76: Chapter 76 Condensation Realm

Ye Tian quickly stored the Tenth-rank Beast Core, which contained boundless energy, along with some other Materials into his Spatial Ring. His gaze involuntarily drifted toward the depths of the Poison Dragon Scorpion's lair.

There, something seemed to be resonating strongly with the chaos bead!

"This feeling is even stronger than the time with the ring!"

Ye Tian's heart stirred; his intuition told him that a great Opportunity might be hidden there!

Ye Tian took out a Spirit Restoration Pill from his robes and swallowed it. The True Qi he had just consumed felt significantly restored.

He then cautiously made his way deeper into the lair.

The deeper he went, the denser the Spiritual Qi in the air became.

The depths of the lair were not as filthy as he had imagined; instead, there was a relatively dry clearing.

In the center of the clearing grew a strange plant!

It was dark gold all over and only about a foot tall, shaped like a coiled little Dragon. Its leaves were covered in natural patterns, and at the top grew a fruit the size of a longan, emitting a soft golden light!

"Is this... Dragon Saliva Grass?! And it's a mature Golden Dragon Saliva Fruit!"

Ye Tian's pupils suddenly constricted, and a wave of shock surged through his heart!

He had seen records of this item in the Ye Family's ancient texts. It was a rare spiritual treasure of heaven and earth, said to only be nurtured over a thousand years in places where the aura of a true Dragon remained!

Its fruit contained a trace of true Dragon essence, which had incredible effects on a Martial Artist's Breakthrough of a Bottleneck and the tempering of their Physical Body!

Its value was far beyond that of ordinary Spiritual Plants!

"No wonder this Poison Dragon Scorpion could grow to the tenth rank. It must have been guarding this item for a long time, using its escaping aura to Cultivate!"

Ye Tian understood instantly.

And the chaos bead's violent vibration was precisely because it had discovered this Golden Dragon Saliva Fruit!

However, the moment he approached, as if sensing an outsider's presence, the golden fruit atop the Dragon Saliva Grass suddenly erupted with a piercing light!

A domineering and scorching Dragon Qi surged toward Ye Tian!

At the same time, the chaos bead in his robes also erupted with a powerful suction!

Two powerful forces used Ye Tian's body as a battlefield, clashing violently!

"Ah!"

Ye Tian felt as if his body were about to be torn apart!

One was the extremely yang and rigid Dragon Qi, threatening to burst his Meridians.

The other was the Chaos aura emitted by the chaos bead.

The two forces collided frantically within his body, causing pain far exceeding any previous experience!

If he hadn't Cultivated the Dragon Elephant Art, he probably would have exploded and died by now.

At this moment, an abnormal gold and red light surfaced on Ye Tian's skin. His Meridians felt like they were being scorched by fire, and his Dantian Qi Sea was in total turmoil, on the verge of collapse!

"Not good! If this continues, my body will explode!"

Ye Tian was terrified as the shadow of death instantly loomed over him!

At the critical moment, his survival instinct was triggered to the extreme!

"I can't die! The Ye Family still needs me! My mother is still waiting for me!"

Enduring the inhuman pain and clinging to his last shred of reason, he frantically circulated the Nine Revolutions Purple Heart Art!

He pushed this technique to an unprecedented limit, vowing to refine these two violent energies!

However, the power levels of the Dragon Qi and the chaos bead were too high, far beyond what he could currently control!

Although the Nine Revolutions Purple Heart Art was profound, it still seemed inadequate in the face of such an absolute power gap!

Seeing his Meridians begin to crack and his Dantian about to burst...

The barrier that had always stood before the Ningyuan Realm actually began to vibrate violently and develop cracks under the frantic impact of these two supreme powers!

"Huh?!"

Ye Tian keenly captured this change!

In his desperate situation, he actually saw a glimmer of hope!

"Destruction before construction! Without destruction, there is no construction! So that's how it is!

The secret of the Ningyuan Realm lies not in accumulation, but in transformation!

It is the qualitative change of True Qi, the sublimation of the level of life!

It requires a sufficiently powerful external force to break the original shackles!"

Ye Tian instantly understood the key to the Breakthrough!

He stopped trying to refine the two forces and instead guided them to strike that barrier!

"Break for me!!!"

Ye Tian roared in his heart!

Concentrating all his mental will and using the Nine Revolutions Purple Heart Art as a guide, he slammed the conflicting Dragon Qi and Chaos Qi within his body hard against the barrier!

Ye Tian gritted his teeth and endured the intense pain!

Under the combined impact of these two forces, that barrier finally shattered with a bang!

At that moment, Ye Tian felt his body undergo a sublimation!

Within his Dantian, that thick True Qi was no longer an invisible gas but began to compress, condense, and liquefy!

It became purer and more solid, undergoing a qualitative leap!

A terrifying aura, ten times stronger than Half-step Ningyuan, erupted from Ye Tian's body!

An airwave formed with him as the center, instantly dispersing the surrounding mist!

The Spiritual Qi in the air converged frantically toward him, forming a Spiritual Qi vortex that poured into his body!

Ningyuan Realm First Layer!

At this moment, Ye Tian officially stepped over the threshold of the Ningyuan Realm!

He slowly opened his eyes, and a golden Dragon shadow seemed to flash through his gaze.

He lightly clenched his fist, feeling the explosive power within his body; a sense of unprecedented strength filled his entire being!

"Is this the power of the Ningyuan Realm?"

Ye Tian's heart was filled with shock.

He felt that if he were to face Yan She again now, he could definitely crush him head-on!

He even had the strength to fight against the Clan Chief at the Yuan Condensation Second Layer!

He looked at the Dragon Saliva Grass, whose light had already dimmed. The energy of the golden fruit had clearly been mostly absorbed by the chaos bead, but it was still a rare treasure.

He cautiously picked the entire Dragon Saliva Grass along with the golden fruit and stored them properly.

"Although it was a narrow escape this time, it was a blessing in disguise!"

Ye Tian still felt a lingering fear, but it was mostly overshadowed by ecstasy.

This Breakthrough not only caused his strength to skyrocket, but more importantly, he finally had the power to protect his family!

"It's time to go back!" Ye Tian's gaze was firm.

Breaking through to the Ningyuan Realm gave him the confidence to face powerful experts!

He no longer lingered; with a movement, he turned into a stream of light and quickly left this restricted area, heading toward the Ye Family!

On the way back, everything went smoothly, except for encountering a few sixth or seventh-rank Vicious Beasts.

After returning to his courtyard, Ye Tian did not rest but immediately entered his bedroom, sat cross-legged on the bed, closed his eyes, and sank his mind into his body.

After breaking through to the Ningyuan Realm, the most important thing now was to stabilize his Realm!

The Ningyuan Realm is completely different from the Qi Gathering Realm. True Qi transforms into yuan, and power undergoes a qualitative change. This requires careful realization; otherwise, an unstable Foundation will affect his future martial path.

"Huh? This Spiritual Qi..."

Ye Tian inspected his Dantian internally and was pleasantly surprised to find that a portion of the Spiritual Qi he had absorbed from the light green ring, which he hadn't been able to fully refine before, was actually still settled deep within his Qi Sea.

"Great! This can be used to consolidate my cultivation and solidify my Foundation!"

He immediately circulated the Nine Revolutions Purple Heart Art.

After stepping into the Ningyuan Realm, many of the mysteries within this Mind-Cultivation Technique truly began to manifest.

He guided the condensed True Yuan within his Dantian to begin tempering, while simultaneously extracting the residual Spiritual Qi bit by bit and merging it into the True Yuan.

This process was slow and meticulous, requiring patience and control.

The chaos bead assisted him in harmonizing the forces and removing Impurities, making the consolidation process twice as effective with half the effort.

Time passed in silence.

After an unknown amount of time, the somewhat floaty aura around Ye Tian gradually became deep and heavy, its sharp edge restrained, yet containing even more domineering power.

After completely refining the residual Spiritual Qi, his cultivation not only stabilized but even broke through directly to the Ningyuan Realm First Layer Middle Stage!