Chapter 12 Breakthrough
“It’s finally over! ”
The moment he stepped into the prison, Li Anran breathed a sigh of relief.
Walking along the way, he felt even more tired than practicing for a whole day under the fierce and resentful aura of the Heavenly Prison!
Tired of heart!
Compared to the generals' current enthusiasm and closeness, he preferred their previous coldness and indifference!
Li Anran dragged the monsters further inside, and stuffed one into any empty cell he saw.
Soon, he only had the King of Yuxiong left.
King Yuxiong must be imprisoned in cell No. A, and he has to go down and pass through cell No. B on the third floor of the Sky Prison.
Compared with cell C, there are much fewer prisoners in cell B, only about forty in total.
However, each of these more than forty monsters is a tough nut to crack with powerful magic.
They were imprisoned in the Heavenly Prison for a thousand years or a few decades, and were tortured day and night, but they still refused to bow their heads and surrender, and were unwilling to serve as mounts for the gods in heaven.
After passing through the three middle floors and going down for dozens of feet, you will see a huge stone door more than ten meters high.
The stone gate is carved with patterns of three mountains and five peaks, and has four stone rings inlaid at the bottom.
In the center right above hangs a palm-sized bronze mirror.
The gate was guarded by two strong and burly warriors over five meters tall.
Buzz!
As soon as Li Anran approached, a golden light shot out from the bronze mirror, shining on him and King Yuxiong.
Li Anran looked calm.
Before coming in, he had already learned all this from the Heavenly General.
This bronze mirror is a magic mirror, used to guard against sleight of hand tricks.
This stone gate is made of stars. It is said that it weighs as much as three mountains and five peaks combined. Only two strong men can lift it together.
After a moment, the golden light faded.
Li Anran showed his token and stated his identity: "I am following the order of Lord Xingjun to imprison this monster in cell A."
Two strong men stepped forward to check, and after making sure that everything was correct, they bent down, one on the left and one on the right, held the stone rings, and lifted the stone door up little by little.
Li Anran didn’t know whether it was as important as the Three Mountains and Five Peaks.
However, when he dragged King Yuxiong in and the Sky-lifting Hercules lowered the door, he heard a dull "bang" in his ears and the earth shook around him.
He lost his balance and nearly fell to the ground.
Li Anran suddenly remembered that half a month ago when he was guarding the door, he heard a strange noise and the ground shook.
At that time, he didn't know what was going on, but now it seems to be the sound of the stone door opening and closing.
"We can't go in there. We'll wait for you here." said the Hercules.
Li Anran nodded and dragged Yuxiong towards the dynasty.
The No. A cells contain the truly dangerous prisoners, and no outsiders are allowed to enter.
These idle people also include heavenly soldiers and generals, and only those holding the token of Guansuo Star Lord can enter.
The cells and corridors were no longer separated by iron bars, but by thick, tightly closed stone doors made of the same material as the one outside.
Once it is closed, only the Titans can open it.
Li Anran did not stay for long. He found an empty cell, threw King Yuxiong in, and activated the token to make the stone door fall down.
[Prisoner: The Great Saint Yu Monkey King, the God-Exorcist]
【Sin: Five Stars】
[Cultivation: Golden Immortal Sixth Level ]
[Status: In custody]
[Capture participation: 5%]
[Benefit: 400,000 experience points/day]
…
When I got out of the prison, a banquet was already set up outside.
The heavenly soldiers were playing finger-guessing games inside the stone chamber, while the heavenly generals had set up a separate table in the inner room, waiting for him to take a seat.
Li Anran did not refuse.
He would have to stay in the prison for a long time and didn't want to offend everyone at once.
More importantly…
He is greedy!
Although the cultivation level of Refining the Spirit and Returning to Emptiness allows one to fast, both his predecessor and he were people who never tired of eating fine food, and they were simply unable to give up their appetite!
The food and wine served by the heavenly soldiers were of poor quality, and he disliked them and was unwilling to eat them.
But, the heavenly generals are different!
Especially this time, in order to express their apologies, they brought all kinds of rare fruits and delicious delicacies!
Red fruit, peach, abalone, bear paw, dragon tendon, chicken claw...
Li Anran was dazzled and his mouth was watering.
Although the heavenly generals also bluntly stated that these dragon tendons and phoenix claws were not the tendons and claws of real dragons and phoenixes, they were all pulled out from spiritual beasts with dragon and phoenix bloodlines!
Not to mention him, even his predecessor had never seen it!
Li Anran's eyes lit up and his mouth was filled with oil as he ate.
After traveling through time for a month, this was the first time he felt so truly the beauty of the world of Journey to the West!
At the dinner table, he told the heavenly generals about his goal of escorting 10,000 monsters into the Heavenly Prison.
A group of heavenly generals expressed their willingness to lend him a helping hand, and if there were new prisoners sent in the future, they would let him escort them.
Li Anran naturally thanked him repeatedly and toasted him with several more glasses of wine.
The banquet lasted until the sun moved westward and the Jade Rabbit rose in the east.
After having a full meal and a drink, Li Anran returned to his residence. Instead of practicing his skills and spells as usual, he chose to take a nap.
When I woke up, it was already past midnight and the experience had been credited.
[Name: Li Anran]
[Cultivation: Refining the Spirit and Returning to Emptiness (Third Level, 30131/40000)]
[Kung Fu: Yi Mu Jue (Level 3, 6453/10000)]
[Skills: Thunder Attraction (Level 2, 131/1000), Soul Binding and General Sent (Level 1, 0/100)]
[Available experience points: 446322 points]
"440,000 usable experience points! This is so cool!"
Even though he had known this moment would come, Li Anran couldn't suppress his excitement, and the smile on his face continued to grow.
Li Anran had already thought about how to use the experience, without any hesitation, he silently said in his mind: "Upgrade the Yi Mu Jue to level 4!"
[Yi Mu Jue (Level 4, 10000/100000)]
The feeling when upgrading Yi Mu Jue is basically the same as when upgrading Tian Lei Yin previously.
A moment.
He seemed to have been enlightened, as if his mind had been opened, which made his understanding of the Yi Mu Jue advance by leaps and bounds and reached another level in an instant.
But Li Anran's attention was not on this.
What he cares more about is the experience points in [Cultivation]!
"It's still 30131..."
Li Anran was a little disappointed, but it was also within his expectations.
When he was practicing "Yi Mu Jue" himself, he found that not only the experience value of "Yi Mu Jue" would increase, but the experience value of his cultivation would also increase.
Therefore, the idea came up to use experience points to improve the "Yi Mu Jue" first, to see if I could improve my cultivation at the same time.
"Yi Mu Jue" is a technique that can be cultivated to the level of celestial being. If you increase your experience with Yi Mu Jue, your cultivation level will also increase.
Then he only needs 1.1 million experience points to upgrade the Yi Mu Jue to the maximum level, and he can directly break through to the celestial immortal realm!
This is much more cost-effective than adding experience to your cultivation!
But experiments proved that he was overthinking!
Using experience points to improve the level of "Yi Mu Jue" only improved his comprehension of "Yi Mu Jue" but could not make his cultivation advance by leaps and bounds!
"Raise your cultivation to the fourth level of Soul Refining and Returning to Emptiness."
Li Anran's mind moved.
[Refining the Spirit and Returning to Emptiness (Fourth Level, 40000/50000)]
A golden light flew out from the level column on the right side of the Book of Punishment and landed on the character image on the left.
The mysterious feeling I had experienced before came to my mind again.
Essence, energy and spirit increase rapidly.
After a few breaths, all the strange phenomena disappeared.
His cultivation has reached the fourth level of Spirit Refining and Returning to the Void.
"Raise your cultivation to the fifth level of Soul Refining and Returning to Emptiness."
"Raise your cultivation to the sixth level of Soul Refining and Returning to Emptiness."
"Raise your cultivation to the seventh level of Soul Refining and Returning to Emptiness."
…
"Improve your cultivation to the first level of Huaxuhedao!"
…
Although the possibility of system problems is small, Li Anran chose to break through one level at a time for the sake of safety, rather than adding all the experience at once.
Rays of golden light continuously flew out from the level bar and landed on the character image.
Li Anran's spiritual and mental cultivation is also constantly improving.
For other cultivators, breaking through from the realm of refining the spirit and returning to emptiness to the state of transforming into emptiness and merging with the Dao is much more difficult than breaking through from the first level of refining the spirit and transforming into emptiness to the ninth level.
But, for Li Anran, he felt nothing at all!
A golden light flashed, and the cultivation level broke through!
It’s as simple as drinking water!
In just over ten minutes, Li Anran's cultivation had soared all the way from the third level of Refining the Spirit and Returning to the Void to the third level of Transforming the Void and Combining with the Dao.
The available experience points also dropped from 460,000 to less than 100,000, which is not enough to continue the breakthrough!
Only then did it stop!
