Chapter 678 - 343: Spirit Pearl Harvest; Breakthrough

Chapter 678: Chapter 343: Spirit Pearl Harvest; Breakthrough

However, this process was much faster in the Cultivation Immortality Realm. Even without Spiritual Food or Spirit Medicine, just relying on the Spiritual Qi between heaven and earth made it several, or even more than ten, times faster than for an Innate Martial Artist in the Martial Arts Realm.

With the help of Spiritual Food or Spirit Medicine, the speed was even greater.

The Spiritual Qi contained within Spiritual Food could accelerate the transformation of Primordial Qi. The effects of Spirit Medicine were far more efficient than simple dietary supplementation.

He had Primordial Qi Pills and was constantly supplementing with Spiritual Food, which greatly accelerated the process.

Now, it was all a natural progression.

Cheng Zongyang was in no hurry. He continued to sit inside the cave with his eyes closed, meticulously guiding every wisp of Primordial Qi in his body to cleanse his Tendons and Bones and circulate through his meridians, finally gathering it in the region of his Spirit Bone. He was making the final preparations to break through to the Mud Ball Palace.

「Another hour passed in the blink of an eye.」

When Cheng Zongyang felt the Primordial Qi in his Spirit Bone region reach saturation, he took the initiative. Following the guidance of his Cultivation Technique, he located the path between the Spirit Bone and the Mud Ball Palace and began to guide this mass of Primordial Qi toward the Mud Ball Palace in the central region of his brain.

The human body’s Mud Ball Palace is located in a region between the brow and the back of the head.

According to the Cultivation Technique, the Mud Ball Palace housed a Yin Soul, which was the center of a person’s spiritual consciousness. Even the slightest mistake here would result in damage to one’s spiritual consciousness.

He swallowed a Primordial Qi Pill. As he guided the surging Primordial Qi to the outside of his Mud Ball Palace, he could feel its membrane.

This barrier, much like a cell wall, blocked the influence of energies like Primordial Qi, Essence Qi, blood qi, and True Qi.

’Next, I have to use this Primordial Qi to break through the Mud Ball Palace’s membrane and enter. I need to let the Primordial Qi combine with the Yin Soul. Only then can I form a Primordial Spirit!’

Cheng Zongyang murmured to himself and slowly closed his eyes.

The Cultivation Technique recorded two methods for breaking through to the Mud Ball Palace. The first was a gentle approach: covering the Mud Ball Palace with Primordial Qi and wearing it down with the persistence of water dripping through stone. The second was a brute-force approach: using Primordial Qi to launch a direct assault on the Mud Ball Palace.

Not wasting any time, Cheng Zongyang chose the second method.

He condensed his Primordial Qi into the shape of a Primordial Qi Needle and stabbed it directly at the wall of his Mud Ball Palace!

The very moment the forceful strike made contact, a splitting headache erupted from within his brain. Cheng Zongyang almost screamed out in pain!

This was no physical pain; it was a pain originating from his very Divine Soul!

But in the next instant, the pain was immediately mitigated by his adaptation Talent.

Cheng Zongyang breathed a sigh of relief. ’Thank goodness for my Talent Ability. Otherwise, that pain would have killed me!’

Maintaining this level of force, and with his adaptation Talent assisting him, he subsequently felt no intense agony. There was only a dull ache, like a common migraine, which was completely within his tolerance.

Soon, as Cheng Zongyang maintained this state, the wall of the Mud Ball Palace began to cave inward, like a finger continuously poking a balloon.

Gradually, Cheng Zongyang felt resistance—the membrane wall of the Mud Ball Palace was being stretched to its absolute limit!

’Break!’

Without hesitation, Cheng Zongyang took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and condensed even more Primordial Qi Needles. He gathered them together and unleashed their full force against the barely perceptible gray membrane of his Mud Ball Palace!

"AHH!!"

Cheng Zongyang couldn’t help but clutch his head and scream again! The pain was like having the nerves in his brain ripped out and hammered!

But at that exact moment, as his adaptation Talent activated, the wall of the Mud Ball Palace seemed to let out a soft POP. Under the full-force assault of the Primordial Qi Needle, a tiny opening had silently torn through!

It was miniscule, but it was enough!

Primordial Qi was an inherently formless and pervasive energy. Once Cheng Zongyang adapted to the pain and sensed the change in his Mud Ball Palace, he began mobilizing his Primordial Qi, which rapidly poured through the pinhole-sized opening. Like a spaceship suffering a hull breach in the vacuum of space, this created an extremely powerful pressure differential.

The medicinal power from the dissolved Primordial Qi Pill he had swallowed continued to transform into a surging tide of Primordial Qi.

Inside the Mud Ball Palace, the nearly ethereal Yin Soul drifted aimlessly in his sea of consciousness.

It was the Controller of a person’s consciousness and spiritual perception.

An ordinary person’s perception was limited to a slight awareness of their own body. An Innate Martial Artist could manage some degree of internal inspection, but they could not project their senses outward or achieve the perception of a Primordial Spirit!

Cheng Zongyang couldn’t control his Yin Soul, but he could control his Primordial Qi.

As he channeled a large amount of Primordial Qi inside, he discovered the wall of the Mud Ball Palace was also gradually healing.

Seizing the opportunity, Cheng Zongyang watched as the stream of Primordial Qi, upon entering the Mud Ball Palace, automatically and rapidly converged on the Yin Soul.

It was an instinctual, mutual attraction, like positive and negative poles.

The more Primordial Qi it absorbed, the stronger his Divine Sense would be after the Primordial Spirit took shape!

Soon, the drifting Yin Soul was enveloped by a massive amount of Primordial Qi. In an instant, the Yin Soul became like a sponge, greedily and thirstily absorbing the Primordial Qi it touched.

It shifted from passively absorbing the energy at first to actively drawing it in!

As the Yin Spirit absorbed the Primordial Qi, it began to change. The Yin Spirit was no longer so unconscious, nor was it colorless anymore.

Perhaps due to the massive influx of Primordial Qi, as the Yin Soul rapidly transformed, Cheng Zongyang gradually began to perceive the outside world.

He hadn’t opened his eyes, but his perception of the outside world through his five senses was becoming increasingly distinct and clear.

The Yin Spirit’s ethereal body gradually swelled, transforming into a tangible Primordial Spirit. It was a metamorphosis from an unconscious Soul Body into a self-aware Primordial Spirit!

This metamorphosis was the coveted result dreamed of by countless people who followed the Martial Dao and by Spirit Root Qi Cultivation Practitioners!

About ten minutes later, the pinprick opening in the Mud Ball Palace’s membrane healed completely. The flow of Primordial Qi was cut off, unable to enter again.

The fusion of the Yin Soul and the last of the Primordial Qi to enter the Mud Ball Palace accelerated. Once all the remaining Primordial Qi was completely absorbed, the Yin Spirit suddenly opened its eyes!

Its pair of pitch-black eyes burst forth with a brilliant divine light, illuminating the entire Mud Ball Palace.

When the Primordial Spirit’s eyes open while the physical body’s remain closed, Divine Sense is projected outward!

At that very moment, Cheng Zongyang, his eyes still closed, "saw" the cave’s table and chairs, "saw" the Mingshi inside, and "saw" everything within a one-hundred-meter radius of the cave!

’Refining Essence and Transforming Qi, Refining Qi into God, Refining the Spirit and Returning to Void, Refining Void and Merging with the Dao!’

’Primordial Qi and the Yin Spirit combine to forge the Primordial Spirit! This is the Primordial Spirit! This is Divine Sense!’

Cheng Zongyang was ecstatic!

The Primordial Spirit had emerged, and Divine Sense had appeared! This meant he was halfway to becoming a true Qi Cultivation Practitioner!

Next, he would need a Qi Cultivation Method to convert all the Primordial Qi in his body into Spiritual Power. Only then would he be a genuine Qi Cultivation Practitioner!

At the same time, this hundred-meter range of Divine Sense truly exceeded his expectations.

But at that moment, the voice of the Ring Spirit echoed in his mind!