Hunyuan Immortal Sect

Chapter 337 Spirit Beast Advancement
"Fellow Daoist Xiao, please take a seat." Song Xian invited Xiao Ling to take a seat, but ignored Wang Xuan who was standing next to him, so he had to stand there.

Seeing this, Xiao Ling felt it was awkward to sit down alone, so he just said "Thank you, Master Song" and continued standing.

"Master Song, our disciple Wang Qian was young and ignorant. He offended your sect and violated the rules of the market. I beg Master Song to show mercy and spare him. I will be grateful."

"Fellow Daoist Wang, we are old acquaintances, so I won't waste any more pleasantries. Your nephew committed a crime in Tianshan Market, severely injuring a fellow Daoist there and nearly killing him. If he isn't severely punished, who would dare to go to Tianshan Market in the future?"

"The fault lies entirely with Wang Qian, but please consider this his first offense and show some leniency." Wang Xuan picked up a three-foot-long wooden box wrapped in gold cloth from the nearby table. Both sides presented it. "This is a hundred-year-old white coral, very beneficial for healing and healing. It will help the injured Taoist recover."

Song Xian waved his hand lightly, and the wooden box rose into the air and flew towards him. He did not hide it and directly opened the wooden box to take a look. Inside was a milky white coral that was two feet in size. It was Baishan, and it was over a hundred years old.

Zhong Wenyuan had previously hinted to Yuyuan Sect that they needed this item, so Wang Xuan was very tactful and took the initiative to hand it over.

Seeing that he had the item in hand, he didn't waste any more time: "Since Fellow Daoist Xiao has come forward, let's drop this matter. You pay 5,000 spirit stones to the market management office as a fine and compensation for the injured cultivator, and you can take Fellow Daoist Wang Qian back."

"Thank you, Master Song."

After the two left, Song Xian immediately found Huang Ye and handed him the hundred-year-old white coral he had just obtained.

A month later, Huang Ye returned from Humen City and exchanged for a piece of sulfur that was four feet long and two feet in size.

The whole body of stone sulfur is light yellow, oval in shape, and emits a faint pungent smell. After squeezing it dry, there is enough light yellow liquid in the form of a bucket, which is the stone sulfur liquid needed to refine the second-level puppet.

For a period of time afterwards, Song Xian immersed himself in refining the second-level puppet, working day and night, and even forgot to take time to practice.

Although he had Dong Chenxuan's memories and could follow the steps to refine it, his foundation was too weak after all, and the second-level puppet was very complicated. When he was immersed in the contents of the memory fragments, he felt it was very simple. But when he actually started to work on it, he found that it was not the case at all.

It's like when you watch someone build something. Your eyes see what's going on and your brain knows how to do it, but your hands and feet just can't keep up.

It took him three full months to finally create a humanoid puppet. On the surface, it looked like a real human, but the joints were extremely stiff, the head looked big, and the hands and feet were thin. Upon closer inspection, it even looked like a deformed child.

Needless to say, the result was that when he took the next step to condense his consciousness into energy, the split consciousness was just poured into the puppet, and the humanoid puppet fell apart like a pile of loose sand.

Although the first attempt ended in failure, Song Xian was not discouraged. This was within his expectations. Even someone as talented as Dong Xuanchen, who had studied hard for decades, failed several times when refining a second-level puppet.

It would be a miracle if he could succeed in one go. Even though the hundred-year-old stone sulfur liquid was of great help in refining the second-level puppet, it could not make up for his poor foundation.

Just by looking at the appearance of the refined product, he knew at a glance that it was bound to fail. Even thousand-year-old stone sulfur liquid or ten-thousand-year-old stone sulfur liquid would be of no avail. Therefore, he did not lose heart. Instead, he became more confident and more eager to try.

The experience of failure can help him find out the problem and lead him to success step by step.

After that, Song Xian continued to immerse himself in puppet refining every day. Within a few months, he refined three puppets, all of which ended in failure. However, each time was more perfect than the last. Even though he was still far from successful refining, the direction was becoming clearer.

.........

That day, as usual, he was concentrating on shaping the puppet's body in the empty room.

Suddenly, there was a strange sound coming from the spirit beast bag on his waist. His mind moved and an idea immediately appeared in his mind, as if a voice was talking to him through his heart.

It was the Scarab, which had finally awakened from its slumber and seemed extremely hungry.

Ever since the last Tianlan event where the group obtained the Dragon Snake Fruit and fed it to the Golden Beetle, it fell into a deep sleep shortly after. It has been many years now.

Song Xian knew that when a monster beast fell into a long sleep without being injured, it was mostly because the spiritual power in its body had reached saturation, and this was often a sign of advancement.

Sensing that the golden beetle had woken up, he was extremely surprised. Before he could respond, a golden figure flashed out from the spirit beast bag, and the golden beetle could not wait to get out, making a buzzing sound, and seemed very impatient.

Song Xian sensed its need and quickly took it out of the house and into another room in the mansion, where he took out a large number of beast spirit pills for it to take.

The golden beetle pounced down like a starving ghost, and in a short while it ate dozens of beast spirit pills. After eating them, it lay lazily on the ground and did not move.

.........

A few days later, in the central Taoist temple of Luojia Mountain, the rich spiritual energy surrounding the mountain had transformed into clouds that were barely visible and tangible.

With the operation of the large spirit gathering formation, the spiritual energy of the entire mountain range has gathered here. Above it, the golden beetle is constantly absorbing and exhaling the rich spiritual energy.

Whether it is a monster or a cultivator, sufficient spiritual energy is needed every time a breakthrough is made, but the way of advancement between the two is slightly different.

A cultivator needs to absorb a large amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth in a short period of time to break through his own limits, while a demon beast needs to absorb spiritual energy for a long time.

A cultivator can see results in his breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Stage within a day, while a monster beast often needs ten days, half a month, or even longer.

Correspondingly, the risk of monsters breaking through to a higher realm is much lower than that of cultivators, but this does not mean that their success rate is high.

Because they absorb spiritual energy relatively slowly, and the monsters have tough bodies, they will not die from the influx of a large amount of spiritual energy in a short period of time like cultivators.

Even if a monster fails to advance, at most it will lose some spiritual energy, but will never be seriously injured. In addition, the spiritual vein requirements for monster advancement are not that high.

If a third-level monster wants to advance to the fourth level, which is equivalent to a human cultivator reaching the great perfection of Qi training and striving for the foundation-building stage, it only needs a second-level low-grade spirit vein. Even if there is no second-level low-grade spirit vein, a first-level spirit vein will do.

Because they absorb spiritual energy slowly and it takes a long time to accumulate it, they do not have high requirements for the purity of spiritual energy and the amount of spiritual energy that can be gathered in a short period of time.

However, cultivators need to absorb a large amount of spiritual energy in a short period of time, which places very high demands on their spiritual veins.

In order for a Qi-refining cultivator to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, he would need at least a second-order, mid-grade spiritual vein to meet the requirements for spiritual power purity and strength.

Therefore, Song Xian did not look for Jiang Feng and ask him to use the second-grade superior spiritual vein in Qiyuan Mountain to help the golden beetle advance.

The second-grade medium-quality spiritual vein of Luojia Mountain is sufficient for the monster beast to advance, not to mention that the golden beetle's advancement process may take ten days to half a month.

During this period, the spiritual energy supply to the training room will be suspended. If the disciples of the Beast Taming Sect cannot use the training room for such a long time, they will definitely curse their mothers!
Only Jiang Feng’s biological son can enjoy this treatment, no one else can even think about it.

.........

At this moment, martial law was in effect outside the central Taoist temple on Luojia Mountain. Dozens of Hunyuan Sect disciples were stationed outside, and even the mountain's protective formation had been activated, with a vigilant attitude as if facing a formidable enemy. Although the demon beast's advancement took a long time, it could not be interrupted during this period. Disrupting its rhythm of absorbing spiritual energy could easily lead to failure.

For more than ten days, Song Xian stayed outside.

That night, the stars were shining like rain. A golden beetle was crawling in the center of the dojo. Suddenly, it raised its head and let out a sharp hiss. At the same time, a spiritual pressure comparable to that of a foundation-building cultivator burst out from its body and soared into the sky.

Feeling this powerful spiritual pressure, Song Xian was overjoyed, knowing that the golden beetle had successfully advanced. He flashed and came to the dojo, and his escape light landed in front of it.

After this promotion, the golden beetle's body became even larger, more than ten feet in size, with two long golden tentacles fluttering like flags, and a pair of golden eyes revealing ferocity and fierceness.

Song Xian gently stroked its big head, and the golden beetle showed a gentle and intimate attitude, rubbing its head against his palm.

The golden beetle's advancement this time is an important aid to his combat power. Since he broke through the foundation-building stage, the golden beetle can no longer help him when fighting with others.

Now that the golden beetle has successfully advanced, it can be used as a hidden backup plan in future wars. However, there is a problem. The golden beetle has grown greatly in size, and the spirit beast bag can no longer hold such a large beetle. It may be inconvenient to take it out in the future.

As soon as he had this thought, the golden beetle's body changed shape and shrank by half, then returned to its original shape.

Song Xian had a telepathic connection with it and immediately understood its thoughts. It turned out that it could control the changes in its body shape, but it was not very comfortable after its body shrank, and it was unable to practice in this state.

This means that when he needs to go out in the future, he can let the golden beetle shrink its body and enter the spirit beast bag. When he is at the mountain gate, there is naturally no need to restrain it.

"Congratulations, Master. This spirit beast has broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage. This is equivalent to adding a powerful Foundation Establishment practitioner to our sect. This is cause for celebration." Qi Ming came up to him with a magic weapon and saluted him.

"Tell the disciples on guard to keep their mouths shut and not leak this matter."

"Yes, the disciple obeys."

.........

The days were as calm as water. The news of the Golden Beetle's advancement did not cause much waves in the sect due to Song Xian's deliberate blockade. Of course, those who should know still knew about it. After all, it was difficult to keep such a big thing secret. It just did not cause any heated discussion in the sect.

Song Xian was still refining the second-level puppet. With repeated failures, his skills became more and more proficient, but he was still a long way from success.

At night, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. He was refining a puppet in his room when there was a knock on the door. He called out, "Come in!" Qi Ming pushed the door open and entered, bowing to him. "Master, there's a Foundation Establishment cultivator outside the mountain gate who calls himself Han Yuan. He claims to be your old friend."

Han Yuan, why is he here? Song Xian immediately stopped what he was doing, knowing that this person must have something important to visit.

"Did he come alone?"

"Yes."

"Invite him here, no, I'll go there myself!" Song Xian left the room, a light of escape rose up, and came to the outside of the mountain gate. He saw Han Yuan sitting under the stone pavilion, and the light of escape fell there.

After not seeing each other for many years, Han Yuan has now reached the sixth level of foundation building. When the two of them went to the secret realm to search for treasures together, he was only at the third level of foundation building. Although he refined a lot of second-grade low-grade spiritual elixirs during that treasure hunt, Song Xian was still a little surprised that he reached the sixth level of foundation building so quickly.

You should know that Song Xian was only at the first level of foundation building back then. After obtaining the Soul-Replenishing Pill, he has been practicing hard for many years and is now only at the fourth level of foundation building. This is because the second-grade low-quality Soul-Replenishing Pill is suitable for cultivators in the early stage of foundation building.

If Han Yuanru uses the Soul-Replenishing Pill to advance from the third level of Foundation Establishment to the fourth level of Foundation Establishment, the effect will be greatly reduced. After entering the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, 250 points of spiritual power will be required for each level of cultivation.

For example, when Song Xiang just broke through the fourth level of foundation building, his spiritual power was 1050 points, and it would take 1300 points to break through the fifth level of foundation building.

In the early stage of foundation building, only 150 points of spiritual power are required to break through each level.

There is a big gap between the two. Song Xian only needs 450 points of spiritual power to break through from the first level of foundation building to the fourth level of foundation building.

Han Yuan increased his spiritual power from the third level of foundation building to the sixth level of foundation building by 650 points.

In addition, after he breaks through the fourth level of foundation building, the effect of the second-grade low-grade soul-replenishing pill will be weakened.

According to the normal cultivation speed, it is impossible for him to reach the sixth level of foundation building so quickly.

You know, he has the qualifications of four spiritual roots and is also a casual cultivator.

If Song Xian had not been with him throughout the entire process of refining the Soul-Replenishing Pill, one would have suspected that he had secretly hidden a large amount of the Soul-Replenishing Pill, otherwise how could he have made such rapid progress.

The only explanation is that he had another fortuitous encounter in recent years, which caused his cultivation to increase dramatically.

Although he was surprised, Song Xian did not show it. Instead, he bowed with a smile on his face: "It has been many years since we last met. Fellow Daoist Han is still as elegant as ever!"

"I'm sorry to bother you, Brother Song." Han Yuan stood up and returned the greeting calmly.

"Please come in, Fellow Daoist Han." Song Xian didn't say any more boring and polite words and invited him into the mountain gate mansion.

"Friend Han, you must have something important to tell me. If you need anything, please feel free to ask. I will be happy to help you in any way I can." In the hall, after the two of them took their seats as host and guest, Song Xian got straight to the point.

"I wouldn't come to your temple without a reason. May I ask, Fellow Daoist Song, whether the magic you cultivate can absorb flames?"

Hearing his words, Song Xian was shocked again. Could it be that he had seen through the secret of Xuantian Ronghuo Jue, or did he also know about the existence of Xuantian Ronghuo Jue?

He recalled that when the two of them entered the secret realm and encountered the Golden Crow Flame, Han Yuan had personally witnessed him absorbing the Golden Crow Flame.

His expression remained calm: "Why do you say that, Fellow Daoist Han?"

"Back in the Snake Island Secret Realm, I saw Fellow Daoist Song seemingly absorbing the golden flame. I don't know if it was due to his cultivation technique or some other reason. I have a difficult matter and need help from a cultivator or a treasure that can control the flames."

"So that's how it is." After hearing him say that, Song Xian felt a little relieved. As long as the secret of Xuantian Ronghuo Jue was not leaked, it would be fine.

"To be honest, my technique can indeed control certain types of fire, but not all fires."

"Then I wonder if you can deal with the Xuan Luo Yin Fire?"

(End of this chapter)