27: Chapter 27 Heavenly Spirit Fruit, the Drawbacks of Cultivation Techniques

Qi Yang struggled to crawl up from behind the boulder, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and looked at the corpse of the Ice Python, a trace of excitement and wild joy welling up in his eyes.

"So what if it is a Late Stage Yao Beast? It still became my stepping stone."

He walked quickly to the corpse of the Ice Python, directly pulled out a dagger, precisely cut open the heart of the Ice Python, and used a specially made large jade bottle to catch a full bottle of the Yao Beast's heart blood emitting an ultimate chilling aura.

"The breeding hotbed for the heavenly spirit fruit is in hand!"

On the outskirts of the cold pool late at night, the smell of blood soared into the sky.

Qi Yang put away that bottle of precious heart blood of the Ice Python, and his gaze greedily swept across the huge corpse of the Ice Python.

This was a Late Stage Yao Beast!

Its whole body is a treasure!

The ice-blue scales could be used to refine top-grade defensive Magical Artifacts, the python tendons could be made into bowstrings, and even that pair of venomous fangs were good Materials for refining hidden weapons.

Qi Yang's movements were agile, like a skilled butcher, quickly cutting off all the most valuable parts of the Ice Python's body and stuffing them into the Storage Pouch.

"This skeleton is too big to take away, leaving it here will cause trouble sooner or later."

Qi Yang took out the corpse-dissolving water and poured it unsparingly onto the remaining python corpse.

Accompanied by pungent white smoke, the huge corpse quickly turned into a puddle of bloody water.

He then cast the Spirit Rain Technique, washing the scene clean to forge the illusion that the Ice Python had gone out to forage and had not yet returned.

After doing all this, Qi Yang pasted on the divine mobility talisman, turned into a black shadow, and hastily retreated to the Herb Garden.

Underground Secret Room.

Qi Yang sat cross-legged on the bronze stone platform, unable to care about treating his internal injuries, and poured that bottle of heart blood of the Ice Python onto the spiritual soil in the corner of the secret room.

As soon as the extremely Yin and cold Yao Beast blood touched the soil, a thin layer of frost condensed.

Qi Yang carefully took out the jade bottle containing the pollen of the heavenly spirit fruit, and gently sprinkled the pollen into the soil soaked in the Yao Beast blood.

"Success or failure depends on this single move."

He uncapped the black gourd, and a drop of emerald-green mysterious liquid dripped down.

Drip-drop.

The pollen, which had been motionless originally, suddenly erupted with dazzling seven-colored multicolored light after absorbing the chilling Qi of the Yao Beast blood and the massive Life Qi of the green liquid!

The soil rolled, and a crystal-clear tender bud carved like crystal broke through the soil.

The tender bud grew taller, sprouted branches, and grew leaves at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just a dozen breaths of time, it grew into a half-person-high miniature fruit tree.

At the top of the canopy, a smooth fruit the size of a dragon's eye, radiating rich seven-colored Spiritual Qi, grew!

The heavenly spirit fruit!

It has matured!

Qi Yang's breathing was hurried, and his eyes were red.

With trembling hands, he picked the heavenly spirit fruit and sealed it in a specially made warm jade box.

"jade pith ganoderma, dragon blood fruit, heavenly spirit fruit... The main ingredients for the foundation establishment pill are all gathered!"

Qi Yang looked up and laughed loudly, his laughter filled with the bitterness of barely surviving for nearly a hundred years and the wild joy of finally seeing the hope of eternal life.

"What about the Five-Element Mixed Spiritual Root? I forcefully carved out a supreme path to the heavens with my life!"

However, Qi Yang did not immediately begin refining the foundation establishment pill.

The incomplete formula of the foundation establishment pill lacked one-third of the refining techniques, and forcibly refining it had an extremely high failure rate.

Moreover, his current cultivation was only at Qi Condensation 6th Layer, and there was still a long way to go before Foundation Establishment.

"No rush; with the medicinal ingredients in hand, I have plenty of time now. The most urgent task is to quickly push my cultivation to the Qi Condensation Great Completion!"

In the following days, Qi Yang completely entered a frantic closed-door cultivation mode.

The talisman of the Special Grade Herb Garden protected him from any disturbance.

During the day, he occasionally showed his face in the courtyard to maintain his persona as an old farmer.

As soon as night fell, he would burrow into the underground secret room and eat various top-grade Five Elements Spirit Medicines ripened by the black gourd like meals.

Scarlet Flame Grass, Water Lingzhi, Sharp Gold Fruit...

The violent Spiritual Qi tore apart his fragile Mixed Spiritual Roots Meridians time and time again, and remodeled them under the nourishment of the top-grade medicinal power time and time again.

Qi Yang forcefully endured this pain akin to scraping bone to remove poison.

Just on a night two months later, a muffled roar came from the underground secret room.

Qi Yang suddenly opened his eyes, and the Qi Sea in his body was like a boiling ocean, the Five Elements spiritual power endlessly generating, forming a perfect cycle!

Qi Condensation Seventh Layer!

In the underground secret room, the bronze stone platform emitted a faint cold light.

Qi Yang sat cross-legged on it, his brows knitted into a tight knot, and he did not have much joy about breaking through to the Qi Condensation Seventh Layer.

The spiritual power of the Qi Condensation Seventh Layer in his body was like a great river, but the river channel of this great river was pitifully narrow.

"Damn it, this lousy Cultivation Technique, the Spirit Guiding Art, is truly terrible!"

Qi Yang suddenly opened his eyes and couldn't help cursing profanely.

The Cultivation Technique in the Cultivation World are divided into six major grades: Mortal, Yellow, Profound, Earth, Heaven, and Immortal, and each grade is divided into four minor grades: Low Grade, Middle, High, and Top Grade.

The Spirit Guiding Art he was currently Cultivating was a dime-a-dozen Mortal Grade Low Grade Cultivation Technique of the Xuantian Sect outer sect, characterized by being peaceful and upright, which anyone could Cultivate.

But a Mortal Grade Low Grade is a Mortal Grade Low Grade, its upper limit is too low!

Now that Qi Yang had reached the Qi Condensation Seventh Layer, using this set of Cultivation Technique to circulate spiritual power was simply like an old ox pulling a broken cart, and his Meridians sent waves of swelling pain.

If he did not change to a more Advanced Cultivation Technique, he simply could not last until the Qi Condensation Great Completion, let alone attempt Foundation Establishment.

"I need to make a trip to the Scripture Pavilion."

Qi Yang touched his chin.

Early the next morning, Qi Yang changed into that tattered burlap robe, hunched his back, and slowly walked out of the Special Grade Herb Garden.

The outer sect Scripture Pavilion was a three-story ancient and simple building, guarded outside the door by two law enforcement Disciples at the Qi Condensation 6th Layer.

As soon as Qi Yang walked to the door, a steward wearing a gray robe blocked him.

"Stop! The Scripture Pavilion is an important place, idlers are not allowed to enter!"

The steward looked Qi Yang up and down, a flash of undisguised disdain passing through his eyes.

This steward was named Sun Cheng, a four-element human Spiritual Root, with the cultivation of the Qi Condensation Seventh Layer.

In his eyes, a Mixed Spiritual Root with all Five Elements complete like Qi Yang was not even as good as garbage.

"A half-dead old man at Qi Condensation Third Layer, what excitement are you running to the Scripture Pavilion to join? Can you understand Cultivation Technique?"

Sun Cheng sneered repeatedly.

Qi Yang was not angry either; having kept a low profile for nearly a hundred years, he had seen plenty of such dogs who looked down on people.

He leisurely pulled out the jade token engraved with Special Grade Herb Garden from his bosom and shook it in front of Sun Cheng's eyes.

"Steward Sun, this old man was ordered by the outer sect Grand Elder to manage the Special Grade Herb Garden. Recently, a few kinds of Spiritual Plants in the Herb Garden are not growing well, and this old man wants to enter the Scripture Pavilion to check ancient books, what do you think..."

Qi Yang smiled with wrinkles all over his face, his tone neither humble nor arrogant.

Seeing the token of Great Elder Li Changyuan, Sun Cheng's expression stiffened.

Great Elder Li Changyuan was the sky of the outer sect; even if given ten guts, he would not dare to make things difficult for someone protected by Great Elder Li Changyuan.

"Hmph! Taking a chicken feather as an imperial decree!"

Sun Cheng snorted coldly and cleared the path.

"You are only allowed to look on the first and second floors. The third floor has inner sect Cultivation Technique. If you dare to step up even half a step, I will break your dog's legs!"

"Many thanks, Steward."

Qi Yang put away the token and slowly walked into the Scripture Pavilion.

The first floor was full of some Mortal Grade Cultivation Technique and basic miscellaneous talks of the Cultivation World. Qi Yang didn't even look at them and went straight up to the second floor.

The second floor stored Yellow Grade Cultivation Technique. Although incomparable to the Profound Grade of the inner sect, it was already a hot commodity in the outer sect.

Qi Yang's perception spread out little by little, scanning rapidly among the bookshelves.

Most Cultivation Technique in the Cultivation World required matching Spiritual Root attributes to be Cultivated.

For example, fire-type Cultivation Technique could only be Cultivated by those with fire Spiritual Roots; the purer the Spiritual Root, the greater the power.

Qi Yang was a Five-Element Mixed Spiritual Root, complete with Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. Theoretically, he could Cultivate anything, but he could not master anything proficiently.

"My strongest aspects are poison and medicine; I must find an unorthodox and sinister Cultivation Technique!"

Qi Yang wandered around the second floor for half an hour and finally stopped in a corner covered with thick dust.

There was an old wooden box placed there, and inside the wooden box lay a yellowish Incomplete Manual.

Qi Yang blew away the dust, opened the Incomplete Manual, and on the title page were written five large characters: Five Poisons Nourishing Spirit Art!

Yellow Grade Top Grade Cultivation Technique!