209: Chapter 209 Gathering Yuan Formation! Leveling up proficiency!

In just one day,

Zhang Yang had completely absorbed an entire crate of profound stones,

and he had swallowed an unknown number of true essence pills!

Such a vast amount of heaven and earth origin qi, if given to an ordinary Zhenyuan Realm Martial Artist,

would take two years to fully absorb.

Yet, with the support of the Yuan Python Devouring Star Technique, the Star Vortex Qi Gathering Technique, and his simplified Cultivation Techniques,

Zhang Yang completely refined all that heaven and earth origin qi in a single day!

His cultivation naturally rose like a boat on a rising tide, reaching the Late Stage of the Zhenyuan Realm!

He truly treated Medicinal Pills like jellybeans.

Ordinary Martial Artists did not have Zhang Yang's advantages;

without relying on Medicinal Pills, trying to advance from the Early Stage to the Late Stage of the Zhenyuan Realm

would require decades of bitter cultivation, slowly absorbing heaven and earth origin qi at a speed that was outrageously slow.

"Controlling the emperor was indeed the right move! In this Great Yu Dynasty, there's likely no one who can collect resources more easily than the emperor!"

Zhang Yang was quite satisfied. Although the strongest person within the Great Yu Dynasty was only at the Ningdan Realm,

compared to a Sect, an Imperial Dynasty's efficiency in collecting resources was undoubtedly higher.

By the end of this day,

Zhang Yang's Zhenyuan Realm Cultivation Technique had already been cultivated to the state of Perfection!

While reaching Perfection increased the speed of absorbing heaven and earth origin qi somewhat,

compared to Zhang Yang's Star Vortex Qi Gathering Technique and Yuan Python Devouring Star Technique,

that slight increase was not even worth mentioning.

"I should be able to Breakthrough to the Ningdan Realm in three days!"

Zhang Yang looked at the remaining pills in the crate and made an estimate.

At his current pace, in about three days, his cultivation would Breakthrough to the Ningdan Realm!

His subsequent cultivation speed would depend on how fast Emperor Dayu could provide resources.

Speak of the devil.

At that moment, Emperor Dayu entered the small courtyard with two people,

and the two behind him were carrying two large crates.

After dismissing the two followers, Emperor Dayu approached Zhang Yang and bowed, saying:

"My Lord, here are the Medicinal Pills and profound stones you requested, and in the other are the materials on Formations you wanted."

Zhang Yang walked to the two large crates, opened them, and nodded slightly.

"Well done. Did you encounter any trouble?"

Zhang Yang asked. Even though he was the emperor of the Great Yu Dynasty,

he likely couldn't recklessly take massive amounts of resources out of the imperial palace.

Emperor Dayu nodded and said, "There is indeed some trouble. Two Old Ancestors have already started to notice this situation."

"I'm afraid if I take out more large quantities of resources later, they will question or even tail me."

Zhang Yang's expression remained calm upon hearing this; he didn't take the Old Ancestors of the Great Yu Dynasty to heart.

"What are their cultivation levels?" Zhang Yang inquired.

"The same as mine, both are at the Peak of the Ningdan Realm. In terms of combat power, they are slightly stronger than me, but not by much."

Zhang Yang nodded slightly. If they were at the Peak of the Ningdan Realm, there was no need to worry!

"Fine. Don't come here for the time being; just act as usual."

"Come back in seven days!" Zhang Yang commanded.

Emperor Dayu nodded, turned to leave, and took the two men he had brought with him.

After Emperor Dayu left,

Zhang Yang looked at the two large crates and nodded slightly. It seemed it was time to step onto the stage!

Seven days. Within these seven days,

he wanted to raise his combat power to a level that could crush the Peak of the Ningdan Realm!

For Zhang Yang, this wasn't difficult.

Zhang Yang returned to his room, took out the crate containing the pills, and began to Cultivate!

Simultaneously, he studied the Formation materials in the other crate.

Since Zhang Yang only needed to breathe to Cultivate his techniques, his cultivation was fully automatic,

requiring no effort from him, allowing him to focus his remaining energy on Formations.

After finishing all the materials on Formations, Zhang Yang nodded slightly,

then entered them all into the System panel and completed the simplification.

Zhang Yang checked the simplification conditions, and they were very simple;

the simplification condition for any Formation was to set one up.

Any Formation would do; as long as he successfully set one up, his proficiency would increase.

Zhang Yang chose the simplest Formation and began practicing.

Zhang Yang first completed most of the setup for a Formation, leaving only the final formation eye.

Then, he took a profound stone, placed it into the formation eye,

and infused it with true essence. The Formation was successfully set up.

An instant later,

he removed the profound stone and repeated the previous step!

He began grinding his proficiency!

In one day,

Zhang Yang ground his proficiency for every Formation collected by the Great Yu Dynasty to Perfection!

Zhang Yang stopped setting up Formations; it was time to start creating a new one.

Another day passed, and Zhang Yang had already created a new Formation.

He named it the Juyuan Formation.

Its effect was also very simple: it could rapidly extract the Origin Qi from the profound stones within the Formation,

heavily draw in Origin Qi from the outside, and firmly lock all that Origin Qi within the Formation.

This allowed for the artificial creation of a high-Origin Qi environment.

Furthermore, the larger this Juyuan Formation was set up, the stronger the effect!

However, the larger it was, the higher the consumption, and the Peak efficiency would be somewhat limited.

But it didn't matter to Zhang Yang; after all, it was just a newly created Formation.

Once he gained an understanding of this world's Laws of heaven and earth, he could just refine it again.

"It's also time to Breakthrough to the Ningdan Realm!" Zhang Yang muttered to himself.

After these two days of cultivation, Zhang Yang's cultivation had already reached the Peak of the Zhenyuan Realm!

He could Breakthrough to the Ningdan Realm at any time!

"I'll just test the effect of my Juyuan Formation!"

With that, Zhang Yang casually set up a Juyuan Formation in the small courtyard.

Instantly,

within the courtyard, the Origin Qi in the profound stones inside the crates was pulled out by an invisible force,

and then firmly locked within the courtyard by the power of the Formation.

Outside the courtyard, the stray heaven and earth origin qi in the atmosphere also seemed to be attracted,

drawn in by the power of the Formation!

The range wasn't large, only extending a few dozen meters outside the courtyard.

Zhang Yang sat at one of the formation eyes,

and a continuous stream of heaven and earth origin qi was channeled around him as the Formation operated.

As Zhang Yang breathed, he absorbed a massive amount of heaven and earth origin qi.

With a thought, he began his Breakthrough to the Ningdan Realm.

Breaking through to the Ningdan Realm in this world was also very simple, not much different from the Xuanhuang World.

The only difference was that the Xuanhuang World condensed a Profound Core, while this world condensed a Martial Dao Golden Core.

In the Xuanhuang World, condensing a Profound Core was a qualitative change, but in this world, it was not quite the same.

Although it was a qualitative change, it wasn't as thorough.

Only when one truly reached the Bao Dan Realm was it a true qualitative change!

Later, breaking through to Martial Saint would be another qualitative change!

After condensing the Martial Dao Golden Core,

a Martial Artist would be able to fly and possess a spontaneous protective qi shield.

In Zhang Yang's eyes at this moment, breaking through to the Ningdan Realm naturally presented no difficulty.

In the time it took for two sticks of incense to burn, he had already broken through to the Ningdan Realm.

At his Dantian, a glittering Martial Dao Golden Core appeared,

and even more pure and thick true essence flowed out from the Martial Dao Golden Core,

circulating through his extraordinary meridians and eight vessels!

It began to strengthen Zhang Yang's body after the Breakthrough!

Zhang Yang took several Medicinal Pills from the crate and swallowed them in one gulp.

After another incense stick's worth of time, his body's strengthening was complete.