Chapter 20 - Xiantian Stage (Part 2)
Immediately, Gu Hai sat down with his legs crossed and both hands placed on his knees, awaiting the actions of the Clear River Sect Chief.
Whereupon, the Clear River Sect Chief approached and made a seal with his hands before a breeze suddenly started blowing all around Gu Hai, and a light-purplish ma.s.s of Qi surged towards Gu Hai"s body.
BOOM!
The purplish ma.s.s of Qi suddenly shook before it scattered at the periphery of Gu Hai’s body.
"En? What happened? I just use Spirit Qi to probe the situation inside your body, but why was it blocked?" the Clear River Sect Chief asked in some surprise.
"Supreme Immortal, it did not scatter. When it entered my body, 99% of it was automatically dispersed!" Gu Hai said in an agonized tone.
"What?" The congregation of Clear River Sect disciples had looks of surprise on their faces.
It had been automatically dispersed?
"Supreme Immortal, my natural endowment is quite bad; therefore, I had to ask Supreme Immortal to act. I need a big impact of Qi to succeed, or else only one percent of the Spirit Qi will enter my body, which would gradually disperse. The Houtian True Qi has been completely acc.u.mulated in my dantian, I just need a huge impact. Therefore, I request supreme immortal to act with full force!" Gu Hai explained once again.
The Clear River Sect Chief nodded and said, "Your natural endowment is indeed quite bad. However, don"t you worry; since I have promised, I will definitely help you advance!"
"Thank you greatly, supreme immortal!"
"Concentrate on your dantian and feel the Spirit Qi pouring into your body!" the Clear River Sect Chief said with a solemn tone.
"Yes!"
Gu Hai sunk his mind into his dantian. Gu Hai"s dantian was small yet it bore a large amount of purplish Qi, which was the True Qi within Gu Hai"s body. At this instant, he had already reached the complete Houtian Stage, and his True Qi had been acc.u.mulated to the limit; he was unable to advance even by an inch.
The Clear River Sect Chief waved his hand, "The Spirit Qi of heaven and earth, gather around me!"
Swis.h.!.+
All of a sudden, winds started blowing towards Clear River Sect Chief while his body started to glow. The winds seemed to have a sight purplish aura intermixed with them, which flowed along the body of the Clear River Sect Chief and down towards his palms.
BOOM!
The Clear River Sect Chief slammed his palm upon Gu Hai"s back.
Whereupon Gu Hai trembled, but his eyes remained closed.
At this moment, a large amount of True Qi within his dantian suddenly started to seethe.
BAM BAM BAM
The seething True Qi circulated quickly. However, Gu Hai dared not slack; his mind was completely focused on his dantian.
"Your rubbish const.i.tution only absorbed one percent even though I had exhausted all my power to pour a large amount of True Qi into your body? And the rest isn"t wasted?"
"Everyone, gather around, help me squeeze all the overflowing Spirit Qi into Gu Hai"s body!" the Clear River Sect Chief said in a solemn tone.
"Yes!" The Congregation of Clear River Sect disciples immediately stood up and gathered around Gu Hai.
"Let"s start!"
BOOM!
The ten Clear River Sect disciples acted all together and seemed to have created a huge force field that squeezed the overspilling Spirit Qi of heaven and earth into Gu Hai"s body.
BAM BAM BAM!
Gu Hai"s entire body trembled, and even though most of the Spirit Qi was overflowing, there was still a large amount surging into Gu Hai"s dantian.
BAM BAM BAM!
After the Spirit Qi entered Gu Hai"s dantian, the True Qi within his dantian seemed to have transformed into countless worms in Gu Hai"s eyes. The True Qi worms went all out to greedily devour the Spirit Qi of heaven and earth. When a worm had devoured a large amount of Spirit Qi, it would suddenly split into two.
As the amount of True Qi within Gu Hai"s dantian increased, the True Qi started to seethe even more severely.
However, it was still insufficient, it seemed that it was far from reaching the limit.
Whereas on the outside, the Clear River Sect Chief"s face twitched, "It"s indeed impossible to carve a rotten piece of wood!"
At this instance, the congregation of Clear River Sect disciples stared at Gu Hai with their eyes wide open.
They all now came to realize that Gu Hai"s const.i.tution was poor, but it could not be any more ridiculous?! Even the brunt of Ten Golden Core Stages, and a Nascent Soul Stage cultivator full force, they were unable to help him break through? It was simply akin to a fantasy.
Everyone had unleashed their full force, nevertheless, there weren"t any signs of Gu Hai"s breakthrough even after half an hour.
The Clear River Sect Chief"s face was red with anger; what kind of broken const.i.tution was this?
After having unleashed their complete strength for half an hour, the Clear River Sect Chief was feeling a bit unhappy. Gu Hai was truly a scourge; had he known this ahead of time, he would have never promised to help.
Just as the Clear River Sect Chief was about to give up in anger, the Lady Hall Lord and other walked into the small courtyard.
"Oh? You have already started?" the Lady Hall Lord asked with an inquisitive smile on her lips.
Since the Lady Hall Lord had arrived, naturally, the Clear River Sect Chief could not stop. He could only grit his teeth and continue.
However, Gu Hai"s body was like a bottomless cave; even a tempest of heaven and earth Spirit Qi was unable to make Gu Hai break through.
"A Nascent Soul Stage cultivator and ten Golden Core Stage cultivators are mobilizing the heaven and earth True Qi to give him a boost, and yet are unable to help him break through?" Grandmaster Liunian was a bit surprised.
The Lady Hall Lord also frowned and said, "How did he even cultivate to the peak of Houtian Stage?"
Everyone suddenly became solemn.
"If it"s still insufficient, use the spirit stones!" the Clear River Sect Chief shouted in a loud voice.
"Yes!" the congregation of Clear River Sect disciples replied.
Soon after, everyone took out a fist-sized, colorful stone.
"Let"s start!"
Along with a thunderous shout, the colorful stones immediately burst forth dazzling, colorful lights, before visible, colorful streams of Qi surged into Gu Hai.
BOOM!
Once again, Gu Hai trembled.
"Such a huge amount of Spirit Qi is actually unable to injure him? The body of an External Strength cultivator is indeed very strong!" Grandmaster Liunian said with a frown.
The girl repeatedly nodded in a solemn manner.
"Forget about his const.i.tution, activate the spirit stones completely! I don"t believe it!" the Clear River Sect Chief said with a hideous look on his face.
"Yes!" the Congregation of Clear River Sect disciples replied.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
As billowing Spirit Qi surged into Gu Hai...
The purplish True Qi inside Gu Hai"s dantian continue to increase and acc.u.mulate, the color turned to dark purple from light purple. While his True Qi was seething, it slowly started to move counterclockwise before it gradually started spinning.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
The whirl of billowing True Qi seemed to be emitting thunderclaps one after another.
On the outside...Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!
All the spirit stones in the hands of Clear River Sect Chief and the others turned into white powder.
"Sect Chief, all the Spirit Qi within the spirit stones seemed to have been expended!?" a Clear River Sect disciple asked in confusion.
"Keep on going, we are definitely going to help him attack the Xiantian Stage!" The Clear River Sect Chief ordered with a grimace on his face.
At this point, the Clear River Sect was at loggerheads. If we"re going to squander, let"s squander it, then! Let"s see how many can you consume!
Once again, everyone took out a spirit stone and began to pour the Spirit Qi into Gu Hai"s body.
Inside Gu Hai"s dantian, the purple True Qi whirl started to accelerate.
It seemed as though the whirl could increase the s.p.a.ce for more True Qi as it rotated.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
It spun faster and faster.
Gu Hai kept on staring at the True Qi whirl; in his heart, he too was extremely anxious. It"s still not enough, it"s still not enough!
Outside, the Clear River Sect Chief threw the dust of spirit stone in his hand away, once again took out a spirit stone, and continue to pour in the Spirit Qi thereafter. After a while, the Spirit Qi in the spirit stone was once again expended, whereupon they once again took out a spirit stone.
Everyone forgot how many times they had repeated the same process over and over again; all that was left was the ever-increasing dust around their feet.
At the beginning when the Clear River Sect Chief was at loggerheads, his face had a grim look on his face. However, gradually the grim look was replaced by dripping cold sweat.
What is going on?
I have already expended dozens of spirit stones, why has he still not broken through? Who the h.e.l.l is he? Isn"t he just a Houtian Stage cultivator who wants to break through Xiantian Stage?
"Sect Chief, I"m out of spirit stones!" a Clear River Sect disciple said in an agonized tone.
"Continue!" The Clear River Sect Chief took out a bunch of spirit stones and threw them to everyone.
As they continued, a huge amount of Spirit Qi surged into Gu Hai"s body, but an even huger amount of Spirit Qi dispersed in all directions.
Although a group of powerful experts was suppressing the Spirit Qi, they still couldn"t stop it from dispersing.
"This-this is basically wasting resources!" The Song Jia Sect Chief was at loss.
"That"s wrong!" Grandmaster Liunian said with a frown.
"Oh?"
"It"s not going to waste; rather it seems, it seems that Gu Hai"s dantian is too picky! The Spirit Qi is a mixture of various types of energy, Gu Hai"s dantian is taking one percent which is the best part!?" Grandmaster Liunian conjectured.
"Can he be picky in True Qi also?" the girl said with surprise.
"The True Qi cultivated from using external techniques should be somewhat different than the True Qi cultivated using the internal exercises!" Grandmaster Liunian shook his head and said with a frown.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Billowing Spirit Qi continued to pour into Gu Hai.
The complexion of the Clear River Sect Chief, on the other hand, became terribly gloomy. He had already expended a thousand spirit stones and this Gu Hai had yet to break through!?
"Hall Lord, I don"t have sufficient spirit stones!" the Clear River Sect Chief said in anguish.
The Lady Hall Lord said while watching, "Continue!"
Having said that, she glanced at her subordinate beside her who was dressed in azure robes. Whereupon, the subordinate quickly took out eleven purple stones.
"High-grade spirit stones?" The Clear River Sect Chief"s eyes lit up.
Everyone quickly used the high-grade spirit stones and directly poured a large amount of Spirit Qi into Gu Hai"s body.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
The billowing True Qi madly started rotating, while at the center, a vortex gradually appeared. The vortex seemed to be s.h.i.+mmering as though it was the carrier of an enormous force.
As the whirl of Qi spun faster and faster, its power grew stronger and stronger, as if it was pressing all the True Qi towards the vortex.
Thunderclaps rang forth in Gu Hai"s mind, yet he endured and quietly kept on looking inside his dantian.
BOOM!
Like a thunder from the high heaven, a thunderous explosion rang out.
Suddenly, at the center of the whirl, the True Qi liquified. More than half of the billowing True Qi seemed to have been removed in the blink of an eye and condensed into a purple liquid at the centermost position of the whirl.
BOOM!
Suddenly, a shock wave burst forth from Gu Hai. Thereafter, everyone stopped immediately.
Crack! Crack! Crack! Crack!
The high-grade stones in everyone"s hand turned into dust.
At this moment, the Clear River Sect Chief was drenched in perspiration. He looked at Gu Hai in shock and doubt. "Were-were you really a Houtian Stage cultivator? Why is your breakthrough to Xiantian Stage as preposterous as a Golden Core Stage cultivator"s?"
Hummm!
Slight purplish beams of light radiated from all over Gu Hai as though pitch black impurities were oozing out from his pores.
"Finally, he broke through!" Grandmaster Liunian"s eyes flickered with many emotions.
A part of Gu Hai"s mind was fused with the purple liquid in his dantian. A lot of True Qi was rotating around the purple liquid, as if it was a king who had all the True Qi at his command.
"Xiantian Stage, condensing Qi into Yuan!" Gu Hai suddenly opened his eyes.