Purgatory

Chapter 38
The night in the Fourth Realm is extremely dark.

Because the sun, moon and stars are not seen all year round, and there is no natural light source, the wild beasts in this world will refrain from predating at night.

After working hard for a long time, everyone decided to rest for one night, and stayed away from the phoenix bone in the worm valley.

Because around the bones of the phoenix, there are many bones of explorers from the Ouyang family scattered around. In such a deep night, most people are not used to having piles of dead bones by their side.

Pang Jian didn't care.

Without lighting a lamp or making a fire, he sat cross-legged next to the phoenix bone that pierced into the hive.

Luo Hongyan was very savvy, she smiled softly, then turned around gracefully and left.

This is the tacit understanding between the two recently.

Pang Jian, who sat down on the bone of the phoenix, saw those from the Su and He families lighting a fire and meditating at the other end of the worm valley.

In the dark night, everyone's vision was restricted. He took down the bamboo basket behind his back when he felt that Su Yuntian and He Rong could not see him.

After taking a breath, he calmly eliminated the distracting thoughts in his mind and quickly entered the state of practice.

This time, he actually had a wonderful illusion that his perception was greatly improved.

He intuitively felt that his dantian spirit sea was divided into upper and lower layers just like the world he was in.

He didn't rush to use the spirit stone in his hand, but tried to absorb the mixed heaven and earth spirit energy in the insect valley, and gradually felt that the spirit energy escaping into his body was in the upper layer of the dantian spirit sea.

The aura is like clusters of clouds in the upper layer.

When he was running the "Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Art", he noticed a huge vortex suddenly appeared between the upper level and the lower level.

The vortex is in the shape of a funnel, connecting the upper and lower layers of the dantian spiritual sea. The vortex rotates gently, slowly absorbing the cloud-like aura from the upper layer.

As the vortex turns round and round, the spiritual energy is continuously refined, sinking towards the bottom of the funnel, and gradually extracted into...spiritual energy.

In the lower layer of the dantian spiritual sea, strands of spiritual power slowly gathered, gradually turning into a small pool.

At this time, Pang Jian's mind moved, and he immediately knew the complete layout of the Dantian Linghai, and also realized that this mysterious small world inside the human body seemed to have two layers.

The reason why it is called the Dantian Linghai is because the upper part is the Dantian, and the place where the spiritual power gathers below is the Linghai.

Dantian and Linghai are connected by a funnel-shaped vortex. Dantian washes and purifies the aura and other energies inhaled from the outside world, condenses them into spiritual power, and pours them into the Linghai below.

With this insight, Pang Jian absorbs the mixed aura of the fourth realm in the worm valley, and feels the wonder of the dantian spiritual sea carefully.

After a while, he suddenly felt as if many mosquitoes, insects, and bees were "buzzing" from all directions, as if they wanted to eat him.

Before he was awakened, he saw that the so-called mosquitoes and insects were all supernatural powers hidden deep in the aura.

In the worm valley, the tiny lives that died due to the bones of the phoenix and were absorbed by the essence of flesh and blood, their remnant soul spirits were integrated into the aura, and he inhaled them into his body with the "Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Art".

When he cleans and purifies the aura in the worm valley with the vortex, he needs to grind away the mosquitoes and insects first.

This step is called removing dross, and it is relatively time-consuming, and the spiritual power extracted from it is not much.

After hesitating for a moment, he took out the two spirit stones he looted from Jinyang, Xu Rui and the man wearing the mask.

The two spirit stones are shaped like white jade, one of which has sporadic impurities, and the other is extremely pure.

He tried to absorb a spirit stone with impurities, and immediately felt that what he absorbed from the spirit stone in his hand was spiritual power with a small amount of dirty power.

This is not a cloud-like "Qi", but a spiritual power that is consistent with the power in his spiritual sea, like flowing water.

It's just that the spiritual power inside contains some impurities, which need to be purified through the vortex connecting Dantian and Linghai circles, and the impurities must be wiped out and dissolved.

Even so, through such a spiritual stone, the spiritual power he can harvest far exceeds the so-called spiritual energy in the worm valley.

The efficiency is more than ten times faster.

Although both sides have impurities and filth, spiritual energy and spiritual power are basically two concepts. Ten times the spiritual energy seems to be able to refine a ray of spiritual power.

And the spiritual power in the spirit stone is existing, and he doesn't need to refine it over and over again, just get rid of the impurities in it.

In the dark night, Pang Jian slightly opened his eyes, looking at the spirit stone with many spots in his hand.

He finally understood why Jin Yang and the others only carried these spirit stones from the fourth realm, in addition to the usual utensils.

With the existence of these spirit stones, those people can recover their strength quickly, much faster than swallowing the spirit energy in the Cenji Mountains.

"What about pure spirit stones?"

Thinking like this, he looked at another pure and flawless spirit stone.

This spirit stone comes from Ning Yao's skin bag, which belongs to the remnant of the blood moon powerhouse in the "unfixed ferry boat".

He tried to absorb the spiritual power in it, and his eyes suddenly burst into a bright light.

The spirit stone from the third realm does not contain a trace of impurities. After being taken into the dantian above by him, it slides down the funnel-shaped vortex and then merges into his spirit sea!
No need to refine and wash impurities, no need to refine again, it immediately becomes a part of the spiritual sea!

This kind of efficiency and speed of enhancing spiritual power is several times higher than that of practicing with impure spiritual stones!
"No wonder, after she obtained this item on the Wuding Ferry, it was like finding a treasure."

Due to the improvement of perception, Pang Jian can intuitively feel the condition of the dantian linghai in this practice, which is much more thorough than his understanding of the dantian linghai in the black water pool last time.

He also finally understood how valuable Lingshi is to practitioners.

"With these pure spiritual stones, I can gather the spiritual power in the spiritual sea faster."

Pang Jian now knows that the main stage of Qi Refining Realm is to continuously refine spiritual power, and finally fill the spiritual sea with spiritual power.

Since he had pure spirit stones available in his hands, he had no intention of saving them, so he let them go to practice immediately.

……

dark place.

Luo Hongyan, who was some distance away from him, habitually sat cross-legged among the leaves, looking down at Pang Jian.

With her cultivation and the refinement of her soul, she faintly saw that when Pang Jian was practicing, there were many mosquitoes, flies and insects' remnant spirits, which were also absorbed by Pang Jian into the dantian spiritual sea.

Suddenly, a look of astonishment appeared in her eyes.

Hidden in the darkness, the "Lingsha" like Luo Meng was actually attracted by Pang Jian when he was practicing with the "Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Art", and wanted to escape into his dantian uncontrollably.

She was taken aback, and hurriedly intervened forcefully with her will, allowing those "spirits" to evacuate from the edge of the worm valley.

"What a domineering spiritual formula. A spiritual formula of this level should not be a product of the fourth realm."

She became more and more curious about the boy's past.

……

Time flies.

When the sky was about to dawn, Pang Jian, who had unknowingly digested two pure spirit stones, was suddenly awakened.

Instinctively, he clenched the dragon-patterned spear, and looked sternly at He Rong who was approaching.

Seeing that Pang Jian woke up suddenly, He Rong immediately stopped and said calmly, "I want to know the details of He Ziren's murder."

"If you have doubts, you can ask Ning Yao, or you can ask me after dawn. Why are you so sneaky?"

Pang Jian said displeased.

"Because Ziren had a marriage contract with her, she was a little dissatisfied with our He family, and her attitude has always been indifferent, and she would not be willing to cooperate with me." He Rong explained helplessly.

Pang Jian thought for a while and said, "Among the dark ghosts who attacked us, one of them was wearing a golden mask, and his identity seemed a bit special."

"Later, he died at the bottom of the Blackwater Pond, and his mask was also broken. I saw that his entire face was covered with criss-crossing scars. He was the son who killed your family."

What Pang Jian was most impressed with was the face under the shattered mask, so he used that person as a shield.

After hearing this, He Rong changed his color slightly. He nodded, thanked him, and turned back.

Among the leaves in the distance, Luo Hongyan, who had been looking at He Rong, changed from a sitting position to a standing position, and only when he returned to Su Yuntian did he restrain the cold light in his eyes.

In the darkness high above Pang Jian's head, Hong Tai, who had been refined into "Spirit Sha", floated like a ghost.

After Hong Tai, who was at the Marrow Cleansing level, was refined into a "Spirit Sha", as long as he deliberately concealed himself in the dark night, he would not be noticed by everyone present.

——including He Rong and Su Yuntian.

Luo Hongyan, who stared at He Rong, saw that he just asked about the cause of He Ziren's death, and then left with a changed expression, so he didn't secretly order "Ling Sha" to attack.

"It's Dong Qianfeng! Dong Qianfeng of the Dong family has defected to the dark ghost!"

He Rong returned to Su Yuntian's side, with panic in his eyes, he shouted: "Dong Qianfeng also killed Ziren!"

"He was tortured by the Lieyang Sect back then, and his face was scratched more than a dozen times, leaving indelible scars, and then he was expelled from the Lieyang Sect."

"He wears a mask and colludes with the dark ghost's Hong Tai to hunt and kill the members of our seven families in the Cenji Mountains!"

Su Yuntian couldn't sit still anymore, and exclaimed: "It's him!"

"Fortunately, he is dead." He Rong said again.

"Although Dong Qianfeng is dead, but..." Su Yuntian rubbed his chin, his expression became serious, and said: "If Dong Qianfeng becomes a member of the dark ghost, then will his adopted son Dong Tianze also become a member of the dark ghost?" member?"

He Rong was shocked: "Impossible?"

"Father, what are you two talking about in the middle of the night?"

Su Meng woke up in a daze, seeing the two whispering with ugly faces, she couldn't help asking.

"It's nothing."

Su Yuntian wanted to comfort him with a smile, but found that he couldn't, so he said: "It's almost dawn, you should get up, we have to go on our way again."

"Oh."

Su Meng rubbed her eyes and answered.

Among the leaves, Luo Hongyan looked at the two of them from afar, with coldness on the corners of her lips.

From Hong Tai, she dug up many dark ghost secrets, so she naturally knew who Su Yuntian and He Rong were referring to as Dong Tianze.

She also knew that the man was indeed in the Cen Silence Mountains.

……

(End of this chapter)