fairy family

Chapter 303 Derivative Gale Layer, Immortal Garden Jade Capital
Three streams of energy converged before Yu Que, lush and majestic like a mountain, their shapes constantly shifting.

Their colors are also varied and highly contradictory, each refusing to yield to the other.

Given that these three types of qi are in such a state, it would be extremely difficult to separate them, let alone melt them together.

Even ordinary immortals standing nearby could be affected by the three streams of energy, suffering considerable damage as innocent bystanders.

Fortunately, Yu Que had already prepared for this. A purple aura flowed around him, easily blocking the connection between the three streams of qi. And the next moment, he uttered a single word:
"Certainly!"

With a whoosh, the qi that had been moving about just moments before suddenly froze in place, as if it had been frozen solid.

All around Yu Que, his magnificent Hundred-Mile Immortal Garden, which had astonished the entire Huangshan Mountain, once again leaped out of the void and appeared in the gale layer, resembling the sky itself.

It was his Hundred-Mile Immortal Garden, which covered a hundred miles in all directions, that captured all three streams of qi.

Seeing this, Yu Que wasn't too surprised; he simply smiled with satisfaction.

The Inner Heaven and Earth is a wondrous object hailed as a "seed of celestial immortality." If it cannot even be subdued by a mere stream of qi, then it is far too unworthy of its name.

Moreover, the inner world of Yuque, now nourished by the fortune of Huangshan, is already evolving into the outer world, and its power to absorb and suppress has increased many times over.

After observing for a few moments, Yu Que stood in the frozen gale, then opened his mouth and took a deep breath.

The gurgling, frozen winds suddenly began to flow.

The three superior true qi surged into his mind all at once. In less than ten breaths, all the Guanghan Ice Soul Qi, the Heavenly Qi, and the Tai Sui Yinghuo Qi that he had summoned within a radius of dozens of miles were absorbed into his stomach.

Suddenly, a cloud of color appeared on his face, changing constantly.

This was because the three streams of qi entered his abdomen and rose up from there, rushing straight to his mind, attempting to completely destroy his physical body.

However, Yu Que possesses an inner world, and now that his inner world has been released, his physical body is within it. The two are combined, and the inner world is his physical body, while his physical body is the inner world; the two are indistinguishable.

The three streams of qi, attempting to use their meager strength to contend with the might of a hundred miles of heaven and earth, and to destroy the remaining spiritual platform, were nothing but wishful thinking.

Driven by Yu Que, they only rotated once within Yu Que's body before they began to disintegrate.

After another rotation, they already show a tendency to merge with each other.

By the third, fourth... and ninth laps, the three streams of energy had been dispersed into one, spreading throughout Yu Que's body, melting into a single mass, indistinguishable from one another.

Next, all Yu Que needs to do is calm down and spend some time to transform the three streams of qi in his body into the "Guanghan Emperor's Qi" that he desires.

In this process, he can also use the Earth Raven True Fire to burn inside his body, using his flesh as a furnace to fiercely temper them and accelerate their transformation.

However, after dispersing the three streams of qi, Yu Que did not press his advantage and instead turned his attention away from his body to look around.

"Not enough, not enough, too little."

He muttered to himself, then flicked his sleeves again, and the fortune of Huangshan transformed into a hundred-zhang-tall banner, which stood in the center of his inner world, fluttering and radiating a yearning in all directions.

A buzzing sound filled the air above Huangshan Mountain, and the wind layer suddenly trembled.

Immediately, three streams of qi that Yu Que had his eye on surged forth from all directions.

They surged in, seemingly without end, crowding around the remaining space.

Having gained experience from refining the first breath of Qi, Yu Que no longer needed to ingest it. Instead, he used his inner world as his abdomen, activated the earth fire, and fiercely burned the Qi within his inner world.

With a rumble, the entire Gangfeng layer trembled, centered on his inner world, and muffled thunder rumbled out.

Such a commotion could be faintly heard by everyone on Huangshan Mountain.

The color of many people's faces changed again:

"It's just the Refining Qi stage, they haven't even become immortals yet, how can there be such a big commotion?"

"It's just refining internal energy, why does it feel like undergoing a tribulation of lightning!?"

Many people were wondering about it.

Even the Palace Master of Huangshan, the Peak Master of Tiandu, and the person from Guangming Peak all looked surprised and exchanged glances.

The three were equally surprised by the commotion caused by Yu Que's refining of qi.

To this, the three old men could only think to themselves, "The Celestial Immortal Seed truly lives up to its name; its demeanor is far from that of an ordinary person."

Faced with the uproar from the crowd below, the Heavenly Capital Peak Master had no choice but to issue another order: "Silence!"

After suppressing the commotion on Tiandu Peak, he paused, discussed a few words with the two people beside him, and then released a decree by making a hand seal.

The next moment, the ghosts, gods, and Taoist soldiers guarding outside Tiandu Peak received orders and hurriedly went to other peaks to fetch drinking water, dry food, and other necessities for the disciples and elders watching the ceremony on the mountain.

Although everyone here is a highly accomplished immortal, and could endure another month or so, there's no need to suffer unnecessarily.

In the eyes of the three peak masters of Tiandu Peak, it was better to serve everyone well than to make them wait until they were parched and hungry. That way, if a great enemy were to attack later, everyone would be in high spirits to protect Yu Que.

Before long, one after another, the ghostly soldiers ascended Tiandu Peak, and one by one, they bestowed spiritual water and spiritual food upon the tens of thousands of disciples and elders present.

Many disciples were surprised by this. They looked at the simple yet spiritually rich food and water in front of them and their faces showed joy.

The sound of rustling and chirping suddenly rang out on Tiandu Peak.

at the same time.

Yu Que sat cross-legged in the layer of gale, and a constant rustling sound emanated from his body, as if something invisible was chewing on him.

Strands of mysterious light enveloped him from all sides, and with his breath, they continuously entered and exited his nostrils. They resembled liquid, sword energy, and sword light, and also emitted a chilling aura, causing layers of white frost and mist to appear where Yu Que was.

These mysterious lights are the "Guanghan Emperor's Qi" that Yu Que extracted and refined from three kinds of true qi.

"Just as I predicted, evil energy can be fused together, and protective energy can also be forged."

At this moment, Yu Que was in the great joy of advancing. His physical meridians were being expanded, his internal organs were being tempered, his soul strength was rapidly increasing, and his divine sense was breaking through its limits.

Once he has refined all the surrounding Qi from the hundred miles around into his own body and inner world, forming the Guanghan Emperor Qi, his Qi Refining Realm will be completely stable, and he will leap to become a celestial being on the verge of the mid-stage of Qi Refining.

Furthermore, because of the large amount of residual Qi, he no longer needs to go to the Qi rift layer to painstakingly collect Qi for cultivation.

It only needs to draw upon the processed Qi from its inner world to gradually refine it into its own true Qi.

Moreover, Yu Que discovered that with the intrusion of the罡气 (罡气 is a type of internal energy in Chinese folklore), the inner world had undergone tremendous changes.

This change primarily occurs in the outer layer of the inner world, similar to the egg white in a chicken egg. Yu Que stared at his own inner world, surprised, and said:

"Is this... becoming more and more like a real world? It has even generated its own layer of gale-force winds."

Among them, besides the Guanghan Emperor's Qi that Yu Que had gathered for his cultivation, there were also wisps of thin Qi that were born. These Qi had not been refined by time and could not even be considered low-grade Qi.

However, they enveloped the entire inner world, forming a barrier similar to an array.

With this item, the stability of the entire world greatly increased, and the suppressive power also continued to grow.

Suddenly, Yu Que had a thought. He revealed his inner world to the outside, then took out an object and smashed it into his inner world.

After this object entered the inner world from the outer layer, it immediately landed in the gale layer, igniting a burst of fire. It was annihilated in a few moments, turning into a cloud of ashes and spiritual energy, which then merged into the remaining inner world.

He then conducted several more experiments and discovered that even magical artifacts and treasures at the Refining Qi level would be worn down if they fell into it.

Those below the Refining Qi level will be instantly reduced to ashes, and all their spiritual energy and essence will be completely released.

Realizing this, Yu Que's face lit up with joy:
"Excellent. With this, the speed at which spiritual energy is cultivated within the inner world will surely increase significantly."

In the future, when putting things into the inner world, I can first use the Gale Layer to pass through it, so that I don't end up putting in some strange things and then have to spend time and effort cleaning them up afterwards.

He pondered for a moment, then immediately took action to check it out, and found that the speed at which spiritual energy was gathering in his inner world was indeed no longer as slow as before.

If he were to actively pour his mental energy into it and use the Guanghan Emperor's Qi within his body to refine it, it would almost instantly generate spiritual energy from heaven and earth.

Yu Que calculated that, given the current rate of spiritual energy conversion in the inner world, and with a sufficient supply of souls and other resources, it was already enough to support the daily expenses of a primordial spirit Dao soldier.

For him, in addition to maintaining his daily expenses, it also allowed him to engage in some cultivation and combat.

In other words, even if the spiritual energy stored in the inner world were completely destroyed, Yu Que would have various means to generate spiritual energy on his own to maintain the existence of his primordial spirit weapon or his own cultivation.

This made him sigh:

"Such a place is indeed like the ancient fairy garden in the book, which can form its own five elements and operate in an unpredictable manner, and can provide for immortal gods and immortals."

The pressure on Yu Que's heart regarding raising primordial spirit soldiers immediately dissipated by seventy or eighty percent.

When he came to his senses, he suddenly opened his eyes again and looked at the vast Dao Secret Realm's Gale Layer.

Compared to the thin but uniform layer of gale force in his Immortal Garden, the layer of gale force in the Dao Secret Realm appears patchy and scattered.

Or rather, apart from a few locations, the gale layer in other places seems to be missing.

"Could it be that the disappearance of spiritual energy in the Dao Secret Realm is not only due to the exhaustion of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but also related to the fact that the Dao Secret Realm currently cannot retain or convert much spiritual energy?" he thought to himself.

However, this was just a conjecture he came up with out of thin air, and there was no supporting evidence.

Yu Que immediately cleared his mind of distractions, sat cross-legged in the Gale Layer, and inhaled and exhaled the surrounding Guanghan Emperor's Gale Qi.

Taking advantage of his current good fortune, he plans to strike while the iron is hot and linger in the Gangfeng layer for a few more days to see if he can advance his Gang Refining cultivation to the mid-stage in one go.

Once he reaches the middle stage, he will return to the Huangshan Taoist Palace for further refinement and consolidation, which will save a lot of time.

Whoohoo!
Yu Que was immersed in cultivation, and time slowly passed.

Three days passed quickly.

Over the course of three days, the people of Huangshan Taoist Temple began to have doubts as they watched him not return.

According to the elders' predictions, with the Dao Palace's fortune bestowed upon him, Yu Que should only be one step away from completing the Heavenly Sacrifice and Qi Refining, and he should be able to easily cross that threshold.

Even if Yu Que dawdles, with a whole day's effort, he should have already guided his internal energy into his body and entered the Refining Qi realm. In that case, Yu Que can return and go back to collect internal energy whenever he needs to refine his internal energy again.

Some of them muttered:

"Back then, when we were trying to refine our inner energy, we had to go and participate in the imperial court's grand campaign so that we could get some of the fortune from the ancestral temples of the Central Plains to help us refine our inner energy."

"But the Palace Master of Justice need not do that now."

Someone nearby immediately answered:
"My Huangshan Taoist Temple has accumulated ten thousand years of fortune, all for the purpose of expanding our family's prestige and bringing glory to our ancestors, just like today."

"If you're not convinced, try having a Nascent Soul Dao Weapon, or even an Inner World, yourself."

Upon hearing this, those who had been muttering immediately shut their mouths and said no more.

The palace master and others paid no attention to the discussions among the people in the palace. They discussed among themselves and sent ghosts and gods to the Gangfeng layer to observe the location of Yu Que from a distance.

When they realized that Yu Que's inner world was steadily suspended in the layer of gale-force winds, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

"It seems that he was just temporarily immersed in cultivation and did not encounter any trouble."

They planned that if Yu Que still hadn't come down after four more days, and it had been a full seven days, they would go up again in person to see what Yu Que was doing and whether they should wake him up.

Fortunately, only two more days passed.

Yu Que suddenly opened his eyes, his face radiant. A mysterious light surrounded him, as gentle as flowing water, making it difficult to discern its previous sharp and intimidating appearance.

Yu Que opened his mouth and swallowed all the mysterious light into his stomach, softly chanting:

"Ascend to the heavens to look far ahead and pave the way forward; bow your head and return to the palace to recount the past."

With a smile on his face, he rose up, holding up his exposed inner world without concealing it, and descended towards the foot of Mount Huang.

After he escaped the gale layer, the elders on Tiandu Peak noticed him. When he landed at about ten thousand feet, all the Huangshan disciples were looking up at him intently.

"This small world is much more solid than before!"

"Such a scene resembles the legendary Heavenly Palace, and also the Jade Capital described in the book."

Exclamations of amazement rang out continuously.

Yu Que flashed and landed on the altar. He heard the voices around him, looked up at his inner world, and chuckled:

"Since that's the case, from now on, this thing will be called 'White Jade Capital'."

The word "such" reached the ears of many more people, prompting them to ponder it deeply, and for a time, they were filled with envy and admiration.

(End of this chapter)