A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Lü Zhongtang immediately chimed in, "If Elder Sun hadn't been so familiar with the habits of this Bewitching Blue-Eyed Cat, catching this beast wouldn't have been so easy."

Sun Fujia seemed not to hear their words, his face remaining cold and expressionless.

At this moment, the Bewitching Blue-Eyed Cat had become a mass of flesh wrapped in fur. The three walls of laws surrounding it then dissipated.

Sun Fujia raised his hand and used a wisp of law power to wrap up the pile of filthy blood and rotten flesh, sending it flying into a snakeskin bag that was open in the air.

Then he grabbed the snakeskin bag, tied it up, and fastened it around his lower back.

This Bewitching Blue-Eyed Cat is, after all, a high-level elemental beast. Its most valuable feature is naturally its single blue eye, but its flesh, blood, and fur are also quite rare.

After Sun Fujia finished doing all this, he looked up at Duan Rong and Lü Zhongtang and said, "Let's go. The Nine Nether Hound lives in the Red Land all year round and can burrow underground. It won't be so easy to catch it."

After Sun Fujia finished speaking, he immediately set off towards the direction of the Red Land.

Duan Rong and Lü Zhongtang also rushed over.

Five days later, somewhere on the edge of the red land.

Not far from here are the sixty-four great arrays of the God and Demon Ruins, and the faint glow emitted by the array's light screen can already be vaguely seen.

Duan Rong, Sun Fujia, and Lü Zhongtang stood there, looking at the Yuan Beast lying on the ground. The Yuan Beast was quite large, with two curved horns on its head that looked like obsidian.

At this moment, Duan Rong was holding onto one of the curved horns, dragging the severed head of the Yuan Beast, crimson blood gushing out...

The three chased the Nine Nether Beast for five full days before finally exhausting it. Not far from the sixty-four Zhou Tian Grand Arrays, the three finally managed to control it.

Just now, Sun Fujia and Lü Zhongtang controlled the body of the Nine Nether Hound, and Duan Rong used the power of the law to twist off the beast's head.

At this moment, all three of them let out a long sigh, their faces showing exhaustion.

This Nine Nether Hound travels underground at an extremely fast speed. Even when the three of them surrounded it, it almost escaped several times.

Fortunately, Duan Rong used his supernatural power, Bloodlight Divine Shadow Escape, to stop that beast.

When Duan Rong used the Bloodlight Shadow Escape technique for the first time, it almost made Sun Fujia and Lü Zhongtang's jaws drop.

They were all experts at the Cave-Ming Realm, and their speed was already astonishing, but Duan Rong displayed a speed that was almost instantaneous.

Every time the Nine Nether Hound tried to break through, Duan Rong would stop it.

After observing, Sun Fujia discovered that every time Duan Rong used the teleportation technique, a red light would flash on his forehead.

Gradually, Sun Fujia began to guess that Duan Rong actually possessed supernatural powers.

He too emerged from the ruins of gods and demons. He knew that it was already difficult to survive. To gain the approval of the will of gods and demons, and to be given the mark of gods and demons and possess supernatural powers, was something that only the patriarch Lü Yinlin had done in the Taiyi Sect for a thousand years.

For more than a thousand years after Lü Yinlin, every thirty years a group of prodigies would enter the ruins of gods and demons; such talents were numerous as fish crossing a river.

But none of them possessed supernatural powers!
But he can!
"This boy is truly destined for greatness!" Sun Fujia thought to himself, staring blankly at Duan Rong.

Duan Rong had already opened the skull of the Nine Nether Beast. The beast was quite large, but its brain was only the size of an infant's fist.

He opened a black jade box, took out the brain of the Nine Nether Hound intact, and put it into the black jade box.

After Duan Rong finished doing all this, he turned his head and saw that Sun Fujia was already dealing with the corpse of the Nine Nether Hound.

As a high-level elemental beast, many parts of the Nine Nether Hound's body are precious resources for the Medicine Pavilion.

Like a seasoned bone-picker, Sun Fujia precisely disassembled the Nine Nether Hound's body, removing the most useful parts in segments and pieces.

Finally, Sun Fujia came over, broke off the two curved horns from the head of the Nine Nether Hound, and put them into the snakeskin bag.

At this point, the snakeskin bag was bulging like a burlap sack.

Sun Fujia used the power of the law to guide the bag between two fingers of his right hand, as if it were nothing.

He looked at the snakeskin bag and said, "Hmm. This trip was still worthwhile."

Lu Zhongtang said, "Brother Sun, we are very grateful for your help this time."

Sun Fujia said, "Brother Lü, I'm not helping you. I'm helping this kid."

“However… I’m not without my demands.” Sun Fujia changed the subject, looking at Duan Rong, and said, “Young Duan, if I ever need your help in the future, I hope you can lend me a hand for the sake of what happened today.”

Duan Rong rubbed his nose; this guy really was quite cunning. But he had indeed helped him, and given how things had been discussed, he couldn't very well refuse.

Duan Rong said, "Senior, rest assured. As long as it is within my power, I will never refuse."

Sun Fujia nodded and said, "That's enough."

Sun Fujia then used his speed to fly towards the dense forest, and Duan Rong and Lü Zhongtang followed.

The three emerged from the dark forest and appeared in a mountain hollow.

Sun Fujia clasped his hands in a fist salute to Duan Rong and Lü Zhongtang and said, "Brother Lü, young Duan, I still need to return to the medicine pavilion to deal with these corpses and medicinal materials. I'll take my leave now."

The moment the two clasped their hands in greeting, Sun Fujia transformed into a streak of black light and shot into the churning clouds in the distance.

Duan Rong glanced at Lü Zhongtang and said, "Father-in-law, Elder Sun's temper is a bit strange."

Lü Zhongtang said, "He's always like this. People who like to study medicine and poisons are usually a bit abnormal."

Upon hearing this, Duan Rong gave Lü Zhongtang a strange look.

Lü Zhongtang understood and asked, "What? You also study the art of medicine and poison?"

Duan Rong said, "I know a little about it."

Lu Zhongtang said, "My dear son-in-law, with such talent, why are you researching that stuff? It's just a waste of time."

Duan Rong said, "Father-in-law is right. I wholeheartedly agree."

Lu Zhongtang nodded and said, "Don't let Elder Sun's appearance fool you. Although he has a strange temper, he is still quite proud at heart. He would never stoop to doing anything despicable."

Lü Zhongtang said this because Duan Rong had agreed to Sun Fujia's promise in the dark forest, promising to repay the favor. Therefore, Lü Zhongtang's words at this moment were to dispel Duan Rong's doubts, reassure him, and tell him that Sun Fujia would not make any excessive demands.

In truth, this favor was owed by Lü Zhongtang, since he was the one who invited the person. However, since it was for Duan Rong's sake, it was reasonable for him to ask Duan Rong to repay it.

“Let’s go. Let’s go back,” said Lü Zhongtang.

"Then," Duan Rong responded, and the two of them transformed into two streaks of black light, shooting towards the Lü family's residence.

Although Lü Zhongtang had achieved the Cave-Ming Realm, he was used to a leisurely life and could not stand tedious tasks. Therefore, he felt quite tired after five or six days in the dark forest.

However, Duan Rong was always a diligent cultivator, so this little bit of hardship was almost nothing to him. Therefore, when he returned to the Lü family mansion, he went straight into the secret room of the talisman array to begin his cultivation.

Duan Rong sat cross-legged in the secret chamber of the talisman array for sixteen days.

That day, he finally let out a long sigh and opened his eyes.

"It actually took a full sixteen days to complete the seventeenth level of the Garbhadhatu Sutra." A hint of doubt flashed in Duan Rong's eyes.

If any of the powerful cultivators in the sect who had practiced the Womb Treasury Scripture were to overhear Duan Rong's whispers within the secret chamber of the talisman array, they would surely think Duan Rong had something wrong with his head. He had achieved the seventeenth level of the Womb Treasury Scripture in just sixteen days, and even said something like "it actually took a full sixty days."

For the tenth and subsequent levels of the Garbhadhatu Sutra, it would normally take them more than ten years, or even several decades, to complete any level.

But for Duan Rong, this is indeed a problem.

It only took him nine days to complete the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth levels, but it took him sixteen days to complete the seventeenth level.

The time spent is obviously abnormal in comparison.

Duan Rong had this question in mind even when he was cultivating.

He could sense that the azure light threads within the Tree Spirit Sea seemed to have slowed down considerably during his cultivation on the seventeenth level.

"wrong……"

"It's not that the azure light threads have slowed down... it's that the other forces have slowed down... the azure light threads are still rising in large swathes, but their weaving speed on the star has slowed down..."

As Duan Rong recalled this, he suddenly turned his head to look at the stone statue, which was more than two people tall, on the stone wall next to him.

The stone statue was quite tall and exquisitely carved, making it remarkably lifelike.

Duan Rong stared blankly at the ferocious-looking statue of Fudo Myo-o. He was almost certain that the abnormally long time required to complete the seventeenth level of the Womb Sutra was because the spiritual pressure of the deity descending into his sea of ​​consciousness was no longer sufficient.

Therefore, the rising wisps of azure light could not quickly intertwine on the star... because the spiritual pressure required for the light wisps to intertwine was insufficient.

Of course, this spiritual pressure would be more than enough for normal cultivation, but Duan Rong was not cultivating normally.

His cultivation method requires the spiritual pressure of the Four Bright Kings entering the Sea of ​​Consciousness to be two or three levels higher than normal cultivation.

In other words, to cultivate the tenth level, he needs the same spiritual pressure as someone normally cultivating the thirteenth level.

Moreover, this difference becomes more and more obvious as time goes on.

To increase the spiritual pressure of the Four Great Kings entering the Sea of ​​Spiritual Consciousness, it's actually quite simple: you just need a larger statue.

The statue inside this talismanic chamber is already more than two people tall, about three or four meters.

This was the largest statue he had ever seen in the sect.

Actually, this is normal. In the past thousand years, apart from the patriarch Lü Yinlin, no one else in the sect has mastered the Fetal Treasury Scripture to more than fifteen levels.

Therefore, the height of these two statues represents the limit of the sect's thousand-year history.

"Does this mean I have to create an even bigger statue just to practice my skills?" Duan Rong couldn't help but wonder.

As he was thinking this, he suddenly remembered something.

That's the valley where the entrance test for becoming an outer disciple was conducted.

Within that valley stand four statues of the Four Great Kings, built into the mountainside.

Each statue stands tall and majestic, like a high mountain.

Those four statues are undoubtedly the most magnificent and towering statues that could be created within these endless mountains.

The initial entrance test at that time involved using the smoke offering method to have the four statues of gods lower their spiritual pressure in order to test the strength of the souls of the sect disciples who entered the valley.

It was on that occasion that Duan Rong almost stepped onto the platform.

The spiritual pressure descended from the four statues through the smoke offering was not actually that strong, and it spread throughout the valley, falling evenly on everyone.

However, when cultivating the Womb Treasury Sutra, the spiritual pressure of all four divine statues enters one's spiritual sea of ​​consciousness, and the strength of that pressure is completely incomparable to that of the previous practice.

However, Duan Rong has now mastered the seventeenth level of the Womb Sutra, and his soul has been tempered many times, making his soul strength incomparable to what it used to be.

Moreover, Duan Rong had a faint feeling that he could withstand the spiritual pressure from the four towering statues in the valley.

More importantly, Duan Rong guessed that the four towering statues in the valley were definitely not just for show, and their original purpose was probably not for an entrance test.

Their existence is solely for the purpose of cultivating the Womb Treasury Sutra.

It's just that for a thousand years, no one has been able to cultivate the Garbhadhatu Sutra there anymore.

"Those four towering statues, standing in the valley, must be quite lonely, having endured a thousand years of wind and rain."

As Duan Rong spoke, he suddenly stood up. He decided to go to that valley and see if he could withstand the spiritual pressure of the four towering statues.

Duan Rong emerged from the secret chamber like a ghost. It was the perfect time of day, with the afternoon sun shining brightly. He transformed into a streak of black light, shooting diagonally into the sky from the artificial hill and disappearing from sight...

This secluded valley only becomes lively on the day of the outer disciples' entrance test; otherwise, it is extremely desolate and deserted.

Wei Yan was a retired elder of the sect. He only had about a hundred years left to live, and he was stuck in the early stage of the Cave Nether Realm with no hope of breaking through.

More than ten years ago, he asked the then sect leader Chu Qiushan for this sinecure of guarding the secluded valley, intending to spend the rest of his life in this desolate place and be buried in the wilderness.

Having stopped cultivating and having nothing to do, he became addicted to drinking.

The valley is filled with countless wild fruits, many of them ripe and fallen by themselves. They are all excellent ingredients for brewing wine.

Over the past ten years, he has become an expert in how to pair various fruit wines.

That afternoon, Wei Yan was sitting on a hilltop, holding a jar of fruit wine, his face flushed from drinking. Just then, a black light suddenly shot into the valley.

Although Wei Yan was slightly drunk, he was still a powerful expert in the Cave of Darkness Realm. He suddenly woke up, put down the wine jar, and flew away.

While Duan Rong was still in mid-air, he sensed a force of law striking him. With a thought, he also unleashed a force of law.

Two invisible forces of law collided in mid-air, causing a sudden gust of wind to rise in the valley, scattering yellow leaves and kicking up sand and gravel...

Duan Rong landed amidst a cloud of dust.

As soon as he landed, he saw an old and desolate figure not far away. The man immediately shouted at him, "Who goes there?! How dare you trespass on the forbidden grounds of my Taiyi Sect?"

"Forbidden area!?" Duan Rong raised an eyebrow slightly, then clasped his hands in greeting and said, "Senior, I am Duan Rong from Yunfu Peak. I had no intention of offending you."

"Duan Rong?!" Wei Yan's divine sense penetrated Duan Rong's dantian, and then he looked him up and down, chuckling, "Is this the Duan Rong who married Lü Qingzhu as his concubine?"

Duan Rong frowned slightly. He himself didn't care, but the man's words contained a hint of contempt for Lü Qingzhu.

Seeing that Duan Rong remained silent, the man's expression suddenly changed, and he said, "Bring me the sect's official document."

Duan Rong hesitated for a moment, then flipped his hand and tossed the sect's cloud token over.

The man reached out and grabbed it, glanced at it, then tossed the sect token back, saying rudely, "Let's go. This place isn't for sightseeing."

Duan Rong said, "Senior, I am not here for sightseeing. I am here to cultivate the Womb Treasury Sutra."

Upon hearing this, the man gave Duan Rong a meaningful look, and after a long while, he burst into laughter. (End of Chapter)