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Chapter 559 - 498: Breaking through to Innate Perfection (Part 2)

Chapter 559: Chapter 498: Breaking through to Innate Perfection (Part 2)

At eight o’clock, the radiant sun had completely risen, casting its beautiful rays all around the sprawling mountainside.

Halfway up the Five Saints Mountain, under a thick tree as wide as a water barrel, Ye Fan sat cross-legged, holding the top-grade high-level magical artifact, the Soul Summoning Banner, in his hand.

"Hu~"

After taking a deep breath, Ye Fan expelled the random thoughts from his mind; then, with a single thought, he spurred his mind power to enter the Soul Summoning Banner.

Wuu wuu wuu! Wuu wuu wuu!

The moment his mind power merged with the Soul Summoning Banner, ghostly cries and wolf howls, ominous and eerie, echoed in Ye Fan’s mind, filling his consciousness with a sinister feeling that nearly caused him to lose his composure.

So powerful!

Before, Ye Fan had only heard of the formidable resentful spirits inside the Soul Summoning Banner, having never experienced it firsthand. Now, sensing the aura of the resentful spirits, he was shocked.

Beyond shock, Ye Fan was not afraid.

After all, the crimson golden crown had absorbed two powerful souls from the Bloodline Token and had even helped him withstand the attacks of the Heavenly Tribulation; its power was peerless.

Shortly after, just as Ye Fan was stabilizing his mind and preparing to use his mind power to break into the formation within the Soul Summoning Banner, an image of an evil yin monster suddenly flashed in the depths of his mind.

The evil yin monster resembled the one formed by Wu Mu’s activation of the Soul Summoning Banner’s "Ghost King Descent," only much smaller in size.

Ye Fan knew this was an illusion formed by the resentful spirits influencing his consciousness, just as the Taoist figure had appeared when he probed the Wudang Sect’s treasure, the Taiyin Xuan Sword, with his mind power. Therefore, he was not nervous, simply firming up his own consciousness.

"Kekeke..."

Suddenly, the evil yin monster began to laugh in a ghastly tone, "Such rich blood qi is truly nourishing!"

As soon as the voice dropped, the resentful spirit burst from the formation within the Soul Summoning Banner, transformed into the evil yin monster, opened its large gaping maw, and devoured Ye Fan’s mind power. Then, a terrifying surge of evil yin qi burst forth from the Soul Summoning Banner, entered Ye Fan’s body through his Yintang point, and charged towards his consciousness!

Swish!

At that moment, the hidden crimson golden crown appeared just as Ye Fan had anticipated, transforming into a crimson golden vortex that protected his consciousness.

"Sou—"

In the blink of an eye, the evil yin qi that had made Ye Fan’s consciousness tremble and fear was completely absorbed by the crimson golden crown.

"What... what is this??"

The resentful spirit, now possessing spiritual wisdom, observed this scene and sensed the ancient and powerful aura emanating from the crimson golden crown, and screamed in terror.

It was answered with a terrifying suction force!

That force was so strong that the resentful spirit had no power to resist and was forcibly sucked away.

"No!!"

As it was about to leave the Soul Summoning Banner, the resentful spirit let out a sharp scream, attempting to resist, but it was in vain.

"Sou—"

Once the resentful spirit left the Soul Summoning Banner, it immediately transformed into multiple weaker spirits, trying to scatter in all directions. But before they could move even half a meter away from Ye Fan’s body, they were successively sucked into his body by the strong attraction of the crimson gold crown.

"Ahhh ahhh ahhhhh..."

Rather than feeling any fear as the resentful spirits entered his body, Ye Fan heard them wailing in terror. One after the other, they were absorbed into the crimson golden vortex and dissipated into nothingness.

"This is simply inconceivable!"

As the second-ranked supreme strongman on the Dragon Ranking, Chu Xuanji was not only powerful but had also ventured into many fields, was well-read in ancient books, and had never seen anything like this scenario in his studies.

Unlike Chu Xuanji, Ye Fan was not astounded by the power of the crimson golden crown. Instead, he immediately focused his mind, ready to absorb and refine the essences of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi that the crown was feeding back, looking to enhance his strength.

Sure enough, as Ye Fan waited, streams of dense Heaven and Earth Essence shot out from the vortex formed by the crimson golden crown.

"First, I’ll enhance my magic cultivation!"

Because of his cultivation of the Nine Heavens Profound Skill, for Ye Fan’s martial arts cultivation to break through to the Innate Great Perfection Realm, he needed to form power seeds in the 35 vital acupoints remaining in his body, and each seed needed to be brimming with the essence of power—the amount of Heaven and Earth Essence required was incalculable.

By contrast, he had only one mental seed in his body. To break through to the Innate Great Perfection Realm in terms of magic cultivation would be much easier!

Thinking thus, Ye Fan gathered his mind power, spurred his thoughts, and controlled the essence of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi to enter his consciousness. He circulated it along a special trajectory, refining his consciousness and converting the essence into his own mental power.

One cycle!

Ten cycles!

After ten cycles, the mental power Ye Fan had previously spent was fully restored.

Therefore, he stopped absorbing essence to convert into mental power, instead focusing all his efforts on compressing the mental power within the mental seed!

Once!

Ten times!

A hundred times!

After a full hundred compressions, the quantity of mental power in the mental seed had sharply reduced by half, but its concentration had doubled!

"I can’t compress it too much at once; it must be gradual. First, I’ll refine the Heaven and Earth Essence to replenish the other half of the essence of mental power, and then I’ll compress it again."

Noting the changes within the mental seed, Ye Fan thought so, but didn’t pause, absorbing and refining the Heaven and Earth Essence again.

He absorbed and refined the Heaven and Earth Essence again and again.

He compressed the mental power essence in the mental seed time and again.

As time passed, Ye Fan completely lost himself in his cultivation, staying motionless for nearly a day and a night.

Chu Xuanji had been guarding Ye Fan all this time, constantly using his mental power to monitor Ye Fan’s condition and not daring to disturb him.

Hmm?

In the evening of the second day, Chu Xuanji suddenly sensed Ye Fan’s aura surge dramatically!

Has the magic cultivation broken through?

Chu Xuanji felt a surge of joy in his heart, he stood up abruptly, waiting for Ye Fan to exit his meditation cultivation state.

Unable to see Chu Xuanji’s joyful smile, Ye Fan was instead using his mind to carefully sense the changes in the Mental Seed.

In his perception, the Mental Seed had expanded about tenfold, and the essence of the Mind Power within it had also become ten times more concentrated.

"The quantity of Mind Power has increased tenfold, the quality and power have improved tenfold, and my consciousness has also become much stronger!"

After sensing the changes, Ye Fan’s mind was clear as a mirror.

Whether it’s the Postnatal Realm or the Innate Realm, both are divided into four stages: Entry, Great Success, Peak, and Great Perfection. Between each stage, the quantity and quality of Power and Mind Power increase tenfold.

And once a cultivator steps from the Innate Great Perfection into the Gang Qi Realm, the quantity and quality of Power and Mind Power will increase a hundredfold, making their strength undergo a qualitative leap.

This is also why cultivators of the Gang Qi Realm are referred to as Supreme Strongmen!

And because after stepping into the Gang Qi Realm the cultivator’s strength increases so immensely, creating a huge gap from the Innate Great Perfection, hence from ancient times there has not been a single cultivator at the Innate Great Perfection who could defeat a cultivator in the Gang Qi Realm!

Even Ye Wenhao who is considered invincible at the Innate Great Perfection stage, when he used the earth-shattering skill ’Burning Nine Heavens’ left by Ye Fan’s mother Ling Yun, was only able to injure Chen Feilian, the overlord at half-step Gang Qi realm, but he could not kill him.

If attacking a cultivator in the Gang Qi Realm, it might not even be possible to injure them!

"Shua!"

Suddenly, Ye Fan opened his eyes, and a sharp light burst forth, his gaze now faintly containing a bit of imposing pressure.

That pressure, let alone ordinary people, even cultivators at the Postnatal Realm might not be able to withstand it.

"You’ve broken through, haven’t you?"

Feeling the pressure in Ye Fan’s gaze and the change in his aura, Chu Xuanji smiled and knowingly asked.

"Mhmm."

Ye Fan nodded slightly, and then... he violently urged his mind!

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

The next moment.

Three sounds of cutting through the air almost occurred at the same time.

Under the early morning light, three Xuanye Flying Blades shot out from the sleeves of Ye Fan, turned into three streaks of white light, and whistled towards a large tree a hundred meters away.

"Chi!"

"Chi!"

"Chi!"

The distance of a hundred meters was covered in a blink of an eye, and the sharp Xuanye Flying Blades pierced through the large tree effortlessly, leaving behind three holes.

"When I was at the Peak stage of Innate, controlling three Xuanye Flying Blades was somewhat strenuous, but now not only is it no longer a struggle to control them, the power is comparable to controlling a single Xuanye Flying Blade before!"

The three Xuanye Flying Blades circled in the air and returned in front of Ye Fan, he thought to himself with a hint of excitement in his expression.

Among Magicians of the Manipulation Stream, the primary method is to control Mind Control Magic Tools for attacking. The higher the strength, the greater the number of magic artifacts they can control and the more powerful they become.

"Next, let’s try the power of controlling a single Xuanye Flying Blade with full force."

Putting away two of the Xuanye Flying Blades, Ye Fan once again focused his consciousness and then crazily stimulated his mind, applying it to the Xuanye Flying Blade.

"Whoosh——"

A more piercing sound of cutting through the air sounded, and it seemed like the air was sliced open.

Hm?

Chu Xuanji’s pupils suddenly constricted!

"Pop! Pop! Pop!"

"Clang!"

A series of explosive sounds were heard, and the sharp Xuanye Flying Blade violently collided with a one-meter-tall stone that was 1 meter thick, directly penetrating the stone and scattering debris in all directions!

"A speed equivalent to five times the speed of sound and it can easily penetrate a stone that’s 1 meter thick?"

Realizing the power Ye Fan exerted when he fully urged a single Xuanye Flying Blade, even Chu Xuanji couldn’t help being shocked—an artifact controlled by a Half-step Gang Qi Magician couldn’t possibly be stronger than Ye Fan’s!

"Xiao Fan, with your current strength, if you utilize the Xuanye Flying Blades for a close-range assassination, catching your opponent off guard, even the absolute overlord among cultivators at the Half-step Gang Qi realm will be killed!"

After the shock, Chu Xuanji said, "This will become your ace in the hole, and if not necessary, don’t reveal it until the Qing bang competition—let it show its might then!"

"Got it."

Ye Fan nodded. As a focal point of the Hua Xia Cultivation World’s attention, he certainly couldn’t reveal his trump card easily. Otherwise, those cultivation geniuses and demons participating in the Qing bang competition would surely come up with countermeasures.

"By the way, Xiao Fan, you haven’t absorbed and refined all the essence of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi transformed by the crimson Gold crown, have you?" Chu Xuanji used his mind to probe Ye Fan’s body and found that there was still a large amount of essence of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi remaining within Ye Fan.

"Mhm, I’ve only used less than one-tenth of it." Ye Fan nodded.

"If the remaining essence of Heaven and Earth Primordial Qi can help your Martial Arts Cultivation break through to the Innate Great Perfection Realm, then, unless some of those so-called cultivation geniuses and demons break through to the Gang Qi Realm, they will all be swept away by you!"

Upon hearing this, Chu Xuanji’s heart rejoiced, wishing the Qing bang competition would come immediately.

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