54: Chapter 54 Fear of Insufficient Firepower!

"System, convert all my balance into cultivation time, and Cultivate the 'Cangxuan Qi-Condensing Art' with all my might!!!"

Boom!!!~~~

As soon as the words fell, Chen An felt his mind shake.

The next moment, the 'Cangxuan Qi-Condensing Art' within his body began to operate at its ultimate cycle on its own. Without needing conscious control, it began to autonomously inhale the surrounding Origin Qi of heaven and earth, continuously refining it into thick Innate True Gang, which flowed through his Meridians.

His consciousness instantly detached from his Physical Body and stepped into a vast, void-like Chaos space. There was nothing around him, save for the lingering rhymes of the Dao.

Within this space, his phantom repeatedly replicated the cultivation route of the Cultivation Technique, endlessly condensing Innate True Gang, frantically compressing, settling, and tempering the surging Protective Aura within his body toward the core of his Dantian.

One hundred years...

One thousand years...

Ten thousand years...

One hundred thousand years...

Finally, after one hundred fifty-seven thousand three hundred sixty-eight years of virtual bitter cultivation, the Innate True Gang within his body, having undergone countless extreme compressions, purifications, and temperings, could no longer maintain its original form.

Rumble!!!~~

A muffled vibration suddenly erupted from the depths of his Dantian, and layers of shackles shattered in response.

The Innate True Gang, which had previously wandered through his Meridians and dissipated throughout his body, suddenly retracted, all gathering, collapsing, and condensing to the extreme at the center of his Dantian, finally transforming into a wisp of energy radiating a pale golden luster.

This wisp of pale golden energy looked unremarkable, yet it carried the Gang might and Dao rhymes condensed to the extreme.

Compared to the previous Innate True Gang, if a wisp of the former weighed over a thousand jin, then this wisp of pale golden energy weighed as much as a mountain.

Gang Essence!!!

This wisp of energy radiating a pale golden luster was the Gang Essence possessed by Great Grandmaster experts.

A single wisp of Gang Essence was comparable to the power of a hundred times the ordinary Innate True Gang.

A qualitative transformation is far beyond what can be achieved by piling up quantity.

With the birth of the first wisp of pale golden Gang Essence in his Dantian, the Innate True Gang within his body, originally as vast as the sea, was instantly and firmly drawn in, like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, surging frantically to gather toward the center of his Dantian.

Wisp after wisp of Innate True Gang was continuously assimilated, smelted, compressed, and purified by the newly born Gang Essence, shedding its mortal shell layer by layer, all transforming into clear, condensed, pale golden Gang Essence.

As time flowed quietly, it took nearly five hundred years to finally temper and condense the one hundred thousand wisps of Innate True Gang in his Dantian into one thousand wisps of pure Gang Essence.

Time turned, and in the blink of an eye, another eighteen thousand one hundred thirty-two years passed leisurely!

The pale golden Gang Essence within his Dantian slowly grew and strengthened, accumulating steadily, until it finally stabilized at the number of one thousand one hundred eighty-one wisps.

[Ding! The seventeen thousand seven hundred-year cultivation deduction time limit has been exhausted. This cultivation session has ended!]

Suddenly, a cold voice rang out in Chen An's mind, pulling him back from this mysterious state of cultivation.

Chen An slowly opened his eyes, and from the depths of his pupils, two sharp golden rays suddenly shot out, piercing in all directions, causing the originally pitch-black and quiet room to instantly rise with a layer of pale golden halo, dazzling and eye-catching, before vanishing in an instant.

Once the golden light fully retracted, Chen An slowly stretched his muscles and bones. A series of crackling sounds like roasting beans immediately rang out within his body, his Meridians and flesh having been completely marrow-cleansed and sublimated, and a majestic aura, heavy as a mountain and vast as the sea, slowly rippled outward.

The corners of his lips unconsciously curled into an arc, his eyes filled with excitement and ecstasy.

Great Grandmaster Realm!!!

Having spent over a hundred thousand years of bitter cultivation, he had finally broken through the barrier and ascended to the Great Grandmaster Realm!

What is a Great Grandmaster?!

A Great Grandmaster transcends the shackles of mortal martial arts, can tread the void, control Qi to fly, and their movement techniques are far superior to a Grandmaster. They can soar above the clouds, cross ten miles in an instant, and can even use condensed Gang Essence to cover the Void Realm, trigger the momentum of heaven and earth with a single thought, control the rise and fall of all living beings, and suppress ten thousand creatures!

Although Grandmaster and Great Grandmaster seem to be separated by only one Realm, after truly stepping into the Great Grandmaster Realm, Chen An realized that the two are fundamentally as different as clouds and mud, with a chasm-like gap between them.

Even though he had only just entered the Great Grandmaster Realm and his Foundation was not yet stable, he could clearly perceive that even if ten of his past Grandmaster Perfection selves were to attack together, they would not be able to withstand a casual strike from his current self.

As the pale golden Gang Essence circulated within his body, pressure naturally permeated his surroundings. This was a crushing of the essence of the Realm, an absolute gap in the level of martial arts that could not be made up for by quantity.

"It wasn't in vain that I went all-in!"

Feeling the one thousand one hundred eighty-one wisps of pale golden radiating Innate Gang Yuan within his body, and feeling that sense of power that could blast a mountain to pieces with a single punch, Chen An, who had initially felt a bit of heartache, suddenly felt somewhat compensated.

"Sigh, it's a pity, I'm out of money again!"

However, looking at the System balance that had returned to zero, Chen An couldn't help but sigh again.

Five hundred thousand yuan crystals!!!

It had only been two days, and he had already spent it all.

He had previously thought that with so many yuan crystals, it might even be enough for him to Cultivate into a Martial Emperor.

As it turned out, he had only barely broken through to the Great Grandmaster Realm, and his balance was already cleared.

"I must find a way to get some money!"

It is said that money is a man's courage; without enough yuan crystals on hand, a sense of inexplicable unease always lingered in Chen An's heart.

This was probably the common ailment engraved in the bones of the country from his past life—the fear of insufficient firepower!

Moreover, he had long tasted the sweetness of shortcuts.

In just a few short days, he had leaped from a bottom-tier Trash at the second level of the Qi Condensation Realm to a Great Grandmaster expert capable of flying across the sky and escaping into the earth.

With the System, who would still bury their head in bitter cultivation every day?!

However...

Where to get money?!

Sell Cultivation Techniques?!

His previous idea was to take the Cultivation Techniques he had deduced and sell them.

Those Cultivation Techniques were all deduced from incomplete ones he had bought on the black market, at least Profound Rank Medium Grade, and each one should be worth tens of thousands of yuan crystals or more.

If he sold them all, he should be able to sell them for hundreds of thousands of yuan crystals without any problem.

However, even hundreds of thousands of yuan crystals were just a drop in the bucket for him now.

He was now at the Early Stage of the Great Grandmaster Realm, with a total of one thousand one hundred eighty-one wisps of Innate Gang Yuan in his Dantian.

And according to the records of the Heaven Rank Low Grade Cultivation Technique he had deduced, to break through to the Middle Stage of the Great Grandmaster Realm, he needed to accumulate ten thousand wisps of Innate Gang Yuan.

Even subtracting the number of Gang Yuan currently in his Dantian, he was still short eight thousand eight hundred nineteen wisps of Innate Gang Yuan.

And right now, even with the help of the System, it would take him one hundred years to condense a single wisp of Innate Gang Yuan.

This meant he would have to spend eight hundred eighty-one thousand nine hundred yuan crystals to push his cultivation to the Middle Stage of the Great Grandmaster Realm.

Not to mention, the Late Stage of the Great Grandmaster Realm required forty thousand wisps of Innate Gang Yuan, and the Great Grandmaster Perfection required ninety thousand wisps of Innate Gang Yuan.

Adding it all up, a total of ninety thousand wisps of Innate Gang Yuan, when converted, turned out to be an astronomical figure of nine million yuan crystals!

Unless he was willing to take the Heaven Rank Low Grade Cultivation Technique he had just finished deducing and sell it, there would be no way to gather this huge amount of resources.

"I've got it!!!"

A figure suddenly appeared in Chen An's mind, and his eyes couldn't help but light up slightly...