545: Chapter 545 Earth Immortal

After Peach Blossom gave birth to Yuanzun, her entire body was enveloped in a cyan mist, and her aura became increasingly terrifying.

"Husband!"

"My Bloodline has reached the 5th-grade limit; I was almost able to Breakthrough to the 6th grade!"

Peach Blossom was completely immersed in the joy of her Bloodline enhancement, not even paying attention to her newborn child.

"5th-grade top-tier Bloodline! I feel like I can start the Breakthrough immediately!"

Fortunately, she had mentally prepared herself, so she forcibly suppressed the urge to Breakthrough. Because there was no 5th-grade Spiritual Vein, the Spirit Stones she had gathered were barely enough, and she lacked sufficient protection for the Dao, so now was not the best time for a Breakthrough.

After calming down for a while, she looked at her son, Liu Yuanzun, and took his hand to examine him.

A Bloodline that exceeded the grade of her own cognition!

It was even higher than Tong Xiao's, at least 7th grade. She could not tell if it was 7th-grade High Grade, Middle Grade, or Low Grade.

This kind of Bloodline should not have appeared in the Cangwu Realm Cultivation World. Peach Blossom looked at her son, then at her husband, Liu Xuan, truly unable to understand how someone with a Bloodline of his level had fallen to such a state.

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Yin Sha Hall.

Thunder Pool.

Entrusting his son to Peach Blossom's care, Liu Xuan impatiently came here to claim his reward.

'6th-grade Low Grade Immortal Artifact, I must see what this is all about!'

With a thought, a small cyan tripod appeared in Liu Xuan's hand.

[Withered-Prosperous Life-Death Tripod: 6th-grade Low Grade Immortal Artifact, an auxiliary Immortal Artifact. It contains a space that can plant any Spirit Medicine below the 6th grade. Regardless of the harsh conditions required by the Spirit Medicine, it can grow normally. Furthermore, it can absorb the vitality of heaven and earth to ripen Spirit Medicine, with the speed determined by the vitality contained and the grade of the Spirit Medicine being ripened.]

[Contains the Law of Life and Death. It can forcibly deprive others of their Lifespan at the cost of consuming the vitality accumulated within the tripod; those below the Void Refining Realm cannot resist it.]

"Holy crap!"

"Is this an Immortal Artifact? It's excessively powerful!"

Judging from the information transmitted by the System to his Divine Soul, the main function of the Withered-Prosperous Life-Death Tripod was to ripen Spirit Medicine; depriving others of their Lifespan was merely an incidental effect.

However, for Liu Xuan, ripening Spirit Medicine was of little use to him for the time being, but this incidental effect of forcibly depriving others of their Lifespan was very promising.

'Those below the Void Refining Realm cannot resist it. As long as there is enough vitality accumulated in the tripod, wouldn't I be able to instantly kill any Spirit Transformation Cultivator?!'

The more Liu Xuan thought about it, the more excited he became. He hurriedly sank his Divine Sense into the tripod to see if he could drive it.

As his vision shifted, a small space appeared in his Divine Sense perception. The space was not large, only about a hundred meters in radius, enveloped in cyan and yellow Qi, with wisps of black and white lines extending into the Void Realm.

Following these black and white lines, Liu Xuan could vaguely see a circular, colorful ball of light.

"This light ball... is it alive?!"

An absurd thought arose in Liu Xuan's heart. The colorful light ball in his vision represented the world will of the Cangwu Realm, and the Withered-Prosperous Life-Death Tripod was directly absorbing vitality from 'it'.

"Hallucination!"

"It must be a hallucination!"

Liu Xuan stopped thinking about it and tried to manipulate the Withered-Prosperous Life-Death Tripod, only to find that he could only simply use two functions for the time being.

First, to plant Spirit Medicine in the tripod and manipulate the cyan and yellow Withered-Prosperous Qi to ripen it or convert it into vitality.

Second, to unleash a strand of black and white Life-Death Qi, consuming the vitality in the tripod to deprive others of their Lifespan.

Whether ripening Spirit Medicine or depriving others of their Lifespan, it required consuming the vitality within the tripod.

Currently, there were only two ways to increase the amount of vitality in the tripod: one was natural growth over time, and the other was devouring Spirit Medicine and spirit plants.

Withdrawing his Divine Sense from the Withered-Prosperous Life-Death Tripod, a wisp of black and white Qi lingered between Liu Xuan's fingers.

"As expected! An Immortal Artifact is not something I can fully master right now; I can only borrow a sliver of its power."

Liu Xuan made a rough estimate. With the Life-Death Qi he mastered now, he could deprive a Golden Core Cultivator of at most a hundred years of Lifespan at a time, a Nascent Soul Cultivator of ten years, and a Spirit Transformation Cultivator of one year.

This was just a rough estimate; the specific effect would fluctuate to a certain extent depending on the opponent's Realm.

Although each use consumed vitality from the tripod without consuming any more magic power or Divine Soul, and theoretically he could kill a Spirit Transformation Cultivator as long as there was enough vitality in the tripod, each casting required time. Unless the Spirit Transformation Cultivator stood there motionless and let him hit them, or the opponent only had one year of Lifespan left, it was difficult to cause much damage to a Spirit Transformation Cultivator.

"It's enough!"

"Once I become a Nascent Soul True Lord, the amount of Life-Death Qi I can use at one time will definitely increase significantly."

"I just need to accumulate enough vitality. Even if I can't kill a Spirit Transformation Dao Lord, I can at least give them a scare!"

Putting the Withered-Prosperous Life-Death Tripod into the depths of his Sea of Consciousness, Liu Xuan looked at the other reward, Earth Immortal Spiritual Qi.

[Earth Immortal Spiritual Qi: A necessary item for breaking through from Spirit Transformation to Void Refining. Cultivators in the Lower Realm need to undergo Ascension to break through to Void Refining, and the purpose is to obtain a wisp of Earth Immortal Spiritual Qi.]

Void Refining, Body Integration, Mahayana, and Undergoing Tribulation are collectively referred to as the Earth Immortal Realm in the Lower Realm.

A Lower Realm like the Cangwu Realm cannot nurture Void Refining Cultivators, so they need to ascend to a higher Earth Immortal Realm.

"With this wisp of Earth Immortal Spiritual Qi, does that mean I can break through to the Void Refining Realm without ascending?"

It is not good if the rewards obtained are too Advanced. Liu Xuan found that this thing could not be used at all right now.

How exactly to use it?

Are there other uses?

Liu Xuan knew nothing about it and could only know some simple information through the System description.

Not only could he not use it, but he also had to hide it well. Once those Late Stage Spirit Transformation big shots found out, they would definitely go crazy.

The avici karmic fire mirror and the nine heavens thunder source bead were things Liu Xuan dared to reveal to people he trusted, but he dared not expose the Withered-Prosperous Life-Death Tripod and the Earth Immortal Spiritual Qi at all.

The next day.

Liu Xuan collected various Spirit Medicines and spirit plants through the Merchant Alliance. Considering price, scarcity, and the amount of vitality contained, he selected the best ones to purchase in bulk, which were used to quickly increase the vitality of the Withered-Prosperous Life-Death Tripod.

The more vitality there was in the Withered-Prosperous Life-Death Tripod, the more at ease Liu Xuan felt. This was his most direct and effective means of dealing with Spirit Transformation Dao Lords at present.

Although it had obvious flaws and might not necessarily be used, the Withered-Prosperous vitality could also ripen Spirit Medicine. Exchanging low-value Spirit Medicine for vitality to ripen scarce, high-value Spirit Medicine was a good deal no matter how you calculated it.

Liu Manor.

Pill Refining Tower.

Liu Xuan ordered the construction of a special Spirit Medicine warehouse under the pretext of supplying Alchemy, specifically to store the types of Spirit Medicine purchased by the Merchant Alliance. Once a certain quantity was reached, it would be taken away by him using a space ring, and then he would take the space ring to the Yin Sha space to transfer the Spirit Medicine to the Withered-Prosperous Life-Death Tripod.

A few days later, the Withered-Prosperous vitality in the tripod had increased significantly, and the originally thin cyan and yellow mist had become slightly thicker.

By the side of the Thunder Pool, a Foundation Establishment pig demon lay on the ground, shivering. The yin fiend above its head and the thunder beside it pressed down on it so that it could not move.

Liu Xuan wore a loose black Daoist robe, his hair disheveled, and he raised his hand to unleash a strand of black and white intertwined Life-Death Qi.

It caused no disturbance. The aura on the pig demon gradually weakened, and its fur shriveled, wrinkled, and collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning into a withered, old corpse with skin clinging to bones.