Chapter 380: Chapter 141: Slaying a Beauty in the Gangfeng Forbidden Land, First Success with the True Scripture and Riding the Wind, Pursuit, and a Desperate Escape
Failure. Failure. And still, failure...
The Innate Wind Seed seemed to have a mind of its own. Every time Chu Fan’s Telekinesis brushed against it, the seed would invariably use the cover of the Gangfeng to slip away at the most crucial moment, giving him no opportunity whatsoever to control it.
Each failure drained him of most of his mental energy.
The Primordial Qi in his Dantian Qi Sea grew restless as well.
After just a few hours, Chu Fan’s face began to turn pale.
Fine beads of sweat seeped from his temples, slid down his cheeks, and dripped onto the rock at his feet, only to be instantly turned to vapor by the Gangfeng.
Whenever he could no longer endure, he would brace himself against the cliff face and retreat from the edge, find a hollow sheltered from the wind, and sit cross-legged to circulate the Demon Dragon Celestial Spirit Scripture and recover his strength.
Once his spirit had somewhat recovered and his Primordial Qi had returned, he would get up, go back to the cliff’s edge, and resume his focused attempts to sense and capture the elusive Innate Wind Seed.
A full day and night slipped by in this quiet cycle of capture, failure, recovery, and another attempt.
「The next morning, at the break of dawn.」
The first golden rays of light pierced the darkness on the horizon, shining down upon the treacherous Gangfeng Forbidden Land.
Though Chu Fan was mentally exhausted to the point of collapse, his eyes held a sharp clarity that came only from being pushed to his absolute limits.
Even his once-scattered Mental Power had become more refined with each failure.
On his next attempt, his Telekinesis finally latched onto that familiar speck of Cyan Light once more!
This time, he didn’t resort to brute force. Instead, he made his Telekinesis gentler, more resilient, wrapping around the Cyan Light as softly as a spring shower. He used his Mental Power to soothe its restlessness while slowly guiding the wisp of energy, which held the very essence of wind, along a pre-planned path, bit by bit, toward his own body.
The moment the Innate Wind Seed touched his skin, Chu Fan’s body shuddered violently!
An indescribable tearing sensation instantly spread from the depths of his meridians.
It felt as if countless tiny, sharp Wind Blades were rampaging through his blood vessels and meridians, slicing everything in their path.
Even with his Vajra Undying Body, which made his physique far tougher than that of other Cultivators at his level, he still felt a sharp, stinging pain, as if being pierced by countless needles. The veins on his temples bulged and throbbed.
’So this is the power of the Innate Wind Seed? It’s truly potent!’
Far from being alarmed, Chu Fan felt a surge of wild joy.
’The more untamable and powerful the Innate Wind Seed is, the more it proves just how extraordinary the Nine Heavens Wind Mastery Scripture is.’
’Once I master it, my strength will far surpass what I could gain from any ordinary Cultivation Technique!’
Gritting his teeth against the excruciating pain, he kept his mind firmly focused and circulated the Technique of the Nine Heavens Wind Mastery Scripture with all his might, guiding the wild, untamable energy bit by bit toward his Dantian Qi Sea.
The entire process was as slow as a crawling turtle and as agonizing as trying to tame a miniature storm within his own body.
Every inch it moved cost him a great deal of his mental focus and Primordial Qi.
After what felt like an eternity, the speck of Cyan Light finally broke through the last of the obstructions in his meridians and sank into the depths of his Dantian Qi Sea. Suddenly, a change occurred!
The once-restless Cyan Light suddenly grew still. It began to rotate slowly in the center of his Qi Sea, and as it spun, it condensed into a tiny but stable vortex, as if a miniature Eye of the Storm had formed within his Dantian!
What was even more miraculous was that the vortex began to spontaneously draw in the pure Wind Attribute Energy from the world around him.
Although the amount it absorbed each time was minuscule, the process was constant and unending.
The Innate Wind Seed had finally taken root within his body!
An indescribable feeling of lightness and clarity instantly spread from his Dantian throughout Chu Fan’s entire body.
It was as if a heavy burden he had carried for years had been lifted from his shoulders. The fatigue from his days of cultivation and the stinging pain inside him vanished without a trace.
The first step—
He had finally overcome the most dangerous and critical step in cultivating the Nine Heavens Wind Mastery Scripture!
Without a moment’s rest, Chu Fan briefly regulated his breathing and immediately began the second step of his cultivation...
Vein Melting Wind!
Using the Eye of the Storm in his Dantian as the source, he slowly drew upon the power of the Innate Wind Seed. He let this Wind Attribute Energy flow along his meridians, gradually assailing and reforging the thirty-six main meridians in his body.
This step was even more difficult and painful than drawing the seed into his body.
It was as if he had to completely shatter his original meridian structure and then use Wind Energy to reshape it, piece by piece, gradually transforming his meridians into semi-ethereal Wind Veins...
Fortunately, the Gangfeng Forbidden Land was saturated with the purest Wind Attribute Energy in the world, providing him with an endless source of power. It was the perfect place to complete the Vein Melting Wind stage.
「Another two days and two nights passed...」
Chu Fan was almost completely immersed in this rebirth-like cultivation, oblivious to the howling Gangfeng and the passage of day and night outside.
Fortunately, he had stored food and water in his Sumeru Ring, which saved him a great deal of time.
When the last of his meridians successfully transformed into a semi-ethereal Wind Vein...
Chu Fan’s eyes snapped open. He felt as if his body was light enough to be carried away by the wind—an unprecedented feeling of nimbleness and grace!
He tried circulating his Primordial Qi and discovered that it now flowed through his Wind Veins more than three times faster than before!
The moment he willed it, his Primordial Qi could instantly reach every corner of his body without the slightest hint of sluggishness!
These thirty-six Wind Veins were like thirty-six invisible channels of wind, weaving together inside him to form an entirely new and far more efficient energy circulation system!
Next was the third step of cultivation—
Devouring Wind Spirit.
This step, however, did not need to be performed in the Gangfeng Forbidden Land.
