The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 185 - 170 Mysterious Existence_1

Chapter 185: Chapter 170 Mysterious Existence_1

Third Realm.

Residence number fifty-six.

"Indeed, the Sapling is the Divine Tree worshipped by the Wood Tribe, and the Life Vitality originating from it can prolong the life of the elder women of the Wood Tribe..."

After severing the connection with the Dark Giant Python, Pang Jian was incredibly excited and couldn’t calm down for a long time.

He knew the Sapling was extraordinary, but he couldn’t have imagined that in the world below, there existed a Wisdom Race whose rise and fall were intimately connected to the Sapling.

He suddenly realized that once the members of the Wood Tribe from the Fifth Realm arrived in the Fourth Realm with the help of Yu Xin, they would undoubtedly worship the miraculous Sapling of Fragment Land as a deity!

In the blink of an eye, the Sapling had gained a tribe willing to protect it at all costs.

And this Sapling, originating from his copper plate, was completely obedient to him.

In that case, once the Wood Tribe successfully ascended to Sky Fortune Fragment Land, wouldn’t they also follow his command in the future?

The densely wooded area of Sky Fortune Fragment Land, after welcoming many members of the Wood Tribe, would it continue to grow, allowing the Sapling to undergo a significant transformation?

Many thoughts swiftly crossed Pang Jian’s mind.

Originally planning to demand high-level Ferocious Beast materials from the Heaven Clan’s Yu Xin, he decided to give Yu Xin and the Wood Tribe some time to digest the situation.

"A seventh-level Ice Crystal Beast’s horn is worth four hundred thousand, so one million Spirit Stones is not an unattainable sum."

He resolved to participate in the last day of the trading session.

With one million Spirit Stones, he wanted to seek a chance of survival for Luo Hongyan from the hands of the Blood Moon and Elder of the Yin Spirit Temple!

He planned to find the Heaven Clan’s Yu Xin later to ask for the rare materials from the body of a high-level Ferocious Beast.

...

Fifth Peak of Yuanmang, right above Zhao Yuanqi’s Red Rosy Clouds Boat.

The disciples from Red Mountain who had arrived on this boat were either sightseeing in Yuanmang’s scenic spots or active in the trading grounds at the first peak.

On the Red Rosy Clouds Boat at this moment, only three people were each settled in different places.

"Yuanqi, I’m sorry, but I’m powerless to help."

Fang Boxuan, tall and handsome, looked at the silver-haired girl’s exquisite face and explained helplessly, "It’s not that I don’t want to help, but you know Elder Jiuyuan always dislikes me in Blood Moon, I truly have no way to influence him."

Both considered prodigies of the Third Realm, Fang Boxuan was a few years older than Zhao Yuanqi and also at the Hollow Profound Realm.

In previous years, the two had each led a team to explore a Spiritual land and had developed a slight friendship after fighting side by side.

As Blood Moon’s strongest new generation, Fang Boxuan had quite the fondness for the silver-haired girl and had openly and covertly shown his affection, but he had never received a response.

Today, Zhao Yuanqi had taken the initiative to invite him, which somewhat flattered him, but as soon as she made her request, which was to have him ask Jiuyuan for a favor, he refused after understanding the details fully.

"Forget it."

Zhao Yuanqi’s expression became cold, and she said with her eyes closed, "I won’t see you out."

Fang Boxuan rose with a bitter smile, bowed his hands, and then left the fifth peak.

"The Yin Spirit Temple has long had little interaction with our factions, and I can’t find anyone to help either..."

Zhao Yuanqi sighed softly.

"Little Sister, I’m already so grateful that you’ve done this much for me," Jiang Li said from a quiet corner, her face full of worry. "I never expected... that Sister Luo would turn out to be a survivor of the Blood Spirit Sect. And I can’t understand why both Elders from Blood Moon and the Yin Spirit Temple are insistent on taking her away. Alas, it’s a pity that I’m too low in realm and short on Spirit Stones."

Zhao Yuanqi frowned, "We’re talking about one million Spirit Stones, not just you, even I can’t come up with that amount all at once."

"Back in Bagua City, Sister Luo was always so good to me. I really want to do something for her."

Jiang Li pondered, but no matter how hard she racked her brains, she couldn’t find a way to pull Luo Hongyan from Cao the Eccentric’s grasp.

"Pang Jian, he should be able to escape this catastrophe; after all, Qi Qingsong of the Sword Tower has clearly shown his desire to protect him fully." Zhao Yuanqi could only comfort her by saying they could at least keep one of them alive, so she shouldn’t be too sad.

...

"Great Creation Sacred Body."

In the cave residence, Pang Jian took out the spell he had purchased for eighty thousand Spirit Stones from his storage ring.

Under the glow of the Luminous Pearl, he began to study the incomplete spell, intending to strengthen his combat power as much as possible.

"The path of Body Refining is waning and is no longer the mainstream; the road ahead is rough and treacherous, cautious consideration is advised..."

A note caught Pang Jian’s eye first.

After slightly furrowing his brow, he continued to read on.

He quickly learned that, like the Great Creation Sacred Body, this kind of body refining Spirit Spell heavily relied on the flesh and blood of Ferocious Beasts and Spirit Beasts in its early stages.

The vast majority of Cultivators, after completing Bone Severing Marrow Washing, no longer pursued the continuous strengthening of their physique.

Because as long as their realm steadily improved, the Spiritual Sea could accommodate more Spiritual Power, which could then be summoned to protect the entire body, forming numerous terrifying moves.

The Cultivator’s body armor could be fortified with condensed Spiritual Power as a shield or bolstered with high-level Treasured Armor Spirit Armament.

Moreover, nature’s Spiritual Energy is present everywhere. Those who focus on the refinement of Spiritual Power in the Spiritual Sea can cultivate in almost any realm.

Even without Spiritual Materials like Spirit Stones or Spirit Jade, choosing an appropriate realm to cultivate can gradually enhance one’s realm and cultivation level.

It’s just the pace might be slower.

However, if one continues to emphasize the tempering of the body, they must regularly consume the flesh of powerful Ferocious Beasts and Spirit Beasts, heavily depending on these resources.

Additionally, spending too much time and energy on body tempering might also delay the breakthrough of one’s own realm.

After ascending to Innate, the strength of a Cultivator’s body has no impact on realm breakthroughs and is not a necessity.

Over time, this method of body strengthening fell out of the mainstream.

"Creation Divine Pool..."

Continuing his study, Pang Jian came across the first step of the Great Creation Sacred Body, which was to carve out, alongside the Spiritual Sea in the dantian, another secret place for the vast reserve of surge-like Qi and Blood vitality.

Gazing at a clear map, Pang Jian gestured with his finger to a point just below the heart in his chest cavity.

"It’s this acupoint!"

He attempted to summon the life force within his flesh and blood throughout his limbs and body, directing it toward the acupoint marked as "Creation Divine Pool."

Wrapped around the "Creation Divine Pool," the acupoint remained unmoved under the impact of his strands of blood energy, like mosquitoes and flies crashing against an iron plate.

"This is much more difficult than opening up the Spiritual Sea in the dantian," he mused.

After some hesitation, Pang Jian took out some remaining beast blood from his bracelet.

This beast blood was of the fourth and fifth grades, being the spoils of Luo Hongyan’s looting of individual cultivators, and not the seventh-grade Ice Crystal Beast’s blood from before.

"Gurgle! Gurgle!"

Having drunk his fill of beast blood, and as his qi and blood slowly began to disperse, he gathered the vitality within his organs and converged it to forcefully strike the acupoint where the "Creation Divine Pool" resided.

This time, he felt the acupoint was slightly shaken by the impact of his powerful qi and blood.

——But it was still a long way from being breached.

"Could it be that just the opening of a single Creation Divine Pool requires an accumulation of efforts similar to dripping water wearing away stone? Or..."

Suddenly, he thought of the beast blood of the seventh-grade Ice Crystal Beast and its overwhelming momentum within his body.

He felt that the rich qi and blood produced from consuming higher-ranked beast blood and flesh would likely make it easier to open the "Creation Divine Pool."

With this thought, he came up with a plan in his heart to find the Heaven Clan’s Yu Xin and ask for more high-grade Ferocious Beast’s blood.

Dawn was just breaking.

"Thump, thump, thump!"

"Pang Jian, it’s Han Ting, are you still going to the trade meeting today?"

Outside his cave abode, Han Ting’s voice rang out.

Opening the stone door, Pang Jian saw her standing alone and shook his head, "I won’t go for now."

"Qi Qingsong, along with Zhao Yuanqi and her senior sister, left shortly after you closed your door," Han Ting explained.

"Hmm."

Pang Jian nodded, looking at the slightly lower mountain peaks around him, his gaze sweeping back and forth between the Fourth and Seventh peaks, dominated by the Blood Moon and Yin Spirit Temple.

"Because of your honored identity, last night... Zhang Bin led Fang Xin here to sincerely apologize to me," said Han Ting after a moment of contemplation, her face coldly expressing disgust, "I blasted both of them out."

Unconcerned with these trifling matters, Pang Jian retracted his gaze and said, "I don’t feel like doing anything today."

He turned around, went back inside, and closed the stone door once again.

He had long known that once the stone door was closed, people outside would find it very difficult to hear any conversation inside; Han Ting and Gao Yuan couldn’t hear what he, Qi Qingsong, and Luo Hongyan talked about at all.

They were also unaware that his enigmatic sister was, in fact, the remnant of the Blood Spirit Sect and had already been captured alive by Cao.

Zhang Bin leading Fang Xin to apologize seemed ridiculous to him; they didn’t even understand the situation.

"A night has passed. The Heaven Clan’s Yu Xin and the Wood Tribe should have also clarified many things," Pang Jian thought as he re-established his sensing.

By a pond.

Yu Xin sat by the water’s edge, her beautiful eyes filled with boundless confusion as she watched the Dark Giant Python swimming back and forth in the water.

"Hei, you..."

She murmured softly to herself.

Having left the Wood Tribe’s territory amidst the Wood Tribe members’ thousands of thanks and bows, Mu Yuan, who now had a significantly prolonged lifespan, rekindled his fighting spirit, firmly believing that in a world above, the Divine Tree worshipped by their tribe existed.

The Divine Tree, using the Dark Giant Python as a medium, had granted her Life Vitality, preventing her from naturally dying of old age in the short term.

As for the Dark Giant Python, Mu Yuan had many doubts, yet Yu Xin was unable to provide answers.

"Hei, just what kind of mysterious background do you have..."

Yu Xin said in a hushed, wistful tone.

"Splash!"

The Dark Giant Python suddenly leapt out of the pond, its tail like a blade, carving something on the ground once again.

Yu Xin’s eyes brightened, and she quickly spread her wings to fly up and look from above at the grassland below.

"The Fourth Realm, a Fragment Land known as Sky Fortune, has a newly-born Corrosion Boundary Vine."

"And I come from the Upper Realm; I communicate with you through the Dark Giant Python. After I raised it, I placed it in the Fifth Realm."

"Now, I need some high-grade Ferocious Beasts’ eyes, horns, and fresh blood."

"In turn, I will also try my best to fulfill your needs."

"..."

Sloppy, hastily written characters appeared clearly on the grass below Yu Xin.

Her eyes shimmered, and she gasped in disbelief, covering her mouth.

Only then did she finally realize that behind Hei, there was a mysterious being with heaven-reaching magical powers!

That mysterious being had sent her the Gold Friday Stone, Sun Essence Stone, and Thunderstrike Wood after hearing her monologues over the past few days.

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