Eternal Life: My Talents Can Refresh

Chapter 667: Chapter 286: Middle Stage of Golden Core, Geng Metal Spirit Body

After purchasing the desired spirit medicine and demon core, Chu Ning returned to his cave mansion and began mass-producing elixirs.

He then started a six-month secluded cultivation.

During these six months, Chu Ning refined a drop of Snow Crystal Mushroom Spiritual Liquid each month.

The rest of the time, he either relied on the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi for cultivation or used the elixirs he refined to cultivate.

The Five Elements Chaos Technique was rapidly improving at nearly 300 skill points per month, and his magical power cultivation was also continuously advancing.

After half a year, Chu Ning emerged from seclusion, went to Frost Moon Pavilion to purchase some spirit medicine materials, and began seclusion once again.

In this way, a half-year cycle continued, and Chu Ning’s time spent in the Ice Island Immortal City increased year by year.

From time to time, Chu Ning would interact and communicate with a few Golden Core Cultivators in the Immortal City.

He would even occasionally participate in the trade fairs of the Frost Moon Pavilion.

With frequent chats, he also inquired about methods to travel from the Northern Cold Land to the Western Alliance Continent.

However, he did not find an answer.

Even the Golden Core Cultivators, in the eyes of most cultivators, were already unattainable beings.

But these Golden Core Cultivators had spent their entire lives in the Northern Cold Land and had not traveled elsewhere.

This was the same as most Golden Core Cultivators from the Western Alliance Continent before.

Every half a year when leaving seclusion, Chu Ning would take Ling Xiaobai and two Golden Thunder Eagles to the sea to hunt demon beasts.

Occasionally, he would also take a trip to the Snow Peak Mountain Range.

But he adhered to the principle of safety, and at most only visited places inhabited by Sixth Level Demon Beasts.

He did not provoke those Seventh Level Demon Beasts that could rival the Golden Core Late Stage.

Over the years, not many unexpected incidents occurred.

By the sixth year, Ling Xiaobai entered the Promotion Stage and began to fall into slumber.

By the seventh year, Chu Ning’s cultivated Gold Spirit Root, nurtured with Spirit Charm, was completed after fifteen years of effort.

This Spirit Root became the strongest among Chu Ning’s Five Elements Spirit Roots.

He carefully sensed it and found it could rival a Gold Attribute Celestial Spirit Root!

This was naturally because he had condensed three strands of Spirit Charm.

With the cultivation of a Gold Spirit Root that could rival a Celestial Spirit Root, Chu Ning theoretically could practice the gold attribute cultivation method of the Five Elements Chaos Technique.

After all, an existence comparable to a Celestial Spirit Root would absorb spiritual qi at an undeniably fast pace.

However, Chu Ning did not rush to the practice.

Because by this point, his Five Elements Chaos Technique was nearly at First Layer Perfection.

Simultaneously, Chu Ning could feel that when the Five Elements Chaos Technique reached First Layer Perfection.

It would be the moment he advanced to the Middle Stage of Golden Core.

Thus, Chu Ning wholeheartedly entered another period of intense secluded cultivation.

A year passed in the blink of an eye, and eight years had already passed since the opening of Snow Mist Valley.

That day, Chu Ning, dressed in a blue robe, walked out of the cultivation room and came before the Snow Crystal Ganoderma.

After a slight examination, he sat directly in the courtyard.

Savoring a sip of spirit tea brewed with Yuqing Spring Water from atop the Snow Peak, he examined the skill proficiency in his mind.

[Five Elements Chaos Technique (Celestial Tier Middle Grade), First Layer (49987/50000)]

[Nine Derivations Body Refining Technique, Volume Two, Second Layer (23600/90000)]

[Refining Spirit Technique, Fourth Layer (57045/64000)]

"After harvesting the Snow Crystal Mushroom Spiritual Liquid tomorrow and consuming one more drop, I should be able to break through to First Layer Perfection in the Five Elements Chaos Technique."

Chu Ning thought to himself, feeling a sense of anticipation.

In fact, he still had Snow Crystal Mushroom Spiritual Liquid in his possession.

After all, in previous years, Chu Ning could collect four drops every three months but only consumed three.

Over the years, he accumulated dozens of drops.

But as the Five Elements Chaos Technique approached the pinnacle of the First Layer, perhaps facing a breakthrough juncture, its improvement speed noticeably slowed.

Previously, one drop could increase his skill points by about 200, but recently, only around 100 points.

Thus, Chu Ning’s consumption of Snow Crystal Mushroom Spiritual Liquid increased.

And since the Snow Crystal Mushroom Spiritual Liquid could be collected tomorrow, Chu Ning was unwilling to waste time on recondensing the liquid.

Ever since Ling Xiaobai, this little fellow, entered slumber due to promotion, the time to condense spiritual liquid from the Snow Crystal Ganoderma had lengthened.

Even with daily use of the Profound Spring Youth Technique by Chu Ning, it still took about five months to condense the liquid.

However, the Snow Crystal Ganoderma seemed to enjoy the process of being hastened to maturity by Chu Ning and Ling Xiaobai.

Since the two teamed up to hasten its maturity, it never fled again.

After finishing a cup of spirit tea, Chu Ning did not immediately return to the cultivation room.

He opened his mouth and spat out a blood-red thin light.

This thin light flashed and disappeared quickly.

After directly piercing through a large metal piece prepared by Chu Ning, it fell into a restriction ahead.

Then, after circling around, it returned to Chu Ning’s side and was swallowed back by him.

Blood Cloud Needle!

The technique Chu Ning just used was the secret technique, Blood Cloud Needle, acquired from Gu Feng.

The Spirit Earth Shadow Escape Technique of Yun Qianshan was something Chu Ning had learned long before planting the Snow Crystal Ganoderma.

The Blood Cloud Needle, on the other hand, was only truly practiced a few years ago when he had some leisure time.

Before that, Chu Ning had intentionally gathered information.

During interactions with Chang Lingshan and others, he learned about various secret techniques of major forces in the Northern Cold Land.

No one had mentioned the Blood Cloud Needle.

Moreover, this secret method was carried by Gu Feng and not recorded on a jade scroll but on some ancient material unknown to Chu Ning.