Immortality Starts With Ignorant Heart Sword Art

Chapter 132: Qi Refining Eighth Layer, About to Undergo Second Advancement in the Heaven and Earth Eight Trigrams Diagram

After completing the advancement of his physique, Zhong Cang turned his attention to his mana.

In the past month, Zhong Cang only took a little over twenty days to digest the "impurities" in his mana. For this, he swallowed a drop of Moonlight Spirit Dew.

This drop of dew allowed Zhong Cang's cultivation to directly advance from the Late Stage of the Sixth Layer of Qi Refining to the Early Stage of the Seventh Layer of Qi Refining.

Now, ten days have passed since the last ingestion, and Zhong Cang can feel that the time for his next ingestion is not far away.

In terms of his spiritual soul, Zhong Cang's progress is even more exaggerated.

In the past month, Zhong Cang has digested a total of three star souls, averaging one every ten days.

As a result, the strength of his spiritual soul has skyrocketed from the Early Stage of the Eighth Layer of Qi Refining to the Late Stage of the Eighth Layer of Qi Refining.

However, in the Eighth Layer of Qi Refining, one star soul can only increase one small stage of cultivation. This made Zhong Cang realize that even with precious resources, his progress would inevitably slow down when reaching the Late Stage.

Fortunately, Zhong Cang can tolerate this slowness.

...

Time quickly passes, and Zhong Cang's cultivation is gradually increasing.

Outside, people still hold the same view of him, believing that if he doesn't venture into the foreign realm, he will inevitably fall behind.

However, no one believes that Zhong Cang will fall to the bottom anymore.

In the eyes of everyone, Zhong Cang will go from being an exceptional genius to an ordinary one.

Although his identity as a genius remains unchanged, and his position as an inner disciple will not be revoked, this is still a step backward.

Among the Perfected Beings who sit in the Heavenly Observation Pavilion, several of them agree with this view and feel regretful.

Their attention to Zhong Cang has led them to observe him for a period of time at the beginning and middle of the month.

They found that as the month approached its midpoint, Zhong Cang's cultivation did indeed have a sudden increase, jumping from the Early Stage of the Seventh Layer of Qi Refining to the Late Stage of the Seventh Layer.

But this increase only happened once.

Although this change was astonishing, it was no longer the strongest.

In the foreign realm, there are already people who have increased their cultivation by one and a half layers.

And it's not just one or two people, but more than a dozen.

This is not because Zhong Cang is weak, but because it is really difficult to catch up with the tenfold flow rate of time.

"He has made progress again, instead of stagnating as I expected. This child's talent is indeed remarkable. Unfortunately, going against the trend, he will still be left behind."

"Who says otherwise?"

"This is the current situation. It is said that some worlds have already completed the preparations for the Heaven Sacrifice Array. When the array is truly activated, it will inevitably create a group of strong individuals. If someone undergoes the baptism of heaven and earth during the sacrifice, their physique will undergo a transformation, and those left behind will be even further behind."

Upon hearing this, Perfected Being Tao couldn't help but speak up.

"Has no one advised him? Adventuring in the foreign realm does have risks, but it's the outer disciples who die. These geniuses are well protected, and the mortality rate is very low."

"Why hasn't anyone advised him? It's just that Zhong Cang has been hiding on a small island and rarely comes out. Old Qin has been told about this, but his response to others' advice is to take it slow as long as it's safe."

"Even when his rival mocks him, Old Qin doesn't care and just says, 'Yes, you're right, but I won't change.'"

"..."

One fears death and wants to live, while the other doesn't care about the speed of cultivation progress.

Such a master and disciple make it difficult for Perfected Being Tao to say anything.

In the end, he could only sigh with regret and continue his own cultivation.

...

In this way, another month passed quickly, and today is the day when the Heavenly Observation List is distributed.

Because they paid attention to Zhong Cang's speed of cultivation at the beginning and middle of the month, Perfected Being Tao and the other two Perfected Beings already knew about it. Therefore, they believed that there would be no surprises in the distribution of the Heavenly Observation List this time.

However, as the disciple holding the list approached, the hearts of the three Perfected Beings suddenly skipped a beat.

There was nothing they could do. Even from a distance, they could see the awkward and strange expression on the disciple's face.

This scene made the impatient Perfected Being Lu speak first.

"With this expression, could there be another accident? But didn't Zhong Cang's cultivation speed already slow down?"

The leader, Perfected Being Tao, also felt a bit tired, but his character was very easygoing, so he said indifferently:

"If there's a problem, then there's a problem. On the other hand, being able to surpass those who explore the foreign realm at the mountain gate shows that our Cloud Firmament Sect has outstanding talents. This is a good thing."

After speaking, Perfected Being Tao took off the wine gourd at his waist, took a sip, and looked at the disciple.

"Tell us, who caught up with the group exploring the foreign realm this time?"

His mindset changed so quickly that it could only be said that Perfected Being Tao's temperament was indeed carefree and unrestrained.

At the same time, his free-spirited attitude made Perfected Being Tao, who had just taken a sip of wine, feel that no matter who the disciple mentioned, he wouldn't care.

But soon, he was slapped in the face.

"Zhong Cang."

"..."

"..."

"..."

An ordinary name, but it made all three Perfected Beings present fall silent.

After a while, Tao Jurán finally reacted and, with a bitter smile, covered his head, saying, "I actually heard his name again. This little guy, could he be deliberately doing things right for me..."

The two Perfected Beings beside him were also somewhat incredulous.

"?!?!"

"How could it be him?"

"About ten days ago, his cultivation level only reached the Late Stage of Qi Refining from the initial stage of the seventh layer. Although that's not bad, it's still far behind the members of the Interdimensional Exploration Team, right?"

Facing the inquiry, the disciple quickly said, "At that time, Zhong Cang was indeed a bit behind the fastest disciple. However, that disciple stabilized his cultivation level after taking a precious treasure and did not advance to a higher realm. On the other hand, Zhong Cang, who was a late bloomer, raised his cultivation level from the Late Stage of the seventh layer of Qi Refining to the Mid Stage of the eighth layer of Qi Refining in the last few days."

"How did he improve so quickly?"

"Going from the seventh layer of Qi Refining to the eighth layer requires assimilating more spiritual energy than going from the fifth layer to the seventh layer, right? How did he achieve this in just a few days?"

"I do know that Old Qin's Starry Sky Water and Moon Array can condense Moonlight Spirit Dew, which is extremely pure and can be consumed multiple times. However, no matter how pure it is, the dew still needs time to assimilate, right?"

The two Perfected Beings were somewhat puzzled.

On the other hand, the disciple, who knew some information, didn't want to keep them in suspense and quickly said, "Reporting to the Perfected Beings, under normal circumstances, Zhong Cang indeed wouldn't be able to improve so quickly. However, our sect has the Flowing Light Grotto-Heaven."

"After investigating, we found that Old Qin values Zhong Cang a lot. In the last four days, he spent a large amount of sect contributions to let Zhong Cang cultivate in the Flowing Light Grotto-Heaven for forty days."

"This... this is cheating..."

Before he could finish speaking, he couldn't continue.

Cultivating in the Flowing Light Grotto-Heaven and then comparing the speed of cultivation improvement with the disciples in the sect at ten times the normal speed was indeed considered cheating.

But now, Zhong Cang was not being compared to ordinary disciples, but to the members of the Interdimensional Exploration Team.

Their cultivation time was also about ten times longer.

Therefore, Zhong Cang's cultivation in the Flowing Light Grotto-Heaven couldn't be considered cheating; it could only be seen as being on the same starting line as everyone else.

No, Zhong Cang only went to the Flowing Light Grotto-Heaven in the last four days, while the other disciples cultivated for thirty days.

In terms of cultivation time, Zhong Cang was still at a disadvantage.

He suffered a big loss but managed to catch up to the other disciples, which made the three Perfected Beings present unable to say anything.

Even Tao Perfected Being thought of a terrifying possibility.

"Hey, what if Zhong Cang continues to cultivate in the Flowing Light Grotto-Heaven for the next month? With his cultivation speed, will he directly advance to Foundation Building?"

"..."

This question made the two people fall into silence.

They wanted to say it was impossible. Cultivation for cultivators was not just about advancing in cultivation level.

What troubled cultivators was always the realm of their techniques.

However, Zhong Cang's cultivation speed was indeed too fast and too extraordinary.

This made them hesitate to draw conclusions easily.

But their silence, in a way, was also an answer.

And this made Tao Perfected Being regret.

On the day of accepting disciples, the others couldn't compete with Old Qin because he possessed Heaven Level techniques.

But as the main disciple of the sect master, Tao Perfected Being had the capital to compete.

However, he was a lazy person who thought that accepting disciples meant teaching and teaching meant being distracted.

Coupled with Zhong Cang's low cultivation level, he thought his aptitude was not good and would require more effort. That's why he didn't fight for him.

And now, he regretted it for the first time.

He felt that he would have trouble.

"Will Master beat me up because of this?"

...

While Tao Perfected Being was in distress, Zhong Cang also breathed a sigh of relief after coming out of the Flowing Light Grotto-Heaven.

He hadn't noticed anything when his cultivation level was low before.

But after activating the Eight Trigrams · Heaven and Earth Domain with his Heavenly Heart, he felt a sense of frustration while cultivating in the Flowing Light Grotto-Heaven.

Even at that time, he had a vague feeling that there were flaws in the rules of the Grotto-Heaven and that it was not good for him to comprehend inside.

Especially since the techniques he cultivated, whether it was the Eight Trigrams Heaven and Earth or the Five Organs Divine Palace, followed the path of deriving the heavens and earth.

Advancing and deriving inside an incomplete Grotto-Heaven, what he comprehended was likely to be incomplete as well.

After realizing this, although Zhong Cang still had three days of cultivation time left, he didn't dare to stay in the Flowing Light Grotto-Heaven any longer.

"Although it's just a premonition and my guess could be false, it's better to advance and cultivate in the Great World as much as possible in the future."

After sighing, Zhong Cang didn't care about anything else and immediately flew back to the Starry Sky Archipelago.

His technique was about to advance.

The reason Zhong Cang came out so urgently and so early this time was also related to his technique advancing.

And this time, the technique Zhong Cang was advancing to was the core of his core - the Heaven and Earth Eight Trigrams Diagram.

At the same time, Zhong Cang was extremely excited about this advancement.

"The first advancement gave me the characteristic: Eight Trigrams Heaven and Earth (Dominance), which gave me the ability to compete with Apex Level geniuses. I wonder what kind of ability I will gain this time?"

(End of this chapter)