Volume 1, Chapter 250 – Harvest

Aside from all that, the cultivation method for the third layer of the Yuqing Creation Art had also been transmitted into Shi Lan’s mind.

For the moment, Shi Lan pushed the jumble of information in her head aside and focused on absorbing the vast energy around her, nourishing her true qi.

Her Earth Fiend true qi, once as vast as rivers and seas, had already undergone a qualitative change, transforming completely into Heavenly Astral true qi.

In the blink of an eye, nearly six hours passed, and the sky gradually darkened.

Outside the Shi Residence, the gathered crowd had been cowed by the Demon-Suppressing Army banner and did not dare commit any impropriety. After a long while with no further disturbance, they gradually dispersed.

Shi Tianlu stood outside the residence gate and looked up at the sky. The full moon was reflected in his eyes, veiling the turbulent thoughts surging behind his pupils.

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Two more hours passed. By midnight, the moon hung high in the air, and the tide of spiritual qi swirling through the surroundings gradually calmed.

Shi Lan slowly withdrew her technique, and her entire aura was utterly transformed.

Compared with the Earth Fiend Realm, the Heavenly Astral Realm was a qualitative metamorphosis. With the death acupoints in the body opened, the physique could hold dozens of times more power than before.

The quality of her true qi had improved by more than tenfold. A single strand of Heavenly Astral true qi now possessed the might to split mountains and rend the earth.

Most importantly, at the Heavenly Astral Realm, one could cast aside magic treasures and fly through the air by relying on true qi alone. The speed could easily break the sound barrier, making it extraordinarily terrifying.

Compared to her previous ability to stay in the air only briefly by using true qi, this was a complete transformation.

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Clenching her fist and feeling the volcanic power coursing through her body, Shi Lan finally gained a little confidence. At the very least, she would no longer be casually crushed to death by others.

After calming herself slightly, Shi Lan began sorting through the string of system notifications from earlier.

A moment later, she first opened the system’s temporary storage and took out the True Martial Undying Body, the reward for the main quest.

She had been fairly eager to see this high-level body-refining method, at least according to the system’s evaluation.

The True Martial Undying Body was stored within a purple jade tablet. Shi Lan gripped the tablet tightly, concentrated, and sensed it. Very quickly, an enormous flood of information poured into her mind.

After a long while, Shi Lan opened her eyes, and an irresolvable trace of confusion shone within them.

To achieve success in body refinement was far harder than in qi cultivation, and it required enduring immense pain. One could already see signs of that from the breakthroughs in the final stages of the Jade Tempering Art.

What surprised Shi Lan was that the cultivation method of the True Martial Undying Body was not complicated. Rather than tempering the self directly, it relied more on external objects, using all kinds of powerful spiritual materials to strengthen the body.

The True Martial Undying Body had only three levels, and its starting point was extremely high. To cultivate even the first level, one had to be at least at the Heavenly Astral Realm.

The other side of such a high threshold was that its power was equally terrifying.

At the completion of the first level, one’s blood and qi would be as deep as an abyss. Tearing apart Myriad Phenomena Realm cultivators with bare hands would take no effort at all.

At the completion of the second level, severed limbs could regrow, and with the flesh alone, one could sweep through the Nascent Soul Realm.

At the completion of the third level, one could regenerate from a single drop of blood, wield the power to shatter stars with a punch, smash apart a small world barehanded, and slay Heaven-Man experts.

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Although the True Martial Undying Body fully deserved the word “undying” and was incomparably powerful, Shi Lan did not feel even a trace of excitement.

The True Martial Undying Body required the aid of countless spiritual materials. For the first level alone, the number of required materials exceeded five thousand kinds.

Among them, there were more than three hundred treasure medicines and spiritual ores of the fourth grade or higher. In particular, dozens of fifth-grade and above spiritual materials like Brahma Sacred Dew, Blood-Pattern Steel, and Glazed Soul Sand were things Shi Lan had, in some cases, never even heard of.

Having inherited part of Guiyun Sword Sovereign’s breadth of knowledge, she could be said to know quite a few of the spiritual materials commonly found in the Lingyang Realm.

However, Guiyun Sword Sovereign had, after all, been dead for hundreds of thousands of years. What he had seen and known back then was not necessarily applicable today.

A span of several hundred thousand years could not even be described by “seas turning into mulberry fields.”

The jade tablet engraved with the True Martial Undying Body had not shattered, which clearly meant it could be used repeatedly.

With a sigh, Shi Lan set aside thoughts of cultivating the True Martial Undying Body for now. After putting away the jade tablet, she took out two other green jade tablets.

These were the Feather-Chasing Sword Art and the Moon-Gazing Step, separated from Guiyun Sword Sovereign’s inheritance.

After some hesitation, Shi Lan put away the Feather-Chasing Sword Art and focused on sensing the Moon-Gazing Step instead. She had yet to fully digest her halberd art and did not currently have the energy to train in swordsmanship as well.

The Moon-Gazing Step was a movement art, a mid-tier technique, divided into three layers: Chasing Stars, Setting Sun, and Treading on the Moon.

Once cultivated to the third layer, Treading on the Moon, it would allow someone in the Heavenly Astral Realm to attain a spatially traversing blink-speed no less than that of a Myriad Phenomena Realm expert.

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Combined with the two intermediate draws granted by the main quest, the gains from this breakthrough were simply enormous.

After taking some time to digest everything, Shi Lan stored the jade tablets in her Qiankun Bracelet and directly pulled up the system panel.

[Host: Shi Lan] [Cultivation: Early Heavenly Astral Realm] [Aptitude: 9 (Innate spiritual body, a once-in-a-millennium rarity.)] [Techniques: Yuqing Creation Art (Layer 3), Vajra Divine Fist (Major Accomplishment), Jade Tempering Art (Perfection), Heaven Extremity Seal (Beginner), Spirit-Burning Art (Incomplete)] [Divine Abilities: Heaven’s Eye Qi-Sight (Three Stars), Black Domain (Seven Stars)] [Strength Evaluation: Modest accomplishment] [Prestige: 189501 (Renowned in one region)] [World Coordinates: Small World 100, Middle World 20, Great World 2] [Current Spacetime Coordinates: Lingyang Starfield, Lingyang Realm, Taishi Calendar Year 48925]

Looking at the newly added coordinates section, Shi Lan’s heart stirred, and she tapped it almost instinctively.

[Insufficient current energy. Unable to open a spacetime passage.]

Insufficient energy…

Seeing the system’s prompt, a trace of excitement flashed through Shi Lan’s eyes. If she had enough energy, would she be able to travel through space and go to other worlds…?

“How can energy be replenished?”

Suppressing the agitation in her heart, Shi Lan asked inwardly.

[Any energy body of nine-star level or above can be used to replenish energy.]

[The current host possesses one nine-star Dao Fruit, which can be decomposed into fifteen units of nine-star energy. Decompose it?]

Nine-star…

Shi Lan drew in a light breath. A nine-star level was far too distant from her, something she simply could not come into contact with at her current stage.

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As for that nine-star Dao Fruit, Shi Lan had never once considered touching it. That was Guiyun Sword Sovereign’s inheritance. If she decomposed it, it would be equivalent to severing Guiyun Sword Sovereign’s line of inheritance completely.

Although Guiyun Sword Sovereign’s inheritance had been stripped away and sealed by the system, Shi Lan had no intention of taking that inheritance for herself. Instead, she wanted to wait until the future, find a suitable candidate, and pass on that sword legacy once she had the chance to retrieve the Dao Fruit.

That could also be counted as a karmic tie between her and Guiyun Sword Sovereign.

“What would fifteen units of energy be enough to do?”

Even so, Shi Lan could not suppress her curiosity and could not help asking one more question.

Previously, Shi Lan had only experienced world-travel once, during Guiyun Sword Sovereign’s trial. As for the other worlds beneath this starry sky, she still held immense curiosity toward them.

Perhaps she could find a way back.

Although on that star she had not experienced anything unforgettable enough to carve itself into her bones, it was, in the end, still her homeland.

That attachment to one’s native soil was buried in the soul itself and could not be explained by ordinary logic.

[Fifteen units of nine-star energy can construct three passages to Great Worlds, or thirty passages to Middle Worlds, or three hundred passages to Small Worlds.]

[It can reverse three years of time…]