The Post Sky Tipping Era
Chapter 703 - 498: Heartfire Refines True Gold_2

Chapter 703: Chapter 498: Heartfire Refines True Gold_2

"So that’s it, the Golden Apple is somewhat similar to the Divine Fruit? After consuming it, you obtain the Dragon Bloodline, and at the same time, your body and strength experience a qualitative leap. That Tree Spirit wasn’t wrong when it said that eating the Golden Apple brings power, influence, wealth, status... As for luck, in this world, it makes sense."

"With the blessing of this Dragon Bloodline, the evil objects in the darkness, the monsters, dare not approach you, and luck will naturally be good."

Just at this moment of pondering.

Suddenly, Good Wings opened its mouth and spat out something that resembled a golden seed.

It was a seed.

After eating the Golden Apple, it was left with a seed that couldn’t be digested.

"A seed of the Golden Apple." Li Yi’s eyes flickered slightly, and he immediately collected this seed, thinking it might be useful in the future.

After understanding the effects of the Golden Apple, he then took out another Golden Apple.

However, he didn’t intend to eat it directly because he had already obtained the Divine Bloodline and didn’t want to obtain the Dragon Bloodline again to avoid any bloodline conflict and to maintain the purity of the Divine Bloodline, as the Divine Bloodline had a higher ceiling.

"Heaven and Earth Qi Gathering Technique." At this moment, Li Yi formed a seal with his hand, mobilizing the Daoist Skill, attempting to extract the power from the Golden Apple.

His Heaven and Earth Qi Gathering Technique could absorb the Heaven and Earth Qi, the essence of living beings, and plunder all vitality.

The plump Golden Apple began to wither at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then golden rays of light surged into Li Yi’s body. Although his surface was emitting golden light, he could not feel the appearance of Bloodline Power because his Heaven and Earth Qi Gathering Technique only gathered the essence Qi.

As this breath was swallowed, a wisp of black smoke emerged from the back of Li Yi’s hand, and the curse of the Evil God was expelled by this holy breath. At the same time, he felt a magnificent and pure Five Elements Earth Qi.

"Well, taking this opportunity to swallow this Earth Qi, let’s see if I can reach the Five Qi Realm Second Layer."

Li Yi immediately took this opportunity to cultivate.

The Five Qi Realm emphasizes the ingestion of the Five Qi, including gold, wood, water, fire, earth. Previously, Li Yi absorbed fire Qi into the Heart Acupoint. According to most cultivators’ experiences, the next step is to absorb water Qi into the Kidney Acupoint, allowing water and fire to complement each other, yin and yang to harmonize, making it easier to succeed.

Of course, there is another cultivation method, which is to reverse the Five Elements, using the heart acupoint’s fire to refine the lung acupoint’s gold, achieving the level of heart fire refining true gold, and thereby breaking through to the Five Qi Realm Second Layer.

Each of the two cultivation methods has its benefits. The water and fire complement method can extend one’s life span, strengthen the body, and rejuvenate aging.

The heart-fire-refining-true-gold method doesn’t extend life but focuses on combat strength, making it the strongest in battle. Once a truth gold is refined, using the Daoist Skill, it is invincible.

Li Yi originally intended to absorb water Qi into the Kidney Acupoint, but with this opportunity present, he couldn’t bother with so much.

"Open Lung Acupoint, absorb Gold Qi." He circulated Qi-Blood, the Divine Bloodline radiating silver light in his body, rapidly converging to the Lung Acupoint position.

There were originally no acupoints here, but Li Yi, having contemplated the Divine combat methods, understood 365 acupoints, hence he forced open the Lung Acupoint and lit the body’s stars.

However, opening acupoints can’t be accomplished in a day.

He swallowed this concentrated Gold Qi into his lungs, slowly collecting and refining it while also circulating Qi-Blood to attempt opening acupoints.

Multitasking.

Though difficult, Li Yi was not without experience, having previously opened twelve major acupoints, providing some points of reference.

"Qi-Blood is insufficient, the Divine Blood is not yet fully nurtured, this thirteenth major acupoint is difficult to open."

Li Yi immediately discovered the bottleneck, as his accumulation was too little, with insufficient Divine Blood in his body, and some deficiency in evolutionary progress. To open the Lung Acupoint in one go, reaching the level of heart fire refining true gold, was somewhat unrealistic, given he had just broken through the Five Qi Realm First Layer not long ago.

Breaking through again in such a short time was very challenging.

Unless... consuming the Time Erosion Pill.

But Li Yi hesitated.

Because he wasn’t fully prepared, unable to maximize the effect of this Time Erosion Pill.

At the very least, Xuan Yuezi needed to be by his side to perform the Dragon Subduing and Tiger Suppressing Skill, infusing Cosmic Energy to promote bodily evolution.

Currently, the Cosmic Energy within the Purple Gold Gourd was insufficient to sustain Li Yi’s cultivation.

"Forget it, can’t worry about so much, if the Time Erosion Pill is gone, I can still go to the Xuanxian Continent to seize more, but the Golden Apple is a rare treasure, wasting it is too much of a pity."

Li Yi decisively gritted his teeth and took out the Time Erosion Pill, consuming it directly.

A Time Erosion Pill can reduce ten years of life, but correspondingly, you will gain ten years’ worth of accumulation in a short time.

After the Time Erosion Pill was consumed.

He immediately felt his whole body’s Qi-Blood boiling, then beginning to rapidly deplete, while the silver Divine Blood also increased at an unimaginable speed.

Fortunately, Li Yi was prepared, grabbing a handful of Spirit Blood Pills from the Five Elements Bracelet and swallowing them.

With the infusion of massive Qi-Blood, his previously withering physique once again became strong.

Qi-Blood continued to deplete crazily, and the body aged, but what was gained was the increase of Divine Blood and genetic evolution.

Don’t forget.

Li Yi was inherently a Genetic Warrior, and genes require only time to settle, with enough time, one can easily reach the pinnacle of being a Genetic Warrior.

Unfortunately, the Cosmic Energy here was insufficient.

His body could not evolve, wasting a part of the Time Erosion Pill’s effect.

"Thirteenth major acupoint, sensed it."

Li Yi felt the twelve major acupoints before him filled with silver Divine Blood. At this moment, he circulated Qi-Blood, gathering the remaining Divine Blood, attempting to open the Lung Acupoint.

Initially, the gathered Divine Blood was insufficient, and just as it started opening, the force was inadequate. Normally, this moment of cultivation would certainly have to be interrupted.

But under the Time Erosion Pill’s boost, the Divine Blood quickly replenished, and with the Divine Blood advancing wave after wave, his whole body radiated silver brilliance, giving him the confidence for a breakthrough in one go.

"Divine Blood opens Lung Acupoint, heart fire refines true gold."

Li Yi felt that the moment was ripe, and he let out a long howl, a certain acupoint in his body opened up, succeeding in one try, indicating that with the support of the Time Erosion Pill, he had compensated for the lack of accumulation, making it easy to open this thirteenth acupoint.

Subsequently, Divine Blood entered the acupoint, Gold Qi returned to its place, heart fire refined, his lungs emitted golden light in response to the heart’s firelight.

But at this moment, fire was strong, gold weak, because the heart fire acupoints amounted to twelve in total. If he was to reach the Five Qi Realm Second Layer, he would need to open at least twelve acupoints to accommodate the Gold Qi, and similarly, there must be twelve Kidney Acupoints to accept the Water Qi, twelve Liver Acupoints for Wood Qi, and twelve Spleen Acupoints for Earth Qi.

Only then would the Five Elements be balanced, otherwise, once the Five Qi become unbalanced, at the moment of Five Qi Chaoyuan in the future, his soul would be destroyed by the imbalanced Five Elements Qi, leading to his demise.

Powerful strength requires a price.

Therefore, for Li Yi to break through to Five Qi Chaoyuan, he would have to open a total of sixty acupoints, otherwise, he would never be able to reach the Three Flowers Gathering at the Top.

And to open sixty acupoints would require at least several hundred years. Under normal circumstances, he would run out of life span before even reaching Five Qi Chaoyuan and Three Flowers Gathering at the Top.

But now Li Yi had a shortcut.

That is to consume Time Erosion Pills to deplete life span, accumulate Divine Blood to open acupoints, and then consume Life Extending Pills to prolong life, gathering the Five Elements Qi.

However, currently, Li Yi had no Time Erosion Pills left, and the effect of this Time Erosion Pill was rapidly diminishing... The increase in Divine Blood speed within him slowed, and the fourteenth acupoint was no longer able to be opened.

But at least the thirteen major acupoints had been filled with silver Divine Blood Essence, with some left over. Similarly, a significant portion of the vast Gold Qi brought by a single Golden Apple was wasted.

Although somewhat regrettable.

At least Li Yi’s strength had advanced somewhat, providing him more assurance to handle external dangers.