Xuantian Immortal Cultivation Record

Zhang Yuanjing stood below, watching the intense battle unfold. It was incredibly dangerous at first, but gradually became more ordinary. Finally, his anxious heart calmed down.

When Huoyun Shangren came knocking, he was shocked and fearful. He quickly racked his brains, searching for a way to escape.

And he found one! A way to survive in a desperate situation: he could burrow underground and travel to Youdu Mountain, hundreds of miles away, and use the mountain's demons to shake off Huoyun Shangren's pursuit.

As for whether he would be discovered by the demons, and how he would escape if he was, he could only consider those things when the time came.

The sudden appearance of Huoya Daoren brought a turning point, eliminating the need for that risky plan. However, while he was delighted, he also felt some concern, because he couldn't be sure of Huoya Daoren's true intentions. Of course, since he had intervened to help him, he naturally hoped he would be victorious.

Seeing the battle ease, he felt relieved and sat down cross-legged, preparing to quietly await the final outcome.

Suddenly, his divine soul inexplicably ached, and his vision went black. He almost fainted. Before he could react, a large amount of his divine soul power began to leak out, and the vast, distant void in his Niwan Palace trembled violently, as if it were about to collapse, teetering on the brink of destruction.

He was immediately alarmed. Without searching for the cause, he hurriedly took out a middle-grade Yishen Pill from his storage bag and swallowed it hastily.

A moment later, the medicine entered his dantian, and then a refreshing force rushed into the Niwan Palace void, stabilizing it slightly.

Seeing that the pill was effective, he calmed down and took three more middle-grade pills in succession, finally stopping the crisis in the Niwan Palace. However, the leakage of his divine soul power didn't stop, but instead became even more severe.

Upon closer inspection, he discovered that the direction of the divine soul power leakage was actually towards his cave.

So, he got up and entered the cave, where he saw Yuan Shisan kneeling on the ground, clutching his head, his mouth tightly closed, his expression pained, and his aura fluctuating wildly. His divine soul power was constantly pouring into the brain of this strangely behaving giant ape.

So that's it! In a flash of understanding, Zhang Yuanjing realized the cause and effect – it must be the effect of that Soul Ring.

The Soul Ring was not what the Yin Yang Creation Furnace claimed, merely imprinting a cultivator's divine sense mark on the spirit beast's brain to help the cultivator establish a close relationship with the spirit beast. Instead, it connected the cultivator's and spirit beast's divine souls. Once the spirit beast broke through a realm, and its divine soul was weaker than its cultivation, it would draw divine soul power from the cultivator's brain. If the cultivator's divine soul was weak, he would probably shatter his sea of consciousness on the spot and become an idiot, or simply die from a head explosion.

Of course, cultivators could choose to keep their spirit beasts at a weaker level, so they wouldn't pose a threat to themselves. However, this would also lead to another possibility: the spirit beast's strength would limit the cultivator's cultivation progress.

To make the cultivator's and spirit beast's cultivation increase in sync, the cultivator would have to participate in the Yin Yang Creation Furnace's trials to obtain those pills that could strengthen the spirit beast's divine soul. Continuing step by step like this, they would naturally become deeply involved, manipulated by the furnace.

Fortunately, Zhang Yuanjing had the Thick Earth Creation Art, which allowed him to quickly cultivate and refine the three herbs needed for the Yishen Pill, and bring the pill out of the Yin Yang Creation Furnace. Otherwise, his Niwan Palace would have collapsed just now, and he would have died.

Having figured out all the circumstances, he also knew the crux of the problem. He immediately took out two high-grade Yishen Pills and stuffed them into Yuan Shisan's screaming mouth, then reached out and sent a ball of mana to send the pills into its belly.

As soon as the high-grade Yishen Pills entered its belly, Yuan Shisan reacted. His expression softened, and after a few breaths, he retracted his large claws from his head, sat up straight, and sat cross-legged like a human cultivator. Then, a layer of golden light emerged from the surface of his body, flowing continuously and endlessly.

At this time, Zhang Yuanjing's divine soul power finally stopped leaking. He took three more middle-grade Yishen Pills and slowly recovered his divine soul state.

A quarter of an hour passed, and the golden light on the giant ape's body became thicker and thicker, like a golden cocoon, tightly wrapping it up.

Unlike the scene when the giant ape broke through to the mid-stage of the demon core realm a few years ago, there were no fluctuations in the surrounding spiritual power, everything was confined within the cocoon. Therefore, Zhang Yuanjing didn't know if this was the giant ape breaking through. Fortunately, the battle between Huoyun Shangren and Huoya Daoren continued outside, and no other cultivators dared to approach, so there was no need to worry that Yuan Shisan's transformation would be interrupted by external factors.

Another quarter of an hour passed, and the surface of the golden cocoon began to flash with red light, as if something was about to emerge. However, the golden cocoon was extremely thick, and the thing inside tried to break through the cocoon's restraints several times, but failed. Then, it flashed with orange light, and there was still something inside rampaging and wanting to break through the golden cocoon's obstruction, but it still failed. After that, there were also yellow, green, blue, and purple lights flowing, and each time something wanted to escape, but they all failed to break through the barrier of the golden cocoon.

After the seven-colored light, Yuan Shisan seemed to have passed a critical juncture, and the color of the golden cocoon became more and more pure, showing a sense of immortal aura.

At this time, a thought was transmitted to Zhang Yuanjing's brain: "Yuanjing, this breakthrough came suddenly, I wasn't prepared enough, the next two levels are extremely difficult, I need your help!"

Zhang Yuanjing was about to ask how to help when another thought came: "As for how to help, I don't know, but the awakened technique in my bloodline states that at a critical moment, my fighting partner can give me strength to help me break through!"

"I understand! Don't worry!"

Zhang Yuanjing couldn't help but slander the Yin Yang Creation Furnace a few times. No wonder this guy wanted him to engrave the Soul Ring into the golden-backed giant ape's brain. It turned out that he had also dug a pit in its bloodline inheritance. Once you jumped into the first one, there would be countless others, and it would be impossible to regret it.

Yuan Shisan received Zhang Yuanjing's promise and immediately began to break through with peace of mind. In an instant, a dazzling silver light shone out from the golden cocoon, so bright that Zhang Yuanjing couldn't open his eyes at all.

However, he didn't need to open his eyes, because the divine soul power in his brain began to leak out wildly. Almost in an instant, his divine soul fell into a state of depletion, like a starving man who hadn't eaten a grain of rice for seven days and seven nights.

Zhang Yuanjing groaned and immediately stuffed the middle-grade Yishen Pill he had prepared earlier into his mouth. A stream of clear spring water went straight from his dantian to his Niwan Palace, irrigating the inexplicable withering in that void, slightly relieving the extreme feeling of hunger.

The second pill, the third pill… all the remaining ten Yishen Pills were filled into the void, barely stopping the continued depletion of his divine soul. After that, his divine soul stabilized, and the leakage of his divine soul power gradually stopped.

Zhang Yuanjing opened his eyes, and the silver light on the golden cocoon had become barely perceptible. A powerful force was bombarding the golden cocoon. The light on the golden cocoon trembled violently, and occasionally appeared to collapse, but it quickly condensed again and continued to withstand the impact of that great force.

At this time, there was no abnormality in Zhang Yuanjing's divine soul power. Obviously, Yuan Shisan needed to use divine soul power only when resisting the silver light. And this great force that impacted the golden cocoon had nothing to do with the divine soul, it must be the power of his physical body.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to breathe, he quickly took out all the low-grade Yishen Pills on his body and swallowed them all, three at a time. However, with his current divine soul, the enhancement from the low-grade Yishen Pills was already very small. The seven pills he refined last time and the dozen or so remaining low-grade pills were all refined, but they only restored a little more than 10% of his divine soul power.

If the silver light and the impact of the great force only counted as one level, then there was still one level left, and it was the most powerful level. How would he get through it?

Just as he was worried, the great force impacting the golden cocoon disappeared. What followed was a golden light, even more dazzling than the light on the golden cocoon, piercing through the cocoon and emitting a blazing heat, as if it wanted to melt the golden cocoon.

Zhang Yuanjing's scalp went numb, his heart pounded, and he waited for the extremely violent leakage of his divine soul. Then, after a few breaths, nothing happened. His divine soul power hovered well in his brain, as calm as the sea after a storm.

Looking at the golden cocoon again, it had changed from a golden light cocoon to a golden light liquid, and the golden light newly emerging from Yuan Shisan's body was trying to merge with this golden liquid, but there seemed to be a little bit of separation that couldn't be broken through, and the two could never be mixed into one.

"Yuanjing, quick, quick, quick, sprinkle your essence blood on it!"

Yuan Shisan's thoughts said the word "quick" three times in a row, and the anxiety was almost overflowing. Obviously, his breakthrough had reached the most critical moment, and there was no time to lose.

Zhang Yuanjing didn't have time to think, so he immediately made a blade with his hand and cut his wrist. He used his mana to urge it, and full essence blood dripped from it. As soon as this blood entered the golden light liquid, it was almost completely absorbed. Immediately, the color of the golden light liquid became brighter, close to the golden light rushing out of Yuan Shisan's body. At this time, the two finally slowly merged together.

After about twelve or thirteen drops of essence blood had dripped, the golden liquid and the golden light completely merged, becoming a mass of golden, indescribable matter.

And Yuan Shisan, who was in it, uttered a "Du" sound, opened his mouth and sucked hard, and swallowed this indescribable thing into his belly. Then, nine golden lights shot out from his belly, swirling around his body nine times, and finally merged into one and fell, like a layer of golden skin covering his whole body, and then penetrated deep into his flesh and disappeared. Then, all the hair on his body fell off, and new golden hair grew out, stopping at about two inches.

At this time, Yuan Shisan stood up tall and let out a long roar of "Aowu", and then a huge force shot out in all directions, smashing the simple cave into pieces. Around the cave, there was a strong wind, trees fell, and stones flew. The powerful pressure went straight to the sky, stirring up the wind and clouds.

At the same time, a cheering voice rang in Zhang Yuanjing's mind: "Yuanjing, I broke through to the late stage of the Jindan realm and cultivated the Nine Revolutions Golden Body Technique!"

Zhang Yuanjing barely grinned, unable to tell if he was happy or sad.

"Yuanjing, what's wrong?" Yuan Shisan glanced at Zhang Yuanjing strangely, not understanding the expression on his face. Could it be that his breakthrough made him unhappy?

It didn't realize that it didn't need to deliberately transmit thoughts to communicate with Zhang Yuanjing at this time. As long as it had the idea of talking to Zhang Yuanjing, what it wanted to say would automatically appear in Zhang Yuanjing's sea of consciousness. And for Zhang Yuanjing, it was the same. After this advancement, the Soul Ring finally revealed its true face.

However, the changes didn't stop there. In the heat of the moment, he didn't think much about it and dripped the essence blood on it. After dripping it, he realized that something bad had happened. Once this essence blood was mixed, wouldn't he have to connect his physical body with Yuan Shisan as well! Having a divine soul connection wasn't enough, and now there was a physical body connection. How evil-minded would the Yin Yang Creation Furnace have to be to do such a wicked thing!

However, it was useless to think too much about it now. Besides, he still didn't know how far he could go. Maybe he would die in the Xuan Yin Cave and be done with it. He would take it one step at a time. He could only comfort himself with this.

At this time, Yuan Shisan's attention turned to the battle in the sky.