Killing God - Chapter 60

Chapter 60 Bottleneck
After a busy day in Red Clam Village, at dusk, Shen Shi bid farewell to Hai Xing and returned to his cave stone room in White Fish Bay. Three years later, he was no longer the twelve-year-old youth who had just entered the island. He had already reached the middle stage of the Qi Refining Realm in his Dao Cultivation Realm alone, and he could be considered one of the top one hundred rookie disciples who had entered Lingxiao Sect in this round.

In the past three years, his physical body had begun to gradually change after being tempered with spiritual energy day and night. His strength and toughness far surpassed that of ordinary mortals in the mortal world. In terms of strength alone, he was now enough to contend against two or three ordinary grown men. As his cultivation continued to deepen, the gap would continue to widen. Especially if he had the opportunity to learn the divine passage technique in the future, the gap between him and ordinary humans would be like an immortal, heaven and earth different.

Every time he peeled shrimp from Red Clam Village three years ago, he would be half-dead tired. But now, when he returned to the cave, his entire body was still as usual, and he could not see any special exhaustion. After the stone door closed, a familiar silence descended on the stone room that he had lived in for three years. Shen Shi pondered for a moment. He walked to the bedside and reached under the pillow to take out a small bag. Then, he returned to the table in the stone room and sat down. He gently poured the contents of the small bag onto the table.

“Drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip drip

There were a total of five spirit crystals.

In addition to the three Spirit Crystals that he had spent on the Water Archery this morning, these were all the savings he had accumulated after practicing daily missions for three years at the same time.

Spirit crystals emitted beautiful and dazzling light, flashing in front of his eyes. Shen Shi quietly stared at these beautiful little stones, gently stroking them with his hand, not saying a word, silently pondering.

One of the five spirit crystals was slightly dimmer than the surrounding spirit crystals. After careful observation, one could tell that any cultivator who had cultivated for a few days would know that this was the spirit crystal that had been absorbed by the cultivator. A portion of the spirit energy had already been lost, which was why it looked like this. According to the rules of the cultivation world, only complete and unused spirit crystals could be used as financial coins for purchasing all kinds of spirit materials. Therefore, the only thing Shen Shi could take out now was actually only four spirit crystals.

Three years of hard work and hard work, all that’s left is this. I guess it’s really embarrassing.

Shen Shi laughed bitterly and shook his head. Because of the Clear Heart Curse, the amount of spirit crystals he consumed in cultivating was twice as large as that of ordinary Qi Refining disciples under Lingxiao Sect. Therefore, he had been living a tight life all this time. Now that his cultivation base had risen, After cultivating from the early stage of the Qi Refining Realm to the middle stage of the Qi Refining Realm, the consumption of spirit crystals suddenly doubled. However, not long ago, that old traitor from the Red Clam Village had actually reduced the reward for shrimp peeling by half for no reason. As a result, Shen Shi immediately felt that his life was about to end.

This was also the fundamental reason why he had finally made up his mind to endure the pain of purchasing the Five Elements Spell to prepare for other missions, even though it was said that the demon hunt mission had always carried some risks.

After taking a long breath, Shen Shi chased these thoughts out of his mind and calmed down. Then, he picked up the spirit crystal that he had used several times and sat down cross-legged on the bed. He began his daily routine of cultivation.

Holding the spirit crystal in his hand, Sensing Spiritual Energy, channeling Spiritual Energy into his body, and practicing secret techniques were all well-known to him. He smoothly practiced it once. When that wisp of Spiritual Energy was absorbed from the Spiritual Crystal and stopped in his Qi Meridian, Shen Shi quickly felt a sense of exhaustion rising up in his heart. Even his brain felt a little heavy, and he was so dizzy that he wanted to lie down and sleep.

This was naturally the usual reaction to mental fatigue after cultivation. In fact, compared to the reaction of many teenagers when they first started cultivation three years ago, they had a splitting headache and were unable to sleep all night. In this way, the exhaustion of feeling slightly sleepy could already be considered to be much, much lighter. Shen Shi reached out and pinched his eyebrows. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes again.

Another ancient and mysterious incantation slowly echoed in his heart. Under the control of his mind, a strange power seemed to be recuperating his fleshly body and spirit. Not long ago, the trace of spiritual energy that had just been absorbed into his Qi channels, He had already quietly calmed down somewhere in his Qi Veins, However, at this moment, it was as if it was suddenly alarmed. It jumped abruptly. Then, under the control of an inexplicable force, it began to slowly wander around again. Finally, it arrived at a mysterious acupoint deep between Shen Shi’s eyebrows. Very quickly, it merged with the many Spiritual Energy stored here and quieted down.

Unlike the ordinary spiritual energy scattered in the Qi channels around his body, After three years of continuous cultivation of the Heart Cleansing Curse, At this moment, the amount of Spiritual Energy gathered in Shen Shimei’s Heart Aperture Acupoint was almost the same as the amount of Spiritual Energy in the Qi channels around him. However, because all of the Spiritual Energy was stored in this narrow aperture acupoint, all of the Spiritual Energy had been condensed into a solid and integrated body. Now, it had formed a tough and thick Qi channel and quietly sunk between Shen Shi’s eyebrows. However, other than that, these Spiritual Energy never moved, and there seemed to be nothing unusual about them.

After cultivating the Clear Heart Curse, when Shen Shi opened his eyes again, he felt his mind instantly clear, his mind sharp, and the exhaustion and drowsiness that he had felt earlier swept away.

He lowered his head and looked at the palm of his hand. The luster on the surface of the spirit crystal seemed to have dimmed a little. Shen Shi calculated slightly in his heart. The spirit power in this spirit crystal was about half used, and he could only use it five more times at most.

Ordinary Qi Refining Realm disciples who cultivated to the Intermediate Realm would be able to absorb the Spiritual Energy within a single Spiritual Crystal ten times, which would be enough for ten days. However, Shen Shi, who was a Qi Refining Realm Intermediate Disciple, had the consumption of a Qi Refining Realm High Realm cultivator. A single Spirit Crystal could only support his cultivation for five days.

What if one day the spirit crystal can’t keep up …

Shen Shi felt his teeth hurt for no reason. He smiled bitterly and shook his head. It was at this moment that he suddenly thought of Gan Ze, who was now famous in Blue Fish Island and even in the entire Ling Xiao Sect. In three years, he had directly cultivated to the high-level Qi Refining Realm. He was only a step away from reaching the Origin Condensation Realm. Such a genius was rare in a hundred years.

However, his current consumption should be the same as his own. A single spirit crystal could only last him five days of cultivation. I wonder if Gan Ze would also be upset over the spirit crystal?

After a moment of daze, Shen Shi suddenly woke up and laughed self-deprecatingly. He thought to himself, “What kind of family background is Gan Ze? The only direct descendant of the Ten Thousand Year Aristocratic Clan, Gan Ze? Why would such a person have to worry about such a trivial matter as spirit crystals like him?” ?

Forgetting all these random thoughts, Shen Shi calmed down once more. After a while, he started cultivating for the second time in a day.

As before, This time, his cultivation was also very smooth, There was basically no problem from sensing Spiritual Energy to channeling Spiritual Energy into the body to wander around the world. After a new strand of Spiritual Energy slowly settled down in his body, a familiar feeling of slight exhaustion assaulted him again. However, it was unknown if it was because the Heart Cleansing Curse still had some residual power this time, and its reaction was even lighter than the first time he cultivated it.

Shen Shi let out a long breath. He got out of bed and straightened his body. After stretching for a while, he felt more energetic. At this moment, he didn’t have any special sleepiness. After pondering for a moment, he decided to try to cultivate the water archery that he had just bought from the Five Elements Hall.

According to the rules, he couldn’t bring the secret manual of the Water Arrow Technique out of the Five Elements Hall. He only came out after memorizing it firmly according to the requirements of the two senior brothers and sisters of the Hall. He slowly recited it in his heart. After he realized that he didn’t miss anything, he tried to activate the spiritual energy in his Qi channels and slowly activated it with the Water Arrow Technique.

The heavens and earth were vast and monstrous, divided into yin and yang. There were five elements everywhere, everywhere, and the five elements were mutually exclusive. This was a cognition passed down from ancient times.

The Five Elements Technique was a method that could arouse the resonance of the five elemental spiritual energy within one’s body, and then use various different techniques with different powers. It had been known for its complexity and difficulty since ancient times. When Shen Shi first entered this path, he quickly felt the difficulty. Apart from being unable to sense the water-type spiritual energy in the surrounding air, the most important step was to activate the spiritual energy in his body. Using the water archery technique to activate it was especially difficult.

Although water archery was only the lowest level of the Five Elements Technique, the amount of Spiritual Energy required to cast it was not small. Ordinary Qi Refining Realm beginner disciples did not even have enough Spiritual Energy. Only after cultivating to the Qi Refining Realm Intermediate Realm would they have the spare power to start cultivating the Five Elements Technique.

After starting to cultivate the Five Elements Technique, there were two initial difficulties. First, the Five Elements Technique itself was difficult and complicated to operate. In fact, this could be seen from the various complicated runic formations on the talisman, because talismans were a special embodiment of the Five Elements Technique. Those who hadn’t come into contact with this Dao would easily fail to circulate their Spiritual Energy in the process of cultivation, causing their previous efforts to be completely wasted, so they could only start over again. The second was that the amount of spiritual energy required for the Five Elements Spell was not small. Cultivators had to adjust the concentration of spiritual energy within their bodies to cast spells.

For ordinary cultivators, The hardest part is the first point, The second point was extremely difficult for Qi Refining Realm cultivators. The reason for that was because the spiritual energy absorbed by Qi Refining Realm cultivators was scattered throughout their Qi channels. It was very difficult to concentrate, but once a cultivator reached the Origin Condensation Realm, it would become very simple. This was because a cultivator at the Origin Condensation Realm had already opened up a Dantian Qi Sea, and all the spiritual energy in his body had gathered here. At the same time, as his realm rose, his control over the spiritual energy within his body increased greatly, so it was very easy to accomplish.

However, for Shen Shi, At this moment, because he had cultivated Talisman Dao since he was young, Even after three years in Lingxiao Sect, Although it was useless, However, due to his habit, he still insisted on drawing the Yin Yang Five Elements Runes on a few sheets of paper every day. As time went on, he knew the basic trends of the Five Elements Spells, especially the lowest rank one spells. He was much better than ordinary people. Therefore, the first point went smoothly and did not encounter too much difficulty. In fact, his understanding of the Five Elements Technique was also an important reason why he chose to hunt demons.

However, he was not the type of extraordinary genius. Even though he had some understanding of the Five Elements Technique, he still quickly encountered a bottleneck in the cultivation of the Five Elements Technique, that is, the problem of circulating and gathering spiritual energy within his body. It was almost impossible for him to continue cultivating.

(The manuscript is almost finished. I’m a little nervous. It looks like I still have to work hard on the codewords … There’s still a chapter left at seven in the evening.)