The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 161 - 146 Devoted Cultivator_1

Chapter 161: Chapter 146 Devoted Cultivator_1

"Innate Realm!"

Pang Jian’s mind was greatly stirred.

He hadn’t expected that a single session of meditative cultivation would, without him realizing it, smoothly break the shackles of his realm and advance him to the Innate stage!

The exhilarated Pang Jian narrowed his eyes to feel, and immediately knew that the speed at which he absorbed nature’s spiritual energy within the Cloud Sail had also increased several-fold!

He was quickly overjoyed beyond measure.

"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!"

He casually conjured several Moon Blades, using up some of the Spiritual Power within his Spiritual Sea, and then took out a Spirit Stone to draw in more Spiritual Power.

A single Spirit Stone was drained of Spiritual Power in the blink of an eye.

"Everything has improved!"

After discarding the Spirit Stone, he sensed the intricacies within.

Advancing from Marrow Cleaning Realm to Innate, the Spiritual Sea was not only granted another round of expansion to store more Spiritual Power, the circulation speed of Spiritual Power within his body had also increased several times.

Correspondingly, his efficiency of drawing from nature’s spiritual energy and extracting from Spirit Stones and Spirit Jade all sped up!

He clicked his tongue in wonder, then proceeded to introspect in secret.

He noticed that the Ice Pool, which bordered his Flame Pool in his Spiritual Sea, was actually several times larger than the Flame Pool.

The power contained within the Ice Pool, akin to ice crystals, was the Extreme Cold Power, and it far surpassed the Flame Force.

"Extreme Cold Power, Moon Energy..."

With a thought, he tried to channel a few strands of the Extreme Cold Power from within the Ice Pool, mixing it with Moon Energy and Spiritual Power, and re-condensed it into a new Moon Blade.

"Whoosh!"

A brand-new Moon Blade, among the many revolving around him, was so eye-catching!

Its radiance was so dazzling, sparkling with a jewel-like limpidity, exuding a pure, otherworldly chill.

If the numerous Moon Blades were ice flowers, then it was the king among them, outstandingly beautiful and striking!

Luo Hongyan couldn’t help but look over with bright, shining eyes.

Gao Yuan also showed astonishment and praised, "What focused and refined power!"

This was the first time Pang Jian had performed the Secret Skill, and while the Moon Blades he formed by flicking his fingers shone brilliantly, they did not feel threatening to Gao Yuan.

From the power emitted by those Moon Blades, Gao Yuan was confident he could withstand them without being injured all over.

However, the chill that pervaded the Moon Blade that Pang Jian had re-condensed seemed capable of freezing his spirit and bones to the core, and it felt extremely sharp!

Gao Yuan was then somewhat taken aback.

He felt that if it were these kinds of Moon Blades, encircling him one after another, he might not be able to hold on.

While Gao Yuan was deep in thought.

"Pfft! Pfft pfft pfft!"

The last Moon Blade Pang Jian had refined, like a dagger, sliced and shattered the previous Moon Blades one by one.

In a blink, only the last dazzling Moon Blade remained, still brilliantly suspended in front of Pang Jian’s chest.

"Chaos Sea, Sea of Chaos..."

Pang Jian’s eyes suddenly brightened.

He remembered something Li Yuqing had said.

There was said to be a peculiar kind of Dantian Spiritual Sea that perfectly adapts to various sources of power, whether nature’s spiritual energy, Mysterious Yin Power, Flame Force, or toxins!

That includes the Filth Alien Power of the Fifth Realm!

He was gradually coming to realize that, due to the innate peculiarity of his Spiritual Sea, he didn’t have to stubbornly concentrate on one spell or one kind of power, nor did he have to continue doggedly to the end with a single-minded approach.

He could choose to integrate multiple kinds.

Accommodating different forces in the Spiritual Sea seemed to be the edge of his Chaos Sea, as well as the key to his breakthrough in realms!

Once his muscles, blood, internal organs, and blood were all meticulously tempered, he had remained at the Great Perfection stage of the Marrow Cleaning Realm without feeling the opportunity for breakthrough or easily advancing to Innate.

However, sitting by the sacrificial platform where the Cyclops and Ice Demon communicated, after absorbing another kind of Extreme Cold Power, he smoothly broke through.

Amassing various types and attributes of power and incorporating them into his Chaos Sea, thus manifesting them in the manner of the Fierce Sun, Bright Moon, and stars, or like the pools of the Flame Pool and Ice Pool, should be his opportunity for a breakthrough!

Similarly.

His combat techniques don’t have to be so sophisticated or advanced, but he could fully utilize the advantage of the Chaos Sea to merge powers of similar attributes!

For example, blending the cool Moon Energy with the Extreme Cold Power.

Or, for instance, mixing the Flame Force with the sunlight to refine into a single power.

Pang Jian suddenly found his direction in cultivation.

"Silver Moon Ring!"

The Astonishing Spear suddenly shone, and on Cloud Sail with Gao Yuan, he swung his wrist in a circular motion.

Moon Energy, the Extreme Cold Power from within the Ice Pool, mixed with refined and thick Spiritual Power, streaked through the arrays within the spear shaft with several times the efficiency of before.

"Whoosh!"

A divine and brilliant round silver moon suddenly took shape!

The weather was poor today, the night deep and dark, the sky devoid of a bright moon or stars.

Yet atop the Cloud Sail, a chillingly cold bright moon suddenly emerged!

Its radiant glow sent shivers down Gao Yuan, making him involuntarily tremble.

Luo Hongyan abruptly stood up, her beautiful eyes filled with amazement.

She could feel that not only did this new silver moon formed by the Astonishing Spear contain terrifying power, but it also hid a few strands of profound Taoist essence.

Just as with Qi Qingsong before, the severe Sword Intent contained within the sword light seemed to elevate the Magic Spell to a higher level of refinement.

The sight of the Silver Moon, which appeared cold enough to chill the soul, contained hints of extreme cold mysteries. The onlooker’s soul would shiver, their blood flow ever so slightly hindered.

"You!"

She couldn’t help but exclaim softly.

Immediately after, she witnessed how both the last piece of the Moon Blade and the bright full moon, bathed in divine light, were gently grasped in Pang Jian’s hands.

The Moon Blade and full moon slowly vanished in the palms of Pang Jian’s hands.

The Moon Energy, embedded with the Moon Blade’s and full moon’s Extreme Cold Power, was decomposed by Pang Jian and reabsorbed into his Spiritual Sea dantian.

This was something Pang Jian, at the Marrow Cleaning Realm, could never have accomplished!

"You always manage to keep bringing me... surprises," she said.

Luo Hongyan stared blankly at Pang Jian, feeling a sense of defeat as if her talent was being overshadowed, and then she sat down disheartened.

Once, she had been an outstanding cultivation prodigy in the Upper Realm, fervently nurtured by her Sect and accompanied by a devoted Protector.

But back then, her comprehension in cultivation during the Marrow Cleaning and Innate Realms was hardly comparable to Pang Jian’s.

In terms of power at the same stage, she was far behind!

"Are people from the Upper Realm really so formidable?" Gao Yuan murmured to himself.

Previously, when Pang Jian referred to Dong Tianze as the Ghost Leader, declaring that he had avenged the Dark Ghost, Gao Yuan had suspected Pang Jian’s identity.

He once thought that Pang Jian, like Dong Tianze, came from the Lower Realm.

Now, however, he saw that even if Pang Jian had truly visited the Lower Realm, he must have been sent there by his elders for tempering.

Ascending to the Innate Realm in a ’Unity of Heaven and Man’ fashion, controlling his power with ease, and even being able to decompose and reclaim the Moon Blade and Silver Moon...

Such techniques—could they possibly be taught by the seven major families of the Lower Realm?

Could any of those so-called geniuses from the Raging Sun Sect in the Third Realm, the Blood Moon, Red Mountain, or the Star River Alliance, boast of being as splendid in their rise to the Innate Realm?

"The Innate Realm has indeed brought significant improvements to me," said Pang Jian with a faint smile.

"He’s smiling again..." Luo Hongyan’s beautiful eyes lit up for a moment, and then she rolled her eyes and murmured softly, "What a cultivation fanatic."

She recalled the first time she saw Pang Jian smile—it was when he had condensed a new Silver Moon in Cloud Marsh and for the first time injected Moon Energy into it, making that Silver Moon appear solid and cold.

Pang Jian’s smile now was over the creation of an even more magical Silver Moon, with Extreme Cold Alien Power infused within.

Both times he smiled because he had grasped the subtleties of a Magic Spell, discovering that merging different forces gave the Silver Moon varying degrees of power.

It seemed that only when he gained a stronger offensive technique, he would naturally burst into laughter.

Other matters, such as killing a person like Zhu Yuanxi who was his enemy, being gifted a pair of sisters by Meng Qiulan, being praised by Zhao Ling, or even acquiring many Spirit Stones...

All these various events couldn’t shake his state of mind or prompt a heartfelt laugh from him.

"Maybe, I should find him more exquisite Magic Spells so that his combat power becomes even more exaggerated, and then he would continue to be happy," thought Luo Hongyan contemplatively.

"Three Immortal Islands..."

Pang Jian, having just smiled, glanced inadvertently below and saw the Three Immortal Islands.

From his angle and height, the edges of the three islands clearly aligned.

"Ice-rock City, Golden Stone Mountain Range, Cloud Wilderness. Ice Rock Island, Gold and Stone Island, Cloud Island..."

Pang Jian’s brow twitched, and at once he realized that the peculiar scenes he witnessed in the midst of ’Unity of Heaven and Man’ must have truly occurred in the past!

The Golden Stone Mountain Range was now Gold and Stone Island, the Cloud Wilderness was Cloud Island; the three Fragment Lands had originally been a single entity!

The Thunder Dragon, accompanied by a snowstorm, destroyed the Cyclops Clan leader Yanshan when it struck, and in doing so, it shattered the land that the Cyclops depended on for survival into three, creating the present-day Three Immortal Islands.

"Thunder Dragon..."

Pang Jian frowned slightly.

He wanted to ask Luo Hongyan if there was a fearsome Thunder Dragon active in the Dragon Cave of the Second Realm.

Seeing that Gao Yuan was nearby and that Luo Hongyan had said that both of them were from the Upper Realm, he decided not to rush to inquire.

He sat silently, took out a Calming Pill and swallowed it, intending to use Rebel Kid from the Fifth Realm to sneak a peek at the dealings between that unidentified Alien Tribes Goddess and the Cyclops in Sky-Splitting City.

Just as he entered the state of the ’Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell’, he suddenly first sensed the Mysterious Turtle, which emitted a strong sense of fatigue.

The Mysterious Turtle seemed to have awoken once, spending quite a bit of energy as if it had longed to fall back asleep, yet stubbornly waited on.

The Mysterious Turtle was waiting for him, for him to actively establish a connection!

Pang Jian, puzzled, connected with the Mysterious Turtle and then detected that the nature’s spiritual energy from that nameless Fragment Land seemed much depleted.

Surprised, Pang Jian thought of the Mysterious Turtle’s ability to infuse Spiritual Energy into his Spiritual Sea.

And so he immediately realized that during his ’Unity of Heaven and Man’ breakthrough to the Innate Realm, not only was he drawing nature’s spiritual energy from Ice Rock Island, but the Mysterious Turtle, in a distant place, was also silently channeling nature’s spiritual energy to him during his realm breakthrough!

His Spiritual Sea was much more vast than his peers’, and accordingly, the nature’s spiritual energy required for his breakthrough was significantly greater!

Without the Mysterious Turtle’s assistance, relying solely on the sparse nature’s spiritual energy from Ice Rock Island, he might not have succeeded at all, and even if he managed the breakthrough, it would have taken far more than five days!

"I remember this, rest assured and sleep deeply," Pang Jian thought to himself.

The Mysterious Turtle immediately sank into a profound slumber.

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