Chapter 1089: Chapter 1086: Nine Dragons Return Yuan
The sky stretched for thousands of miles, a fierce sun large as a coliseum hung high, roasting the mountains and the earth.
Among the jagged, grotesque mountains, a figure maneuvered with agility, darting forward like a gust of wind and lightning. Noticing a trace of movement, he would already be a kilometer away, his speed unbelievably swift.
Deciding to return to the Golden Palace, Luo Feng immediately set out at full speed. Within two hours, he had traveled hundreds of miles through the Red Dragon Mountain Range and reached its outskirts.
Swish!
Passing by a perilous peak, Luo Feng stopped on a massive boulder, looking ahead.
Several hundred meters ahead of the peak, there was a gigantic canyon, the place where Luo Feng had originally discovered the Crown Prince’s group.
Swish!
With a flash of his figure, Luo Feng vanished from his original spot, reappearing inside the canyon.
The desolate canyon felt lifeless, with only numerous footprints remaining on the ground.
Examining the footprints on the canyon floor, Luo Feng muttered to himself:
"These footprints must have been left in the past day or two. It seems the Crown Prince’s entourage has already left the Red Dragon Mountain Range."
As he finished speaking, Luo Feng shook his head slightly in disappointment.
This time, he had come here with a purpose, not just passing by. He intended to have a confrontation with the Crown Prince.
One of the two top experts in the Spiritual Rotation Realm beside the Crown Prince had already been slain by him. With his strength having rapidly advanced over the past three days, defeating the Crown Prince’s entourage would have been a breeze. He wanted to settle this trouble once and for all today.
Alas, things didn’t go as planned. The Crown Prince’s entourage had left the Red Dragon Mountain Range before he arrived, leaving him to an empty pursuit.
Swish!
Bringing his two fingers together, Luo Feng pointed into the air.
A subtle sound as the air was pierced, a concentrated red light shot out, piercing a red Demon Bat gliding above the canyon. A bowl-sized blood hole appeared on its head, and it died instantly.
"No matter, once I reach the True Yuan Realm, I’ll have plenty of chances to eliminate the Crown Prince. There’s no need to rush right now. For the moment, I should focus on preparing for the upcoming Dragon Rank Tournament."
Exhaling a breath of relief, Luo Feng withdrew his gaze, performed the Sky Cloud Step, and sped out along the ground towards the Red Flame Desert’s direction.
...
With prior experience from last time, Luo Feng’s speed on his return trip increased considerably. After passing the canyon, it took less than a day to exit the Red Dragon Mountain Range.
Looking around, his view was filled with rolling red dunes stretching to the horizon, seemingly endless. Occasionally, within the sandy land, gigantic waves of fire would erupt, causing the air to distort violently...
The scenery of the Red Flame Desert remained as desolate as when Luo Feng had entered the Red Dragon Mountain Range. The terrifying beast roars occasionally carried a hint more of ferocity, leaving a vague sense of pressure on one’s mind.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Behind a dune, Luo Feng sat cross-legged, surrounded by nine dragon-shaped streams of air, roaring and tumbling around him. The air currents swept up the surrounding sand, forming small sandstorms, constantly forming and dispersing.
Traveling through such a dangerous place as the Red Flame Desert, if Yuan Qi was overly depleted, encountering danger would be disastrous. Thus, whenever his Yuan Qi was reduced to sixty percent, Luo Feng would stop to rest and practice the Divine Dragon Nine Changes.
As he continuously consolidated during that day, the quality of Yuan Qi in his body steadily improved. The ninth dragon-shaped energy channel in his meridians became much more solid, no longer the illusory form it once had.
Once the ninth dragon-shaped energy channel consolidated, then when the Nine Dragons Return Yuan, the Blood Soul Transformation could break through to the ninth level, and only then would it be the complete Blood Soul Transformation!
At this moment, Luo Feng felt his cultivation reaching the critical point, fully focused on breaking through to the ninth level, where success or failure would be determined in one stroke.
Buzz!
As Luo Feng exerted his Yuan Qi internally, a red dragon scale appeared on his forehead, blazing brilliantly. The ambient Yuan Qi fluctuations intensified suddenly, with dragon roars resonating within his body. The nine dragon-shaped streams reflected a glaze-like luster under the sunlight, appearing increasingly real, as if they were True Dragons.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
As the dragon-shaped streams spiraled, they stirred up the sand and dust, forming a massive pillar of sand shooting up to the sky, possessing an indescribable might.
Within a hundred miles radius, the previously chilling beast roars suddenly fell eerily silent. Some lower-level Demon Beasts cowered in their burrows trembling, while even high-level Demon Beasts like the Red Poison Giant Scorpion hurriedly burrowed deep beneath the sand, not daring to appear, as if sensing something terrifying.
Luo Feng was oblivious to the changes outside. At this critical moment, his entire focus was immersed in cultivation.
With each circulation of Yuan Qi through the Grand Circulation in his meridians, the ninth dragon-shaped energy channel solidified a bit more, gradually becoming indistinguishable from the other dragon-shaped energy channels.
"It’s done!"
Unknown time passed as the ninth dragon-shaped energy channel completed entirely.
In that instant, the speed of Yuan Qi’s circulation within him suddenly increased by over thirty percent. The nine dragon-shaped energy channels roared in unison within the meridians, as if there were an invisible connection, echoing each other.
The next moment!
The nine dragon-shaped energy channels simultaneously charged towards the Dantian of the Netherworld. Suddenly, the Dantian of the Netherworld blazed brightly, with waves of ancient dragon roars emanating from within, shaking Luo Feng’s spirit.
"Nine Dragons Return Yuan, Blood Soul Transformation Ninth Level!"
Luo Feng opened his eyes, his gaze sharp and full of surprise.
At the moment when the nine dragon-shaped energy channels entered the Dantian, he felt the quality and quantity of Yuan Qi within him surging, becoming ten times more robust in this short span, almost breaking through the True Yuan Realm’s bottleneck.
This discovery left Luo Feng quite amazed.
Since consuming the Demon Core of the Single Horned Red Cloud Python, without successfully stepping into the True Yuan Realm, he had come to understand the key issues.
To break through to the True Yuan Realm, aside from personal insight, the most crucial factor was for a Martial Artist to condense their original Yuan Qi into True Yuan.
To achieve this step, an enormous accumulation of Yuan Qi was required. For an ordinary late-stage Spiritual Rotation Realm Martial Artist, half a Demon Core of the Single Horned Red Cloud Python could be enough to assist them in the breakthrough to the True Yuan Realm.
But Luo Feng was different.
He had eighteen Spiritual Rotations within him, twice that of a normal person. Although his Yuan Qi level was far superior to others in the same realm, gains were accompanied by consequences, and the Yuan Qi accumulation needed for him to break through to the True Yuan Realm was extraordinarily daunting.
Half a Demon Core of the Single Horned Red Cloud Python, which could have propelled a late-stage Spiritual Rotation Realm Martial Artist to the True Yuan Realm, only pushed him to the peak of the Spiritual Rotation Realm, with a long journey still ahead to condense True Yuan.
Luo Feng initially estimated that to condense True Yuan and attempt to break through to the True Yuan Realm, he would need at least half a month of accumulation, and that was an optimistic estimation.
Due to his unique physique, the experiences of predecessors offered little reference for him; he didn’t even know how much Yuan Qi he needed to accumulate to begin condensing True Yuan...
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