Once I enter the pass, great Confucian scholars will surely debate the classics for me.

In the outer courtyard of the city lord's mansion, a tower is built upon white bones.

Butler Qiu and Zhou Qingfeng stood outside the tower gate. Butler Qiu reminded Zhou Qingfeng of the precautions to take when leaping through the realm and ascending the steps. After giving a few more instructions, he said no more: "Disciple, your master is waiting for your good news."

"Rest assured, Master." Zhou Qingfeng clasped his hands in a salute, then turned and strode into the White Bone Foundation Building Tower.

I chose a practice room and closed the door.

He sat cross-legged on the futon.

Zhou Qingfeng took out the materials for climbing the steps from his storage bag.

The bones of those who died from the plague were placed in urns.

The internal organs of people who died of famine were preserved in wine jars.

The blood of those who died violently in battle was preserved in glass bottles.

These three materials are necessary for climbing the steps.

Because these three items contain a strong aura of the Three Calamities, cultivators who wish to transcend realms and advance to higher levels cannot do without them. Once they reach the Calamity Realm, their life level will experience a great leap forward.

According to "A Complete Guide to the Basics of Eating Turbid Qi".

Beings in this defiled world are like those who have fallen into an endless sea of ​​suffering.

[Consuming the impure air means merging into this sea of ​​suffering, nourishing oneself with the sustenance of all beings in this sea of ​​suffering.]

When one becomes powerful enough, and then consumes the energy of the Three Calamities, the Three Calamities will converge, transforming into a boat that allows one to temporarily escape the sea of ​​suffering and gain a foothold within it.

When Zhou Qingfeng first saw this scene, he was amazed.

Now that he's about to try it, Zhou Qingfeng can't help but feel a little excited.

Zhou Qingfeng took out the Three Calamities Formation Diagram and placed the three materials in three corners respectively.

Then he sat cross-legged in the middle of the array diagram.

Then he took out the Heart-Nourishing Pill and the Blood-Increasing and Bone-Strengthening Pill and placed them in front of him.

When I'm hungry, I take a blood-enhancing and bone-strengthening pill. It can both strengthen my body and satisfy my hunger. This stuff is a good thing.

As for the Heart-Nourishing Pill, Zhou Qingfeng has been taking it continuously.

Once the effects of the drug wear off, continue taking it.

Anyway, I've had enough Heart-Nourishing Pills during this seclusion. Focusing on cultivation and accumulating my mana to two thousand coins shouldn't be too difficult.

Two months have passed in the blink of an eye.

Zhou Qingfeng finally accumulated two thousand coins of magical power, and then cast a divination for himself.

[Auspicious! Ascending the steps at this time brings great fortune and good luck.]

"I wish to inquire about the realm of food disaster, where the three disasters combine to form a boat."

"Come on, leap into the realm and ascend the steps!"

Without hesitation, Zhou Qingfeng took out a bottle of Cleansing Heart Pills and poured them into his mouth, then held the Disaster-Eating Hand Seal in both hands.

He used his own magical power to activate the Three Calamities Array, controlling the Three Calamities Qi contained in the materials to gather on his own body.

When the energy of the three calamities surged into his body, Zhou Qingfeng finally understood what extreme pain and despair meant.

The scourge of famine assaulted his body.

A wave of hunger swept through his body, and his muscles quickly became withered under the onslaught of the famine. His eyes turned bloodshot with hunger, and his face became ferocious, as if he wanted to transform into a demon and devour people.

The plague made him realize what it meant to be terminally ill and suffer terribly.

The alternating hot and cold caused his body to fester and vomit blood incessantly. His bones shattered like mirrors, and in the blink of an eye, the plague virus spread throughout his body, rapidly producing countless germs.

The aura of bloodshed washed over his body, making it glow with a bloody light and filled with the aura of violent death. Blood flowed from his seven orifices and seeped from his pores, making him look like a vengeful ghost from hell, the most monstrous of demons.

No cultivator at the Turbid Mirror realm could withstand the onslaught of the Three Calamities Qi through sheer willpower, let alone leapfrog into a higher realm.

Fortunately, the Mind-Cleansing Pill took effect at this time.

Zhou Qingfeng's mind became incredibly calm, as if he had entered a third-person perspective, allowing him to calmly absorb the energy of the Three Calamities.

It uses the calamity of plague to cleanse the flesh and bones, the calamity of famine to cleanse the five internal organs, and the calamity of bloodshed to cleanse the essence and blood.

This is a complete transformation, so the more of the Three Calamities Qi you absorb, the more benefits you will receive.

If only the physical body is cleansed once.

One can also leapfrog to the realm of food disaster.

However, the body can only hold a small amount of magical power.

The speed at which you absorb the energy of the Three Calamities will slow down in the future.

Although one may repeatedly use the energy of the Three Calamities to cleanse the body and repair the foundation afterward, it will consume a lot of time and energy.

Conversely, if one refines twenty times, that is twenty times the cultivation speed and twenty times the capacity of one refinement.

The former has a shallow foundation and can only stumble along, trying to improve their foundation while practicing, which can be described as doing twice the work for half the result.

The latter has a deep foundation, high magical power capacity, and fast cultivation speed, smoothly reaching the Devouring Fiend Realm.

All of this depends on having sufficient physical strength.

And one must also have sufficient magical power.

More importantly, the process must be conducted with a pure heart.

Otherwise, one will immediately descend into madness, which is extremely dangerous.

Magic power can control the speed and amount of the three calamities entering the body, which tests the strength of one's magic power.

If one's magical power is less than a hundred coins, they will not be able to refine their magic in one go, and the Three Calamities will cause them to lose control and backfire, resulting in failure to advance.

The physical body must withstand the pollution and erosion of the three calamities. If the physical body is not strong enough, it will quickly collapse and degenerate.

Maintaining a pure mind allows one to calmly complete the leap to higher realms even when the physical body is polluted by the three calamities.

In the blink of an eye, six days and six nights had passed.

The food disaster array diagram was left with a large amount of blood, flesh, and bone fragments.

Zhou Qingfeng completely absorbed all the materials from the urn, wine jar, and glass bottle containing the three calamities, making the most of them.

Zhou Qingfeng, having refined himself twenty times, successfully reached the Food Calamity Realm, his body radiating a thin layer of scarlet light.

This is a characteristic of manifesting magical power.

The realm of food turbidity is black.

The realm of the food disaster is scarlet.

The realm of the Devouring Fiend is cyan.

One can judge a cultivator's level of cultivation by observing the outward manifestation of their magical power.

Zhou Qingfeng is now a being wholly possessed by the Three Calamities, and from now on he will be able to survive fasting, be immune to all poisons, and be unharmed by weapons.

Only cultivators of the same or higher level can harm him, but unfortunately his lifespan remains unchanged at several decades.

However, lifespan is something that can be obtained at will once one possesses invincible power.

The most straightforward and brutal method used by those who follow evil paths is to extract the lifespan of mortals to extend their own. If a mortal lives for sixty years, they can extract the lifespan of tens of thousands of mortals in one go. To achieve immortality, that's an easy thing.

Those who are more discerning seek out rare and precious materials and hunt demons and monsters.

Various secret methods and elixirs can be used to extend lifespan.

However, in this turbid and evil world, it is easy to live forever, but difficult to avoid death.

Without great power, having an endless lifespan is useless; in the end, one is nothing more than fish on a chopping board.

"This magical power is so evil. If I continue to cultivate it, what will become of me?"

Zhou Qingfeng summoned his inner power, looking at the scarlet power in his palm that was filled with calamity and evil.

After a moment of silence, he stopped thinking about it, because it was pointless. In this turbid world, there was only one way to become stronger, and there was no turning back.

He took out the magic coins and infused them with magical power.

Retest your mana capacity.

The magic power of 2000 coins has not been reduced.

It was simply transformed into magical power containing the energy of the Three Calamities.

In the past, magical powers absorbed the impure energy of heaven and earth, and were not picky about what they ate; they could consume any type of impure energy, so they were mixed and unbalanced.

But that's no longer possible. From now on, cultivators at the Calamity-Eating Realm can only consume turbid energy like the Qi of the Three Calamities to increase their magical power.

This is not a good thing for cultivators in the Food Disaster Realm who fight alone.

Being picky about food means there are fewer things that can increase magical power, and the conditions for cultivation become more demanding.