My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 164 - Building a Dao Foundation and crossing a Catastrophe?

Chapter 164: Chapter 164 - Building a Dao Foundation and crossing a Catastrophe?

Without any hesitation, Wang Zijia directly converted the value of his Dao Foundation, which he had been continuously channeling and refining mana into, entirely into Spiritual Roots.

One instant his Dao Foundation was oozing with mana, and the next, it abruptly ran out, like freshly mixed wet mud with the water sifted out, leaving behind a framework composed of nine runes.

Wang Zijia felt a relief and was surprisingly pleased to find that after such an operation, the links between

the Nine Techniques had become much stronger, many times more solid than their earlier loose connection.

Furthermore, the refined mana hadn’t receded, but instead maintained around seven or eight times its original potency.

Upon seeing this, Wang Zizjia’s eyes flashed brilliantly.

Without hesitation, he fetched the Spiritual Tool, the False Dao True Zhuge Scripture, and once more drew a strand of Meaty Spiritual Object essence through the pages from afar. This time, due to his strong mana, the strand he drew was robust.

Wang Zijia divided it into several parts, swallowing one of them, and the Medicine Leading Weight emerged.

Following which, Wang Zijia instantly exchanged the value residing in his Spiritual Roots back into its original form.

A new, complete, exceedingly pure characteristic transformed from a Class A spiritual item was born. It once again surged into his Dantian, fused with the stable Nine Techniques’ runes, and recommenced the melting of the runes.

This fusion proceeded much more effortlessly than before. In just a moment, the runes and the extraordinary characteristics completed their initial fusion.

His Dao Foundation gathered, and mana was again drawn in, beginning the process of metabolism and refinement.

Due to initially abundant mana, this round of Dao Foundation needed more than ten days to complete the refinement process.

The Dao Foundation was still of the second grade, but it had reached the peak of the second grade.

Without caring about it, Wang Zijia once again exchanged it, then swallowed another strand of medicine lead, exchanged it back once more, and then resumed the melting process.

He repeated this cycle and when Wang Zijia exchanged for the seventh time, he found that the previously abundant extraordinaire characteristics of over 30,000 value had been integrated into the Nine Techniques’ runes in the blink of an eye. However, it seemed like they could still continue to integrate spiritual features.

Seeing this, Wang Zijia grabbed a large chunk of the Class A spiritual item that he had received as compensation and swallowed it down.

"Value +27,000!"

The Dao Foundation’s value instantly turned into 50,000. There were quite a lot of extraordinaire features, and when the Nine Techniques were melting, there was a tendency of not being able to absorb all of it.

At this moment, Wang Zijia shook as a whole, and the Dao Foundation finally passed the threshold of the first grade.

’Just at level one? This isn’t enough!’

In a split second, Wang Zijia once again exchanged the entire value of the Dao Foundation into the value of the Spiritual Root.

Efficiently, he fished out a strand of Medicine Leading Weight and swallowed it, exchanged the Value back to the newborn Weight, the Extraordinary Characteristic surged into the Dantian, blended into the Nine Techniques, and when the melt was complete, a new Dao Foundation was formed again.

Again and again, the framework constituted of the Nine Techniques became sturdier and more ingrained, gradually acting as if it had become one with the body. Meanwhile, the mana within his body was growing richer.

Despite everything, Wang Zijia kept on with the cycle, continuously exchanging.

Ten times, twenty times, thirty times.

When the Medicine Leading Weight was insufficient, Wang Zijia would immediately extract it. Even though the essence extracted each time amounted to less than one ten-thousandth of a Class A spiritual item, it was enough for him to use it for thirty rounds of Medicine Leading Weight.

As the procedure was repeated, the time Wang Zijia took to exchange once became longer and longer. Although the fusion of the extraordinary characteristics and the Nine Techniques into Dao Foundation only took a moment, with the mana initialisation approaching the quality of Sacrificial Wine, the time it took the Dao Foundation to finish the first consumption of mana became longer and longer.

In such a manner, a night quietly passed and the morning sun slowly rose. The hopeful sunrise awakened the slumbering Wanyu Sect.

Everything seemed normal initially. However, a heavy feeling had begun to permeate at some point.

The rising sun seemed to lose its warmth, causing many people to feel suffocated. Several Perfected ones occasionally looked up at the sky in confusion, their faces filled with puzzlement.

"What’s happening today? Why is there a sense of Magnificent Heavenly Might?"

"Is one of the senior brothers attempting to tackle the Middle Third Boundary?"

"But we haven’t received any breakthrough ceremony notice from the sect?"

"Besides, this intensity is nothing like a Minor Sky Tribulation. It seems too weak!"

"But this should indeed be the gathering of tribulation clouds, right?"

"Then why is it so weak?"

"Is it because the roots are too weak?"

"How pathetic does one’s foundation have to be, to produce such thin tribulation clouds?"

"Is this thing even called a tribulation cloud? Can such a pathetic foundation really have a breakthrough and enter the Middle Third Boundary?"

"Why is this happening within the Outer Sect?"

"So bold, not even going to Lingyin Peak to apply for a sealed Cave Mansion?"

"Let’s go see which Senior Brother is causing this commotion."

"Wait, it’s still too early. Looking at the situation, we won’t be able to pinpoint the target until the afternoon."

"Tsk tsk, it takes half a day just to form a tribulation cloud. This is truly eye-opening, I never knew a tribulation cloud could be this weak. It feels like I could disperse it with a single breath."

"If I disperse it prematurely, will someone jump up and fight me to the death?"

Perfected individuals from various factions started an unusually lively discussion.

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In the basement, Wang Zijia suddenly felt a bit suffocated, like a huge disaster was imminent, which filled his mind with an inexplicable panic.

"Bang!"

Just as he completed another exchange and began mana refinement, a bomb went off in his mind.

He felt that his Dao Foundation was halfway out of the First Grade range, reaching an unprecedented realm. However, it was at this moment that a dull thunderous roar startled him awake.

At this moment, he felt strongly that his previous feeling wasn’t mistaken, he truly was on the brink of disaster.

To his shock, he felt a heavenly sense of impending Tribulation, which was fast approaching him!

"What is this? Isn’t the smallest Minor Sky Tribulation supposed to occur when breaking through the Middle Third Boundary?"

"Am I crossing a Thunder Tribulation for advancing as a sacrificial wine and condensing a Dao Foundation?"

"Am I sleep-deprived, or do you just have a bone to pick with me?"

Between Wang Zijia’s shock and bewilderment, he didn’t dare to continue the exchange. Regardless of the quality of this Thunder Tribulation, it wasn’t something a sacrificial wine like him could withstand anyway.

Not to mention a sacrificial wine, even those in the Perfected Realm would kneel after a few strikes!

Looking at his Dao Foundation that had one foot stepping beyond the First Grade, he decisively put a stop to his other foot’s attempt to follow suit.

’Forget it, let’s just pretend to have a First Grade Dao Foundation for now! If I’m attacked by a Thunder Tribulation just for advancing in my Dao Foundation, who could I possibly offend?’

As he felt the slow pulsating refinement within his body, Wang Zijia quickly packed up his things. The slight fluctuations within his book concealed the pulsation of his mana refinement.

Stealthily, he exited the basement as if nothing had happened.

At this moment, the sky was filled with dark clouds, enveloping more than half of the Wanyu Sect. Because of the large range, everyone preliminarily confirmed that the person crossing the tribulation should be in the areas of the Qifu Faction, the Essence Blood Vein Faction, or the Beast Control Faction.

When Wang Zijia came out, Escape Lights were flying around the sky. Upon sensing them, he found that most of them were perfected individuals.

"Tsk tsk, this is beyond me, good thing I stopped myself in time."

After glancing at it, Wang Zijia felt his meticulous refinement, which required a full hundred days to complete, and smiled in satisfaction.

As Wang Zijia’s actions ceased, the tribulation clouds in the sky started to disperse.

"Why is it dispersing all of a sudden?"

"Did he fail in his advancement?"

"The Thunder Tribulation had formed, yet it failed before a single thunder had fallen? Was this because his foundation is too weak, hence he injured himself?"

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All sorts of conjectures emerged, but in the end, no conclusion was reached, as the instigator had gone completely low profile.

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