Chapter 863: Chapter 863: Liquid Elemental Energy
Chen Guan hurriedly used the Secret Technique of One, frantically absorbing the massive amount of primordial energy here.
If it were another cultivator, even one who has reached the Ninth Awakening, the upgrading speed here would soar like a rocket.
But as Chen Guan absorbed the primordial energy that was like clouds and mist, he still felt his body was extremely empty inside.
The primordial energy in the cave visibly disappeared, continuously permeating inward from the crevices of the stone cave.
The penetration speed couldn’t keep up with Chen Guan’s absorption speed, and the primordial energy inside his body didn’t feel significantly better.
Ordinary cultivators have only one or two primordial energy seas, at most just three: upper, middle, and lower.
Having more is not impossible, but like Chen Guan, whose entire body is composed of primordial energy seas, he might be the only one of such kind in the current world.
Others’ few primordial energy seas cannot compare with his body where every cell can be used as a sea of primordial energy, with an incomparable holding capacity.
Chen Guan’s entire body is like a universe, and each cell is a sea of primordial energy. How much energy it can contain, even Chen Guan himself is not sure.
As of now, he already has a limit of ten billion primordial energies, and he still doesn’t feel his body unable to contain them.
Now, even with the frantic absorption of energy, there is no sense of significant improvement, given this speed, even with such thick pure energy help, it might take years of day and night cultivation to level up even a single level.
"Earlier when the woman was cultivating, the surrounding energy was drawn into the pool, if absorption was that fast, it might only take a few months to level up," Chen Guan thought to himself, his thoughts involuntarily returning to that woman.
It’s hard to understand at this moment what the woman’s background is, but it’s certain that she’s so powerful even King Ji dares not provoke her; otherwise, he wouldn’t have set up a telescope here to observe, not daring to use any secret skills for fear of being discovered.
Currently, Chen Guan cannot determine whether King Ji’s observation is solely on the woman or on everything that enters the pool on the opposite mountain.
Chen Guan let Ming Fei detach from him, then looked at her and asked, "Do you know where this place is?"
Ming Fei’s expression was somewhat odd: "I don’t know what this place is, but in the Great Cave Heaven, it’s probably hard to find such pure natural primordial energy; this place is either the Celestial Secret Realm or a forbidden zone in the Great Cave Heaven where no living person should enter."
"Use this to take a look, don’t use any secret skills." Chen Guan pointed to the telescope.
Ming Fei leaned over, looked outside for a while, and was silent for a long time without any noise or movement.
Chen Guan didn’t urge her, allowing her to observe carefully.
Ming Fei watched for a long time before standing up, with a look of shock on her face: "I was merely suspicious earlier, now I guess this should be the Celestial Secret Realm, there’s no place in the mortal realm with a pool formed by primordial energy, the energy here is so pure it has liquified."
"You say the water in that pool is liquid primordial energy?" Chen Guan was both shocked and delighted; he hadn’t really thought in that direction earlier.
"Definitely liquid elemental energy without a doubt. Although I have never entered the Celestial Secret Realm, I’ve never seen such a place in the Great Cave Heaven. So I seriously suspect this is the Celestial Secret Realm," said Ming Fei.
Chen Guan didn’t listen to the rest of Ming Fei’s words, knowing now the pool wasn’t filled with ordinary water but liquid elemental energy, his thoughts were entirely on how to get into that pool.
Liquid elemental energy would be more beneficial to him; if he could absorb all the water in the pool into his body, he might immediately level up several levels.
Of course, this is merely Chen Guan’s imagination, whether he can truly upgrade still requires experimentation.
"King Ji does not dare to step outside, only observing here. There must be some great terror outside; if I rashly go out, my life might be at risk," Chen Guan decided to stay here to observe the situation, and then make a decision.
He opted to leave Ming Fei outside, allowing her to absorb the energy here for cultivation, while he cultivated alone.
In the absence of dual cultivation between them, Ming Fei’s level soon surpassed Chen Guan’s.
The energy here requires only a small portion to let Ming Fei easily upgrade, while Chen Guan’s level seemed stuck in place, unmoving.
Chen Guan sighed silently, opting to summon pets capable of leveling up, letting them absorb energy themselves to upgrade, while he focused on observing the outside situation.
From here, one couldn’t see the rising and setting of the sun, but there was a sun here because there were day and night, so Chen Guan inferred the sun must be rising and setting in the half behind him.
With the alternation of day and night, the water in the pool again filled to the brim, like a great waterfall cascading over the platform’s edge down the cliff, disappearing into the cloud sea.
When the water level reaches its peak, the mountains automatically move aside, and the woman dressed in clouds and white attire strides along a rainbow-like path.
She enters the pool, the cloud robe on her body touching the liquid elemental energy, dissolving like snow in boiling water, leaving no trace.
Watching the woman soaking in liquid elemental energy for cultivation, Chen Guan felt unbearably anxious, wishing he could fly into the pool and vie with the woman over the liquid elemental energy’s ownership.
Eventually, he restrained his inner impulse, continuing to observe quietly.
Through Chen Guan’s long observation, it seemed this area only the woman visited regularly.
Each time she comes here to cultivate, she stays until the pool’s water ceases to overflow, returning when the water flow turns into a great waterfall next time, to soak in the pool for cultivation again.
After observing for over a month, Chen Guan roughly estimated the woman came every three to four days, depending on the pool’s water level.
The pool’s water seems to change regularly, yet not entirely predictably; generally, it reaches peak flow every three to four days.
"Every time the woman manages to arrive when the liquid elemental energy flow in the pool peaks, never missing once. Could she be monitoring this side?" Chen Guan speculated.
Perhaps Ji Changsheng discovered this and hasn’t dared to leave the cave, solely observing from here.
Chen Guan had been observing here for over a month, and it wasn’t completely without yield.
Besides most of his pets leveling up quite a bit, he noticed something interesting.
Each time the woman arrived, before starting to immerse in the pool for cultivation, she would take a look at the side where Chen Guan was hiding, sometimes one to two minutes, sometimes five or six.
When leaving, she’d similarly glance this way.
Initially, Chen Guan worried whether the woman had discovered something here.
Over time, Chen Guan realized it wasn’t right.
The woman was likely not looking at him, but at the mountain where he was hiding.
