227: Chapter 227 Yun Generation Clan Members

This Cultivation Technique draws on the principle of mutual generation and restriction of the Five Elements, melting the Five Elements Spiritual Qi into a single furnace. When cultivated to a profound level, the five types of spiritual energy can be converted at will, restricting each other to strike fiercely in offense, and generating each other to endure endlessly in defense.

Since she began to Cultivate this Cultivation Technique, she had refined it day and night. Today, she had finally glimpsed the threshold of a deeper level.

The five-colored spiritual light flickered, brightening and dimming in a mysterious rhythm.

With every breath she took, the aura around her grew more solid, and the circulation path of the Five Elements Spiritual Qi became increasingly smooth and natural. The generation nodes that were originally slightly sluggish now thawed like spring ice, flowing smoothly without hindrance.

Gradually, the five air currents began to contract. First, the outermost red color withdrew like a line of fire, followed by the yellow, white, and green colors receding into her body like a tide. Finally, the last black spiritual light slowly merged into her crown.

Once the five colors were completely withdrawn, the light in the room suddenly dimmed, leaving only a faint, flickering residual glow on the green jade futon.

After a long while, the last trace of spiritual light completely dissipated.

Zhang Yuxi slowly opened her eyes, a sharp gleam flashing and vanishing in them.

In that gleam, five colors seemed to flash by in sequence, so fast it felt like an illusion.

Her face appeared even more exquisite in the darkened secret chamber, but her temperament was more composed than before her secluded cultivation, with less softness and more of a sharpness like a sword in its sheath.

Peering inside her Dantian, she felt the spiritual energy surging several times stronger than before, and a faint smile appeared on her lips.

"Foundation Establishment Peak."

In just half a month of secluded cultivation, she had broken through from the Foundation Establishment Late Stage to the Foundation Establishment Peak. This speed of breaking through a Bottleneck would absolutely be considered shocking among Cultivators of the same tier in Huangfeng Prefecture.

As everyone knew, the higher the Realm, the more difficult cultivation became. For an ordinary Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator to enter seclusion and assault the minor Bottleneck of the Foundation Establishment Peak, crossing this hurdle would take at least three to five months, or even a year or two. Yet she had only used half a month; this was the terrifying power of the Three-Aperture Exquisite Heart.

In fact, Zhang Yuxi's gains since Li Changqing went to Hongshan Prefecture to fight demons several years ago were far more than just this.

In addition to raising her cultivation to the Foundation Establishment Peak, she had also cultivated the Cultivation Technique passed down by Li Changqing, the "Five Elements Hunyuan Scripture," to a deeper Realm. The circulation of the five-colored spiritual light was smoother and more natural than before, and she could already faintly employ the wondrous effects of mutual generation and restriction in offense and defense.

What pleased her even more was that Li Changqing's Earth Rank spiritual technique obtained from the Taixu Secret Realm—the Soul Condensation Spike—had finally been cultivated by her to the Minor Achievement Realm.

The Soul Condensation Spike specialized in attacking the Divine Sense, killing people invisibly.

This technique condensed one's own Divine Sense into a line, piercing directly into the opponent's Divine Soul like a steel needle. If an ordinary Foundation Establishment Cultivator had no specific defense, they would suffer a shaking of their Sea of Consciousness and a brief loss of consciousness at best, or a damaged Divine Soul and immediate loss of combat power at worst. Now, with a mere thought of her Divine Sense, she could condense and shoot the spike silently.

Zhang Yuxi calmed the joy in her heart. With a flip of her palm, a faint, barely visible, transparent, thin glow flashed and vanished at her fingertips, so fast it was almost impossible to catch.

With her Foundation Establishment Peak cultivation, the Yellow Rank spiritual technique "Cloud Shadow Sword Technique" cultivated to the Perfection Realm, and an Earth Rank spiritual technique at Minor Achievement, such strength could be considered in the top tier among the Foundation Establishment Cultivators in the surrounding areas of Huangfeng Prefecture.

She stood up and brushed her sleeves. The heavy stone door of the secret chamber slowly opened with a low rumble. With a slight movement of her body, she returned to the surface of the lake in the next instant.

The lake breeze blew in her face. In the distant sky, a crimson moon was rising from the sea level, coating the entire Xuanling Island in a layer of dark red light.

Standing on Xuanling Island, Zhang Yuxi seemed to sense something. With a gentle shake of her wrist, a misty green spiritual light flew out of her Spirit Beast Bracelet and landed in front of her.

It was a Qingluan about thirty feet long, its entire body covered in fine, blue-green feathers, each feather gleaming with a warm, jade-like luster.

Its tail feathers were not yet fully grown, trailing only three half-foot-long, tender green feathers, yet it already faintly exuded the magnificent aura of a divine bird.

Its pale-gold eyes were as clear as colored glass, and it was affectionately rubbing against Zhang Yuxi's fingertips.

Zhang Yuxi stroked the feathers on the Qingluan's neck, flipped her right hand, and took out two pale green spiritual fruits.

The fruit was only the size of a pigeon's egg, but its skin was covered in fine spiral patterns, emitting a crisp scent of vegetation—it was precisely the wind spirit fruit she had specially cultivated for it, which had an excellent nourishing effect on wind-attribute Spirit Beasts.

Seeing the wind spirit fruit, the Qingluan's pale gold eyes instantly lit up, and with a nimble peck of its long beak, it snatched one of the fruits into its mouth.

It tilted its long, slender neck and swallowed the wind spirit fruit in just a few bites.

After eating, the Qingluan spread its wings and craned its neck to let out a clear, high-pitched cry. Though the sound still carried a hint of youth, it already possessed the charm of a phoenix's cry, bright and far-reaching, echoing endlessly over Xuanling Island.

A flash of light rippled across its green feathers, and a small whirlwind faintly swirled up around its body, causing the hem of Zhang Yuxi's robe to flutter gently before gradually dissipating after a long moment.

"Alright, I know you haven't had enough." Zhang Yuxi gently tapped the Qingluan's head and put it back into the Spirit Beast Bracelet.

Zhang Yuxi tucked the Spirit Beast Bracelet close to her body, remembering that she still had many pending matters to attend to.

She tidied her robes and walked toward the pavilion on Xuanling Island, already planning her next itinerary in her mind.

After returning to the pavilion, Zhang Yuxi first sat down in the quiet room to adjust her breathing, then took out a transmission talisman from her sleeve.

Spitting out a trace of spiritual energy from her fingertips, she injected a wisp of pure spiritual energy into the Talisman. The surface of the Talisman instantly lit up with a soft light, then transformed into an imperceptible streak of light that vanished into the Void Realm, establishing a connection with Li Yunfeng.

"Yunfeng, has anything important happened in the clan or on the island recently?" Zhang Yuxi's tone was gentle, but carried an inherent calm and authority.

Li Yunfeng's respectful voice quickly came from the other end of the transmission talisman: "Mother, you've come out of seclusion! A few days ago during the clan's spiritual testing, we discovered a clan member with a four-inch Spiritual Root. Their Aptitude is very good. Also, Elder Liu's research on poisons seems to have yielded new results."

Hearing this, Zhang Yuxi showed a hint of joy on her face. After a brief deliberation, she said, "Then call Liu Yangfeng to come over with you. I happen to have some matters to instruct him on."

"Alright, Mother, your child will get right on it."

After about the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, Li Yunfeng led Liu Yangfeng to the outside of the pavilion.

After receiving permission, the two walked into the quiet room one after the other. Li Yunfeng was thirty-one years old this year, ranking nineteenth in the Yun generation. Just three months ago, he had broken through to the Qi Refining 7th Layer, making him the second clan member of the Li Family's Yun generation to break through to the Qi Refining 7th Layer.

He was tall and slender, with a calm face, and his brows and eyes already carried the air of someone who could stand on his own.

Over the years, in order to strengthen the Family's power, the Li Family had vigorously encouraged clan members to have more children.

It had been over forty years since the Yun generation's spiritual testing began, and the number of Yun generation Cultivators in the clan had reached eighty-six.

Coupled with the newly tested clan member with a four-inch Spiritual Root, five clan members with four-inch Spiritual Roots had already appeared in the Yun generation. This broke the historical record of the Li Family for the number of four-inch Spiritual Roots in a single generation over the past thousand years, fully demonstrating the flourishing Aptitude of this generation's descendants.

After entering the room, Liu Yangfeng quickly took three steps forward, bowed, and said, "This subordinate greets the Mistress."