Chapter 288: Refining the Dual Polarity Flower
While waiting for Jiang Yue and Xuan Ke to replenish their qi, Yu Nianzhen wasn’t idle.
He went outside the cave and began to practice his swordsmanship.
This practice lasted until Jiang Yue replenished his qi and left the cave to find him.
"You swordsmen are too hardworking." Jiang Yue said with a smile on his face.
"Seeking the dao using the sword is harder than most other ways. We have no choice but to be hardworking."
"I know." Jiang Yue said and pulled Yu Nianzhen for a brief kiss.
"What about Xuan Ke?"
"He is still recovering."
"Do you want to eat while we wait for him?"
"Azhen, you know so well."
At that, Yu Nianzhen chuckled and the two found a place to settle down.
He removed some precooked dishes from his storage ring and they ate while talking.
"Azhen, what about the dual polarity flower?"
"They should mature in another three days." Yu Nianzhen said and sighed.
He initially thought that the dual polarity flowers would mature before they entered the secret realm.
However, his estimate was wrong and the time was longer than expected.
Fortunately, the error wasn’t too big and because they had to recover soon after entering the secret realm, their plans weren’t affected.
"The flowers will need a lot of heaven and earth qi when they mature." Jiang Yue commented and felt a little distressed.
"Don’t worry, we still have a lot of spirit stones."
"How many did we get from the two storage rings?"
"Five billion."
"Five billion is not bad."
The two talked like this and several hours passed in a flash.
When Xuan Ke finally came out of meditation, it was already dark and the three decided to stay in the cave for the night.
In the morning, Xuan Ke sorted his loot and a huge pile of evil things was destroyed using Jiang Yue’s primordial flame before the three continued towards the thunder forest.
Eight days later, the three arrived at the periphery of the thunder forest.
At this time, there were hundreds of cultivators outside the forest and an unknown number within the forest.
"Brothers, should we enter right away?" Xuan Ke asked.
"Let’s not waste time outside." Jiang Yue suggested and Yu Nianzhen agreed.
"Okay."
With that, the three walked towards the thunder forest and wanted to enter right away.
However, before they could enter, a man quickly stopped them.
"Fellow Daoists, don’t enter recklessly." He said.
"What’s the matter?" Jiang Yue asked.
"Even at the periphery, the lightning isn’t easy to handle. A few people have already been seriously injured." The man advised and the three looked at the thunder forest.
It was wider than the eye could see and thousands of purple bamboo stood one metre apart.
The sky above the forest was covered with dark clouds and purple lightning fell like rain over the forest.
"Thank you for reminding us, fellow Daoist." Jiang Yue said and gave the man a slight nod.
Although they didn’t need the reminder, the person was kind to remind them and Jiang Yue would remember it.
After that, the three continued towards the forest and the man shook his head.
Soon after, the three entered the forest and lightning immediately fell on them.
"This level is still tolerable." Xuan Ke said and began to operate his cultivation technique.
"Hmmm." Jiang Yue agreed and Yu Nianzhen was the same.
After experiencing several thunder calamities, Yu Nianzhen had a high tolerance for lightning and the periphery wasn’t difficult to handle.
"Shall we continue inside?" He asked the other two.
"Let’s." Xuan Ke agreed and Jiang Yue nodded.
Since all three could easily handle the lightning at the periphery, they wouldn’t get many benefits from cultivating there.
In that case, it was better to travel towards the centre and stop when the lightning became too much.
As such, the three walked for one kilometre before burn marks began to appear on Jiang Yue’s skin.
"XiaoYue and I will stop here for a while. Brother Xuan should continue inside." Yu Nianzhen said.
"Brothers..." Xuan Ke started, wanting to stay together.
However, he remembered they were in the thunder forest because of his business.
"Alright, I will go ahead." He finally said.
"We will continue along the same path. Let’s meet up later." Yu Nianzhen continued.
"Good."
After that, Xuan Ke did not linger.
He continued inside while Jiang Yue and Yu Nianzhen settled down to cultivate.
"Azhen, you should also continue inside." Jiang Yue said.
Although he wanted to stay with his husband, he also didn’t want to delay Yu Nianzhen.
"No, I will wait for you to adjust." Yu Nianzhen refused.
"Don’t worry, I won’t waste time while waiting. I will take the time to refine the dual polarity flower."
"You are too good to me." Jiang Yue said and looked at his husband a little apologetically.
"If I am not good to you, who should I be good to?" Yu Nianzhen rubbed Jiang Yue’s hair and reassured him.
In fact, Jiang Yue’s body was only slightly weaker than his.
Yu Nianzhen expected that Jiang Yue would soon catch up and they would continue to walk side by side.
"Don’t think too much and cultivate with peace of mind."
"Alright."
After that, Jiang Yue began to absorb the lightning to strengthen his body while Yu Nianzhen removed a mature dual polarity flower from his jade box.
Without delay, he took the flower and quickly refined it into a pool of liquid.
The liquid was a mixture of black and white which exuded an air of profound mystery, and Yu Nianzhen was dazed for a moment.
’As expected of the dual polarity flower.’ He thought and used his divine sense to observe his dantian.
When the black and white liquid entered his dantian, it divided into nine equal parts.
A moment later, the nine parts rushed into the nine treasure worlds around his origin sword.
’I hope it won’t take too long to refine the treasure worlds.’ He thought and divided his soul power into nine parts.
Soon after, each part of soul power entered a treasure world and wrapped around a part of the dual polarity flower.
However, even for Yu Nianzhen, dividing his soul power into nine parts and refining nine treasure worlds was easier said than done.
The toll on him was heavier than expected but Yu Nianzhen did not give up.
He knew what he wanted and understood that taking an unknown path required a certain price.
At this time, he endured the discomfort of using his soul power and carefully refined his treasure worlds.
While refining the treasure worlds, Yu Nianzhen lost track of time.
He could not perceive the outside world and his soul power was rapidly exhausted.
However, his efforts were not wasted.
As he refined the dual polarity flower, the treasure worlds began to change.
Initially, his nine treasure worlds were like black holes.
They had no attributes and could accept one kind of anything.
However, after his careful refining, each treasure world was divided into two areas.
One area was black and the other was white.
This meant that each treasure world could accept origin treasures of opposing characteristics.
’I have succeeded.’ Yu Nianzhen thought and a smile appeared on his face.
After that, he hurriedly exited his inner world and wanted to inform Jiang Yue.
"Are you okay?" Jiang Yue asked as soon as Yu Nianzhen opened his eyes.
"XiaoYue..." Yu Nianzhen called and then closed his eyes from dizziness.
"What’s wrong?" Jiang Yue asked with a little panic in his voice.
When he stopped meditation, Jiang Yue found that Yu Nianzhen was still refining the dual polarity flower.
However, he couldn’t rest assured.
This was because Yu Nianzhen seemed to be in pain and Jiang Yue didn’t know how to help him.
"Don’t worry, it’s nothing. I have just exhausted my soul power." Yu Nianzhen reassured his husband.
"Drink some spiritual water and take a rest." Jiang Yue said and brought a gourd to the other’s mouth.
Yu Nianzhen obediently drank some water and felt a little refreshed.
However, he didn’t immediately go to rest.
"How is your body refining?" He asked.
"I should have no problem enduring for the time being." Jiang Yue answered.
"What about Xuan Ke? Have you heard from him?"
"Not yet." Jiang Yue shook his head and felt a little impatient with Yu Nianzhen.
"Take a rest first to recover your soul power." He insisted and Yu Nianzhen smiled helplessly.
"Okay, don’t get angry." Yu Nianzhen said and took another sip of spiritual water.
In fact, he was extremely tired.
His soul felt painful and even his qi was depleted.
"We can’t take out the ancient palace in this forest. I will protect you while you rest."
"Good."
After that, Yu Nianzhen took a qi replenishing and then closed his eyes to meditate.
While he was doing that, Jiang Yue watched him and sighed.
It took thirteen days for Yu Nianzhen to refine the dual polarity flower and Jiang Yue estimated he would also need about the same time.
