Chapter 660: Chapter 647: Let’s Make a Bet—I’ll Advance to Fourth Rank Tomorrow
"No! I can’t be vague with you on this point. It’s time to expand your wild imagination." Hu Ji said seriously: "Young Master Su, on the path of cultivation, time is limited, energy is limited. You can only choose one path and focus your efforts over ten thousand years. You will surely become a Heavenly Pride. If you are too greedy, you will end up achieving nothing."
"Ten thousand years of effort, is it that difficult?" Lin Xiaosu murmured.
"What do you think?"
"Then where exactly is the difficulty?"
"There are many difficult aspects!" Hu Ji said: "Not to mention the comprehension of the rules, which may take a thousand years without gaining anything, even achieving the Enlightenment Realm, as you just mentioned, is extremely difficult. To compress True Qi into True Yuan requires a lot of resources, but don’t ever think that having a lot of resources will quickly achieve success. Here is a Jiao Long Pill, considered the best resource for your current stage. You might as well try refining it and see how many years it takes to fully refine it!"
Hu Ji raised her hand, and a crystal-clear pearl was handed to Lin Xiaosu.
Lin Xiaosu took the pearl, surprised that such a small pearl could weigh hundreds of pounds, and the immense energy inside seemed to rush straight to his head.
"This Dragon Ball must be worth a fortune, Fairy you..."
"Aren’t you supposed to call me cousin?" Hu Ji rolled her eyes at him: "Now that I’m giving you some resources, you’re playing around and forgetting your cousin. If I had known earlier, I wouldn’t have given it."
"Cousin, you can’t do this, you’re so kind, I’ll truly confuse my Dao heart..."
Hu Ji chuckled, mesmerizingly: "This is not meant as a gift for you. I’m just using this pearl to teach you a principle: resources are indeed hard to come by, but time is even more troubling. My rough estimate is that refining this pearl will take you at least three years, and the actual energy you can absorb won’t exceed ten percent. You’ll understand by then... I’m leaving!"
As soon as the words fell, her figure was already gone.
Lin Xiaosu was stunned.
This girl comes and goes just like that, truly without a trace.
The room was all set up, yet she insisted on not staying for the night.
It seems that truly capturing this Great Power is not that easy.
Fortunately, there is still something exciting...
What exciting thing?
It’s what Hu Ji said.
She said: I use this pearl to tell you a principle: resources are indeed hard to come by, but time is even more troubling. You’ll need at least three years to refine this pearl, and the energy you’ll eventually absorb won’t exceed ten percent!
Is it really like that?
Lin Xiaosu raised his hand, the Dragon Ball entered the Secret Realm Space, and was sent into the turbulent flow of time and space.
With a light "puff!"
In his Secret Realm, suddenly light burst forth, as if stepping into a wondrous realm where ten thousand dragons strive.
Dragon energy crisscrossed, energy surged like tides...
Wildly rushing into his Gate of Creation, then transformed into two parts, one part converted to True Qi, filling his Sea of Reincarnation.
The other part, integrated into his flesh and blood.
His physical body was strengthening almost with every breath.
His True Qi was also increasing with each breath.
This is his way of refining, a very hard way, overturning the usual practices on the Cultivation Path.
Time passed, minute by minute.
Half a two-hour period.
One two-hour period.
Two two-hour periods.
Three two-hour periods...
Day passed, night came...
By the Liuxiang River, Lin Xiaosu remained still from day to night, from night to dawn.
No servant in the mansion disturbed him.
Qing Ying also stayed outside the Red Pavilion the whole time.
Until the eastern sky brightened with white light, another morning arrived.
In the Red Pavilion, Lin Xiaosu’s eyes suddenly opened, and in them was unmistakable exuberance.
In one day and one night, he refined the Jiao Long Pill that Hu Ji gave him.
This Jiao Long Pill was extraordinary.
In terms of level, it far surpassed the Fierce Beast Essence Crystals in the Heavenly Abyss.
Those Fierce Beast Essence Crystals could be taken and refined by Lin Xiaosu at any time, and he could feel the increase in True Qi, but overall it was just a trickle. But once this Jiao Long Pill was crushed, like a river flowing into the sea, his Sea of Reincarnation was quickly replenished with True Qi, completely filled up in one night.
If he was an ordinary cultivator, he should seize the moment and use this abundant energy to compress the True Yuan in the Sea of Reincarnation and cross that critical threshold to the Enlightenment Realm for cultivators.
However, his Sea of Reincarnation was different.
The Sea of Reincarnation was connected to all the meridians in his body, and at the end of the meridians were Minor Meridians.
Such an arrangement was equivalent to a lake connected to countless tributaries, and the abundant True Yuan in the Sea of Reincarnation could not be compressed but was instead flowing through the meridians all over the body, opening and diverting the flow.
Such a diversion lowered the pressure in the Sea of Reincarnation immensely, making compression impossible.
But Lin Xiaosu’s excitement was limitless.
This was his path to the Enlightenment Realm!
A unique path to Enlightenment!
Others worried about their Sea of Reincarnation being too small or too large, fearing insufficient power or not knowing when it would be full.
But he had no such worries.
His way of refining and absorbing resources was completely different from others.
While others refined Fierce Beast Essence Crystals layer by layer, slowly peeling, which took time and had significant loss.
He, however, didn’t peel slowly but directly sent them into the Space Secret Realm, puff! Crush!
Whether it’s the crushed residue or the energy, through the Gate of Creation, it is precisely delivered throughout the body. How is it delivered? Energy is sent to the Sea of Reincarnation, and even the residue is useful for consolidating the flesh.
It’s like an extremely precise, extremely abnormal, almost zero-loss system.
So, theoretically, as long as resources are sufficient, he can take a step that no one has ever taken before, achieving synchronized growth of both his physical body and cultivation.
Lin Xiaosu walked the path Hu Ji mentioned would take three years, in one day and one night.