Chapter 32: Chapter 312: Five Elements Escape Technique

By using Five Elements Magical Power to reach the Qi Cultivation Limit and then achieving Foundation Establishment, one could comprehend a Talent Divine Technique, much like with Dao Listening Foundation Establishment. However, this specific technique would always be the Five Elements Escape Technique.

After mastering the Five Elements Escape Technique, one could travel freely through the five elements and completely ignore ordinary Magic Arrays. Cultivating Five Elements Techniques would also become exceptionally easy, as if one had a natural talent for them.

For Yang Jing to reach the Qi Cultivation Limit, he needed to use the Five Elements Gang Sha—Red Fire, Profound Water, Cyan Wood, Yellow Earth, and Platinum—to condense a Five Elements Wheel within his Dantian. By using this Five Elements Wheel to refine Spiritual Qi, his Magical Power would become comparable to that of a Foundation Establishment Stage cultivator. Only then could he reach the true limit of his power.

Condensing the Five Elements Wheel was easier said than done. The power of the Five Elements Gang Sha surpassed even the Magical Power of an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator. Even when refining it slowly, the strain on the physical body was immense. If one’s physical body wasn’t strong enough, it would simply be destroyed by the impact of the Gang Sha.

Furthermore, smelting the Five Elements Wheel was similar to Alchemy or Artifact Refining, requiring extremely precise technique. With the slightest mistake, if you were lucky, only the Five Elements Wheel would be destroyed. If you were unlucky, your Dantian would explode, leaving you a cripple.

Only players who could endlessly resurrect would have been able to throw themselves at the problem one after another, eventually discovering such an unorthodox path.

Yang Jing slowly exhaled. Even in the Nine Heavens World of his past life, only the top players had ever succeeded in achieving this ultimate form of Foundation Establishment. He decided, ’If I can gather all five Five Elements Gang Sha before reaching Qi Cultivation Perfection, I’ll attempt it. If not, I’ll just go with a normal Foundation Establishment.’

After carefully storing the two types of Gang Sha, Yang Jing continued to use the Five Elements Wheel to refine Spiritual Qi. He circulated it for one full cycle, then took a Muscle Strengthening Pill, a Golden Skin Pill, and a Jade Bone Pill in succession to temper his physical body.

Meeting the physical requirements for condensing the Five Elements Wheel was no simple task, but his True Yang Body happened to be perfectly suited for it, especially since he had cultivated the Celestial True Yang.

With a sense that time waits for no one, Yang Jing spent the next three months in seclusion. Aside from trading Muscle Strengthening Pills with Wang Tong, the shopkeeper of the Celestial Treasure Tower, for Spirit Medicine, he remained holed up in his Cave Mansion, cultivating.

With an abundance of resources, his progress was remarkable. He had already cultivated back to the Qi Cultivation Third Layer and had even opened seven Acupoints. He had completely mastered Iron Head’s Talent Ming Qi and had grasped sixty percent of the Cloud Riding Talent.

If he could, he would have loved to continue cultivating with his head down until the Five Elements True Spirit Sect’s entrance selection. Unfortunately, that was still three years away, and the Chen Kingdom’s Autumn Defense was about to begin. All cultivators in San Yuanli were on the conscription list.

Anyone who fled to evade conscription out of fear of the Demons would be placed on a joint wanted list by the five major sects, leaving them with no place to stand in the vast Western Continent.

Yang Jing, of course, wouldn’t do something so foolish. The Autumn Defense only required being stationed in the military towns and small cities of the Chen Kingdom for three months. The chances of actually fighting Demons were not high, and as he was now, ordinary Demons were no match for him anyway.

However, he wasn’t one to be careless or unprepared. He selected the highest-quality Demon Fish Scales he had accumulated from fishing and sent them to the Celestial Craft Workshop in Huangyuan Marketplace to have a suit of Scale Armor custom-made.

Demons possessed extremely strong close-quarters combat abilities, so cultivators in the Western Province, who had fought them for years, had made wearing armor popular. Armor made from Demon Fish Scale plates was especially sought-after, as it was both lightweight and durable.

Three months passed. The uproar caused by Qiu Feihua’s death had subsided, and now, cultivators in the Marketplace hurried to and fro, all preparing for the Autumn Defense. The prices of Magical Artifacts hadn’t fluctuated much, but the cost of consumables like Elixirs and Talismans had risen slightly.

At this time, there were few customers at the Celestial Craft Workshop. No one would wait until right before the Autumn Defense to purchase a Magical Artifact. Imprinting it with one’s Divine Sense and familiarizing oneself with it both took time. Furthermore, given the Chen Kingdom’s strategic position bordering the Demon Country, the first thing local cultivators usually did after saving enough Spirit Stones was purchase a Magical Artifact.

Upon seeing the Jade Talisman from Yang Jing’s order, a cultivator at the Celestial Craft Workshop brought out the finished Armor.

The Armor was a simple Two-Tier Armor style, with an Inner Lining made of tanned Demon Bull hide. Each individual scale was engraved with Array Patterns that combined to form a Restriction called the Green Light Fish Scale Array. When activated, it could manifest as a barrier of light enveloping the wearer’s entire body. On top of that, the treated Demon Fish Scales were extremely sturdy on their own, capable of resisting the bites and claws of Demons.

Yang Jing placed the Fish Scale Armor into his Storage Bag and turned to enter the Celestial Treasure Tower.

Inside a private tea room, Yang Jing took out a bottle of Muscle Strengthening Pills and placed it on the table. A joyful expression on his face, Wang Tong took the pills and handed Yang Jing the Spirit Medicine he needed for alchemy.

Yang Jing had started supplying him with Muscle Strengthening Pills a month ago.

Although the profit from Muscle Strengthening Pills was not as high as that from Bone Marrow Transformation Pills, it was still substantial. As Wang Tong was making a killing, he was very generous in providing the Spirit Medicine, even lowering the price further. The quantity of Spirit Medicine in this particular transaction was large, as it would be inconvenient for Yang Jing to return to the Marketplace during the Autumn Defense.

“Brother Wang, is there any news on the Spirit Medicine needed for the Transformation Pill?”

Yang Jing asked after taking a sip of Spirit Tea. After successfully refining the Muscle Strengthening Pill, he had asked to purchase the necessary Spirit Medicine for the Transformation Pill from Wang Tong, using practice as an excuse. Although Wang Tong had tried to dissuade him, he hadn’t dared to flat-out refuse an alchemist capable of creating Muscle Strengthening Pills.

“There are still a few types of Spirit Medicine I haven’t been able to gather. I expect we’ll have to wait until after the Autumn Defense is over.”

The two exchanged a few pleasantries, after which Wang Tong asked about Yang Jing’s progress on the Bone Marrow Transformation Pill. Yang Jing’s reply, naturally, was that he was on the verge of a breakthrough and almost had it.

Wang Tong didn’t doubt him. In his eyes, the speed at which Yang Jing mastered Pill Formulas was already astonishing.

“I need to get a new Pill Furnace,” Yang Jing said. “The Profound Gold Tripod is too strained when refining Tier One Upper Grade Spirit Pills. If I switch to an Upper Grade Pill Furnace, I might finally be able to succeed with the Bone Marrow Transformation Pill.”

He was actually preparing to refine the Transformation Pill. Using the Profound Gold Tripod for Tier One Upper Grade elixirs was already pushing its limits. If he tried to refine a Tier Two Transformation Pill with it, failing to form a pill would be a minor issue; the furnace itself might just explode.

“That’s a small matter.” Wang Tong summoned a Maid, who brought over a Copper Furnace.

This Pill Furnace stood half a man tall and was exquisitely crafted. Its shimmering golden body was covered in engraved Restrictions, and nine Flying Crane patterns encircled its walls.

“This is the Nine Cranes Furnace. If the Artifact Refiner hadn’t made a mistake while forging it, it would have been a Tier Two Pill Furnace. As it is, it only came out as Tier One Upper Grade, but it’s the absolute cream of the crop for its tier. One thousand two hundred Spirit Stones. Any lower and I won’t be able to balance my books,” Wang Tong said.

After this Pill Furnace had entered the Celestial Treasure Tower’s inner vault, he had set it aside and never offered it for public sale. He had been saving it to support one of his subordinate alchemists, hoping one would finally make him proud by successfully refining a Bone Marrow Transformation Pill.

Back in his Cave Mansion, Yang Jing focused on his cultivation, hoping to break through the bottleneck and advance to the Fourth Layer of Qi Cultivation as soon as possible. After reaching the Fourth Layer, a cultivator could release their Divine Sense to control Magical Artifacts from a distance, greatly increasing their combat power.

Ordinary Magical Artifacts were of little use to Yang Jing, but a Flying Sword was another matter entirely. For him, reaching the realm of Refining Sword into Gang was simply a matter of accumulating enough Spirit Stones. Once he succeeded, never mind cultivators from families—even most cultivators from the Six Great Sects would be no match for him.

A Voice Transmission Talisman flew in from outside his protective array. It was from Village Chief Li Yuanqing, informing him that the Autumn Defense was imminent and that he should not leave San Yuanli in the coming days. The official conscription order could arrive at any moment.

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