203: Ancient supernatural relics

A strong sense of hunger suddenly struck!

To condense the True Embryo, the essence, Qi, and spirit within Zhang Sheng's three palaces were completely exhausted at once.

He hurriedly swallowed several supreme-grade essence pills.

As the Medicinal Pill entered his abdomen, it instantly transformed into dense blood-qi power, rapidly compensating for his body's massive deficit.

His Mental Energy also began to slowly recover along with it.

Meanwhile, all the spirit suns in Zhang Sheng's Qi Sea transformed into hazy shadows.

The Primordial Chaos Heavenly Art operated ceaselessly on its own, refining the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi at Extreme Speed.

These refined Spiritual Qi were immediately converted into pure spiritual power, continuously filling those spirit sun shadows.

At this moment, Zhang Sheng introspected into his Sea of Consciousness, sensing the True Embryo suspended above his niwan palace.

It was mini in form, yet contained a heart-palpitating, powerful force.

The biggest difference between a True Fetus Realm Cultivator and a Divine Breath Realm Cultivator lay in this True Embryo nurtured within the Sea of Consciousness, also known as the Divine Fetus.

When casting Spells, a Cultivator could not only mobilize the spiritual power within their Qi Sea but also call upon the spiritual power stored within the Divine Fetus.

Compared to the Divine Breath Realm, the True Fetus Realm essentially had one additional powerful backup energy source.

Different methods of condensing the embryo resulted in vastly different True Embryos.

Zhang Sheng's Myriad Manifestation Divine Fetus condensed a True Embryo that looked exactly like himself; this point was quite similar to the most common and ordinary "Original Form True Fetus."

In addition, there were True Embryos that tended toward certain spiritual power attributes, such as the "Earth-Attribute True Embryo," which specialized in absorbing earth-attribute spiritual power to grow; once it reached the Divine Power Realm, it could awaken earth-attribute Divine Ability.

Even more so, there were True Embryos like those of exotic beasts; Lu Shi Qi's "Nine Calamity True Phoenix Fetus" was one such example.

Aside from comprehending the True Intent of Spells, the core of True Fetus Realm cultivation was nurturing this True Embryo.

Every person's Physical Body had a limit to the volume of the True Embryo it could contain.

The gap in Foundation between Cultivators was vast, and the limits to which their True Embryos could grow were also worlds apart.

Given Zhang Sheng's own profound Foundation, he had already foreseen what terrifying resources would be required to Cultivate this Divine Fetus in the future.

Moreover, the "Myriad Manifestation Divine Fetus" technique required him to condense multiple True Embryos!

Soon, the essence pills Zhang Sheng had swallowed were digested, and he immediately swallowed several more.

Just at this moment, Zhang Sheng suddenly realized a key point:

The Divine Fetus was nurtured by his own essence, Qi, and spirit, so the nutrients required for its growth were naturally spiritual objects containing essence, Qi, and spirit.

This meant that Zhang Sheng would require a massive amount of supreme-grade essence pills!

Thus, Zhang Sheng began a frenzied Alchemy campaign—refining supreme-grade essence pills while stuffing them into his mouth!

His dried-up sea of blood-qi began to rapidly fill, and his withered Mental Energy gradually recovered!

Two days later, Zhang Sheng finally returned to his Peak state, his strength having increased several times over compared to before.

The Mental Energy in his Sea of Consciousness, the blood-qi power in his crimson heart palace, and the spiritual power in his Dantian.

All three were being rapidly absorbed by Zhang Sheng's True Embryo.

There was a huge difference between Zhang Sheng's True Embryo and those of ordinary Cultivators:

This tiny True Embryo could actually operate Qi Refining and Spirit Refining Cultivation Techniques on its own, just like Zhang Sheng's Physical Body!

Zhang Sheng's original self would Cultivate, continuously nourishing the True Embryo;

At the same time, the True Embryo could also Cultivate on its own, strengthening itself.

Having just stepped into the True Fetus Realm, Zhang Sheng's current cultivation speed, as well as his recovery speed for spiritual power and Mental Energy, was already double that of when he was at the Perfection of the Divine Breath Realm!

The drawback also became apparent: while spiritual power could still be replenished by refining environmental Spiritual Qi, the demand for essence pills became extremely massive.

Zhang Sheng had no choice but to swallow several supreme-grade essence pills every once in a while!

He named this Divine Fetus the "Spirit Elephant Divine Fetus."

Because among the three elements (essence, Qi, and spirit), it took "spiritual power" as the Foundation of Qi.

The "Myriad Manifestation Divine Fetus" method required Zhang Sheng to condense at least three True Embryos with vastly different characteristics to be considered a success.

Next, Zhang Sheng planned to Cultivate the "Heavenly Demon Art" to condense an "Demon Elephant Divine Fetus"; then Cultivate the "Star Scripture" to condense a "Star Elephant Divine Fetus."

He continuously refined supreme-grade essence pills, determined to refine all the more than ten thousand True Fetus Realm beast cores remaining in his storage ring into supreme-grade essence pills.

Time passed quietly.

On this day, a message was transmitted into Zhang Sheng's qinglan token.

At this time, Zhang Sheng had been refining pills for eleven consecutive days, and over five thousand new supreme-grade essence pills had been added to his storage ring.

His Spirit Elephant Divine Fetus had also grown significantly.

The Alchemy process was boring and long; during the intervals, Zhang Sheng would Cultivate "Obstacle Breaking."

This Spell finally reached the Perfected State at this moment.

The instant "Obstacle Breaking" reached Perfection, the number on the back of his monkey face mask suddenly jumped from "nine" to "eight"!

This indicated that among the nine Cultivators possessing monkey face masks, only one remained who had not yet Cultivated "Obstacle Breaking" to the Perfected State.

"Qinglan Academy, attention all Three-Star Qinglan Guards and above!

A relic has been discovered approximately twenty million kilometers east of Luoxia Prefecture, suspected to be an Immortal Cave of an ancient Supernatural Power Realm Cultivator.

Those interested in exploring may gather at the teleportation hall in seven days!"

Zhang Sheng scanned the message on the qinglan token and then habitually checked his communication jade slip.

Just at this moment, one of the communication jade slips lit up with a faint glow—it was the one from Qian Che.

Qian Che's excited voice came through: "Zhang Sheng! Bamboo Pole and I have both been promoted to Three-Star Qinglan Guards!

Do you want to go explore that relic together?

Maybe we can dig up some treasures!"

Zhang Sheng replied: "Fellow Daoist Qian, it is just an Immortal Cave left behind by a Divine Power Realm Cultivator, what is there to explore?

Besides, that is already a wilderness area with many powerful wild beasts; it is too dangerous."

Qian Che hurriedly explained: "Zhang Sheng, don't you know? Ancient Divine Power Realm Cultivators are by no means comparable to those of today!

A single powerful Divine Ability of theirs is enough to shake the heavens and earth!

This point has long been verified and confirmed by many parties!"

He added in a hurried tone: "For some reason, those ancient Cultivators loved to build extremely secretive and sturdy underground Immortal Caves!

And they always set up various dangerous Formations and measures around the Immortal Caves!

Even after a long passage of time, many Immortal Caves remain sturdy and filled with crises to this day!"

"Many people have obtained powerful ancient Spell Jade Slips from such Immortal Caves!

Once learned, they can be cast instantly! Those few in our academy who know ancient Spells almost all obtained that Opportunity from ancient relic Jade Slips!

How about it, want to try your luck?" Qian Che persuaded strongly.

Zhang Sheng pondered for a moment and said: "Fellow Daoist Qian, my strength is low, so I won't go and risk it."

He thought to himself: "Are you kidding me? I don't lack Spells now, and I have sufficient resources; risking my life for that illusory ancient Jade Slip is completely not worth it."

Zhang Sheng was no longer the naive person he once was and would certainly not take unnecessary risks.

Qian Che was slightly disappointed: "Alright then, Zhang Sheng. If you change your mind, contact me anytime!"

Wen Tao, who was beside Qian Che, immediately asked: "Fatty, what did Zhang Sheng say?"

Qian Che said helplessly: "What else could he say? He doesn't want to go. Bamboo Pole, I think we shouldn't go either."

Wen Tao was unwilling to give up: "What are you afraid of? With our coordination, even if we can't beat the wild beasts, escaping should be no problem, right? Why don't we find some more companions?"

Qian Che, however, said calmly: "Thin one, what I fear is not the wild beasts. Compared to the wild beasts, I am more afraid of... other people.

I am afraid that even if we are lucky enough to get good things, we might not be able to keep them."

Hearing this, Wen Tao nodded and said: "Alright, I'll listen to you! Anyway, my life was saved by you!"

For a time, dark currents surged within Qinglan Academy surrounding this newly discovered relic.

Although all participating Qinglan Guards would be teleported there together, privately, various factions had long begun to form alliances in secret.