Chapter 120: Break through half first, take a break, and then continue breaking through? This is also too ridiculous.

  In a moment of surprise, Xu Yu hurriedly went to check his own vitality value. But afterwards, he was stunned again.

  Because his current limit of energy is still 81!

  Still stuck at the value of the previous body shaping period.

  "It's strange, I really did break through just now, why didn't my spiritual energy increase?" After being stunned for a moment, a thread of doubt suddenly flashed across Xu Yu's mind.

  He could sense that he had indeed entered the realm of spiritual awareness, although his physical strength hadn't increased dramatically. However, the feeling of being in perfect harmony with nature, as if every move he made could affect the environment around him, was unmistakably real.

  The biggest difference between the Lingdong period and the Xiushen period is that during the Lingdong period, one can borrow the power of Lingqi, which is also known as the power of heaven and earth. Although this borrowing is not a gathering, it has already been able to exert an influence.

  Take the simplest example, Lin Yan in his refining period, when he performs the second form of Lian Tian, a sword light flashes out and flies over a distance of ten meters. At that time, how strong is the intensity of his slash? When it finally hits the target, the intensity will still be the same, without any change.

  But when he reached the Lingdong period, a knife light was split out, flying over a distance of ten meters. Within these ten meters, wherever the knife light passed through, all the golden spiritual energy within the range of the knife's edge would be absorbed into the blade, making the knife's edge even more sharp and powerful. The farther away it went, the stronger the power that the knife's edge could wield, until it reached its limit. This is Lingdong! It's not gathering spiritual energy, but already able to utilize the power of heaven and earth.

  So even if a cultivator who has just entered the Lively Period does not have a sudden increase in physical strength or internal energy, their combat power is still multiplied several times.

  But once entering the dust-free period, it is not necessary to use the knife tip itself to absorb spiritual energy. After all, the size of a knife tip body is limited, and when a strong person in the dust-free period moves their mind, the surrounding golden light will automatically gather and converge, which is the real dust-free world.

  The spiritual warrior of the Lingdong period can exert an influence on the forces of heaven and earth, and his own self will also be in harmony with the surrounding heaven and earth, compared to the Xiushen period, it is not at all on the same level.

  But at this time, Xu Yu felt the changes between himself and the world, but he also knew that his energy value had not increased in the slightest.

  "That's strange... I remember that when my energy increased in the past, both my physical body and spirit would improve simultaneously. Could it be that just now, only my physical strength broke through, but my spiritual power is still stuck at the nourishing stage, which is why my energy didn't increase?"

  In a moment of confusion, Xu Yu's mind suddenly flashed with a hint of enlightenment, but then he became anxious again. What was he now? Had he broken through halfway?

  Just broke through halfway, then what he thought before, second-rate spiritual energy, has it restored the effect of enhancing his power?

  As soon as he thought of this, he became tense again and hastily mobilized a second-rate spiritual energy to merge into his body, trying to enhance his power. However, with this fusion, a familiar pain suddenly arose in his body. To be honest, these days, because he often merged second-rate spiritual energy into himself for other uses, he had already become accustomed to the pain. Originally, when he first used it, he felt extremely terrified of the suffering, but now it was nothing. After all, the human body can adapt even to pain.

  It was also with the fusion of this spiritual energy that Xu Yu suddenly stagnated, because he suddenly felt that the spiritual energy that was originally unable to continue to improve his power was now impacting the bottleneck of the nourishing spirit stage.

  It was as if there was another door in his body, and as long as he pushed this door open, he could step into the foundation period.

  This made him suddenly relax, and it turned out that even if he only broke through half of it, the effect of spiritual energy enhancement was restored. If not, he really didn't know whether to cry or laugh. But one portion of second-rate spiritual energy was far from enough to break through the bottleneck of Nurturing Spirit Peak and let him enter the Foundation Building period.

  He realized that the door was only slightly ajar, and even the extent of its movement could be ignored. Only then did Xǔ Yú unhesitatingly merge two more second-grade spiritual energies. This already made three portions, yet it was still insufficient!

  Gradually, the originally somewhat relaxed face of Xu Yu suddenly revealed a hint of bitterness. Later on, this hint of pain grew more and more intense until his hands were tightly clenched together again, his face instantly turned deathly pale, and beads of sweat rapidly broke out on his forehead.

  It's all gone!

  Still won't work.

  Last time, it was just three second-grade spiritual energies that allowed him to break through into the late stage of body refinement and the late stage of spirit nourishment. But now, he has already merged seven second-grade spiritual energies into his body, yet the driving force for his breakthrough is still insufficient.

  Not to mention this breakthrough, it can only be considered a semi-breakthrough at the spiritual level. It's imaginable that if it were a complete breakthrough, he would have to endure even more terrifying pain. "Damn it, this bottle is indeed terrifying..." Seven portions still weren't enough, and Xǔ Yú gritted his teeth, cursing as he quickly added in new second-grade spiritual energy.

  In the hall, Lin Yan was directly petrified there after a breath that had just broken through was transmitted.

  It was a good while before he turned around and sat back down on the sand.

  Although he thought that with Xu Yu's qualifications, even if it were two days, he would not only master the art of alchemy, but also achieve the unity of the five elements, which was beyond his expectations.

  How many times has he done things within reason?

  So after a moment of stiffness, he finally managed to suppress his fluctuating mood. Since Xu Yu had broken through the Lingdong period, it should be fine for now and he wouldn't immediately leave the enclosure. Waiting a bit longer wouldn't hurt either.

  But he had just sat down for a short while when a sudden burst of air came from the next room, accompanied by a loud crash.

  In an instant, Lin Yan let out a strange cry and jumped up from where he was standing, looking even more shocked towards the hotel room door. "Another breakthrough?!" Another... breakthrough?!

  In the midst of the strange cry, Lin Yan thought to himself that he should calm down a bit. The things that happened on Xu Yu's body, no matter how bizarre they seemed, didn't seem worth being too surprised about. However, he really couldn't suppress the palpitations in his heart. Was this the lingering aura from the last breakthrough? Or was it two breakthroughs?

  He had never seen anyone break through like that, first breaking through halfway, taking a break, and then continuing to break through. That's basically nonsense. Not only had he not seen it before, but he hadn't even heard of such a ridiculous breakthrough method. From a rational point of view, it was simply impossible.

  Yes, cultivators will fail in their breakthroughs, but if it's a failed breakthrough, there wouldn't be this aura spreading out!

  But if it wasn't for Xu Yu breaking through first, then resting for a while, and continuing to break through again, how can this be explained now? Did the opponent really break through twice in a row? Is this real or did he suddenly have an illusion? In extreme shock, Lin Yan was completely stunned, unable to move. Because he really didn't know what was going on. "Bang!"

  Outside the house, Lin Yan's entanglement, Xu Yu was completely unaware of it. He only knew that after adding the eighth second-grade spiritual energy, he finally barely broke through the bottleneck with his other half cultivation. However, the eight second-grade spiritual energies, even though he had long been accustomed to the pain caused by the fusion of second-grade spiritual energy into his body, still made him almost faint from the pain this time.

  However, after having an experience once, he still barely held on to his spirit and remained sober, waiting for his body to recover on its own. After all, when the breakthrough really came, the pain brought by those spiritual energies also gradually dissipated.

  And in the persistence, Xu Yu quickly checked his own energy, and then he found that with the breakthrough, his energy had indeed increased from 81 to &z! But this value still surprised him a bit.

  To know that from the middle of cultivation, breaking through to the later stage, although it consumed three portions of second-grade spiritual energy, but when he finally broke through, his maximum vitality directly jumped to 57 and increased by three points!

  Now, the eight pieces of second-rate spiritual energy only allowed him to break through halfway, and even that only increased his spiritual energy limit by a bit... "The bottleneck in the later stages is transitioning from cultivating the spirit to building the foundation, which are two completely different realms. The amount of force required for this transition is truly astonishing!"

  A thought flashed through his mind, and as the pain around him gradually dissipated, Xu Yu barely let out a sigh of relief, and hastily retrieved a bottle of Huafu Dan from his storage ring.

  Fainting is nothing to be afraid of, what's scary is fainting when you're not at full strength. Now that he has broken through and his maximum energy has increased to 82, the actual energy inside his body is only 60.

  That would have been consumed by him practicing martial skills repeatedly before, if he had known earlier, he could have broken through when mastering the Double Line Unity, and would have definitely replenished his energy in advance. When he broke through halfway, he was worried about whether the second-grade spiritual energy could really improve his strength, so he chose to verify it quickly, and didn't have the mind to care about it. So now the most important thing is to replenish his energy.

  But when he took out a pellet of Huahua Dan and threw it into his mouth, he suddenly realized that with the effect of Huahua Dan, the value of his physical strength had only recovered by two points!!

  This fact, however, stunned him once again. The first time he took the Rejuvenation Pill, he had recovered seven or eight points of his vitality, and even when his vitality was fully replenished, the effect of the pill still had a surplus. The difference between that and now was enormous, as one could imagine.

  However, after a brief moment of confusion, Xu Yu regained his composure. After all, he was no longer the novice he once was in the Dan Dao, and had made quite a good start in alchemy. As such, the basic knowledge that cultivators' bodies developed resistance to elixirs quickly flooded into his mind.

  When he first knew that the Chaos Pill could make up for his spiritual energy, it was when he started chasing and killing Wang Minghuan. For those few days, he had been chasing from Huaijiang to Liufeng Island, and after that battle, the consumption of the Chaos Pill was almost like flowing water. And in these few days, every time he refined a furnace of elixir, he would consume another pill. The accumulation of this drug resistance was absolutely terrifying. If it were before, he had been too devoted to his research on alchemy and hadn't noticed that subtle change. But now, after his body fully broke through and entered a higher level, this drug resistance thoroughly presented itself due to the rapid change in his realm. Moreover, he could even confirm that this drug resistance would continue to spread rapidly until his body was completely immune to this elixir.

  Just thinking about this, Xu Yu became hesitant again. The Canghai Dan was already the best recovery medicine that Lianfeng Island and Yuyang Gate could offer, and its refining materials were almost the best that the two sects could provide.

  Other cultivators, unless it's a special period, usually recover their strength by cultivating, and only in emergency situations will they take one or two pills. Who would have thought that someone like him would eat medicine like drinking cold water? No wonder the drug resistance came so quickly and fiercely.

  If he becomes completely immune to the Cihuadao Dan later on, then it's likely that his recovery of vitality will have to rely solely on the Tianxuanwu technique.

  But this bitter smile was quickly suppressed by him, and it didn't matter about the Huahua Dan. Even without the elixir, he had already entered the Lingdong period and the Jigou period, compared to which, losing the Huahua Dan to recover his energy was not worth mentioning. Moreover, apart from the Huahua Dan, he could also find other elixirs to replace it, at most wasting some time.

  Now, apart from the Northern Spirit Hall and the Southern Cave Heaven, all other cultivation sects are just third-rate sects in the Cultivation Realm. In those places, they absolutely possess alchemical pills with effects comparable to the Create Change Pill! Even if he doesn't reach there, it's possible for him to find new alchemical pills to replace them. As he pondered again, he finally relaxed thoroughly and began drinking medicine like flowing water, quickly piling up his energy to 820. It wasn't until then that he completely let go of his mind and directly collapsed there.