Alien Science Cultivation

When Zhang Qiang recovered from his shock, he found that the bamboo leaf had returned to his dantian and was lying there comfortably. In desperation, Zhang Qiang had to quickly crawl out from the ground more than ten feet away. "No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat... let alone this one is not small... can't be wasted..." Thinking of this, Zhang Qiang began to clean up the corpse of the electric pig. "Damn... where's the beast pill..." After a moment, Zhang Qiang finally understood that the Burning Heaven Bamboo Leaf had pierced the beast pill from the head of the electric pig, directly absorbing all the lightning power in the beast pill, causing the beast pill to decompose. "It's powerful... but I don't know who the master is... Oh... I can't control it, and there are other bamboo leaves that need to be refined... If there is an obedient one, life will be much easier..." Zhang Qiang thought helplessly, his hands constantly cleaning up the corpse of the electric pig. After a moment, Zhang Qiang returned to the cave.

"Alright... clean up the top... This forest is incredibly vast. I thought we were deep inside... only to find we were still on the periphery... just a little deeper... At our speed, it'll probably take us a hundred years to reach the center... practice quickly..." Zhang Qiang complained. Chen Ying could only smile helplessly. After all, the map on the first floor of the Sutra Library only had images, not distances. On any planet, maps are extremely valuable. But in Zhang Qiang's mind, maps are like a few dollars worth of paper. This discrepancy is simply due to different experiences.

A moment later, Chen Ying entered a state of cultivation. As the sky brightened, the Guixu Qi within the underground river slowly dissipated, and the concentration of spiritual energy began to rapidly climb. Watching Chen Ying enter a state of meditation, Zhang Qiang estimated that it would take her two days to form a core again. So, he descended to the surface under the pretext of going up to check on the situation. Of course, just in case, Zhang Qiang summoned Black Gold to guard Chen Ying. After all, Black Gold was his mind beast, so he felt completely at ease.

Zhang Qiang, having reached the surface, searched for the Hybrid Electric Pig's lair. Using his spiritual sense, he constructed a shielding array resembling the Black Gold Cicada King's cave. While Zhang Qiang didn't understand arrays, he knew their materials like the back of his hand. Extracting the necessary molecules locally, he could easily construct a familiar array.

A moment later, Zhang Qiang's consciousness fully opened, and six black bamboo leaves slowly appeared before him. They were the Burning Heaven Bamboo Leaves he and the little fox had taken from the Immortal Tomb. Seeing the bamboo leaves still made Zhang Qiang's heart ache. He couldn't even break a single bamboo stalk, so he only had these few leaves... He couldn't even break the branches.

Despite the pain, Zhang Qiang began to concentrate on refining the bamboo leaves. This time, he planned to refine all six bamboo leaves in one go, not for anything else, but just to find an obedient one. As Zhang Qiang's cultivation level improved, the speed of refining bamboo leaves also increased. It used to take an hour to refine one leaf, but now it takes half an hour. In just three hours, he refined all the bamboo leaves. But he couldn't understand why all the bamboo leaves were concentrated in the first dantian, and not a single bamboo leaf was willing to go to the second and third dantian. Zhang Qiang was speechless. He really couldn't do anything about this group of "stubborn people".

Zhang Qiang withdrew his spiritual sense and ignored them. He reached a corner of the hybrid electric pigs' lair. He knew the hybrid electric pigs didn't have storage artifacts like space rings, so the treasure must be inside. This was why Zhang Qiang had gone to such great lengths to find the cave. His spiritual sense pulled out hundreds of beast cores from the void, along with a miscellaneous pile of skeletons, furs, and a battered katana. The scabbard was still covered in dirt, likely from the hybrid electric pigs grinding their teeth on the ground. After pulling out the blade, Zhang Qiang was utterly disappointed. Only half of the blade remained, the cut cleanly cut, as if it had been severed by some weapon. If the Netherworld Dagger hadn't also been tattered, Zhang Qiang probably wouldn't have bothered to pick it up, let alone pull it out. After a quick glance, he saw nothing remarkable about the katana and threw it to the ground. The moment the half-broken katana hit the ground, inertia rebounded back toward Zhang Qiang, its blade facing him. In an instant, sharp black blade rays shot towards Zhang Qiang at lightning speed. Zhang Qiang dodged at top speed, the blade's light glancing off his arm before landing on the wall, leaving a gash several feet deep. He thought the blade's light had missed him, but when he glanced back at his shoulder, traces of blood had already stained it red. "Damn... I was wrong again..." Zhang Qiang scoffed, controlling his consciousness to examine and repair the minor wound on his shoulder. Fortunately, it was just the blade's light, no other hidden injuries. "Just the blade's light alone cut me... This knife is truly remarkable... Could it be stained with some beast's blood?" Zhang Qiang thought, picking up the broken knife again and examining it closely, but found nothing. "Whether it's stained with beast's blood or not, it's still a remarkable knife... Big win!" With his heart trembling with excitement, Zhang Qiang didn't hesitate to drip a drop of his own blood onto it. However, blood dripped down the blade's edge, and the broken knife showed no reaction. "Damn... Could it be an innate spiritual treasure..." Zhang Qiang smiled instead. His excitement grew, and his trembling hands trembled even more. After a moment, Zhang Qiang, furious, dropped the dagger to the ground again. "Damn... it's nothing... what's the point of refining it..." After the blood drip recognition failed, the only thing that could possess such power was an innate spiritual treasure. And an innate spiritual treasure needs to be refined before it can recognize its master with a blood drip. As a result, Zhang Qiang's spiritual energy covered the blade, and when he was ready to refine it, he found that the blade was simply artificially cast, and there was no material that needed to be refined. However, an acquired spiritual treasure can recognize its master by a blood drip, but Zhang Qiang's blood drip recognition also failed, which means that this knife is below the spiritual weapon... or the owner is not dead yet. However, Zhang Qiang's spiritual sense searched the knife inside and out, but he did not find the mark of its owner. "Oh... how excited I am, how disappointed..."

On second thought, I decided to take it back. It would be nice to give it to a fellow disciple, or use it for close combat. After all, it is still quite sharp, and the material is also very strong, it can easily withstand Zhang Qiang's full force attack.

After putting away his dagger, Zhang Qiang settled down to his training, striving to cultivate more dan in his first and second dantians. By experiencing more thunder tribulations, he would strengthen his body. Time flew by, and a day passed. Chen Ying emerged from underground at dusk. With the arrival of dark clouds, Chen Ying's golden elixir tribulation began again. Zhang Qiang also appeared in mid-air, keeping a close eye on the situation. An hour later, Chen Ying successfully passed the thunder tribulation. This time, it seemed quite easy. In her words, this was due to the strengthening effect of the previous thunder tribulation on her body. Whether true or not, Zhang Qiang had to hurry to overcome the tribulation. Just as Chen Ying was undergoing the tribulation, several bamboo leaves in Zhang Qiang's body moved strangely, as if eager to absorb the energy from the thunder tribulation. Zhang Qiang gritted his teeth and immediately took up the spirit stone to absorb it. After the tribulation, Chen Ying returned underground, awaiting the return of the turbulent flow of Guixu Qi.