Chapter 71: The Golden Elixir Stage (Part 1)
Three more deliveries, as expected, with two more to follow.
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After more than a month of closed-door cultivation, with the help of the mind method mentioned in "The Volume of Inquiring into the Dao" and sufficient support from spiritual stones, Yi Feng successfully condensed his Golden Elixir.
In the lower abdomen, a round bead slightly larger than a grain of rice is emitting dazzling light, complementing the thousand-year-old golden bamboo and sword heart, making the entire purple mansion's elixir field appear completely bright.
The process of forming the Golden Elixir is quite simple, at least in Yifeng's opinion it's not too complicated. The spiritual energy in the dantian and the meridians continuously condenses, then rapidly rotates in the dantian with the assistance of the heart method, causing the energy to gradually solidify. As long as the energy is sufficient, once the boundary is reached, the Golden Elixir will naturally take shape.
During the process of Jie Dan, a small unexpected event actually occurred. However, after inquiring with Zhan Tian, he said it was nothing serious, which is good news, so Yi Feng didn't take it to heart.
That unexpected thing is——
When the spiritual energy forms a vortex in the dantian, it pulls the sword heart and the thousand-year-old geng jin bamboo to rotate rapidly together. The energy in the sword heart and the energy in the thousand-year-old geng jin bamboo both infiltrate into the vortex more or less.
After the golden elixir was formed, Yifeng found that the thousand-year-old Geng Jin bamboo had shrunk to one-fifth of its original size, and the light on Jianxin's sword had also dimmed by three points. However, Yifeng, who had just condensed the golden elixir, had a golden elixir that was much stronger than that of ordinary golden elixir cultivators in terms of both power and size. Judging from the fluctuations in the golden elixir's aura, Zhantian said that Yifeng actually already possessed mid-stage golden elixir abilities.
However, the Millennium Geng Jin Bamboo as Yi Feng's Golden Spiritual Root suffered such a loss, which still had an impact on Yi Feng's strength; Moreover, the decline in the quality of Jian Xin would also affect the attacking power of Yi Feng's swordsmanship.
For this, Yi Feng thought of absorbing the spiritual energy from the Ling Stone to make up for it, but found that the effect was very poor. The spiritual energy in the Ling Stone flowed into the Dantian along the meridians, and more than 90% of it was absorbed by the Golden Dan, with only a small part flowing into the Thousand-Year Geng Jin Bamboo, while the Sword Heart did not absorb the gentle and soft spiritual energy at all.
Helpless, Yi Feng took out another elixir of San Tou Snake and absorbed the contained demonic energy into his body.
After the demonic energy entered the dantian, it was exactly opposite to the spiritual energy provided by the ling stone. Ninety percent of it was absorbed by the thousand-year-old geng jin bamboo, and only a small amount was accepted by the golden elixir. However, the sword heart remained unmoved.
It seems that Jian Xin's cultivation requires continuous practice to improve. Yi Feng doesn't mind this, anyway, he still has a long way to go in his sword path cultivation, and there will be many opportunities for Jian Xin to be tempered in the future, so it's not worried about not making progress.
The demon core of the three-headed snake was a bit slow in helping the thousand-year-old Geng Jin bamboo, so the impatient Yi Feng directly absorbed all the demon infants of the three-headed snakes, leaving only the fish-headed Jiao and the four-headed golden line snake's demon infant.
A dozen or so demon infants, with a rich and abundant demonic energy, not only quickly restored the thousand-year-old Geng Jin bamboo to its original state, but also caused it to grow several times larger. However, Yi Feng soon discovered that the thousand-year-old Geng Jin bamboo seemed to have changed color significantly.
Upon careful consideration, it was discovered that the Thousand Year Golden Bamboo is a golden attribute spirit object, while the Three-Headed Snake's attributes are extremely mixed. A large amount of fusion into the Thousand Year Golden Bamboo will inevitably weaken its golden attribute.
Yi Feng indeed stopped absorbing the demonic yuan force, but found that after stopping the absorption of the demonic yuan force, the color of the thousand-year-old Geng Jin bamboo began to slowly change back to gold, as if it could transform those mixed demonic yuan forces into a more general form.
Since that's the case, Yi Feng no longer worried about the Thousand Year Geng Jin Bamboo problem and naturally wouldn't continue to absorb it. What if the Thousand Year Geng Jin Bamboo's transformation ability was limited, and his own absorbed Yao Yuan force happened to exceed this limit? He would regret it then.
