Chapter Sixteen: Contest for the Spiritual Fruit Divine Ability Fourth Layer

  The people on the carriage side attacked them, and they were not easy to mess with. With a loud shout, hundreds of Qi practitioners surrounded them and started attacking.

  But Wang Guang didn't have time to watch those people fight and kill each other, he turned around and flew towards the giant tree below.

  At that time, when the big Han shouted to let everyone grab it, the Wàn Líng fruit tree suddenly began to shrink into the crack. The red fruit on the branches burst down and turned into a few red lights flying out towards the surrounding sky.

  "Back off, no one can snatch it from me." A female Qi cultivator flung out a handkerchief, which billowed in the wind and suddenly transformed into a three to five zhang-sized net that enveloped those fruits.

  "Get out of the way!" The female Qi Master had just said this, when a Qi Master holding a battle-axe flew in front of her and with one swing of the axe chopped her into two halves. "I'm not competing with you, I want your life."

  Wang Guanggang was about to shout, but seeing this scene, he suddenly changed his attention. He continuously poured his spiritual power into the Dharma treasure, boosting his speed to the limit, wanting to rely on his own speed to snatch some fruit.

  There are many people who can move faster than him, some of whom turn into golden light and fly around randomly. After the golden light passes by, all the Wanling fruits within a radius of three to five meters disappear instantly. Another Qi cultivator pulls out a large sack, which opens its mouth and releases black whirlwinds that wrap around the fruit, moving at a speed faster than most people.

  A single fruit tree, blooming and bearing fruit, finally has over 10,000 ripe fruits. In order to seize these fruits, thousands of Qi-refining cultivators started a frantic scramble. Some Qi-refining cultivators, seeing that they couldn't get the fruits themselves, directly resorted to sabotage against those who had the opportunity to seize the fruits. Their mentality was: if I can't get it, you won't either.

  For a time, the struggle broke out in all directions, but most of these struggles were triggered by low-level practitioners like Wang Guang. As for those who were about to condense their golden elixir, they dispersed in all directions with great tacit understanding, only taking action against the fruits that passed through their own territory, and not snatching at other territories even if they had the ability to obtain them. In this way, it avoided the struggle and killing among high-level practitioners, and also left an opportunity for low-level practitioners like Wang Guang.

  A red light flashed before his eyes, and Wang Guang didn't dare to slack off. He stretched out both hands and actually grabbed it. For a moment, because there was no gain, the impatient heart calmed down instantly. Without looking at the appearance of the fruit, he flashed the treasure light and turned around to continue searching for the next target.

  In the time of seven or eight breaths, all the red light that had materialized into fruit disappeared, most of it was snatched away by the cultivators, only a small portion of the fruit managed to escape due to the infighting among the cultivators. However, there were still some stubborn cultivators who closely pursued them, wanting to catch them before they fell to the ground.

  "Boundless Heaven Venerable! This place is not suitable for a long stay, I'd better leave quickly." He touched the seven or eight fruits in his treasure bag, looked at the thousands of people still fighting and killing each other in the distance, turned around and ran away without a trace. He didn't want to stay here and be accidentally killed by someone.

  There are many Qi practitioners who have the same idea as him, and some cautious Qi practitioners even grab a fruit and run away with their heads turned. Those like Wang Guang who reflect slowly are relatively more numerous.

  Just as Wang Guang turned to escape, a Qi cultivator caught up with him. "Kid, don't run, hand over the Wàn Líng Guǒ on you. I saw you grab three or five of them, I don't want much, just give me one."

  The qigong master said this, and somehow managed to produce a dark thunderbolt from somewhere, which he hurled out with a flourish. The thunderbolt exploded into a cloud of yellow smoke about three to five zhang in diameter, emitting a foul odor as it churned. As the smoke churned, it transformed into a python that slithered towards Wang Guang.

  "Boundless Heaven Venerable! You're really shameless." After feeling around for objects on his body, seeing that he had no ability to resist, this guy was straightforward and directly took out a bright red fruit and threw it at the Qi Refining cultivator.

  "Haha! Whether I save face or not, it doesn't matter! As long as I get the benefits, who cares about face-saving?!" The cultivator chuckled and shot out a stream of magical energy to wrap around the fruit, intending to snatch it into his own arms. Just then, Wang Guang suddenly shouted loudly.

  "Everyone, brothers and sisters, this kid has robbed me of my Panacea Fruit, he's already robbed over a dozen people. Let's all join forces to eliminate him, lest he takes advantage of the situation to rob others." Wang Guang shouted with a righteous tone. Fortunately, at this time, he had disguised himself, so his true face was not revealed, and others just thought he was an ordinary Qi cultivator.

  "You little brat, you're looking for death." The cultivator who was snatching the King Guang fruit swung his hand and a dark thunderbolt appeared, exploding in mid-air. Within a range of dozens of meters, everything was filled with rolling yellow smoke. This yellow smoke merged with the original yellow smoke, crazily swirling towards King Guang. Cultivators who were close to King Guang were entwined by the yellow smoke, directly falling to the ground, either killed by the smoke or smashed to death from the fall.

  Who dares to stay in place after Wang Guang's loud shout? With his strongest magic power infused into the treasure, he instantly turned into a blue light and flew away. A dark thunder exploded beneath him, and a wisp of yellow smoke wrapped around his treasure.

  This yellow smoke spread along the treasure light, but within seven or eight breaths, the entire magical artifact was eroded by this yellow smoke. Even if more magic power was infused into it, it couldn't fly even a single inch.

  "Boundless Heaven Venerable! Fortunately, I still have other magical artifacts in reserve; otherwise, I would've been thrown to my death!" After taking out another set of magical artifacts from the Hundred Treasures Pouch, Wang Guang restrained the artifact's glow as much as possible and quickly escaped by mixing in with the other Qi Refining Cultivators.

  However, he didn't immediately return to the inner mountain, but instead found a gathering point for demonic beasts. He resisted the temptation of those few fruits and only after fighting with the demonic beasts at that gathering point did he use his treasure to roll up his body and return to his residence in the inner gate.

  "Boundless Heaven Lord! No wonder so many people are fighting over it, no wonder even those cultivators who are about to condense their Golden Elixir are also fighting over it." Looking at the bright red fruit in his hand that was not much bigger than an apple, Wang Guang couldn't help but take a cold breath.

  "Actually, when he got the fruit in his hand, he carefully thought back to the records in the book: The Wanling Fruit is born once every thirty days. When a Qi Practitioner consumes it, their magical power will increase by a certain amount. Except for the restriction of only being able to consume one per day, there are no other limitations. When a demonic beast consumes it, it can open up its spiritual wisdom and evolve. The more it consumes, the greater the benefits. It can also be refined into a medicinal pill, which is relatively common."

  "Ah, if one were to ingest hundreds or even thousands of them, wouldn't that immediately lead to the creation of a Golden Elixir? Becoming a master alchemist capable of founding his own sect?" Wang Guang couldn't help but get excited. However, he soon came back to his senses and the excitement in his heart instantly disappeared.

  "But I was confused, the Golden Elixir is not that easy to achieve. Even if one's cultivation reaches the top level and their magical power reaches its limit, without a chance encounter, impure magical power will have no effect, let alone taking more spiritual pills or medicines. Moreover, any spiritual pill or medicine, rare treasure or strange fruit, when taken in excess, will lead to some hidden aftereffects." He sighed deeply, and didn't think about seizing too many of the Ten-Thousand Spirit Fruits to force his own Golden Elixir cultivation anymore.

  After hesitating for a long time, Wang Guang still decided to swallow the fruit. However, he did not plan to convert the spiritual energy contained in the fruit into magical powers, but instead used a secret method to store the spiritual energy inside and store it in his meridians to be used when cultivating his divine abilities.

  Moreover, he also knew that although the power of swallowing Dan medicine came quickly, it was not stable at its root. Not to mention achieving any Yuan Shen realm, just talking about the Jin Dan realm, it would be impossible to reach due to impure power.

  He had been in this spiritual energy world for nearly two years, and he already had a deep understanding of the general situation of the Qingfeng Mountain Sect. This sect cultivated countless precious spiritual herbs and fruits, if they were really allowed to be consumed by the inner disciples, it would immediately create thousands of spiritual energy cultivators who were about to condense their golden elixirs. But in this way, those spiritual energy cultivators would permanently lose the opportunity to advance to the golden elixir stage in this life.

  Those spiritual elixirs and medicines, their fundamental effect is not to increase one's magical powers, but rather to give disciples an extra means of survival when they are out in the world. Only those outer sect disciples, who have read fewer scriptures and are less able to suppress the temptation of their thick and powerful magic, engage in large-scale consumption of elixirs and spiritual fruits in order to accumulate magical power and break through to the Golden Elixir. Yet they never thought that this would lead to a permanent loss of opportunity.

  "Boundless Heaven Lord!" With the final idea, he didn't delay any longer. He directly swallowed a Wàn Líng Guǒ (Ten Thousand Spirit Fruit). The fruit dissolved as soon as it entered his mouth, disappearing without leaving any aftertaste. He smacked his lips a few times, and not daring to slack off, hastily entered an introspective state to begin mobilizing the secret technique.

  As soon as he entered the inner vision state, Wang Guang felt a large amount of spiritual energy bursting out from his body. These spiritual energies did not wander around in his body, but instead, they all rushed towards the Dan Tian Qi Hai.

  Who dares to let these spiritual energies penetrate the elixir field and transform into magical powers? If it's true that this spiritual energy has transformed into magical power, then his chances of forming an elixir would be greatly reduced.

  Fortunately, the secret method of transportation was effective, and a large amount of spiritual energy was drawn in by a small thread of magical power, bit by bit stored into the special meridians on his hands. After this guy swallowed all the spiritual fruits in one breath, the spiritual energy accumulated in those meridians also reached its limit, and if more spiritual energy came in, there would be no place to hold it.

  After a brief rest, Wang Guang began to mobilize his spiritual energy according to the method of divine cultivation, continuously injecting it into several special meridians in his hands.

  A large amount of spiritual energy flushed through these few meridians, then gathered in these few meridians to wander and circle. After becoming familiar with these few meridians, it went on to flush another few meridians. This guy mobilized the spiritual energy in one breath to flush dozens of hidden meridians, and suddenly he had cultivated this divine ability to the fourth level.

  From now on, as long as he exercises his magical powers, directly mobilizing the stored spiritual energy to flow through the meridians in a special order, he can exert the power of this magical power.

  With a flick of his hands, his fingernails suddenly grew three to four inches longer. A pair of golden, gleaming large hands detached from his own and began to spin and dance in the air, sometimes forming fists or claws, and other times opening into palms. Although they looked majestic, they didn't satisfy Wang Guang.

  "Unfortunately, this cultivation method is not orthodox. Although the time spent cultivating is short, the power gained is too weak. Now, thinking carefully about the four-layered divine ability, it's probably only equivalent to the second layer of a genuine cultivation method! One day, when my magical powers are strong and I can cultivate the third layer of the Taoist technique, this fake divine ability should be discarded. Otherwise, it will waste my time and disturb my mind."