Chapter 916: Millennium
The protective Taoist power was constantly being cut by the terrifying chaotic force. When it was almost collapsing, Qin Ziling resolutely put away the Taoist power and endured it with his physical body.
The chaotic power strangled his body from all directions , as if Qin Ziling was cut into pieces by a thousand cuts.
In just a few moments, his entire body was covered in blood.
This pain was many times more severe than what Qin Ziling had to endure in order to build a body of iron skin and bones.
However, Qin Ziling's spirit and will are not as strong as they were back then.
Qin Ziling continued to endure the pain and torture and moved forward resolutely.
His body was strong and full of vitality. It was constantly being torn into pieces and was constantly repairing itself.
This repeating process is like steel being tempered a thousand times.
However, his level of physical training and martial arts is only the ninth-grade cave heaven level after all. No matter how powerful he is, it is only equivalent to the upper-grade Taoist level. He cannot endure it for too long, otherwise it will easily damage his foundation. Too much is as bad as too little.
Of course, if Qin Ziling took out the Golden Peng Realm soldiers to clear the way, it would definitely be much easier, and he would be able to endure it for a longer time.
When Tao Yi and others were the guardians of Bian Min, they tried their best to activate their Taoist treasures and used various means to protect their bodies. Only when they could not hold on any longer would they draw on Taoist blood, and thus they were able to protect Bian Min for a longer period of time.
Otherwise, even if they have powerful Taoist powers and strong bodies, they will not be able to hold on for too long.
After walking in the abyss of chaos in his physical body for some time, Qin Ziling saw the limit of what he could endure. With a thought, a towering tree appeared above his head.
This towering tree has luxuriant branches and leaves, and glows with five colors, among which the red glow is the brightest.
Not only that, there were more than ten fruits hanging on the branches and leaves that were blooming with red clouds.
This fruit is like a burning flame, with endless runes flowing in the flames, emitting a trace of extremely mysterious aura of the Tao.
This tree is naturally the Five Elements Fruit Tree.
The Five Elements Fruit Tree has gone through many disasters. The original five elements were in balance, but because of these disasters, the fire element became the only dominant one.
Later, after Qin Ziling's efforts and the mutual generation and restraint of the five elements themselves, the balance of the five elements was barely achieved.
As a result, a section of the fire trunk was collected in the ruins of Wanjun Realm a few years ago, and the balance was broken again in an instant, and with great force. For a while, even Qin Ziling could not reverse the situation.
Just when Qin Ziling thought that it would take a long time of mutual promotion and mutual restraint, and slow adjustments, to achieve a balance again, flower buds grew on the fire branches and leaves, and then blossomed and bore fruit, storing the excess fire power. Surprisingly, the Five Elements Fruit Tree quickly regained the balance of the Five Elements. The Five Elements promoted each other, and the cycle continued endlessly.
These are all off-topic. As soon as the Five Elements Fruit Tree appeared, billions of five-colored rays of light hung down, enveloping Qin Ziling completely.
Qin Ziling sat upright under it. His wounds were healing quickly. His bloody body soon scabbed over and shed layers of dead skin.
After some time, the Five Elements Fruit Tree slowly submerged himself, and waves of the Five Elements' Yin and Yang, life and death forces emanated from his body, surrounding him like ribbons of clouds.
After going through the physical body's hard work and the protection of the Five Elements Fruit Tree, the Qi Refining technique has recovered and can be tempered once again.
The three methods of Qi refining, physical body, and the five elements fruit tree are used in a cycle. The spirit and soul sit in the Niwan Palace, guarding the mind, enduring the pain without wavering, and staying awake at all times, observing and judging the endurance limit and recovery status of Qi refining and the physical body.
When one reaches Qin Ziling's level, the practice and training methods that are not painful or that change paths as soon as difficulties arise are unlikely to have any effect on improvement.
Only when it is close to the limit, even like walking on the edge of life and death, can the real improvement effect be achieved.
Therefore, while the Qi-refining and body-refining martial arts are undergoing trials, in fact the path of the spirit and soul is also undergoing extremely rigorous tests and trials.
A slight mistake can lead to a huge loss!
If the soul is not able to keep its focus and becomes shaken and makes mistakes in judgment, at best the effectiveness of the pain that has lasted for a period of time will be greatly reduced, at worst it will be too much and damage the foundation, which will take longer time and resources to recover.
The Primal Chaos Realm , where countless Taoist immortals dared not set foot and even figures like Bian Min were terrified to set foot, became Qin Ziling's place of practice.
Qin Ziling was so immersed in the three methods that he sometimes even forgot to find a exit.
He walked alone in the abyss of chaos, unaware that a thousand years had passed.
During these thousand years, in order to replenish his strength and energy, the amount of resources he consumed every day was staggering.
Fortunately, he has the Qiankun World in his hands, which contains a huge amount of resources.
Some of these resources were obtained from the Dark Emperor Heaven, some were snatched from killing many Taoist Immortals and True Immortals, and some were produced from the land of the Qiankun World.
Qin Ziling moved many magical herbs and medicines into the Qiankun world. These magical herbs and medicines were taken care of day and night by the elite true immortals, and with the special care of the Heavenly Dao, they grew very well.
Qin Ziling also ate three Fire Element Dao Fruits grown on the Five Elements Fruit Tree .
Although the Five Elements Fruit Tree is still a half-medicine at present, the Fire Element Dao Fruit it produces is already as effective as a twelve-section Yuan Hui Immortal Grass.
It’s a pity that by the time I took the third one, its effectiveness had been greatly reduced.
During this thousand years, the one-eyed fire dragon has been in a deep sleep.
The Five Elements Fruit Tree had obtained that section of the fire trunk, and the five elements were already seriously unbalanced. It was impossible for the source fire obtained from the Wanjun Realm Ruins to be given to the Five Elements Fruit Tree, otherwise it would be adding fuel to the fire.
The source of fire was the innate fire, and was also a great tonic for the one-eyed fire dragon, so it was natural to give it to him.
The one-eyed fire dragon obtained the source fire and soon fell into a deep sleep to further repair itself.
A thousand years is nothing to a Taoist immortal.
But he could only go out and not come in, especially when he reached Qin Ziling's level and adopted such an extreme method of cultivation. The consumption of a thousand years was ultimately too great. Even though the Qiankun world contained vast resources, there were gradually signs of them running out of resources.
On this day, Qin Ziling finally felt a sense of "financial crisis".
He suddenly woke up and discovered that the aura of chaos in the place he was in was much thicker than the place he had just entered, and the power of chaos was also much stronger.
He had actually discovered this before, but he didn't take it seriously, thinking he might as well make the best of it and take the opportunity to hone his skills.
But now there is a "financial" crisis. Once the "finance" reaches the point where it can no longer be sustained, the Chaos Realm Abyss will be a tribulation rather than a test for him.
Therefore, this discovery made Qin Ziling start to think seriously whether he had deviated from the direction unknowingly.
"The aura of chaos is becoming more and more dense in a regular manner, rather than being dense by chance. There is only one possibility, that is, I am getting further and further away from the Huangji Great World and closer and closer to the Chaos World. It seems that I have to adjust myself. Otherwise, if I continue to go on, I won’t be able to afford the resources and time for cultivation." Qin Ziling thought to himself and resolutely changed direction.
