Chapter 293

Chapter 293: Refining the Origin of Qi, Calamity Cloud!

“Master, you’ve made another breakthrough in your cultivation.”

Lu Qing sensed the change in the old doctor’s aura, pleasantly surprised.

Soon, the old doctor opened his eyes, his aura subsiding, transforming him back into an ordinary old man.

Even the aura of his Origin Qi was completely subdued.

“Congratulations, Master, on another breakthrough in your cultivation,”

Lu Qing immediately congratulated.

“This Origin Qi is truly profound. No wonder it has captivated so many martial arts masters,”

the old doctor exclaimed.

He had only begun refining it, yet his cultivation had already reached the pinnacle of Great Accomplishment,

placing him just a hair’s breadth away from Xiantian Perfection. With a little more accumulation, his ascension to Xiantian Perfection was just around the corner.

More importantly, the Origin Qi was now contained within his Dantian Qi Sea, gradually merging into his body.

The old doctor could sense that once it fully absorbed his body, his innate qualities would undergo a profound transformation.

Furthermore, the old doctor sensed

that this Origin Qi held a profound meaning that embraced all things.

If he could comprehend even a little from this, it would surely be of great benefit to his own realm advancement.

“Ah Qing, I’ve already achieved preliminary refinement of the Origin Qi and can control its aura from leaking out.

Now it’s your turn to refine it,” the old doctor said.

Lu Qing looked at Xiao Li and saw that it was still in a deep sleep, and it didn’t look like it would wake up for a while.

So he decided not to wait any longer.

He nodded and said, “Okay, but Master, once this disciple refines this Origin Qi, I should officially enter the Innate Realm. Please pay close attention to me.”

“Are you finally breaking through?” the old doctor exclaimed in surprise.

He knew that his disciple had long since reached the Acquired Perfection Realm, and his spiritual power was even greater than his own.

It was just that for some reason, he had been suppressing his cultivation and hadn’t made a breakthrough.

Now that Lu Qing was finally about to break through, he breathed a sigh of relief.

However, the old doctor was also curious: “Ah Qing, you haven’t achieved a breakthrough all this time. Is it because of this Origin Qi?”

“That’s only part of the reason,” Lu Qing shook his head. “As for the details, I’ll tell you in detail after I achieve a breakthrough.”

When Lu Qing and the others entered the room, the enormous white vortex in the sky had long since dissipated.

The evolution of the laws of heaven and earth had officially entered a new level, completely stabilizing.

It was precisely because of this that Lu Qing’s desire to break through reached its peak.

If he didn’t break through, he felt he would collapse.

“Okay, then you break through first,”

the old doctor said, noticing the clues.

Lu Qing took the Origin Qi, which had been wrapped in his zhenqi, into his body.

As soon as the Origin Qi entered his body, it fell into the Qi Sea of his Dantian.

Lu Qing immediately refined it with his mind.

The next moment, with a boom, his consciousness entered a mysterious state, and a flood of insights surged from his heart.

“So that’s how it is. This Origin Qi not only reshapes one’s innate qualities, transforming one into a rare and peerless genius,

but also contains the essence of all things, encompassing and evolving the fundamental energy of all things. This is also a great opportunity.

If one can comprehend even a fraction of its principles, one can reap immense benefits.”

Subconsciously, Lu Qing entered a state of supernatural cultivation, fully absorbing the Dao-like aura within the Origin Qi.

As Lu Qing entered this state of cultivation, concentrating on comprehending and absorbing the Origin Qi,

the struggle for Origin Qi within the Holy City gradually drew to a close.

In a certain alley, corpses littered the ground, many of them powerful warriors with potent auras and innate spiritual essences.

However, even these once-awesome Xiantian realm masters were now reduced to corpses, having met an untimely end.

Amidst the corpses, a burly man, panting heavily, supported himself with a long sword.

His body bore several wounds, deep enough to reveal the bone, a truly gruesome sight.

But the burly man showed no concern for his injuries.

He gazed at the flowing light he grasped, laughing like a maniac.

“Finally, I’m the last one standing! This opportunity has finally fallen into my hands!”

Recalling what had happened earlier, the man was filled with fear.

He and his senior brother had come here in pursuit of the flowing light.

They happened to see it sink into the body of a man at the Bones and Muscles Realm.

Without a word, he and his senior brother slew the man.

The flowing light reappeared after the man’s death.

But just as they tried to seize the light, another group of powerful warriors appeared, aiming to seize the opportunity.

Several of them were as powerful as his brothers.

Fortunately, they had practiced together for years, developing a perfect rapport. Finally, they joined forces and slew the enemy.

But who could have imagined that just as they had slain their enemy, his senior brother suddenly turned against him and stabbed him in the heart with a sword.

The burly man’s heart sank as he recalled his senior brother’s ruthless sword strike.

If he hadn’t stumbled upon a divine heart-protecting mirror during his early travels, he would have likely been pierced through the heart by his senior brother’s sword, killing him instantly.

“Brother, you wouldn’t have guessed it, but I’m blessed with a divine Heart-Protecting Mirror, protecting me from your ultimate Heart-Piercing Sword attack.”

The burly man gazed at his brother’s head, his eyes wide open.

Though he’d taken advantage of his brother’s momentary daze to decapitate him

, he’d still sustained serious injuries. The Heart-Piercing Sword was no joke. Even with the divine weapon’s protection, his internal organs still bled from the powerful shockwaves.

“But this opportunity is ultimately mine. Rest assured, brother. Although you may be unkind, I will not be unjust.

When I refine this opportunity and achieve supreme power, I’ll fulfill the oath we swore before our master and revive our Mingshan Sect.”

The burly man, his face determined, swallowed the flowing light in his hand.

However, just as he was about to leave, seeking a secluded place to refine the opportunity,

a dark figure suddenly appeared behind him.

The next moment, the burly man was shocked all over, and looked at the palm that was exposed on his chest in disbelief.

On that palm, a red heart was beating.

As for the magic weapon heart-protecting mirror that saved his life, it had already fallen on the corpse of his senior brother beside him.

“How, is it possible…”

The burly man’s face was full of disbelief.

His spiritual power has been spreading all over his body, alert to the movements around him.

Why did someone touch him from behind, but he didn’t feel anything?

The burly man tried hard to turn his head behind him, trying to see the face of the person who attacked him clearly.

The black figure’s hand shook lightly, and black air emerged on his palm. The burly man’s heart was crushed by him, and all the blood and essence in his body were quickly sucked away.

Feeling the rapid drain of his energy and blood, the burly man’s eyes suddenly widened, revealing an unspeakable fear.

“Demon… a demon…”

With these words, the energy and blood in his body began to drain even faster.

His entire body began to wither, and soon, he was emaciated, his life force completely dissipated.

Until his death, the burly man was unable to clearly see who had attacked him.

As the burly man died, a stream of light suddenly emerged from his body, attempting to soar into the sky.

But the next moment, a palm shimmering with black energy gently intercepted it and grasped it.

“The third strand of original energy. Very good. With these three strands of original energy, my demonic body can finally be truly condensed.”

Even the black figure, usually indifferent, could not help but reveal a look of ecstasy.

But soon, his brows furrowed again.

“These idiots are really lingering around. Well, now that I’ve obtained three strands of Origin Qi, it’s time to leave.

Once my demonic body is fully cultivated, it will be easy to deal with them!”

With that, the black figure deposited the Origin Qi into a jade bottle. With a swaying movement, he disappeared into the alley.

Just a few breaths after the black figure vanished, several Taoists in robes suddenly appeared in the alley.

If Lin Zhirui were there, he would have recognized one of them as the Yangming Taoist from Qingyang Temple who had mocked Xuankong Mountain earlier on the Holy Mountain.

“He’s escaped again!”

Taoist Yangming ignored the corpses scattered on the ground. He sensed the aura in the alley with his spiritual power and said with some annoyance.

He immediately took out an eight-trigram compass and activated it with his mind.

The needles on the compass began to spin.

“Brother Yangming, are you sure the black-robed figure who just stole our ray of light is from the demonic sect?” a Taoist asked.

“No doubt. Although he was well disguised, I could tell from the scent that he was a demonic aura, pure and unadulterated!”

Taoist Yangming confirmed as he activated his compass.

“But weren’t the remnants of the demonic sect completely eradicated by our four secret places and the Holy Mountain? This person has considerable cultivation. Where did he learn such pure demonic techniques?” the Taoist asked, puzzled.

“It’s because he’s so strange that we want to capture him. Unfortunately, flying is prohibited in the Holy City, and even our magic weapons can’t fly.

Otherwise, how could this demonic rat have escaped for so long?

Okay, I’ve found the direction he left. Follow me!”

Taoist Yangming sensed the direction the compass needle finally stopped, then immediately used his skills to give chase.

Seeing this, the other Taoists didn’t hesitate and followed suit.

Although they longed to continue striving for the opportunity, the abbot had warned them upon their return that no matter what, they must obey Senior Brother Yangming.

Furthermore, they had already captured several strands of flowing light, so if they divided them among themselves, they would still each have one.

So, they decided to follow Senior Brother Yangming’s advice and subdue the demon first.

After all, the black-robed figure also possessed a strand of flowing light, so capturing him wouldn’t be a complete loss.

Led by Taoist Yangming, the Taoists of Qingyang Temple tracked the black-robed figure throughout the Holy City.

However, the black-robed figure was also incredibly powerful.

Even with their magical instruments capable of tracking his presence, he often slipped away just before they could catch up.

“Damn it!”

Taoist Yangming exclaimed in anger after losing the black-robed figure once again.

This demonic creature was far too cunning, having toyed with him several times along the way.

He vowed that once he caught him, he would torture him mercilessly to avenge his tricks.

Just as Taoist Yangming took out his compass and began searching for the black-robed figure,

he suddenly felt a chilling sensation.

As he panicked and tried to figure out what was going on,

a Taoist behind him suddenly pointed in the sky and shouted, “What’s that?”

Taoist Yangming looked in the direction his junior brother pointed.

Then, the next moment, his eyes widened, a look of disbelief, as if he had seen a ghost.

“A calamity cloud?! How could this thing appear here?!”

“What calamity cloud? Senior Brother Yangming, do you recognize it?” a Taoist asked.

However, Taoist Yangming was in no mood to answer.

His mind was in turmoil, and he stared intently at the gray cloud in the sky, trying to confirm whether it was what he imagined.

“What is that?”

“A cloud? How could a cloud appear so low, and gray at that?”

“Such a terrifying aura! Is another opportunity about to unfold?”

Just as Taoist Yangming and his companions spotted the gray cloud.

Elsewhere in the Holy City, many people also observed this bizarre scene.

After all, the gray cloud’s appearance was truly bizarre, and it exuded an extremely dangerous aura.

Anyone with even a modicum of cultivation couldn’t fail to sense its terrifying, shuddering presence.

“A calamity cloud? The laws of heaven and earth have only just evolved and stabilized, how could a calamity cloud appear?”

A black-robed figure, several streets away from Taoist Yangming and the others, gazed at the gray cloud in similar astonishment.

His origins were mysterious, yet he possessed insights far beyond his cultivation.

Naturally, he could immediately recognize the gray cloud in the sky as a true Tribulation Cloud.

But precisely because he recognized its origin, he was even more astonished.

After all, such a thing didn’t just appear.

Usually, only when something beyond common sense was about to be born would it violate the taboos of the laws of heaven and earth, causing a Tribulation Cloud to appear.

“What’s about to be born, a living being or a treasure?”

The black-robed man had just shaken off the annoying group of people from Qingyang Temple and was about to leave the city.

But the appearance of the Tribulation Cloud stopped him in his tracks.

If this was the appearance of some rare treasure, and he missed it, he would regret it deeply.

And he felt that this was most likely a rare treasure.

After all, the laws of heaven and earth in this world were only just evolving and finalizing. It was impossible for someone so extraordinary to trigger the appearance of a Tribulation Cloud.

Even the three old men on the Holy Mountain probably couldn’t do that. While

those three old men had profound cultivation, they hadn’t yet reached such a level of extraordinary power.

Therefore, a rare treasure must be about to appear.

This place is a holy city that has existed for countless thousands of years. It is quite reasonable that it contains rare treasures from the era of immortal

cultivation. Thinking of this, greed flashed in the eyes of the black-robed man. Without hesitation, he immediately used his body skills to rush over there.

(End of this chapter)