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Chapter 271 Condensing Evil Spirits and Establishing Foundation, Ancestral Temple Transforming Heaven and Earth
Yu Que lay in the jade coffin, his body filled with white baleful energy.

Wisps of sword energy also took shape within it.

His hair and beard were white, and his body seemed to be covered with white hair, as if he had turned into a corpse.

But his chest was still rising and falling, and with each breath, the gushing Taibai True Qi entered his body, cleansing all his muscles and bones, filling them with an indescribable spirituality.

Especially his true energy.

Yu Que's true energy was originally formed by combining three kinds of true energy. After obtaining Tai Bai True Qi, which was formed by combining three kinds of evil energy, his true energy and evil energy were extremely well matched. The two merged together without much stagnation.

They blend together seamlessly, instantly becoming one, and actively begin to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy to continuously strengthen themselves.

Therefore, in principle, after successfully condensing evil energy, whether one is an immortal or a cultivator, one should know when to stop and that having the true energy refined from evil energy within one's body as a seed is sufficient.

In the future, practitioners can gradually collect more evil energy, or rely on the skill of grinding water to perfect the work of condensing evil energy.

But now, Yu Que has already crossed the threshold of the Condensing Evil, yet he is still forging ahead bravely!

With the amount of malevolent energy he has refined this time, it would be enough even if he pushed his cultivation level to the peak of the Malevolent Energy Condensation realm in one go.

Furthermore, the spiritual energy stored within the jade coffin is an immense resource for cultivators who have mastered the Qi Condensation stage, providing them with a replenishment.

Therefore, although Yu Que has now passed the critical stage of Qi Condensation and can be considered to have successfully established his foundation, he is still seizing the opportunity to increase his true qi as much as possible.

Even if he misses out on other great opportunities in the immortal mountain because of this, as long as he can raise his cultivation to the peak of the Qi Condensation stage in one go, he will have saved decades of effort out of thin air!

Time continues to pass.

Yu Que's internal energy gradually filled up.

The ancestral temple within his body has expanded once again, and the extent of this expansion has exceeded his expectations. It is something that ordinary immortals could not possess, and there is currently no sign of it stopping.

With his expectation, his Qi Condensation cultivation level quickly surpassed the minor completion stage and entered the intermediate completion stage.

When Yu Que realized this, he felt both surprised and astonished.

And he quickly realized something was wrong:

"Wait, I am a member of the immortal family."

Although I successfully established my foundation and benefited from exceptionally favorable conditions, with no shortage of both malevolent and spiritual energy, how could I have broken through to the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment without the inheritance of a palace's Dharma lineage?

Yu Que snapped out of his excitement, his thoughts suddenly becoming jumbled.

After breaking through a major realm, immortals can continue to cultivate and do not immediately need the next level of cultivation techniques. However, if they do not have the next level of cultivation techniques, they will be stuck in the early stage of the next major realm.

He has now directly broken through the early stage of the Qi Condensation Realm, which is equivalent to advancing to the middle level of the sixth rank immortal, which is quite illogical.

There is only one explanation for this.

That means he has already entered the ancient path of cultivation!
Ancient cultivators prioritized Qi cultivation. They did not need to accumulate spiritual energy; they only needed to nourish their internal Qi to make rapid progress in their cultivation.

Especially since Yu Que also happens to possess an ancient cultivation method that can directly lead to immortality—the Taiyin Sword Technique!
Feeling conflicted, Yu Que immediately calmed himself down and examined his own body.

He indeed discovered that although his true energy was quite different from that described in the Taiyin Sword Manual, the direction and transformation process of his true energy were exactly the same as those recorded in the manual.

That is why he was able to break through the early stage of the Qi Condensation Realm without making a sound.

Faced with this situation, Yu Que couldn't help but sigh softly:

"Sword techniques, oh sword techniques, you have all misled me."

However, he only sighed a few times before immersing himself in the cultivation path of the Taiyin Sword Technique, continuing to advance rapidly and accumulate true energy within his body.

Since we've already gone astray and deviated from the path of immortality, then naturally we should stick to this path to the bitter end.

Otherwise, would he have destroyed the foundation of his Dao that he had painstakingly cultivated?
At the moment, Yu Que could only regretfully think, "If the Dao Palace had taught me the immortal technique of Condensing Evil beforehand, I wouldn't have had to go through all this."

After clearing his mind of distractions, he once again devoted himself wholeheartedly to the cultivation of Qi Condensation.

Its skin was as smooth as jade, its bone marrow was translucent, its blood was refined, and all its internal organs were brimming with vitality to an unimaginable degree.

He had a vague feeling that once he stood up from the coffin, even without using any true energy, he could break through the secret realm he had carefully created by relying solely on his own brute strength and using his fists and feet.

Such changes have only increased Yu Que's anticipation. He hopes that he can take this opportunity to cultivate the Condensing Qi Realm to its peak, or even to perfection.

Just how powerful will his magic be then?!
However, when Yu Que was still a little short of reaching the late stage of Qi Condensation, a change occurred within his body.

With a loud hum, his ancestral temple, which had expanded to cover ten miles, began to shake violently.

The Taibai True Evil that filled the temple seemed to have rebelled, jumping up and down and chopping all the remaining things in the ancestral temple except for Yu Que's own Yin spirit into "powder".

The ancestral temple, which was originally quaint and elegant, is now a complete mess and a blurry mess inside.

The commotion made Yu Que's mind tighten. He immediately wondered if he had been too eager for quick success and shouldn't have raised his cultivation level to such a high level in one go.

However, after carefully analyzing the situation, he did not feel threatened by the anomalies in the ancestral temple, nor did his internal energy go astray.

The Taibai True Evil spirits roaming the ancestral temple are all transformed from his true energy, or perhaps they should be called "Taibai True Energy," and they are all completely under his control.

With just a slight deviation, the ancestral temple could stop its abnormal changes, and its true energy would also stagnate, as if it had been frozen on the spot.

"What could be the reason for this?"

Yu Que immediately began to mentally search through the "Taiyin Sword Manual," trying to find clues from it.

However, regarding the Foundation Establishment stage of cultivation in the sword manual, apart from condensing evil spirits, refining qi, and refining the sword, there are no other aspects that need attention.

However, on the other hand, the Taiyin Sword Manual is a method practiced by ancient cultivators. This method does not even contain the concept of an "ancestral temple," so it is impossible for it to mention the current abnormality of his ancestral temple.

Yu Que immediately focused his mind on the two major lineages of Yama and Tai Sui, and also quickly flipped through other miscellaneous books and Taoist texts in his mind, especially the "Immortal Scripture" compiled by Xiang Huo Yi Chao.

Unfortunately, none of these classics mention this.

This situation made Yu Que increasingly uneasy.

After much deliberation, he decided it was best to play it safe and that the ancestral temple should not grow any further, rather than risk any more unexpected problems arising.

Anyway, he has now entered the lineage of ancient cultivators, and the ancestral temple is no longer as important to him as it used to be.

However, when Yu Que began to condense his evil energy and refine his qi again, a strange scene unfolded.

Every time he condenses a wisp of Taibai True Qi, this true qi will not enter his body, but will actively enter his ancestral temple.

Even if he wanted to guide his true energy into his physical body, he was helpless. As soon as he slightly circulated the true energy within his body, it was as if the old true energy was being squeezed out and entered the ancestral temple.

In other words, unless Yu Que temporarily suspends his cultivation and stops increasing his true energy, he will not be able to stop the changes in the ancestral temple.

Since that's the case, Yu Que thought about it for a while, and his temper flared up.

He simply let the ancestral temple change on its own; since it needed true energy, he would increase the amount of energy he provided.

Yu Que even poured the true energy within his physical body into the ancestral temple.

However, after the ancestral temple absorbed the true energy, it returned it, asking for nothing more, only the remaining amount of true energy.

Thus, Yu Que's cultivation level was temporarily fixed at a point just shy of the late stage of the Condensing Qi realm, but his true qi was accumulating more and more within the ancestral temple.

Time passed day by day.

When Yu Que came to his senses again, his entire ancestral temple had vanished without a trace.

Right now, what exists in his spiritual platform is only a vast, chaotic space filled with his Taibai True Qi, more than twice the amount he had cultivated before his cultivation stopped!
at last.

When cracks appeared on the jade coffin that contained Yu Que, and the spiritual energy was almost completely drained, Yu Que's ancestral temple stopped growing.

Instead, an indescribable sense of joy filled Yu Que's mind and body, causing him to tremble slightly.

He lay in the cracked coffin, suddenly opened his eyes, and took a deep breath into the void.

Whoosh, the spiritual energy in the secret chamber quickly poured into his mouth; the spiritual energy outside the secret chamber also rushed in and entered his mouth.

Within a few breaths, a massive vortex of spiritual energy formed beneath the third level of the immortal mountain and continued to expand, eventually reaching a size of thirty miles.

This size is exactly the size that Yuque's ancestral temple ultimately reached.

Even though it landed in a vast immortal mountain, it was still quite large.

In particular, the noise it made was terrifying, even affecting the upper and lower levels of the immortal mountain.

Those immortal cultivators who were still lingering on the third level immediately had their eyes light up and looked incredulously in the direction where Yu Que was in seclusion.

"Could this fluctuation of spiritual energy indicate the birth of a rare treasure?"

"Wealth is found in danger!"

"I cannot stay here any longer; I should leave quickly."

In an instant, the immortal cultivators on the third level either rushed straight towards the direction where the spiritual energy vortex was formed, or ran wildly away from it.

When those treacherous immortal cultivators arrived at the location of the spiritual energy vortex, they all stopped and looked at the vortex with fear on their faces.

As soon as these people approached the vortex, they all felt a sense of dread, as if taking another step forward would lead to certain death.

After observing for several quarters of an hour, some people, not believing in the superstition, used their magic to step into the vortex.

The next moment, the true energy within that person was swept away by the vortex. If he hadn't managed to pull himself back in time, his entire true energy would have been taken away and mixed into the vast spiritual energy of the immortal mountain.

Even though he managed to escape in time, the man's face was deathly pale, and he was terrified. He quickly sat down cross-legged to meditate and recuperate.

A few people, however, refused to believe it and tried it out on the spot. Afterwards, they all turned away with embarrassed expressions and refused to take another step forward.

"Hmph! A bunch of fools. This is clearly a rare treasure that is still in the process of transformation and has not yet taken shape."

"Hehehe, haste makes waste. Please wait a moment."

"It wouldn't be good if we disturbed the precious treasure..."

The arriving immortal cultivators either mocked or calmly commented on the situation.

And at the same time.

Although Yu Que was in the underground chamber, he was not completely unaware of the situation outside.

He discovered that his divine sense, along with the massive fluctuations of spiritual energy, had spread to a range encompassing thirty miles.

He naturally noticed the immortal cultivators who had been attracted by the commotion of his breakthrough, and even recognized a few familiar faces among them.

However, at the moment, Yu Que did not pay much attention to the other people; his mind was mostly focused on the ancestral temple.

The ancestral temple caused such a huge commotion, but it did not show it to the outside world. Instead, it began to collapse inward, shrinking at a visible speed, one zhang at a time.

Before long, it first shrank to the size of a building, then to the size of a human head, and continued to shrink, only the shrinkage rate became millisecond by millisecond.

Finally, when it shrank to the smallest fraction, as if it were about to evaporate into thin air, Yu Quefu arrived.

He lay in the jade coffin, suddenly opened his eyes, and with a thunderous roar, uttered a single word:
"open!"

Boom!

The underground chamber suddenly trembled, and even the entire third level of the immortal mountain seemed to shake.

The tiny ray of light within Yu Que's spiritual platform suddenly burst forth, releasing boundless light and heat.

Centered on the location of the deficiency, this light and heat encompassed all directions, directly shattering and refining the jade coffin. It also easily demolished the secret chamber, which was strong enough to withstand an attack from a Foundation Establishment cultivator, as if it were a paper house.

All the spiritual energy within a radius of thirty miles was swept away by the white light and then absorbed into his spiritual platform.

At that moment, a pure white world appeared within Yu Que's spiritual platform. It was spherical in shape and about the same size as the ancestral temple, with a circumference of thirty li.

However, it is completely different from the ancestral temple. It is no longer a floating space, seemingly there but not there, but a space that has solidified into a real space!

Yu Que's eyes were glazed over as he stared in disbelief at the space within his mind, or rather, at the world around him.

With a thought, the ghost soldiers, formations, Avici Demon Pearls, and other items he had protected in the dilapidated secret chamber suddenly appeared in his mind.

Especially the five-pouch bag, which has its own internal space for storage, was also able to be stored inside.

According to Yu Que's knowledge, storage-type magical artifacts cannot be stacked; they must be carried with one's person at all times!
Looking at the world within his mind, a tremendous sense of surprise welled up in Yu Que's heart.

He was overjoyed and said:

"What...what on earth is going on?!"

(End of this chapter)