Chapter 222 - 107: Second Spirit Core: Sea of Qi, Perfection! Celestial Rotation

Chapter 222: Chapter 107: Second Spirit Core: Sea of Qi, Perfection! Celestial Rotation

True to his word, Jiang Xuan rarely left the Four Seasons Valley for the next month.

He rarely even departed from his own Scripture Pavilion.

Every day, he would immerse the vast majority of his Heart Spirit in Ancient Dao Scripture Scrolls, Ancestor’s Letters, and the cultivation insights of senior Cultivators.

With the boost from his Sixfold Spirituality, Jiang Xuan could read through three to five hundred volumes in a single day.

As a result, the books in the Scripture Pavilion whose Spirit Charm he had completely absorbed turned into Blank Scrolls, no longer able to provide him with any spiritual boost.

However, the Memory Palace within his Sea of Consciousness was visibly filling up.

Scroll after scroll of Dao Scriptures, insights, and realizations were sorted by category and neatly arranged within, forming the very bedrock of his Dao Foundation.

This gave Jiang Xuan the confidence that no matter where he went in the future, he would have the Ten Thousand Laws at his command.

While he studied the scriptures, Jiang Xuan’s Cultivation and Magical Power did not stagnate in the slightest.

With the Nine Breath Qi Ingestion Technique circulating automatically within him and a ceaseless supply of top-tier Spiritual Cuisine from the Four Seasons Valley, his Second Spirit Core: Sea of Qi had already opened even before his battle with Su Xingying.

Thanks to the Gravity Resonance of his Nether Abyss Dharma Eye, the process of locating the remaining seventy-two acupoints connected to the Sea of Qi went exceptionally smoothly.

His only regret was that most of the Feast Ceremony’s power was being consumed by the Refinement of the Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid.

Even the vast amount of Magical Power he gained from consuming High-Level Spiritual Cuisine was mostly funneled into this effort, leaving a slight deficit for Acupoint Tempering and thus slowing its progress.

But as brilliant golden threads spread through his meridians, eventually covering his entire skeleton, his muscles, and down to every inch of his tissue, the toughness and resilience of his Flesh Body underwent a fundamental transformation.

On one occasion, when Jiang Xuan deliberately activated the Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid, countless fine, gilded patterns emerged beneath his skin. Golden light flowed across his entire body, making him resemble an invincible Divine General clad in Golden Armor.

’My toughness and resilience have truly reached their peak, but I’m still lacking in hardness. An ordinary Flying Sword could still cut through my Flesh Body. I have to find a way to make up for this...’

Although Jiang Xuan had been very satisfied with the Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid when he chose it as his Treasure Level Treasure, people are always greedy.

Now that he had extreme toughness, he wanted indestructible hardness. More importantly, he had actually found a viable path forward.

As he thought of this, his gaze fell upon his Gourmet profession and its unique, accompanying Feast Ceremony.

’With the Feast Ceremony, I gain the Traits of whatever I consume. It’s remarkably similar to the Munch-Munch Fruit from a certain anime in my past life.’

’In that case, could I forge an alloy through consumption? By consuming rare celestial metals with different Attributes and integrating their Traits into my Flesh Body? Could I stack indestructible hardness—and maybe even other special Attributes—on top of the extreme toughness provided by the Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid?’

After some thought, Jiang Xuan concluded that this approach was entirely feasible.

There were just a couple of problems. First, most of the Feast Ceremony’s power had to be used for the Refinement of the Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid.

Second, fusing the Traits of celestial metals with several different Attributes into one would be no easy feat.

Therefore, he decided to postpone the matter and tackle it only after his Gourmet Professional Level had increased.

The good news was that refining the Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid was in itself the best way to hone his Gourmet profession and the Feast Ceremony.

This gave Jiang Xuan a clear premonition: the moment the Treasure Level Treasure—the Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid—was completely refined would be the moment his Gourmet profession achieved Perfection and could advance once more.

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His Cultivation Technique ran automatically, the Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid underwent steady Refinement, and his Acupoint Tempering proceeded on schedule, yet Jiang Xuan still felt he didn’t have enough time.

Beyond his voluminous reading, he also had to practice the Core Cultivation Methods and Techniques of the Four Seasons Valley.

Fortunately, the two activities could be done simultaneously and were mutually beneficial.

With every Dao Scripture he read, Jiang Xuan’s understanding of the Four Seasons Valley’s Cultivation Techniques and other Techniques deepened slightly.

By reading a hundred volumes a day, in just one month, he had learned the fundamentals of all the Cultivation Techniques and other Techniques from the Valley of Spring and the Valley of Summer, quickly reaching the level of Mastery.

Studying scriptures, refining the Golden Marrow Spirit Liquid, tempering his acupoints, practicing the Spells that represented the Twenty-four Solar Terms... Jiang Xuan’s daily life gradually settled into a regular, peaceful routine.

His Cultivation also grew steadily amidst this peaceful training.

But while life in the Four Seasons Valley was peaceful, the atmosphere in the Shenxiao Sect outside grew more tense by the day as news of the world’s strange transformations spread ever wider.

In particular, three major events occurred in quick succession, pushing the overt and covert struggles among the new Entry-level Disciples to a fever pitch.

First, the Sect announced the list of rewards for the Hundred-Day Exam ahead of schedule.

In addition to the usual resource rewards and the opportunity for the top nine to enter an Upper Vein, this year’s list also contained several unexpected, blockbuster surprises.

This time, Shenxiao Hall was offering three Treasure Level Treasures—the kind of items whose mere appearance would cause the three Daoist Schools to fight tooth and nail—as rewards for second, third, and fourth place.

And the reward for first place shocked everyone—it was a Spirit Treasure Level Treasure, a grade above Treasure Level and equivalent to a "Golden Legend"!

In the Cultivation Realm, such treasures were the stuff of legend for the countless Loose Cultivators and the vast majority of ordinary Cultivators.

Heavenly and Earthly Treasures capable of directly raising one’s Spirit Root Grade and bringing about a complete physical transformation belonged to this tier.