RNP Chapter 244 The Power of Crystal Marrow, Star Moon Origin Liquid
Chapter 244 The Power of Crystal Marrow, Star Moon Origin Liquid
Chapter 244 The Power of Crystal Marrow, Star Moon Origin Liquid
The next moment, Chen Yi moved slightly, and the thunder-patterned lotus flower under his feet suddenly bloomed and then disappeared in an instant, and his whole body transformed into a purple lightning shadow that was condensed to the extreme.
Its speed was so fast that it almost broke through the third-tier limit, and its trajectory was even more unpredictable and treacherous, seemingly ignoring spatial distance, leaving only a faint purple afterimage in place.
It had already traversed several miles of void and suddenly appeared a few feet in front of the bear demon, who was as burly as a small mountain.
"Tier 3 Top-Tier Body Refinement?!"
Elder Kumamoto's pupils shrank abruptly. The thought had just exploded in his mind, and before he could even mobilize his demonic power to reinforce his defenses, Chen Yi had already made his move.
boom!
A crystal marrow, glowing with a pale purple-gold light, hurtled towards the bear demon's body like a cannonball, accompanied by a sharp whistling sound that tore through space.
The lightning spirit power, approaching the fourth rank, erupted without reservation.
Elder Kumamoto's proud, top-tier third-tier defense, combined human and bear body was instantly breached like paper.
The violent yet condensed power of the Thunder Crystal Marrow drilled into the bear's body, like red-hot refined iron embedding itself into flesh and blood, advancing unimpeded for over ten feet, penetrating directly through layers of muscle and bone, precisely reaching the bear demon's vital organs.
It then burst out of his body from his shoulder, bringing with it a cloud of scalding blood mist.
Under this attack, the seemingly invincible human-bear hybrid demon was severely injured. Its massive body suddenly froze in mid-air, and its demonic energy instantly became chaotic.
If Chen Yi hadn't cherished the preciousness of this Thunder Crystal Marrow and been unwilling to waste it, he could have simply activated it to explode within the opponent's body, and this attack would have been enough to take his life on the spot.
"ah--"
A mournful howl echoed through the valley as the bear demon's massive body plummeted from the sky like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily to the ground and raising clouds of dust.
Elder Kumamoto, enduring excruciating pain as if his internal organs were being torn apart, roared in a mixture of shock and rage:
"Crystal Marrow Power! The threshold for fourth-tier body cultivation! How could you, a mere mid-stage Core Formation cultivator, possibly possess that?!"
Chen Yi did not respond. His figure transformed into a streak of interwoven starlight and lightning, drawing a strange arc in the air and instantly closing in on the falling Elder Kumamoto.
Elder Kumamoto looked up and saw that Chen Yi had a Thunder Crystal Marrow in each hand. As the pale purple-gold light flowed, the terrifying energy fluctuations, which were close to the fourth level, made his soul tremble.
Elder Kumamoto was filled with endless regret and fear, yet his pupils burned with a near-destructive madness, and his roar carried a desperate, all-or-nothing resolve:
"You're just a quasi-fourth-tier body refiner! I'll destroy your soul and take you down with me!"
Before the roar had even faded, he suddenly exerted force with both hands, his knuckles turning white from the force, and he shattered the two near-fourth-tier snake tail scales that were glowing with dark purple spiritual light on the spot!
buzzing-
A piercing low-frequency vibration exploded instantly, and countless rattlesounds carrying the impact of the soul spread out from the bear's paws.
Like an invisible sonic blade, it swept towards Chen Yi and himself indiscriminately, regardless of friend or foe.
A warm, jade-like light suddenly shone from between Elder Kumamoto's brows. It was the soul-protecting jade he kept close to his body. But the moment the jade light touched the Soul-Suppressing Sound, it exploded with a bang.
As the fragments flew, dark red blood gushed from his mouth and nose, and his face turned deathly pale, clearly indicating that his soul had been severely damaged.
But he laughed heartily, oblivious to everything else, his laughter filled with the relief of surviving a close call.
He didn't die after all!
These two snake tail scales were originally Black Serpent True Lord's true trump card, specifically instructed to be used at the last moment:
If detonated at close range, the released soul-suppressing sound is enough to annihilate the souls of cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage, leaving no survivors.
In his view, Chen Yi was merely a mid-stage Core Formation cultivator who primarily focused on physical cultivation, so his spiritual sense was bound to be a weakness, and he was certain to die this time.
He shouted that he wanted to die together with his opponent, but in reality, he had already prepared a backup plan, only wanting to use a soul attack to kill his opponent completely.
However, when Elder Kumamoto, despite the excruciating pain in his soul, managed to release a faint wisp of his divine sense to investigate Chen Yi's condition, he was struck dumb as if by lightning.
Chen Yi remained suspended in mid-air. Although he did not activate any magic power, his white robes moved without wind, exuding a sense of composure as they fluttered.
A faint, ambiguous smile played on his lips as he calmly looked at Elder Kumamoto, who was sprawled on the ground.
In front of his brow, a dozen or so pale gray shields of divine consciousness floated, layer upon layer, almost tangible.
Those dozens of near-fourth-tier snake-tail soul-suppressing sounds failed to even break through the outermost three layers of divine sense shields before their energy was exhausted and they vanished without a trace.
When Elder Kumamoto's weak divine consciousness inadvertently touched a wisp of power emanating from the edge of the gray divine consciousness shield,
He trembled violently, his heart filled with turmoil, and his face instantly turned from deathly pale to ashen!
"How is this possible with a Nascent Soul level divine sense?!"
"Mid-stage Core Formation, third-tier Spirit Chef, yet simultaneously possessing near-fourth-tier Body Refinement and Nascent Soul Divine Sense?!"
"Even the top geniuses of Zhongzhou, whose lineages have lasted for thousands of years, could never achieve this!!"
A horrified roar caught in his throat. In Elder Kumamoto's wide eyes, two beams of lightning crystal marrow, shimmering with a pale purple-gold light, were reflected.
With a slight twitch of his fingertips, Chen Yi sent out two crystal marrows, each imbued with the energy of a fourth-order lightning spirit, like two bolts of lightning. One struck his head precisely, while the other slammed into his heart.
The moment the power of lightning erupted, the astonishment in Elder Kumamoto's eyes gradually faded, replaced by a relieved, bitter smile. He murmured weakly:
"My Eagle Ridge Mountain has actually provoked such a terrifying genius. I, Old Bear, will not be unjustly killed by you."
Before his death, a final thought flashed through Elder Kumamoto's cloudy eyes. As this thought dissipated, the resentment of death that had been building up in his heart receded like a tide, and his entire soul turned into specks of light, completely dissipating into the world.
In this way, even if a Nascent Soul expert from the outside world follows the aura to investigate, they will not be able to find the final truth from the fragments of the remnant soul.
This is precisely why Chen Yi waited until the other party had exhausted all their methods.
He deliberately made sure that Elder Kumamoto witnessed firsthand that his proud soul-killing technique had failed before finally taking action to end his life.
Dispersing their resentment and helping their lingering soul return to the cycle of reincarnation can be considered as ending the karmic entanglements of this life.
A faint golden light appeared in Chen Yi's eyes as his Insightful Eye quietly activated.
He clearly saw that the part of the causal and wish-fulfilling power that originally belonged to Elder Kumamoto of Eagle Ridge Mountain and was tightly bound to him was rapidly dissipating at a speed visible to the naked eye.
At the same time, the causal connection between the Eagle Ridge Mountain forces and himself instantly dimmed to the extreme. Unless one deliberately used great supernatural powers to investigate, it would be almost impossible to find any trace of it at the causal level.
Once the causal lines have completely smoothed out,
Chen Yi raised his hand and beckoned to the Treasure-Seeking Rat and the Crimson Soul Sparrow not far away, signaling them to come and clean up the battlefield.
At this moment, Elder Kumamoto's human body and the bear demon's body had separated, and the state of man and bear being one was no longer maintained.
That bear demon was a late-stage third-tier Earth Fire Fiend Bear, whose body contained a trace of pure Earth Fiend Fire Qi, which was of great benefit to the Treasure-Seeking Rat who cultivated fire-attribute techniques.
The carcass of the Red Eagle had already been consumed by the Crimson Soul Sparrow, so Chen Yi decided to leave the flesh and blood of the Earth Fire Fiend Bear as a reward for the treasure-hunting rat that came bounding over.
As for the demon core condensed inside the bear demon's body, Chen Yi casually put it away and kept it for the time being.
These late-stage third-tier demon cores are quite valuable; their specific uses can be planned for later.
Then, Chen Yi took out the storage bag left behind by Elder Kumamoto, and a wisp of spiritual power emanated from his fingertips as he quickly examined the items inside.
Any object bearing the Eagle Ridge Mountain mark or that could be used for location tracking was immediately refined with his spiritual power, completely erasing its aura and trace of existence.
The remaining manuals on beast taming techniques, scrolls on the secret methods of human-beast fusion, and several bottles of elixirs and other practical items were all stored in his storage space.
It is worth mentioning that Elder Kumamoto has already reached the peak of the Core Formation stage and has been determined to break through to the Nascent Soul stage for many years.
In his storage bag, he had already accumulated most of the materials needed to refine the Nascent Soul Pill.
Apart from the fact that the core ingredient of Huaying Dan, Huaying Guo, has not yet been found, and that two other extremely precious auxiliary ingredients are still missing, almost all the other common auxiliary ingredients required have been collected.
Chen Yi put all the materials in the storage bag into his pocket, a faint smile playing on his lips: "This saves me a lot of trouble collecting materials."
While searching, he discovered that the storage bag contained mostly various materials for cultivating monsters.
With a slight movement of spiritual energy at his fingertips, Chen Yi sorted the materials into categories, quickly grasping their contents after a brief count.
With just a few more missing auxiliary materials, it is enough to refine more than ten bottles of Grade 3 superior beast pills.
In this way, the beast pellets needed by the two spirit pets, the Treasure-Seeking Rat and the Crimson Soul Sparrow, for the next ten years or so will be secured.
Adding the corpses of the Earthfire Fiend Bear and the Red Eagle, Chen Yi secretly estimated that the speed at which these two spirit pets advanced to the late stage of the third rank would probably be a few times faster than his own breakthrough to the late stage of the Golden Core realm.
After all, he mainly focuses on body refinement and soul cultivation, and his magical power cultivation can only maintain the progress of an ordinary Golden Core genius, which is far less rapid than that of spirit pets that have a lot of resources to continuously replenish them.
The most crucial step in cleaning up the scene was for Chen Yi to activate his Insightful Eye and simultaneously unleash his ability to perceive the world around him.
Then he mobilized all the power of the illusion array, precisely targeting it to erase the traces of his battle with Elder Kumamoto.
This ability to precisely manipulate energy and erase traces within the natural environment is something that only Chen Yi, who possesses both the ability to perceive the spirit world and the capacity to command two spirit pets and multiple puppets, could do.
Even if other cultivators reach the Nascent Soul stage, it would be difficult for them to do so.
Finally, Chen Yi deliberately preserved only some traces of his battle with the Red Eagle Elder, then put away the puppet and the Treasure-Seeking Rat, leaving only the Crimson Soul Sparrow.
He walked to the edge of the grass, picked up the unconscious Yue Qingqiu, turned around and sat on the broad back of the Crimson Soul Sparrow, flying towards the Star Moon Sect.
This battle marked Chen Yi's first demonstration of the practical power of the Thunder Crystal Marrow.
Judging solely from the level of energy condensation, the power of the Thunder Crystal Marrow has already exceeded the third tier. Even when facing Elder Kumamoto, whose defense has reached the peak of the third tier after merging with the bear, it can easily crush him in terms of physical attacks.
A resolute glint flashed in Chen Yi's eyes:
"This is my first step towards the fourth level of body refinement."
Simultaneously,
He recalled the moment he used the Thunder Crystal Marrow to attack, and a strange intuition welled up in his heart.
He seems to be able to use the Thunder Crystal Marrow as a medium to mobilize the power of the Thunder Spirits that are free in the world to launch an attack.
This ability was not something he deliberately cultivated; rather, it was more like an instinct that naturally arose from his first resonance with a certain special rule of heaven and earth after he reached the threshold of the fourth-order body refinement.
He couldn't help but recall the scene from decades ago: the Nascent Soul Grandmaster, the Mountain-Shaking True Monarch, stood above the sky, throwing several punches from above, drawing upon the power of heaven and earth to completely crush the Demonic Sect's Profound Yin True Monarch.
That kind of imposing aura and the method of power circulation—this is the direction Chen Yi should pursue on his subsequent path of body refinement.
"Overall, this battle has achieved its goal of testing our cultivation and reviewing our combat skills, and the gains have been quite substantial."
Chen Yi pondered to himself,
"It's a bit of a pity that when I first used the Xuan Tian aura to control the power of cause and effect, the backlash on my life energy was far greater than expected."
After returning, it will take at least a year to recover the essence of life. During this period, the intensity of cultivation must be reduced, and one must not participate in life-or-death battles for several years.
Moreover, before completely absorbing and controlling that wisp of Xuan Tian Qi within ten years, it must not be used again to alter the causal energy of heaven and earth, lest it suffer a backlash once more.
As he began to formulate his plans, the Crimson Soul Sparrow had already carried him thousands of miles away.
Chen Yi then turned his gaze to Yue Qingqiu in his arms.
Her eyelashes were long and delicate, a few strands of her hair fell across her cheeks, her complexion remained rosy, and her red lips seemed to have a moist sheen.
Her body nestled in my arms, soft and fragrant to the touch, her slender waist and long, straight legs outlining a captivating curve.
However, her brows furrowed slightly from time to time, clearly indicating that she was still enduring considerable pain.
Chen Yi then realized that the wisp of divine consciousness he had previously injected into her soul was merely the Five Elements Green Wood Divine Consciousness split from his gray divine consciousness.
Not only is the quality only at the late stage of the third tier, but the quantity is also quite limited. It seems that the time to block the snake tail's soul-shaking sound has already passed.
After a moment's thought, Chen Yi condensed a wisp of pale green divine consciousness at his fingertips and gently touched Yue Qingqiu's brow.
The gentle divine sense slowly seeped in, slightly relieving the burning pain in her soul.
In fact, with his abilities, whether he used the gray nascent soul consciousness, performed special soul techniques, or activated the system's devouring power, he could completely eliminate the dozens of snake tail soul-suppressing sounds remaining in Yue Qingqiu's soul.
But Chen Yi did not choose to do that.
In Yue Qingqiu's mind, he was only at the mid-stage of the Golden Core realm.
The divine sense that has now manifested as a late-stage third-order divine sense with the healing properties of the Green Wood is already considered extremely excellent.
Exposing one's Nascent Soul level spiritual sense directly would be too exaggerated and could easily arouse unnecessary suspicion.
Since gaining the ability to perceive the world and understand cause and effect, Chen Yi has become increasingly concerned about protecting his own secrets.
He knew very well that the world of cultivation was unpredictable and mysterious.
Once certain secrets are revealed, even if those close to you have no malicious intent in leaking them, they may inadvertently lead to your death. You must never be careless.
He placed a single finger on Yue Qingqiu's brow.
Chen Yi's Green Wood Divine Sense alleviated Yue Qingqiu's pain, allowing her to find a warm green glimmer in the endless darkness of suffering.
Just as Chen Yi infused his healing divine sense and was about to withdraw his hand, Yue Qingqiu's hands suddenly moved.
Her slender, delicate fingers gripped Chen Yi's hand tightly, her voice so faint it was almost inaudible, tinged with dependence and longing: "Don't go."
At this moment, she was like a drowning person struggling in the darkness of despair, and Chen Yi's arm was the only lifeline she could grasp.
However, this posture still seemed to make her somewhat uneasy, so she pulled slightly, holding Chen Yi's arm tightly in her arms.
Only when I felt that real warmth did I finally feel a sense of security and fall into a deep sleep again.
Chen Yi looked at Yue Qingqiu, who was tightly hugging his arm, and a helpless bitter smile appeared on his face.
He realized that he couldn't be heartless and cold-blooded after all, and pulled his arm back directly.
Never mind, it's just letting her hold me for a while, it's no big deal.
Just then, Chen Yi's arm was pressed against Yue Qingqiu's heart meridian.
He had little interest in the base pleasures of physical attraction between men and women, and naturally wouldn't take advantage of the situation.
Although his arm inevitably touched her soft skin, sending a delicate sensation through it,
But in Chen Yi's eyes, the two were just doctor and patient at this moment. He had no ulterior motives and instead took the opportunity to extend a wisp of magic power and divine sense to carefully examine the injuries in Yue Qingqiu's body.
This investigation even secretly alarmed Chen Yi.
Four of her meridians had been broken, her dantian showed signs of damage, her heart meridian was severely damaged, and many acupoints were torn.
"It's already injured this badly?"
Chen Yi frowned slightly, secretly recalling Yue Qingqiu's battle trajectory today.
She was first shocked by the self-destruction of Fairy Yuelan, and then she forcibly used her magic power despite her injuries to drive the Moon Blade Shuttle to make several emergency changes of direction to avoid danger. It is likely that her meridians were already damaged at that time.
Later, when dealing with Elder Kumamoto, he was probably already overdrawing his magical power and spiritual consciousness to support the battle.
Later, when his soul was attacked by the opponent's secret methods, he still gritted his teeth and persevered. During this time, his magic power was exhausted twice, and he had to rely on explosive pills to forcibly replenish it.
Thinking about it this way, it's not surprising that she was so badly injured, with her soul so severely damaged that she couldn't resist on her own, and even clung tightly to the healing energy within her body after sensing it.
"well"
Chen Yi's heart softened once again.
We can't just stand by and watch someone die, and besides, we might need her help on our future cultivation path.
After a barely audible sigh, Chen Yi channeled a wisp of azure healing power into Yue Qingqiu's chest.
This wisp of magical power, like a gentle stream, slowly nourished her damaged heart meridians, stabilizing her injuries first.
As for Chen Yi himself, the most pressing issue at this moment is that his previous forceful activation of the Xuan Tian Qi and alteration of the causal energy of heaven and earth have caused his foundation to weaken somewhat.
This weakness had little impact on his magical power, spiritual consciousness, physical body, and other ordinary cultivation dimensions. It was not a problem for him to spare some of his power to heal Yue Qingqiu.
So, during the half-day journey back to the Star Moon Sect on the Crimson Soul Sparrow, Chen Yi would occasionally stop, condense a wisp of Azure Wood Divine Consciousness at his fingertips, and gently touch Yue Qingqiu's brow to help her replenish the power to resist the Rattlesnake Soul-Suppressing Sound.
Each time his divine sense finished being injected, Yue Qingqiu would instinctively grab his hand and press it tightly against her chest.
Left with no other choice, Chen Yi could only channel in some more of his healing-attribute Green Wood magic to help her gradually straighten out her damaged meridians and acupoints.
Chen Yi had always believed that Yue Qingqiu had been in a coma and asleep the whole time, until the accident happened when they were only 10,000 miles away from the Star Moon Sect.
This time,
He channeled the Taiyi Longevity Mantra into Yue Qingqiu's heart meridian. When this gentle mantra approached the vicinity of Yue Qingqiu's lower dantian...
A clear and pure fluctuation of lunar energy suddenly emerged.
With just a wisp, it precisely bound his magical power, then followed the trajectory of the power upwards.
Finally reaching the heart meridian, it releases a gentle yet exceptionally sweet energy.
The instant this energy appeared, a wisp of Star Power Source Liquid within Chen Yi's body surged out uncontrollably, as if drawn by a force, and quickly converged at the point where his palm met Yue Qingqiu's heart.
The next second, Chen Yi's star power and the wisp of energy in Yue Qingqiu's body intertwined and merged instantly like positive and negative polarity lightning wires, generating a special kind of star and moon source energy in a very short time and in a very small amount.
As soon as this energy appeared, Chen Yi felt a comfortable tremor throughout his body, and an incomparably comfortable numbness spread from his palms to his limbs and bones.
Even the minor damage to his foundation caused by using the Xuan Tian Qi seemed to have quietly recovered under the nourishment of this energy.
What is this?
Star Moon Essence is formed by fusing Moon Spirit Essence and Star Essence Essence.
Its energy is so strong that it can replenish damage to one's innate foundation?!
Chen Yi's heart was filled with turmoil, and his eyes suddenly became serious.
"Hmm~~~~"
At that moment, Yue Qingqiu also couldn't help but let out a soft, suppressed groan of comfort.
Her tightly closed eyes trembled slightly, her eyelashes fluttered like butterfly wings, and the blush on her cheeks spread visibly, all the way to her ears, and even her neck was tinged with a light pink.
Chen Yi guessed that Yue Qingqiu might have already woken up.
He simply couldn't be sure whether she had awakened before the surge of the Moon Spirit Essence or after the Star and Moon Essences had merged.
This subtle contact between the two people's original spiritual fluids stirred a primal impulse within them.
Moreover, the woman lying in Chen Yi's arms at this moment was a stunningly beautiful fairy.
Whether it's her stunning beauty, her refined and elegant demeanor at the peak of the Golden Core stage, or the Moon Spirit Essence that has accumulated within her body for decades, all of these qualities possess a fatal attraction for male cultivators.
Especially for male cultivators practicing the Star Technique, this Moon Spirit Essence can not only greatly assist their cultivation, but can even increase the success rate of Nascent Soul Formation and the quality of the Golden Core.
Faced with such a dangerous situation, Yue Qingqiu was filled with despair and bitterness.
After all, no male cultivator could resist her stunningly beautiful body.
Driven by that primal desire, she had even prepared for the worst: if Chen Yi did something shameful to her, she would grit her teeth and accept it.
At worst, she could use this opportunity to heal her injuries, consider this "sacrifice" as compensation for Chen Yi saving her life, and then sever all ties with him, perhaps even expelling him from the sect and never having any contact with him again.
However, Chen Yi's actions far exceeded her expectations.
He did not take advantage of her vulnerability to touch her inappropriately, nor did he take advantage of her inability to resist to touch places he shouldn't have.
Even after experiencing the sweetness of the fusion of spiritual liquids, he did not release the power of the Star Essence into her body again to experience the cultivation pleasure of the fusion of spiritual liquids.
Chen Yi steadily controlled the Crimson Soul Sparrow as it flew towards the Star Moon Sect, occasionally channeling a wisp of Azure Wood magic power into it to gently nourish its damaged body.
Yue Qingqiu was deeply shocked.
She couldn't even imagine how much desire Chen Yi had overcome, after all, she herself had almost lost her composure under that impulse.
Unexpectedly, the man I met by chance in the Monster Beast Mountain Range years ago turned out to be the person I trusted most in the face of life and death.
Such a steadfast and trustworthy person is almost impossible to find another like him in the entire Qingyun Cave Heaven.
She had no idea that just moments before, as her body was gripped by primal desires...
Chen Yi used his perception of heaven and earth to observe the causal mechanisms of Qi.
He realized that if he were to get entangled with this Moon Spirit Essence Fairy while on the back of the Crimson Soul Sparrow at this moment...
Not only will they lose half of the great opportunities they were destined to have, but they may also encounter unforeseen troubles later on.
From his own perspective, Chen Yi also didn't want to provoke the fairy.
The more beautiful a fairy is, the greater the trouble she often brings.
All he sought was a peaceful path of cultivation, a steady increase in his cultivation level, and ultimately, the attainment of immortality.
(End of this chapter)