Chapter 872: Chapter 872: Cultivation
Chen Guan’s Secret Technique of One and Secret Realm opened simultaneously, absorbing the sea-like clouds into his whole body.
Where he passed, the clouds resembled an apple with pieces bitten off by a dog.
However, these clouds were not Chen Guan’s target; he flew straight to the foot of the opposite mountain, avoiding the pool and descended along the mountainside platform.
Passing through layers of clouds, Chen Guan discovered that these foggy Primordial Energies were actually ten thousand zhang thick. It’s hard to imagine how much Primordial Energy is gathered here to form such dense cloud energy.
After bypassing the ten thousand zhang cloud, Chen Guan initially thought the ground would be beneath.
In reality, what he saw was the sky; above was the sky, below too, with no presence of land.
Chen Guan inverted his body, with head down and feet up, realizing that this side also presented an endless sea of clouds, along with mountain peaks protruding above it.
This completely altered his understanding of mountains and clouds; the mountains here resembled spindles, pointed at both ends and thick in the middle, with the thick part hidden within the ten thousand zhang clouds, seeming like two mirror worlds stitched together.
The difference was that the gravity direction was not in the middle of the mountain; now, this side was still considered below.
Here also lacked Liquid Elemental Energy and waterfalls; Chen Guan re-entered the clouds, arriving below the frontal mountain peak, observing Liquid Elemental Energy cascading down the cliff like a silver dragon.
Such Liquid Elemental Energy was not only here; wherever Chen Guan’s gaze reached, he saw several mountain peaks with energy flowing down, falling into the sea of clouds.
Chen Guan hid within the clouds, directly absorbing the Liquid Elemental Energy flowing down from the mountain into his body and Secret Realm.
Even if he couldn’t immediately absorb it, he could store it within the Secret Realm for future use.
But Chen Guan’s plan didn’t succeed; the Secret Realm absorbed these Liquid Elemental Energies faster than his Secret Technique of One.
Once the waterfall-like Liquid Elemental Energy entered the Secret Realm, it nearly vanished immediately.
After some time, Chen Guan noticed the space within his Secret Realm considerably expanded, even the halo above him grew slightly.
Other people’s Secret Realms are ready to use directly; Chen Guan still needed to nurture his Secret Realm, bearing a life of hardship.
He only absorbed the Primordial Energy he could refine; if a large amount accumulated within his body beyond refinement ability, he let the Secret Realm absorb it.
Regarding his pets, Chen Guan released them, enhanced them with Secret Law, then let them absorb cloud energy independently, while he focused on absorbing Liquid Elemental Energy.
When the Liquid Elemental Energy flowing down here decreased, Chen Guan took his pets to other mountain peaks and Liquid Elemental Energy waterfalls, continuing to absorb energy there.
Chen Guan continuously monitored the situation here, realizing that in this vast place, truly only those four Immortal Mountain Sect disciples existed; besides them, not even a Secret Spirit could be found.
Over time, Chen Guan identified this as a closed space; where the clouds could reach marked the boundary of this space.
Outside the boundary lay chaotic, twisted voids, appearing like the sky.
Here lacked sun, moon, and stars; whether it was the sky above or below, it was a chaotic, twisted void.
The entire area was vast, much larger than the space encased by Qi the Chief Judge’s Circulation Stars Flag to trap Chen Guan.
And the center of this space was the giant mountain where the four Immortal Mountain Sect disciples resided.
Were one to jump out of this space and observe, the space resembles a flying saucer spinning top, with the giant mountain as the central supporting pillar.
Chen Guan didn’t have time to venture to that giant mountain; with such an opportunity, he focused on absorbing the Liquid Elemental Energy here to elevate his Level, pursuing the heights of Ninth Awakening.
Since his speed at refining energy was limited, a portion of the Liquid Elemental Energy was provided to the Secret Realm.
Chen Guan worried since his Secret Realm kept expanding no matter how much energy was injected, merely enlarging without surplus.
This resulted in Chen Guan’s Secret Realm being quite ineffective, remaining an empty shell state, unable to enhance him, leaving Chen Guan concerned.
"Could my Secret Realm be infinite?" Chen Guan worried it might be true.
Because the Secret Technique of One allows for infinite enhancement, could the Secret Realm, based on it, also be infinite?
If that were the case, his Secret Realm could only be used as space equipment, useful for storage but devoid of enhancing effects.
Currently, Chen Guan could only hope that his Secret Realm hadn’t fully matured yet; once it matures completely, it won’t absorb energy anymore, instead providing feedback to him.
Luckily, the space within Immortal Mountain Sect was overly abundant in energy, ample for his cultivation.
Though he needs long-term cultivation here, even with such pure energy, his cultivation isn’t something achievable in just a day or two.
After pondering, Chen Guan decided to leave the Ji Family first and return home for cultivation.
Anyway, he possessed a Space Ring capable of entering and exiting Immortal Mountain Sect; he didn’t need to stay in those Great Cave Heaven to cultivate, rendering it unnecessary to remain here.
"Teacher, are you leaving?" Ji Liuying looked at Chen Guan with reluctance, unwilling to see him depart like this.
"I also need to continue my cultivation, I can’t stay here forever." Chen Guan was not one to dawdle.
"This is for you, you must strive hard in your cultivation in the future." He handed a bottle to Ji Liuying, turning around gracefully and leaving directly.
Ji Liuying opened her mouth trying once more to persuade him to stay and cultivate in Ji Family’s Great Cave Heaven, yet saw Chen Guan leaving without looking back, merely gesturing his hand, soon disappearing down the long street.
Ji Liuying smiled helplessly, casually opened the bottle to take a glance, immediately changing expression, hurriedly sealing the bottle cap.
"Like water, Liquid Elemental Energy! Teacher, your kindness towards your disciple is unimaginable!" Ji Liuying felt intensely moved but had no one to share her sentiments with.
Liquid Elemental Energy is so precious, only when the purity of energy reaches a certain degree could it transform into liquid state.
The Ten Great Families all studied Liquid Elemental Energy technology, but due to limitations in energy purity and energy compression techniques, their output of Liquid Elemental Energy remained extremely limited, with quality far inferior to the bottle Chen Guan provided.
It’s said that although the quantity of this bottle might not surpass that produced by Ten Great Families, the quality far exceeds.
Even this single bottle of Liquid Elemental Energy, used sparingly, suffices for Ji Liuying to reach the peak of Ninth Awakening.
Ji Liuying now doesn’t dare to use it, planning to save it for the final few stages of Ninth Awakening, fully utilizing it for a breakthrough.
Such pure Liquid Elemental Energy will make her cultivation twice as effective, enabling her to reach the Great Completion of Level 90.
"The teacher knows my difficult situation in Ji Family, struggling to acquire abundant resources, thus gifting such a precious item. I must not disappoint his expectations..." Ji Liuying gripped the bottle tighter, her determination growing ever stronger.
