Tyrant Sky Martial Soul

Chapter 225: Chapter 225: Focused Cultivation_1

Ling Xiao’s current weakness was his cultivation level.

Others like Ming Tian had already reached the early stages of the Martial Pulse Ninth Level, while he was only at the Martial Vein Seventh Layer Peak.

Since he was at a disadvantage from the start, he had to catch up quickly.

With this in mind, Ling Xiao began to browse through the Skill Transfer Hall’s ”Spiritual Medicine Secret Tome”.

This so-called Spiritual Medicine Secret Tome was actually a booklet within the Skill Transfer Hall, detailing medicinal herbs and pills owned by Master Baiyun, all of which could be selected in exchange for Military Achievement Points.

”The ’Qianyuan Bone Changing Pill,’ a spirit pill that tempers the body, can be used to enhance the realm of defense-related martial arts and simultaneously temper the body to lay a solid foundation for ascending to the Transcendent Realm. Requires a bodily potential of four stars and ninety percent or above, cultivation of Eighth Level or above!”

”The ’Three Hearts Gathering Soul Pill,’ a spirit pill that tempers the soul, can be used to enhance soul strength and increase Soul Power, laying a solid foundation for ascending to the Transcendent Realm. Requires a soul potential of four stars and ninety percent or above, cultivation of Seventh Level or above.”

”The ’Top-quality Zhenyuan Pill,’ a spirit pill that tempers the Martial Veins, can be used to enhance the strength of Martial Veins and increase True Essence, laying a solid foundation for ascending to the Transcendent Realm. Requires an inner strength potential of four stars and ninety percent or above, cultivation of Seventh Level or above.”

There was a note following the description of these three types of pills: ”If not taken as prescribed, it might cause one to suffer qi deviation, bleeding from seven orifices, and even sudden death on the spot.”

Each of these three kinds of pills required 150 Military Achievement Points!

It was practically daylight robbery.

The Military Achievement Points needed for a single pill were actually more expensive than a martial arts secret manual on the brink of the Transcendent.

But, you get what you pay for.

Such pricey items naturally wouldn’t be of low value.

Ling Xiao gritted his teeth, and simply went for two of each type of pill. By doing so, he directly spent 900 Military Achievement Points.

With the remaining 160 Military Achievement Points, Ling Xiao exchanged them all for gold.

Because in a previous battle, to repair his body, he had exhausted all of his gold.

Although the expenditure was terrifying, after all, he had saved his own life.

Taking this into account, he felt that gold was extremely important to him.

With 160 Military Achievement Points, he directly exchanged them for 16 million taels of gold which shows that the higher the cultivation, the less attention is paid to gold.

The whole amount of gold at the Shinobi Auction House was roughly the same, yet Master Baiyun could easily exchange so much gold with his disciples.

Of course, apart from Ling Xiao, no one else would use Military Achievement Points to exchange for gold.

After all, the higher the cultivation, the less significant gold becomes, with nearly no use for it except for basic necessities of life.

After the exchange was done, Ling Xiao returned to his own dwelling to start cultivating.

The first cultivation technique he chose was, of course, the Snow Lotus True Scripture, because it was his only, and also his strongest, Internal Cultivation Mind Technique.

To increase his cultivation level, the Snow Lotus True Scripture was absolutely essential to cultivate.

Moreover, after the battle that day, many strange lingering powers had surged into his body, including the True Essence of Master Baiyun and that of the wolf-shaped ferocious beast.

He could feel that in the process of assimilating these foreign True Essences, upgrading his cultivation to the Martial Vein Eighth Level should be within reach.

As long as his cultivation reached the Martial Vein Eighth Level, he could then use the Qianyuan Bone Changing Pill, and he did not want to take risks.

After all, one only has a single life; despite the urgency, it would still be better to cultivate step by step.

After swallowing a top-quality Zhenyuan Pill, the True Essence in his body surged like a tide.

In the Mountain and River World, a shadow in the shape of a wolf and the shadow of Master Baiyun were fighting.

Ling Xiao’s shadow stood by, accumulating strength, ready to find an opportunity to capture both types of True Essence in one fell swoop.

Suddenly, his shadow dashed out, taking advantage of the moment when the wolf-shaped shadow and Master Baiyun were both weakened, transforming into a Golden Dragon and devoured both strands of True Essence.

Even though those two kinds of True Essence were much stronger than his Snow Lotus True Essence, they didn’t have much edge compared to his Divine Dragon True Essence.

Moreover, while they were in a state of weakening, he managed to devour them instantly.

And then, he digested it.

Seven days later,

Ling Xiao exhaled a turbid breath, as the eighth Martial Vein within his body was finally fully opened.

The breakthrough to the Eighth Layer of Martial Veins was much easier than he had imagined, almost as if it were a natural progression.

However, he had not assimilated the ”Red Flame True Element” from the wolf-shaped fierce beast or Master Baiyun’s ”Thunderbolt True Element.”

It wasn’t that he couldn’t do it, but that he chose not to.

Because he realized that once assimilated, the quality of these two True Elements would diminish, becoming on par with his Snow Lotus True Essence.

That would have been a loss not worth the gain.

Therefore, he isolated these two True Elements, just like the Divine Dragon True Essence, keeping them separate from the Snow Lotus True Essence, to be used as his trump cards.

Now among his eight Martial Veins, one veined the Divine Dragon True Essence, one the Red Flame True Element, another the Thunderbolt True Element, and the remaining five all flowed with Snow Lotus True Essence.

He could achieve this thanks to the eighth special ability he gained after advancing to the Martial Pulse Eighth Level—Nine Vein Spiritual Body.

The advantage of this ability was that the nine Martial Veins could store nine completely different True Essences without interfering with each other.

Of course, the True Essences obtained from others were limited; once used up, they could only be replenished with Snow Lotus True Essence or Divine Dragon True Essence, or filled again with other True Essences obtained from others.

Typical martial artists could at most possess two different True Essences within their bodies, any more was impossible.

But he could have nine.

The higher the level of the Mountain and River Martial Soul, the more amazing surprises it brought to people.

In tandem with advancing to the Martial Vein Eighth Layer, his Snow Lotus True Scripture had finally reached the ninth layer, achieving the realm of great perfection.

This was thanks largely to the war he had experienced previously, which gave him many insights from combat with Transcendent Warriors, thereby clearly speeding up his practice of nearly Transcendent Martial Arts.

To have such achievements in just seven days was somewhat unbelievable even to himself, but the gap was still far, it was a pity that there were no top-quality Zhenyuan Pills left.

He swallowed a few lower-grade Zhenyuan Pills to consolidate his cultivation level.

This process took him three days.

Afterward, he took the Three Hearts Gathering Soul Pill and began to refine his soul, enhancing his Soul Power.

He had once tested his potential with the Seven-Star Flower, and all three aspects of his potential were likely above seven stars, so he felt he must cultivate them concurrently.

That way, once he ascended to the Transcendent Realm, his foundation would be even more solid.

The Soul Burning Secret, like the Snow Lotus True Scripture, was also a quasi-Transcendent Martial Art.

After seven continuous days of cultivation, his Soul Power had definitely increased significantly, and his soul had become much stronger than before.

The most noticeable characteristic was that his thinking had become clearer and quicker, and he could now easily understand things that had previously baffled him.

Things he once couldn’t remember, he could now recall swiftly.

Not only that, due to the enhancement of his Soul Power, the effectiveness of Terrifying Finger had also become even more terrifying and was in no way inferior to the attack power of the Snow Lotus Sword Technique; in certain ways, it was even more frightening.

Having reached the Great Perfection realm of Soul Burning Secret, he could temporarily set it aside when not in battle.

Next, it was time to take the Qianyuan Bone Changing Pill and cultivate the Heavenly Dragon Golden Body.

During this period, there hadn’t been any progress with his Heavenly Dragon Golden Body, which had remained stagnant at the second layer.

But this time, having exchanged for the Qianyuan Bone Changing Pill and coupled with breakthroughs in cultivation and soul, it seemed the Heavenly Dragon Golden Body was due for advancement.

This time during cultivation, he dared not use the Shadow Cultivation Secret Technique, as the stakes were too high, and any deviation could lead to demonic possession and danger.

Moreover, the shadow avatar was unable to swallow pills; while it could practice normally, when it came to consuming valuable pills for cultivation, his original body was the safer choice.