their internal elders is similar to a demonic cultivator taking down the current elder of the Wu Shang Xuan Yang Sect. The difficulty can be imagined.

  For example, a certain task is to capture a spiritual beast called "Thunder Giant Lizard", and the task reward is three "Fantasy Spirit Pills", which belongs to the sixth-grade Taoist pill.

  If we're talking about pure cultivation strength, the spiritual beast is almost on par with Yuan Ying Zhen Jun, let alone capturing it alive. This kind of twisted task reward is indeed generous, but it's not something that just anyone can accomplish.

  Chu Yi's eyes flashed like lightning, quickly scanning the numerous sect tasks listed on the Jade Screen Wind. Finally, his gaze locked onto a row of tasks categorized as "Deng Tang" level.

  Within 100 days, submit ten shares of the sect's stock, and in eight hundred years, the fire will be ripe for the dragon's beard grass.

  Within 100 days, hand over a demonic beast spirit core of the highest quality to the sect.

  Explore the barbaric outer realm, discover rich resource territories, indefinitely.

  ……

  Chu Yi took on over a dozen "top-grade" missions in one breath before finally taking his leave.

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  The location of the Barbaric Outer Domain is at the southern end of the Cloud Dragon Mountain Range. A thousand years ago, the Supreme Venerable Taixu of the Unparalleled Heavenly Yang Sect used his great divine power to divide the Barbaric Domain into two major domains: the Inner and Outer Domains.

  Even now, the entrance to the barbaric outer domain, about a hundred miles in circumference, has been developed into a small town by the Supreme Profound Yang Sect, but it faces a large number of cultivators.

  In this place called "Hidden Ruins City", disciples of the nine major sects can be seen everywhere. To know that in the entire Xuan Yuan Star, the barbaric outer domain is absolutely the best place for cultivators below the Golden Dan stage to hone their skills. Almost all cultivators below the Golden Dan stage have spent some time in the barbaric outer domain.

  Apart from the nine major sects' disciples, there are also many scattered cultivators and some medium-sized sects that come here. The massive flow of people has caused Hidden Mist City to develop extremely rapidly. Every year, just relying on collecting tolls can provide the Supreme Profound Sun Sect with tens of millions of spirit stones.

  If you also count the various business transactions in Hidden Mist City that pay taxes to the Supreme Void Yang Sect, this tiny piece of land can earn at least tens of millions of spirit stones for the sect every year.

  Chu Yi came riding a crane carriage, holding the Yuanyang Jade Token. As an inner disciple, he naturally had unimpeded access within the Hidden Mist City, and not only was he exempt from paying the 2,000 mid-grade spirit stones toll, but also received many privileges.

  For example, get a map of the marked resource points in the wilderness for free, and for another example, exempt from transaction tax in various trading markets within Hidden Mist City.

  Chu Yi's trip to the barbaric outer realm this time has two purposes: one is to search for rare spiritual material seeds, and the other is to temper himself. After more than half a year of cultivation, Chu Yi has gained a deeper understanding of the path of refining truth.

  Blindly cultivating, even with countless resources provided, achievements will not go far. To truly cultivate and achieve success, external training is indispensable. Naturally, the untamed outer realm became Chuyi's first choice for tempering himself.

  Since obtaining the "Three Yuan Blazing Decree", Chu Yi had already made up his mind. On Earth, he lived a very comfortable life, and on Xuan Yuan Star, he also wanted to live a comfortable life, but more importantly, he wanted to live freely and magnificently, and becoming stronger was the only way.

  Especially when Bai Qi told Chu Yi that if he could cultivate to the Hua Shen period, he would have hope to cross the starry sky and return to his hometown on Earth, which further solidified Chu Yi's crazy cultivation thoughts.