Chapter Sixteen: The Universe in His Belly

  South China Sea

  Li Qingyun sat cross-legged on a weathered reef rock.

  That fat Daoist's ability to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was truly extraordinary, he actually swallowed in one breath enough heavenly spiritual energy to cultivate to the foundation period, if it wasn't for the need to match the medicinal properties of the elixir to temper his body, he might have been able to swallow even more. Because with his current Jindan True Body's physical body, it was absolutely not just capable of containing this little bit of spiritual energy.

  However, it seems there is also a side effect.

  That's because Li Qingyun had a feeling of being stuffed to the brim, not because of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but because he swallowed enough seawater to fill an entire lake.

  A world of its own inside!

  As the name suggests, it is a magical skill that has another world in its belly. The seawater was not converted into spiritual energy, but was really swallowed by him.

  What is called divine power is quite different from magic tricks.

  Because divine powers are mostly innate or acquired through the practice of a certain immortal art, compared to the practiced spells, divine powers are more magical and harder to cultivate.

  Logically speaking, it should be very difficult to cultivate divine powers.

  But unexpectedly, the Toad Immortal simply pressed his head and directly made him refine the first level of this divine ability.

  As for other divine abilities, such as Li Qingyun's former unique divine ability 【True Dragon Nine Transformations】, it was obtained when the dragon tribe's law entered the first heavy repair, and when activated, a part of itself can be transformed into the body of the dragon tribe.

  If cultivated to the extreme, it can even temporarily transform into a true dragon form!

  However.

  This divine ability consumed spiritual energy that was simply too enormous. Even when he was at the peak of the Golden Dan period, he couldn't maintain it for long.

  ………

  A world of one's own in one's belly.

  This divine ability, apart from its unique effect of absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, can actually open up another cave in the belly.

  It's just like Li Qingyun now, the position of the lower dantian has already transformed into a purple mansion that only a Yuan Ying period cultivator can possess. The Yuan Ying purple mansion is a cave heaven opened up inside the human body, generally used to merge with magical treasures. Throughout the entire cultivation world, only cultivators above the Yuan Ying period can merge magical treasures into their bodies, while other cultivators at most can refine the magical treasures to be very small and then swallow them into their bodies for storage. This is also why many low-level sword cultivators will spit out a sword pellet from their mouths.

  Generally speaking.

  Zifu is a bodily cavity that exists in reliance on the primordial infant, and it is not very large unless one has successfully traversed the calamity and cultivated a body of an immortal.

  Otherwise, Zifu can merge at most one or two Benming artifacts inside.

  But!

  Something unexpected happened with Li Qingyun, first of all, there was no Yuan Ying in his body.

  Because he was born with four souls and seven spirits, apart from the original three souls and seven spirits, there is also a confused and disordered residual soul wandering around.

  This remnant soul is not tolerated by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, so he will never be able to form a yuan fetus, and naturally it is impossible for him to open up the zi fu with the help of the yuan fetus.

  In other words!

  Li Qingyun was also unable to refine his life-bound treasure forever.

  However, when the Toad Immortal transmitted the divine ability of Qian Kun in his belly, the divine soul power originally stored in his body to transform the Yuan Ying was mobilized.

  The divine soul's power was not transformed into a yuan infant, but instead directly formed the Dan Tian Zi Fu, which is different from being rejected by the heaven and earth spiritual energy in the past. When Li Qingyun activated the Dry Heaven and Earth Devouring Technique to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy, the residual soul that had merged with the three souls and seven spirits suddenly began to operate automatically. Moreover, it successfully mobilized the divine soul's power that had failed to impact the yuan infant stage. The residual soul was impossible to merge into the heaven and earth spiritual energy, but when it devoured the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual energy and merged it into itself, it became exceptionally active!

  It does not melt into this world, but it can make this world melt into itself!

  Then.

  Li Qingyun discovered that he had directly cultivated the first level of the "Huang Zhong Qi Xing" - [Swallowing Rivers and Turning Seas].

  In his lower abdomen, the Purple Mansion he opened up was a bit exaggeratedly large, but now it has turned into a lake. Since it's a divine ability, apart from absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, there are naturally other uses for it. Just like this swallowed seawater, Li Qingyun can spit it out again to harm his enemies if he wants to, or even stir up a massive wave crashing against the sky. However, ordinary seawater is useless against cultivators, and the true power of the "Heavenly Furnace" divine ability doesn't lie in that either.

  The true strength of the belly lies in its ability to transform the heaven and earth it swallows according to the heavenly stems and five elements.

  It's just like Li Qingyun swallowing seawater now, which originally contains yin and cold air. After refining the seawater, he can obtain 'yin gui water'. This is also the strongest divine transformation of Frog Immortal, because his birth belongs to water, and his body is also a green jade frog, the frog has more yin than yang since its birth, and it's easiest to refine yin gui water through the divine transformation of turning over the universe in his belly.

  According to the transformation of Tiangan Wuxing, the belly of Qiankun can transform into ten different spiritual objects.

  Yang Jia Wood, Yin Yi Wood, Yang Bing Fire, Yin Ding Fire, Yang Wu Earth, Yin Ji Earth, Yang Geng Metal, Yin Xin Metal, Yang Ren Water, Yin Gui Water.

  These are all extremely rare spiritual objects within the Xianxia realm, whether they are used to forge magical artifacts or refine elixirs, they have their uses. However, none of them are easy to find, and can only be found in the four directions of yin-yang: southeast, northwest, northeast, and southwest. Therefore, in the Xianxia realm, other materials are often used as substitutes. These other materials all possess the five elements, but they have more spiritual energy concentrated on one particular element. To obtain these treasures formed by the heavenly stems and earthly branches, one must go through special means and high-level cultivation to refine them.

  Strictly speaking, this "abdominal universe" is absolutely a divine ability at the immortal level!

  But unexpectedly, Li Qingyun found himself unusually compatible with it and mastered it in just one try.

  The universe in the belly is indeed an unattainable divine ability.

  However, there is a limit to using it, that is, every time you absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, you need to consume the power of your divine soul. Cultivators condensing their divine soul's power is the most difficult thing.

  Moreover, it is also used to nourish and strengthen the yuan ying!

  Another point is that after swallowing all things and transforming them into heavenly stems and five elements, it must be in harmony with the heavenly stems and five elements itself.

  It's just like Li Qingyun, who was born with a metal element and belongs to the Geng Metal category, has an extremely strong yang energy in his body, so his swordsmanship is very fierce and overbearing. Therefore, when Li Qingyun practices the divine art of rotating the universe in his abdomen, he can easily refine the yang Geng Metal. Fortunately, according to the five elements, metal generates water, and people with Geng Metal element will be purified by water. If Li Qingyun had swallowed something else, it would have taken dozens of times more time to complete the refinement.

  This divine power can only be achieved after crossing the tribulation and ascending to immortality, when one's body has been transformed into that of an immortal, and the five elements within have been fully cultivated.

  Otherwise!

  To assimilate and refine things that are different from one's innate Five Elements is fundamentally a losing proposition.

  Even after the Frog Immortal's Tribulation, when operating this divine ability, it still mainly relies on refining and transforming yin energy water. It's not that he can't refine other spiritual objects, but his own cultivation is mainly based on Water Spirit Magic.

  Yin water can directly improve his cultivation when consumed, why is it necessary to refine other things?

  According to Li Qingyun's estimate.

  If he could refine the seawater in this belly into a lake, he should be able to obtain... obtain...

  Yes.

  Get about one drop of seminal fluid.

  After all, it's just ordinary seawater; if you swallow other attribute spiritual water, maybe you can refine more.

  Very decisive.

  Li Qingyun spat out a mouthful of water towards the South China Sea, and suddenly a ten-zhang high wave appeared. He directly spat out all the seawater.

  With his innate metal constitution, refining and transforming the yin water is still too costly!

  Moreover

  Even if he had refined the yin essence water, it would be of little use to him.

  This refined pre-heavenly spiritual object has extremely high requirements for the pre-heavenly five elements of the person taking it. If the five elements are not in harmony, directly taking it can be harmful and useless.

  If he wants to turn this door into a divine art of Qigong, it would be better for him to swallow some gold attribute things.

  Because Yang Kang Jin can directly increase his cultivation.

  For refining Gangjin Sword Qi, even cultivating the Dragon Clan's law, there are great benefits!

  ………

  However.

  The top priority should still be to complete the foundation first, and now as long as he refines the Tempering Body Pill, he can directly enter the Foundation Establishment stage.

  No tears, no raised eyebrows.

  If you don't refine the Golden Eyeball Elixir, it's likely that building a foundation and tempering your body will require even more effort.

  How about going to the South China Sea again?