Chapter Seventeen: Mid-term of Qi Refining

  Wang Ke never thought that the mysterious treasure box he picked up casually would undergo such a change, with countless silver runes entering deep into his mind before flashing and disappearing.

  Lying in bed at this time, breathing slowly, still asleep, everything in the room seems to have never happened, except that the mysterious treasure box on the surface has disappeared.

  However, in the nine heavens above, several powerful divine consciousnesses burst out from all over the divine realm.

  "What's going on? Why has the Origin Thunder descended?" A deep, heavy voice echoed in the air, gradually fading away, disappearing into who-knows-where.

  After a long time, Wang finally opened his eyes and slowly sat up. He patted his head with his right hand, feeling an unbearable heaviness in his brain, as if it had been filled with lead.

  "What's going on, did I really fall asleep just now?" Wang Ke was puzzled in his heart. Since he started cultivating, he had never fallen into a deep sleep. Even when he slept, he would always remain slightly awake.

  Suddenly, Wang Ke discovered that there was something more in his mind. With a movement of his consciousness, two obscure and difficult-to-understand cultivation techniques instantly emerged from the depths of his brain.

  "Condensing Yuan Technique, Furnace Divine Body" For some reason, Wang Ke knew the names of these two techniques, but the cultivation method was extremely difficult. Wang Ke studied for half a day and still had no clue.

  "How did two more skills suddenly appear?" Wang Ke was somewhat puzzled, and his left hand accidentally touched the mysterious treasure box on the pillow. He casually glanced over, but unexpectedly, this casual glance allowed Wang Ke to notice the changes that had occurred in the treasure box.

  "Huh, where did the patterns on this go?" He held the treasure box in his hand, and he had studied it countless times. The mysterious patterns on it had never been figured out to have anything special, but now they had all disappeared without a trace.

  He suddenly changed his expression and thought of the two secrets that had appeared in his mind, Wang Ke guessed that it was probably related to the patterns on the mysterious treasure box.

  "Never mind, since the pattern has disappeared, let it disappear. Now this box looks even more ordinary, but I don't know if the mysterious function of copying items has disappeared." King Wang's heart suddenly became worried, if the mysterious function of this box disappears, he will lose a lot.

  Although he was worried in his heart, he wanted to confirm whether the function had disappeared. Now there is no way, only when the time comes will it be known. His head was dizzy just now, but he felt much better now. He jumped down from the bed and decided to go out for a walk.

  "Haha, from now on this place is going to be my territory!" Wang said excitedly to himself, then walked out.

  Outside the forbidden area is extremely vast, due to the lack of spiritual energy, basically except for the people guarding the forbidden area, no one else will come to this place. Everywhere is dark and gloomy, devoid of any vitality.

  Along the edge of the forbidden area, walking to the left, Wang Ke didn't find anything special, the array prohibition next to him was flashing with light, emitting a strong spiritual power fluctuation, he wouldn't be stupid enough to try out the power of this prohibition.

  "Huh? There's actually the sound of running water up ahead!" Suddenly, Wang Ke's ears perked up as a gentle gurgling sound came from up ahead. He quickened his pace, following the sound in that direction.

  Not long after, after turning several bends, in the concave place of the mountain valley in front of him, a huge pool appeared in Wang Ke's line of sight. The flowing water fell from the hundred-meter cliff, forming a magnificent waterfall, and the huge sound of the water echoed around the mountain valley.

  "Heh heh, I didn't expect to find such a large pool of water here, but it's just a stagnant pool. What a pity! Looking at the massive pool in front of him, Wang Ke shook his head and sighed. The surrounding spiritual energy was completely gone, and the air was heavy with death. The depth of the pool was unknown, its surface clear, but there wasn't even a hint of life within the water."

  Shaking his head, he turned around and walked back, but just as Wang Ke turned around to leave, two bright lights flashed in the depths of the water pool, and a black shadow swam further into the depths.

  After walking a dozen or so steps, Wang Ke paused slightly, turned his head back to look at Shui Tang, and a faint hint of doubt appeared in his eyes. Seeing that Shui Tang was still the same as before, Wang Ke shook his head: "Looks like I'm just being paranoid".

  It took Wang Ke a long time to circle around the outside of the forbidden area, and there was nothing unusual around the forbidden area. Everything looked normal. Returning to his courtyard, he began to meditate in seclusion.

  With the help of the spiritual stone, his cultivation progressed at an extremely fast pace. Every day, he could feel his spiritual power increasing, and this feeling was very comfortable.

  Finally, three days later, he found that the mysterious treasure box was still functional, and he let out a sigh of relief. The spiritual stones were taken out from the treasure box one after another, and this time Wang made as many copies as he wanted, and those that were not used up were directly put into the storage bag for collection.

  In a short period of time, the number of small spiritual pills in his hand had increased to one hundred, but he had never taken any. After cultivating, most of his time was spent studying the "Sword Transformation Technique".

  He had already learned "Na Qi Jue", but "Hua Jian Jue" was more profound, and Wang Ke spent a month studying it before he roughly grasped it.

  However, wanting to cultivate the "Sword Transformation Technique" requires at least reaching the middle stage of Nascent Qi, and Wang Ke is still in the early stages of Nascent Qi, making it impossible for him to cultivate it.

  Compared to the "Sword Transformation Technique", Wang Ke had no clue about the other two secret techniques in his mind, and these two secret techniques were much more profound than the "Sword Transformation Technique" by an unknown number of times.

  While cultivating, he also studied the sword manual. In his spare time, Wang Ke would immerse himself in the study room, and before he knew it, two months had passed.

  For two months, nothing happened outside the forbidden land, and no one came. Wang Ke could finally relax completely. After this period of cultivation, the spiritual power in Wang Ke's body had reached its peak, showing signs of breaking through, but it seemed to be stuck at a certain point, and several attempts to break through with cultivation were unsuccessful.

  "Today, I must break through to the middle stage of Nasal Qi!" In the room, Wang Ke sat cross-legged, his eyes shining with unwavering determination. In front of him were two jade bottles, and in his hand was a crystal clear Spirit Stone that had just appeared.

  With his left hand grasping the spirit stone, he felt the surging spiritual energy contained within the intermediate spirit stone, and Wang Ke's face was filled with confidence. His right hand suddenly grabbed a small bottle on the ground, and with a flick of his finger, five green lights shot out from the bottle and all entered Wang Ke's mouth.

  He tossed the small bottle back, and Wang Ke's eyes suddenly closed, as he began to circulate the Nasal Qi technique in his body. In an instant, a surging spiritual energy burst out of the Ling Stone in his left hand and entered his body, circulating wildly.

  At the same time, Wang Ke bit and crushed a small Ling Dan in his mouth. After the small Ling Dan shattered, it suddenly transformed into a torrent of spiritual energy that burst out from within Wang Ke's body, then frantically circulated with the Naqi Jue.

  Wang Ke could feel the spiritual energy inside his body like a wild horse that had broken free from its reins, and his body was transmitting wave after wave of swelling sensations. This feeling lasted for a whole minute.

  After a while, this feeling began to weaken obviously. Wang Ke frowned slightly and crushed another small spirit pill without hesitation. Instantly, a surge of spiritual energy was added to the circulation again, and the feeling of body expansion reappeared. Then not long after, it weakened again.

  Feeling the weakening of his spiritual energy, Wang Ke gritted his teeth and this time directly crushed two small spirit pills. In an instant, the two small spirit pills transformed into a massive amount of spiritual energy that erupted inside Wang Ke's body. The powerful force almost burst his body apart, and suddenly a feeling emerged in Wang Ke's heart.

  "It's now!" Wang Ke's heart condensed, his spirit controlling this crazy power, all pouring into the dantian. "Rumble" as if an explosion, Wang Ke's dantian transmitted a wild shock, a violent power swept through Wang Ke's dantian, and suddenly a tearing pain came from the dantian position.

  However, this pain only lasted for an instant. Wang opened his inner vision and suddenly a look of surprise appeared on his face. The dantian was actually expanded tenfold by the powerful force, and the spiritual energy that had been somewhat crowded in the dantian earlier was now completely emptied out. It was as if there was another dantian, with a ball of spiritual energy coiled in the center, but it only occupied one-tenth of the area of the dantian.

  "Haha, no wonder the mid-term Nasal Qi cultivators are much weaker than the early-stage ones. It turns out that the spiritual energy is actually ten times stronger in the early stage!" Wang Ke thought excitedly to himself as he felt the changes in his dantian.

  Actually, Wang Ke was too simple-minded. The reason why the mid-term Qi-refining cultivators are much more powerful than the early-stage Qi-refining cultivators is not only because of their strong spiritual power, but also because they can cultivate some attacking spells. After learning these spells, their strength increases greatly, and often a single mid-term Qi-refining cultivator can defeat dozens of early-stage Qi-refining cultivators, which shows how powerful the attacking spells are.

  Finally, Wang Ke broke through to the middle stage of Qi Refining. If the initial stage was just a beginning, then now he had stepped into the door of cultivation. The scene of Qinglong Peak disciples practicing sword techniques flashed in his mind, and a surge of heat burst out from his heart. Now he could also practice sword techniques.

  He crushed the remaining small Ling Dan in his mouth, and the Ling Dan turned into a stream of spiritual energy that circulated several times in Wang Ke's body before gathering in his Dantian, where it easily transformed into Wang Ke's own spiritual power.

  "Heh heh, the Small Spirit Pill is indeed extraordinary. It seems that my cultivation speed will be very fast from now on!" Wang Ke said excitedly, then looked at the spirit stone in his left hand. At this time, the spirit stone was still emitting a surging spiritual energy. Just now, after absorbing it for a while, this mid-grade spirit stone had not been consumed much.

  "It's indeed worthy of being a mid-grade spirit stone, the spiritual energy is even more refined and pure, it's really good stuff." Wang Ke carefully put away the mid-grade spirit stone. This spirit stone can not only help with cultivation but also has many great uses in the future. He decided to obtain more mid-grade spirit stones.

  Just now he had just broken through to the middle of Nascent Soul, Wang Ke decided to continue cultivating, anyway, he didn't lack Small Spirit Pills at present, and after his cultivation was solidified, he would start cultivating the Sword Transformation Incantation.

  Only to see Wang Ke stretch out his hand and beckon, the jade bottle in front of him was sucked into his hand, and in an instant, several small spirit pills popped out of the bottle, the small spirit pills flew directly into Wang Ke's mouth, closed his eyes and started cultivating, immediately a strong spiritual power fluctuation emanated from Wang Ke's body.

  If Wang Ke's actions just now were seen by others, they would probably scold him for being extravagant. Even inner sect disciples find it difficult to obtain Xiao Ling Dan, and ordinary disciples only use them when breaking through their boundaries. Now, Wang Ke is actually eating them like sugar beans, truly a waste of resources to the extreme.