Longevity Gu Dao: Start From Refining Infatuation Gu

Chapter 95: Promotion to the Eighth Level of Qi Refining, Great Increase in Strength

A few days later.

In Misty Cloud City, the cultivators Yan Yi from the Immortal Mist Sect and Elder Lu Ming from the Lu Family, along with a team of guards, searched everywhere for the whereabouts of Ji Bingyu and the others, trying to find their hiding place.

In order to find their hiding place, they basically went door to door, conducting a thorough search.

But no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't find a trace of Ji Bingyu and the others.

There weren't even many cultivators who knew them.

After all, Ji Bingyu and the others usually stayed at home all year round. Even when they met other cultivators, it was just a nod of acknowledgement.

They couldn't be considered very familiar.

Even if they wanted to find someone who knew them to threaten them to come out, they couldn't find such acquaintances.

This also made it difficult for them to make a move.

"Damn it, where are these female cultivators hiding? Could they really disappear into thin air?" Yan Yi felt frustrated and extremely stifled.

Before, he had been confident that Ji Bingyu and the others would be unable to escape from Misty Cloud City and that they would eventually be found.

But now, they couldn't even find a trace of them.

It was as if they had vanished into thin air in Misty Cloud City.

If he hadn't known about Ji Bingyu and the others beforehand, he would have thought that these female cultivators had appeared out of nowhere.

"Fellow Daoist Yan Yi, we can't continue searching like this. It seems that the Shadow Demon Sect has intensified their attacks. We must return to the city walls to defend, so as to prevent the demonic cultivators from breaking in," Elder Lu Ming reminded.

Now was not the time to mobilize the troops, after all, the cultivators from the Shadow Demon Sect outside were watching closely.

Once the formation was broken, they would be completely finished.

As for those female cultivators, they were just a minor trouble.

They weren't worth their attention at all.

"Let's forget it. These little bugs are really good at hiding. Let's temporarily let them go," Yan Yi also felt helpless.

After all, even if they continued to investigate, the probability of finding anything was very low.

Instead, their stubborn behavior would lead to the collapse of Misty Cloud City.

Then, they would become the sinners of the Immortal Mist Sect.

Because of this, after their grand search yielded no results, they temporarily gave up.

Misty Cloud City gradually returned to its previous calm.

Those Independent Cultivators who couldn't escape were all captured and forced to join the guards.

As for whether they would live or die in the future, it would depend on their luck.

...

At this time, in an underground shelter, in a quiet room.

The entire underground shelter was divided into many rooms, some were alchemy rooms, some were talisman rooms, some were formation rooms, and so on. Each cultivator had their own exclusive room.

After all, as cultivators, they definitely needed a quiet place to cultivate, so as not to disturb others.

This quiet room was naturally the place where Zhou Sui closed up and cultivated.

Boom boom boom~~~

At this moment, after Zhou Sui had focused his mind and calmed his qi for several days, he raised his spiritual energy to its peak. Then, he drank a pot of spirit wine, and the immense spirit wine instantly turned into a pure energy, entering his body.

He immediately activated the Divine Gu Sutra, mobilizing this suddenly increased energy.

His Foundation Building divine sense guided this energy to circulate through his meridians in his body, round after round.

The true essence in his body was also rapidly increasing at a visible speed.

With his body as the center, the vast spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged towards him, forming a vortex of spiritual energy.

These spiritual energies penetrate deep into the meridians of his body through his spiritual roots, forming a perfect circulation.

Between each breath, a unique rhythm emanates.

Time passes bit by bit.

After three hours.

The aura within Zhou Sui suddenly surged, reaching its peak.

Boom~

In an instant, this energy condensed from spiritual wine broke through a bottleneck, just like a flood breaking through a dam, unstoppable, demolishing everything in its path, unmatched.

The true essence within his body surged like tides, flowing deep within the meridians.

One could even hear the sound of the surging true essence, as if waves were crashing against rocks, with a formidable momentum.

Qi Refining Eighth Layer!

At this moment, he knew that he had finally broken through the bottleneck and ascended to the realm of Qi Refining Eighth Layer.

Compared to before, the power of the true essence within his body had increased by at least one-third.

His aura also further skyrocketed.

The meridians within his body were once again broken through by a surge of true essence.

"Haha, great! I finally ascended to Qi Refining Eighth Layer."

Zhou Sui laughed heartily, filled with joy.

He had spent nearly two years in arduous cultivation, consuming numerous elixirs and spiritual wine, as well as practicing dual cultivation with three companions. Finally, he had advanced from Qi Refining Seventh Layer to Qi Refining Eighth Layer.

It must be said that the cultivation of Qi Refining Late Stage was incredibly slow and difficult.

Especially since he was only a Seventh Grade spiritual root, the efficiency of his cultivation was incredibly slow.

It should be noted that he didn't know how many resources he had consumed and it took him two years to break through from Qi Refining Seventh Layer to Eighth Layer.

If it were an ordinary cultivator at Qi Refining Seventh Layer, they wouldn't be able to break through without ten or twenty years.

No wonder Independent Cultivators at Qi Refining Late Stage were so rare.

Even if there were similar cultivators, they were mostly elderly Independent Cultivators in their seventies or eighties.

However, these Independent Cultivators were mostly over sixty years old, with declining vitality and no hope of advancing to Foundation Building.

Undoubtedly, if he were still the Ninth Grade spiritual root he used to be, it would definitely take more time to break through.

"No wonder the sect is unwilling to accept cultivators with Low Grade spiritual roots as disciples."

"It's too difficult for cultivators with Low Grade spiritual roots to advance to Foundation Building."

"Even at sixty years old, they can't advance to Qi Refining Eighth Layer, let alone Qi Refining Ninth Layer."

"Although it consumes a large amount of resources, it is still possible to quickly elevate a cultivator with Low Grade spiritual roots to Qi Refining Late Stage."

"The problem is, why not cultivate two or three cultivators with Intermediate Spirit Roots instead of investing so much in cultivating a cultivator with Low Grade spiritual roots? The input and output are simply not proportional."

"But fortunately, with the power of the Infatuation Gu, my spiritual root aptitude can still improve."

"In no time, I will be able to reach the Sixth Grade spiritual root aptitude, which is an Intermediate Spirit Root."

Zhou Sui also had a little understanding of the practices of those sects.

If he were the sect master, he would probably also give up on cultivators with Low Grade spiritual roots.

Of course, it was different for the demonic sect.

Because the demonic sect didn't cultivate their own disciples, they only bestowed some techniques.

As for resources, they needed to strive for them, seize them, plunder them.

It was similar to raising Gu.

Whoever emerged victorious would be the true disciple of the demonic sect, gaining supreme power.

So naturally, they accepted disciples regardless of their background and desperately recruited them.

As for the righteous sects, they were much more meticulous in cultivating disciples.

They needed to bestow spiritual stones, elixirs, and the guidance of renowned teachers, focusing on elite cultivation.

As a result, the consumption was naturally enormous, and they simply couldn't afford to recruit so many disciples.

(End of this chapter)