Chapter 182: Condensing the Purple Mansion
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
When Jiang Yi woke up, he realized that it was already the next afternoon; and he was even helped back to Zhan Wushuang’s courtyard in the Hidden Dragon Pavilion. He didn’t say anything; neither did he ask anything. He just ate something and began his cultivation.
After cultivating for an entire afternoon, Jiang Yi expression seemed to have regained his usual composure while he ate his dinner—as though nothing ever happened yesterday. Qian w.a.n.guan, Zhan Wushuang, and Zhan Lin’er weren’t so silly to go mention it either. After he ate and drank well, Jiang Yi suddenly asked as though he recalled something, “Fire Lingzhi. Do you guys know anything about it?”
“Fire Lingzhi?”
Zhan Wushuang and Qian w.a.n.guan looked at each other before the latter explained: “Of course, I know about it: it is the top ten spirit herbs of this continent. It is a mystical herb meant for cultivation, and it contained the purest heaven-and-earth energy. It’s an absolute item that one could only come across serendipitously!”
“It is so awesome?”
Jiang Yi understood about its effectiveness from that young master who was in the Great Xia Kingdom. When he heard how Qian w.a.n.guan explained it, he was rather shocked in his heart. Jiang Yi immediately asked, “How do you refine a Fire Lingzhi? Do you know about it?”
“Not sure!”
Qian w.a.n.guan shook his head and looked at Jiang Yi with suspicion, “Boss. Why are you asking this? Do you have the Fire Lingzhi?”
Jiang Yi didn’t say anything. Instead, with a thought in his mind, a spirit that looked like a fiery red mushroom appeared in his hands. Jiang Yi said, “This is the Fire Lingzhi, right? I got it inside of a volcano in the Mt. Fire Cloud.”
“Oh shoot!”
Qian w.a.n.guan jumped up from the shock while Zhan Wushuang was had a sobbing and admiring expression. Zhan Lin’er didn’t know of such things and looked at the Fire Lingzhi that glowed with a subtle red light with curiosity.
“Boss, keep it quickly! It would be a waste for the spirit energy to leak out.”
Qian w.a.n.guan quickly snapped out from his daze and turned to say with some regretful tone, “That is definitely a Fire Lingzhi. It is a pity that it is only about 100 years old. If it was a 1000-year or 10,000-year, then it would truly be amazing! There are rumors that a 10,000-year-old Fire Lingzhi could allow someone at the first stage of Purple Mansion Realm martial artist to directly break through to the peak stage of Purple Mansion Realm…”
“That incredible?!”
Jiang Yi’s eyes were releasing light as he urged, “Quickly! Go find out on how to refine this Fire Lingzhi! We are departing for the imperial capital tomorrow. I want to refine it tonight.”
“Yes!”
Qian w.a.n.guan ran out with agility and arranged with efficiency. It took just one hour for him to return—not only with a handwritten letter but also with a bottle of elixir.
“Boss, this is a letter from my clan that contains the information on how to refine the Fire Lingzhi. According to our Clan Elder, the Fire Lingzhi is a yang-type item; and it needs a yin-type elixir to harmonize with it.”
After Qian w.a.n.guan gave his explanation, he immediately spoke with a grave expression, “Boss, you are almost going to condense the Purple Mansion. If you are to refine this Fire Lingzhi now, it will waste a lot of the energy during the condensation of the Purple Mansion. Wouldn’t be such a waste? Why not wait until you break through to the Purple Mansion Realm before you refine it?”
Zhan Wushuang nodded in agreement. “The condensing of the Purple Mansion might only be for a short moment, but it would be too late to refine all the Fire Lingzhi’s energy. There surely would be some that dissipated. It would indeed be a pity!”
Back at the college, Jiang Yi had read of the resources about condensing of the Purple Mansion. He knew that when he was condensing the Purple Mansion, he would certainly not have any time to bother about the Fire Lingzhi. If he didn’t refine the energy in time, most of the energy would definitely scatter away.
The Kingdom War was imminent, and once Jiang Yi entered the Kingdom War, he would definitely have no time to refine it. If he was to die in the Kingdom War, it would be like gifting this Fire Lingzhi to the enemy. Finally, he muttered to himself for a moment and clenched his teeth before entering the room. He asked for Zhan Wushuang and Qian w.a.n.guan to protect him while he refined the Fire Lingzhi.
After reading over the letter in detail, Jiang Yi realized that refining the Fire Lingzhi was a simple process. He had to pay attention to the speed of refining. If the refinement speed was too fast, his meridians might burst apart from the surge of energy.
Zhan Wushuang and Qian w.a.n.guan sat on the ground while Liu Lao and Ji Lao quietly appeared in the hall, preventing anyone from coming in to interrupt. When Jiang Yi saw that everyone had finished their preparation, he didn’t say any more nonsense and consumed the Snow Yin Elixir before he took out the Fire Lingzhi and revolved his essence force to begin the refinement.
“Tsk-Tsk!”
As the essence force revolved around it, the Fire Lingzhi had a quick flash of red light before it started to gradually become smaller. Fiery red energy entered Jiang Yi’s meridians from his palm. Jiang Yi’s mind jolted as he promptly used his essence force to muster the fiery red energy, allowing it to slowly flow towards the dantian. Jiang Yi followed the circulation method written on the letter to trans.m.u.te the fiery red energy into blue essence force.
This energy is overwhelming! Just a small amount of it is enough to increase so much of my blue essence force!
Jiang Yi was silently overwhelmed. In just a short period of cultivation, his blue essence force had already filled up half of his dantian, and its color was turning pale blue. In just a while more, his dantian would be congested with essence forces. He would then be able to allow these essence force to undergo a qualitative change to condense the Purple Mansion!
Continue refining!
Jiang Yi didn’t concentrate on the refining of the Fire Lingzhi anymore; he even slightly increased the speed. The Fire Lingzhi slowly dissolved; Jiang Yi’s dantian was finally filled with essence force when the Fire Lingzhi was left with third-quarters of it. If he didn’t condense the Purple Mansion now, there would be no way to contain more essence force.
Begin condensing of the Purple Mansion!
Jiang Yi didn’t want to delay any more. If he didn’t condense the Purple Mansion, his dantian would not be able to store more energy. However—once the refinement of the Fire Lingzhi had begun, it couldn’t be stopped and couldn’t be stored in the Fire Spirit Pearl either. Otherwise, after a period of time, all the energy would just scatter away.
Jiang Yi already knew of the technique on condensation of the Purple Realm. At this moment, he didn’t have the luxury to be concerned about the Fire Lingzhi. He controlled the energy in the dantian and split it into two portions. He then formed a tai chi symbol with the yin and yang fishes that rotated.
No, that’s not right—
As the rotation began, Jiang Yi’s body suddenly shuddered as he found out about a problem! His dantian was indeed filled up, but he forgot that his dantian had another kind of essence force. The black essence force!
The black essence force didn’t have any conflict with the blue essence force and was even able to blend together; Jiang Yi had been storing it in his dantian without any concern for it. Earlier, his entire concentration were on the Fire Lingzhi and the condensing of the Purple Mansion Realm, making him forgot about it. Now that he was gathering the essence force, he realized that it was mixed with a few hundred wisps of black essence forces.
What should I do now?
Jiang Yi was in a dilemma. If he was to channel all the black essence forces and store it in the meridians, it would affect the condensing of the Purple Mansion. If there was any conflict, it would be a big problem. If he was to force it out of his body, it would certainly take up a lot of time; and the Fire Lingzhi’s energy would be depleted.
Forget about it!
Jiang Yi gritted his teeth and continued to rotate the essence forces. Since the black essence force was able to blend with the blue essence force—and it felt like it was omnipotent, there shouldn’t be any problem to use the black essence force as a replacement during the condensing of the Purple Mansion, right? Moreover, there were only about a few hundred wisps of black essence force. When compared to the blue essence forces, it was too little and should not be of any impact.
The two lumps of essence force were spinning quickly in the dantian. It felt like two giant dragons trying to chase and bite each other. As Jiang Yi used his mind to control it, the rotations got faster and faster until it formed a whirlpool.
Dantian trans.m.u.ted, Purple Mansion condensed!
As the rotations of the essence force reached its limit, Jiang Yi roared in his heart when the whirlpool got larger and larger. During that instant, the dantian glowed up; and the essence forces were radiating as the rotations doubled in speed. The most mystical thing happened!
In the center of the whirlpool in the dantian, a model of a purple divine mansion was formed. That divine mansion started out small—about the size of a soybean. The instant when the Purple Mansion appeared, the essence force quickly vanished from the dantian and gathered towards the Purple Mansion while the Purple Mansion gradually grew bigger.
Finally, all the essence force in the dantian vanished; and the Purple Mansion was now the size of longan and was peacefully suspending the middle of the dantian. It gave off a subtle blue light; it looked sacred and imposing—like it was an immortal’s mansion up in the nine heavens.