The first volume debuts Chapter 25 The first person in the Lingling realm!
Li Xuanfeng returned to his room and took out the corpse and spirit core of the golden-scaled snake. Shen Hua had given all of these to him before, saying that these were the spirit beasts he had hunted, and that they would be of great use to the gold-attributed spiritual power he was cultivating.
“Boy, you know that your cultivation is too weak. You actually need to use the method of mutual destruction to kill a spiritual beast at the half-step spiritual foundation realm. You really disappoint me.” The Five Elements Venerable, who had not spoken for a long time, transmitted his spiritual consciousness from the Purple Destruction Stick and attacked Li Xuanfeng as usual.
"I just broke through the late stage of Ling Rong and killed a spirit beast at the Half-Step Spirit Foundation Realm. How could you still feel disappointed?" Li Xuanfeng felt unbelievable. The Five Elements Venerable's words were really poisonous.
“That’s nothing. I am in the late stage of Ling Rong and can kill a cultivator in the early stage of Ling Ji Realm, and he was only slightly injured.” The proud voice of the Five Elements Venerable echoed again.
"Okay, you are awesome." Li Xuanfeng said helplessly.
In fact, what the Five Elements Venerable did not say was that Li Xuanfeng's reaching the late stage of Ling Rong was completely enough to easily kill a spirit beast at the Half-Step Spirit Foundation Realm. It was just that the golden-scaled snake mutated due to fate and gained the power of thunder, which caught Li Xuanfeng off guard.
“Boy, although your control over your cultivation is already good, your proficiency in magic and the speed of spiritual energy circulation are still not enough. You are far from the level of being able to perform them at will.” The Five Elements Venerable said in conclusion.
"Also, when the golden-scaled snake emits lightning, you can insert the Purple Extinguishing Stick into the ground to direct the lightning into the ground. This way, the force of the lightning you bear will be greatly reduced, and you will not suffer from severe dizziness and spiritual power disorder."
"Then why didn't you say it earlier! " Li Xuanfeng said angrily.
"I wanted to see how strong your fighting consciousness was when you were in a life-and-death crisis. I didn't expect that you would disappoint me. Besides, I don't know when your master will arrive. If I send out my spiritual sense, your master might be discovered if he appears." The Five Elements Venerable explained. What he didn't say was that he was already ready to treat Li Xuanfeng at that time, but he didn't take action because he sensed the appearance of Shen Hua.
After the battle with the golden-scaled snake, Li Xuanfeng realized that his control over his magic was not enough, and it was difficult for him to fight back quickly against an enemy with an extremely fast attack speed.
Li Xuanfeng placed the body and scales of the golden snake beside him and began to practice cross-legged. The scales and body of the golden snake contained a lot of gold essence, which could enhance the gold spiritual power in Li Xuanfeng's body. The scales of the golden snake were very hard. Li Xuanfeng roasted them with spiritual fire for three days before finally melting the scales. After roasting the golden snake and eating it, Li Xuanfeng immediately felt the rapid improvement of the gold spiritual power.
After spending several days to completely digest it, Li Xuanfeng condensed the Golden Spirit Armor again. He could clearly see that the Golden Spirit Armor was much more solid than before, as if it was made of real metal. Its defense power was doubled. He condensed the Golden Spirit Arm Armor and smashed a large rock in an instant with just one punch without using his cultivation.
Now Li Xuanfeng still has the spirit cores of the Flame Lion and the Golden Scaled Snake in his storage bag, and the Five Elements Venerable told him to use them when he is ready to break through the Spirit Foundation Realm. The spirit core is the most important part of the spirit beast's body, filled with the spirit beast's spiritual power and essence, and is most suitable for improving cultivation.
Half a month passed in the blink of an eye. Li Xuanfeng had completely consolidated his cultivation in the late stage of Ling Rong. His use of magic had also improved a lot. The main reason was the increase in the speed of spiritual power circulation, which increased the speed of magic condensation.
Li Xuanfeng returned to the first trial level, but found that no spirit beast could match him. The spirit beasts in the late stage of Rongling could not last more than a few rounds under his hands. He even searched around and finally found a spirit beast in the great perfection of Rongling Realm. Although its speed and magic power were much stronger than those of the spirit beasts in the late stage of Rongling Realm, it was still killed by Li Xuanfeng before 30 rounds.
As for the Half-step Spiritual Foundation Realm spirit beast, Li Xuanfeng spent half a month but still couldn't find another one. Because it is very rare for a Half-step Spiritual Foundation Realm cultivator to appear due to a break in retreat, and after breaking through the Spiritual Foundation Realm, they will be sensed by the formation and forcibly sent to the second trial level to avoid the scene of the Rong Ling Realm disciples being slaughtered.
At this time, Li Xuanfeng felt that the first trial level was no longer meaningful to him, and eating the flesh and blood of spirit beasts did not bring much improvement. At this time, only the flesh and blood of spirit beasts with earth attributes brought some improvement, because among the three types of spiritual power in Li Xuanfeng's body, the earth attribute spiritual power was the weakest.
Li Xuanfeng even began to think about entering the second trial level, but considering that he had never seen the strength of the Spiritual Foundation Realm cultivators, he did not rush in for the time being and needed to make more preparations.
He went to the trading pavilion and sold all his gains during this period, which attracted many disciples to watch. He directly took out fifty spirit beast corpses and spirit cores, which was extremely rare, and exchanged them for 600 spirit stones. Then he bought a large number of higher-level herbs in the trading pavilion, preparing to refine high-level pills and spirit base pills for the Rongling Realm!
For Li Xuanfeng, there is never a shortage of alchemy recipes. The nine-story tower in the Purple Destroying Stick space stores countless collections of the Five Elements Venerable during his lifetime, and there are countless alchemy recipes, so he only needs to buy the herbs for alchemy.
The art of alchemy is profound and extensive. In addition to elixirs that can improve cultivation and heal injuries, there are also elixirs with countless other benefits, including elixirs for attack and even poison pills.
Li Xuanfeng first refined some Soul Gathering Pills. He had already become very adept at making these pills and had mastered the art. Following the detailed explanation of the Five Elements Master, after refining ten top-grade pills, he made another breakthrough and refined a perfect Soul Gathering Pill without a trace of impurities.
The difficulty of making a perfect elixir can no longer be described as ordinary. Although the Soul Gathering Pill is only a low-level elixir, even a master alchemist who can refine elixirs of the Soul Foundation Realm or even the Soul Pill Realm may not be able to refine a perfect Soul Gathering Pill.
In order to completely remove the impurities in the herbs, one needs extremely pure flames and perfect control of the flames. The most difficult problem is to find and remove the impurities that are integrated into the essence of the herbs. All of these require near-perfect control of cultivation and meticulous observation.
Although Li Xuanfeng possessed extremely pure fire attributes and perfect control over spiritual fire, it was still not enough to refine the perfect Spirit Gathering Pill. It was the constant explanation of the Five Elements Venerable that enabled him to meticulously discover the impurities in the essence of the herbs, and thus successfully refine the perfect Spirit Gathering Pill.
Although a perfect Spirit Gathering Pill can be refined for various reasons, the consumption of herbs is doubled compared to refining a top-grade Spirit Gathering Pill. The herbs used to refine two top-grade Spirit Gathering Pills can only be used to refine one perfect Spirit Gathering Pill. This is the inevitable consumption when removing impurities from the essence of the herbs.
The higher the level of the elixir, the higher the level of the herbs needed for refining. The difficulty of removing impurities from the herbs is doubled, and the perfect control of cultivation and flames stumps a large number of alchemists. Therefore, in the cultivation world, the number of perfect elixirs is very small, and perfect elixirs among high-level elixirs are even fewer.
The efficacy of a perfect elixir is much higher than that of a top-grade elixir, and no herbal impurities remain in the body, so once a perfect elixir appears, it will be rushed to buy by countless practitioners.
After refining several perfect Spirit Gathering Pills, Li Xuanfeng decided to improve his cultivation first before refining other pills.
After swallowing a perfect Spirit Gathering Pill, he sat cross-legged and began to practice. His body continued to absorb the medicinal power. Li Xuanfeng, who was already close to the Great Perfection of Spirit Fusion, instantly broke through to the Great Perfection of Spirit Fusion. Then he quickly used the method taught by the Five Elements Venerable to compress and condense his spiritual power, and once again compressed his cultivation back to the late stage of Spirit Fusion.
At this time, the effect of the medicine was not exhausted. The spiritual power surged again while the medicine was taking effect, and it was not until it returned to the Great Perfection of Rongling Realm that the medicine was exhausted. After compressing the spiritual power back to the late stage of Rongling, Li Xuanfeng swallowed another Perfect Juling Pill. The spiritual power surged and returned to the Great Perfection of Rongling. It was compressed again and returned to the Great Perfection of Rongling before the medicine was exhausted.
Li Xuanfeng compressed his spiritual power to half again and returned to the late stage of spiritual fusion. He did not take the Spirit Gathering Pill again. He now needed some time to adapt to his cultivation level, otherwise his cultivation level would no longer be stable due to growing too fast, which would affect his combat power and the improvement of his cultivation level later on.
To outsiders, Li Xuanfeng at this time was still in the late stage of Ling Rong, but few knew that the result was from three compressions from the Great Perfection of Ling Rong. The degree of spiritual power condensation had even exceeded the Half-Step Lingji Realm, approaching the spiritual power of the true Lingji Realm.
At this time, Li Xuanfeng's combat power can be said to be the number one in the Lingrong Realm, and he even has the power to fight against those in the Lingji Realm!
