Chapter 180: Qi Transformation Realm
"Shanjiang..., why?" Jiang Yue asked.
"I want it to be as sturdy as a mountain and as flexible as a river. Also, I want to be able to cross mountains and rivers with it in hand." Yu Nianzhen answered.
Jiang Yue looked at the sword and nodded, "it’s a good name."
"What about you? Do you want to refine a natal weapon?"
"Not yet."
For the time being, Jiang Yue didn’t want to refine a weapon because he didn’t know what weapon he preferred.
Rather than refine a random weapon, it was better to wait for a day when he had a clear preference. At that time, it would not be too late to refine a natal weapon.
As for now, he was content using his pipa and the primordial yin-yang flame.
"Alright. I will support you when the time comes."
"I know."
As he said that, Jiang Yue leaned towards his lover and kissed him on the lips.
At this, Yu Nianzhen narrowed his eyes, and a wicked smile curled his lips. He still remembered how his lover teased him when they were refining the sword, and an idea came to mind.
Without delay, he collected the natal sword into his dantian and then pulled his unsuspecting husband into his arms.
This round of double cultivation lasted seven days before the two retreated to attack the qi transformation realm.
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After two years at the peak of the origin forging realm, Jiang Yue had long been ready to break through to the qi transformation realm.
However, he did not choose to do so as soon as he entered seclusion. Instead, he refined the beast fire and adjusted his condition for three days.
’All my qi has transformed into fifteen thousand drops of illusion qi." He thought and felt a little pleased with himself.
An ordinary cultivator had six thousand drops of qi at the first level of the qi transformation realm and twelve thousand drops at the second level.
With his fifteen thousand drops, Jiang Yue was technically in the early stage of the third level of the qi transformation realm.
However, he was not satisfied with being ordinary.
It was because of this that he chose to contract the blue monarch butterfly and refine the fires before he broke through to the qi transformation realm.
He hoped doing so would enhance his potential which would create benefits when he broke through to the qi transformation realm.
"I have done everything I should." He said and took a deep breath.
After calming his mind, he began to circulate his qi.
The qi cycled along his meridians, and the more it circulated, the more his mind detached from the surrounding world.
After twelve cycles, he finally saw the barrier between the peak of the origin forging realm and the qi transformation realm.
’It’s already thin. I only need to grind it a little before it breaks.’ He thought.
This grinding was slow, but on the fourth day, the film finally broke.
As soon as the barrier broke, the surrounding heaven and earth qi rushed towards him and a vortex formed above his head.
This vortex was like a black hole which sucked all the qi within a diameter of ten kilometres, causing a strange phenomenon above the grassland.
However, Jiang Yue couldn’t care about that because he discovered that the amount of qi rushing into his body was more than he could handle.
Within a few breaths, his cultivation rose from the first level of the qi transformation realm to the peak of the ninth level.
However, the rush did not stop.
’What’s going on?’ He wondered as he tried to contain the qi in his dantian.
If he was not careful, he would break through to the origin tempering realm, but this was not what he wanted.
Although the qi in his body was enough to break through to the origin tempering realm, his foundation was not stable.
More than fast progress, Jiang Yue wanted a longer cultivation path, so he suppressed the urge to break through.
Instead, he used the qi to impact and heal the walls of his dantian to forcibly enlarge it.
Although this method allowed him to absorb the qi vortex, his body was unprepared for such a fierce breakthrough.
When the promotion ended, Jiang Yue’s body was heavily injured. His meridians were broken in several places, and his dantian had a hairline crack.
"Why did this happen?" He wondered aloud.
Although his injuries would be healed by the leaves of the tree of life, he had lingering fears.
They were prepared for Yu Nianzhen to experience difficulties when he broke through but didn’t expect that he would also be in trouble.
"Master, are you okay?" The voice of a young girl sounded in his mind, and Jiang Yue remembered XiaoLan.
"XiaoLan, do you know what happened to me?" He asked.
"Master, XiaoLan is at the peak of the qi transformation realm." She answered.
As Jiang Yue’s contract beast, their cultivation levels were directly related.
When they made a contract, Jiang Yue was at the peak of the origin forging realm, and he suppressed the urge to break through.
Now that he had broken through, XiaoLan’s cultivation would naturally pull his cultivation.
However, XiaoLan was only at the peak of the qi transformation realm. Even if she pulled his cultivation, it was impossible to pull it to the peak of the qi transformation realm.
"Master has also refined the beast fire and primordial yin-yang flame." She continued her explanation.
"Is that the case..." Jiang Yue muttered and checked his dantian.
At this time, his injuries had already healed, and he heaved a sigh of relief.
However, he gasped in surprise at the next moment.
"One hundred million illusion qi drops. How is that possible?" He muttered.
From what he knew, it was possible to cultivate more than ninety million qi drops, but no one had ever cultivated one hundred million qi drops.
"Master is the most powerful." XiaoLan trilled when she heard Jiang Yue’s words.
"This..."
Before he could continue, he heard a loud rumble, and his heart tensed. He hurriedly stood up and flew out of the ancient palace.
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Knowing he would have to cross a thunder catastrophe, Yu Nianzhen chose to cultivate away from the ancient palace.
Fortunately, there was no one in the place provided by senior Niu, and he could rest assured to break through in the open.
At this time, the sky within one kilometre was covered in dense dark clouds.
The clouds were darker than when he broke through to the origin forging realm, and Jiang Yue couldn’t help but worry.
"He will be fine." He muttered.
"He has many healing pills and the leaves of the tree of life."
"It won’t be the same as the previous time." He continued to reassure himself.
However, knowing was one thing, but he couldn’t rest assured until his husband safely crossed the catastrophe.
While Jiang Yue was reassuring himself, two lines of white lightning fell from the sky.
"Two? How can there be two?" He wondered aloud.
As the target of the tribulation, Yu Nianzhen also noticed the situation, and some worry entered his heart.
He still remembered the power of the first wave when he last crossed the thunder tribulation. Compared to then, this first wave was more powerful especially because there were two strikes.
However, Yu Nianzhen was a married man.
He couldn’t allow himself to suffer and make his husband worry.
With that thought in mind, he released shanjiang to block the two strikes.
In fact, Yu Nianzhen wanted to use it to block the last few waves, but he didn’t dare.
At this point, he didn’t know the sword’s capabilities. If he overestimated its strength, it would break under the power of lightning. Because of this consideration, Yu Nianzhen decided to only use the sword for the first few waves and then absorb the last few waves for body tempering.
If his body could not hold on, he would use some of the defensive artefacts he prepared.
However, Yu Nianzhen hoped it would not come to that.
Although white lightning was meant to eliminate the cultivators envied by the heavens, it also had a lot of benefits.
Absorbing it had the effect of washing the marrow, which helped to improve the body’s quality.
"Fortunately, the second wave is also two strikes and not more." He muttered as the second wave approached.
For the first five waves, Yu Nianzhen blocked using shanjiang.
However, after the fifth wave, the connection between them told him that the sword could not block the rest, so he put it away.
"Azhen, use the artefacts if you can’t hold on." Jiang Yue shouted.
"I know." Yu Nianzhen said and took a deep breath.
When the sixth wave arrived, he allowed it to hit him and hurriedly absorbed the lightning into his body.
Seventh wave....
Eighth wave...
Ninth wave...
Although his body suffered heavy damage, Yu Nianzhen did not resort to defence artefacts.
Unfortunately, before they could rejoice, a vortex formed above his head.
This vortex was comparable to what Jiang Yue experienced, and the effect was the same.
