Chapter 732 - 729: Cultivation

Chapter 732: Chapter 729: Cultivation

Jiang Jichen took a blow from the Elf King, spat out a mouthful of blood, and was severely wounded!

But that was all.

With Jiang Jichen’s current Life Energy, recovering even from severe injuries was an easy matter.

Activating the Demon Phoenix Technique, Jiang Jichen’s internal injuries began to heal rapidly.

From constantly activating this technique over the past few days, Jiang Jichen could feel the fire of desire within him becoming difficult to suppress.

However, now that things had reached this point, Jiang Jichen simply cast aside his inhibitions, deciding to act as he pleased and follow his heart.

He circulated his Cultivation Technique to heal his injuries while simultaneously fleeing the area at top speed.

After all, the commotion from the battle was immense and had surely alerted many others.

Many powerful experts would soon descend upon this place.

Therefore, it was not a place to linger.

As for the spoils of the battlefield, with the two "gluttons"—the Azure Heaven Killing Array and the Soul Refining Banner—around, everything had already been proactively swept clean. Jiang Jichen didn’t need to worry in the slightest.

Jiang Jichen continued deeper into the Despair Swamp.

According to the Treasure Map, the treasure was located somewhere in the deepest part of the Despair Swamp.

A treasure hidden in the deepest reaches of the Despair Swamp would indeed be difficult to find.

After all, not just anyone could venture deep into this area, let alone stay for an extended period.

After passing through dense toxic mists and thickets of strange vegetation, Jiang Jichen finally reached the center of the Despair Swamp.

Here, there was a massive Black Water Lake!

And according to the markings on the Treasure Map, the treasure was at the very center of the Black Water Lake.

’At the center, beneath the Black Water Lake?’

Jiang Jichen was stunned.

The toxicity of the black water, after all, was a hundred times more potent than that of the toxic mist.

So, even if one knew the treasure was in the black water, retrieving it... seemed all but impossible.

It might be impossible for others, but for Jiang Jichen, it seemed to pose no difficulty or pressure at all.

’I can work on my Body Refining and Cultivation here!’

Jiang Jichen suddenly made a decision.

For others, this Black Water Lake was an absolute Forbidden Land.

But for him, it was the perfect place to cultivate.

At present, Jiang Jichen’s combat prowess was considerable. With his various trump cards, he could face an Elite Realm Cultivator at the Eighth Layer of the Holy Dao in a direct confrontation.

He could even assassinate an ordinary Supreme Realm expert with a surprise attack.

But as the great changes sweeping the world continued, increasingly powerful experts were emerging, and his enemies were revealing ever greater strength.

The Law Enforcement Association, for example, had only ever revealed the tip of the iceberg of its true power.

And by killing Xia Hao and the Elf, he had set himself against the Outer Realm powers backing them. These forces would never let him go.

Therefore, his strength was still far from enough. He needed to continue to advance diligently and become even more powerful.

With that, Jiang Jichen didn’t hesitate for a moment. He drifted down to the center of the Black Water Lake, the Poison-Devouring Pearl Fragment hovering above his head.

When he reached his limit, he could enter the Poison Devouring Pearl Fragment Space to recover.

The moment Jiang Jichen’s body entered the Black Water Lake, he could feel his skin and flesh sloughing off layer by layer.

He could withstand the toxic mist in the Despair Swamp, but the black water was a hundred times more potent.

Moreover, the deeper he went into the Black Water Lake, the more intense the water’s toxicity became.

Thus, at first, Jiang Jichen could only submerge his entire body before he could go no deeper; this was the current limit of his endurance.

The Black Water Lake was unfathomably deep; even his Seven-Colored Divine Thought could not probe its bottom.

It was as if an invisible, mysterious membrane blocked Jiang Jichen’s Divine Thought from probing any deeper.

Jiang Jichen entered a state of deep cultivation, circulating both the Undying Scripture and the Ancient Source Character Scripture, practicing the two techniques simultaneously.

He focused primarily on Body Refining, but he did not neglect his spirit cultivation, refining Top-Grade Holy Spirit Stones.

Jiang Jichen had no shortage of Spirit Stones; in fact, he had a countless supply.

From all the powerful cultivators he had killed along the way, he had collected an untold number of pills, Spirit Stones, and treasures from their Storage Bags.

Therefore, the one thing Jiang Jichen didn’t lack right now was Cultivation Resources. He only lacked time.

While using the poison to refine his body, he simultaneously refined Holy Spirit Stones, converting them into Seven-colored Spiritual Power and Undying Power.

Jiang Jichen’s physical body grew continuously stronger through a constant cycle of destruction and reconstruction.

After two days, Jiang Jichen could venture to a depth of thirty meters in the Black Water Lake, his physical body remaining completely unharmed.

At this point, his Cultivation was also advancing by leaps and bounds, and he was ready to attempt a breakthrough to a higher Realm.

But he suppressed the urge and continued deeper into the Black Water Lake.

’Just pushing my limits isn’t enough. I must break all conventions, surpass the legends. In every Realm, I must become truly the strongest and most invincible.’

Jiang Jichen was incomparably firm in his conviction, not wavering in the slightest.

And so, the days passed one by one as he cultivated.

Meanwhile, deep within the Valley of Ten Thousand Extremes, Jiang Jichen’s trail had suddenly gone cold, making the group hunting him for the Treasure Map anxious.

However, using clues from the great battle in the Despair Swamp, and with the help of a tracking master from the Supreme Realm, they managed to follow the faintest of traces. After many days, the trail finally pointed to the Black Water Lake within the Despair Swamp.

It was just that not anyone could easily set foot in that area.

In the end, a Supreme Realm Alchemist took action, concocting Top-Grade Antitoxic Pills. By holding one in their mouth, a person could be immune to the toxic mist and water of the Despair Swamp for three days.

But by then, a full month had already passed.

During this time, the region had suddenly become unstable. One Magical Treasure after another was swept out by Destruction Storms, to be claimed by various Cultivators.

There were even Cultivation Technique Jade Scrolls!

These Cultivation Techniques were incomparably ancient and astonishingly powerful.

Everyone who entered this place had gained something.

However, none of them dared to step into the gray desert in the deepest part of the Valley of Ten Thousand Extremes.

Likewise, no one dared to enter the deepest part of the Despair Swamp.

Not until the Supreme Realm tracking master indicated that Jiang Jichen was at the Black Water Lake in the center of the Despair Swamp did all eyes turn to focus there.

In fact, many had already deduced that the treasure lay within the Black Water Lake.

Undoubtedly, their deductions were correct.

The only remaining question was how to get inside.

For the sake of the treasure, the Outer Realm Creatures and the Six Paths Cultivators actually joined forces. A Supreme Realm Array Master from the Human Race used a vast quantity of precious materials to lay down a Teleportation Array, transporting every cultivator in the entire Valley of Ten Thousand Extremes to the shore of the Black Water Lake in one go.

This time, between the Six Paths Cultivators and the Outer Realm Creatures, there were over five hundred individuals in total.

All of them possessed a Cultivation at or above the Eighth Layer of the Holy Dao!

The Six Paths Cultivators were, of course, mostly comprised of the Human Race. They had an agreement with the Outer Realm Creatures: once the treasure was found, they would each compete for it based on their own strength.

The host of Cultivators appeared on the shore of the Black Water Lake.

Naturally, however, no one dared to touch the black water.

"I have a Qiankun Treasure that can absorb this entire lake of black water!"

A Supreme Realm expert among the Outer Realm Creatures announced.

He had resided in this region deep within the Valley of Ten Thousand Extremes for ages and had once unintentionally obtained a Qiankun Treasure with an incomparably vast internal space.

It could swallow mountains and hold entire lakes.