Immortality and Cultivation: Starting with Improving Spiritual Root Aptitude

"Fellow Daoist Gao, Fellow Daoist Fu, please don't send any more gifts. If you continue, I, Liu, will truly feel bad."

Wu Fan turned around, solemnly cupped his hands to the two people behind him, and spoke sincerely.

Gao Xu stepped forward, slapped his chest hard, and laughed heartily:

"Then I'll see you off here, Fellow Daoist Liu! Take care on your journey. I'll be staying in the Falling Star Valley market for over a month. If you encounter any difficulties, feel free to come to the pavilion in the valley to find me, Gao Xu. I'll do everything in my power to help."

Fu Qianyu, standing to the side, quickly nodded in agreement, his expression sincere:

"Brother Gao is absolutely right. Fellow Daoist Liu, please feel free to ask, and I will do my best to help you."

"Thank you both for your hospitality."

Wu Fan bowed again in farewell, and without further delay, turned and headed in the direction of Fengxie Tower.

As his figure gradually disappeared into the distance, Gao Xu and Fu Qianyu exchanged a glance, then turned around side by side and returned to the pavilion behind them.

Wu Fan did not take a detour on this trip, since Fu Qianyu already knew that he was staying at Fengxie Tower.

I strolled along and unknowingly returned to Fengxie Tower.

Wu Fan set up two barriers to isolate the aura with his backhand, and after confirming that the room's built-in protective array was activated, he breathed a sigh of relief. With a flick of his finger, a flash of spiritual light appeared, and Zhao Fu jumped out of the storage bag and landed on his shoulder.

Zhao Fu nuzzled his neck affectionately, making whimpering sounds, her eyes full of dependence.

Wu Fan gently stroked its soft fur, then took out a large piece of jerky from his storage bag.

This was food he specially prepared for Zhaofu. It was made from the meat of a demon beast, which was full of energy and blood, making it most suitable for spirit pets to eat.

After Zhaofu wolfed down its food and its eyelids began to droop, and it was about to fall asleep, Wu Fan carried it to the adjacent side room, laid out a soft plush mat, and watched the little guy curl up into a ball and fall into a deep sleep before turning back to the main room, his expression instantly becoming serious.

He sat cross-legged on the futon, flicked his finger, and a lustrous jade bottle floated in front of him. The stopper fell off by itself, and a rich fragrance of elixir instantly filled the air.

The bottle contained a top-grade Breakthrough Pill. The pill was entirely red, resembling a solid piece of red jade. Its medicinal power was far superior to that of ordinary Breakthrough Pills.

Tonight, he will attempt to break through to the late stage of Qi Refining.

Logically speaking, after a day of running around in Falling Star Valley, both mental and physical energy are depleted. Moreover, the purple aura and rising sun in the early morning have a natural auxiliary effect on breakthroughs. It would be safest to rest for one night and try to break through again tomorrow morning.

However, Wu Fan still chose to break through immediately.

His cultivation had already reached the peak of the mid-stage of Qi Refining, but he had been deliberately suppressing it and honing his foundation in the Bai family. Now that he had a top-grade Breakthrough Pill in hand, he was more than 70% confident of breaking through.

With your spirits high at this moment, it is the perfect opportunity to make a breakthrough in one fell swoop.

Without further hesitation, Wu Fan slowly closed his eyes, focused his mind into his body, and activated the "Crimson Fire Technique".

In an instant, he quickly formed hand seals and silently recited the incantation. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth around him began to slowly surge and converge towards his body, forming a faint red halo on his skin.

As the breathing rhythm became longer and more rhythmic, the gathered spiritual energy became increasingly concentrated, flowing into the dantian along the meridians throughout the body.

Wu Fan pointed his sword, and the top-grade Breakthrough Pill that was floating in front of him flew out and landed precisely in his mouth, sliding down his throat and into his dantian.

As soon as the pill entered the mouth, a warm and mellow medicinal power instantly arose, carrying a vast amount of spiritual energy, which slowly permeated along the meridians of the dantian, and wherever it passed, the meridians radiated a warm feeling.

In just a few breaths, a spiritual power several times more potent than that of ordinary cultivation pills surged wildly within his dantian, flowing along the pathways of the Crimson Fire Technique and striking his meridians throughout his body.

The speed of his cultivation technique increased, and the crimson spiritual energy flowed through his meridians, causing his skin to flush with a faint red, as if a flame was burning inside him, and sweat gradually seeped from his forehead.

Wu Fan gritted his teeth, focused his mind, and manipulated the vast spiritual power, combining it with his own original magic power, to repeatedly break through the invisible barrier of the late stage of Qi Refining.

Although the barrier had no physical form, it was exceptionally tough and extremely slippery. Each time a spiritual energy shockwave struck it, it was as if it had hit a thick layer of oiled paper. Not only was the force easily dissipated, but the recoil also caused a dull ache in the meridians.

However, all of this was within Wu Fan's expectations.

He understood that the failure to break through the barrier this time was due to insufficient spiritual power.

Not fast enough, and not ruthless enough!!!

He immediately slowed down the pace of the spiritual energy circulation in his dantian, no longer in a hurry to continue the breakthrough, but instead allowed the medicinal power emitted by the top-grade barrier-breaking pill to slowly nourish his meridians.

The effects of this top-grade Breakthrough Pill are long-lasting and mellow. At this moment, it is continuously transforming into streams of pure spiritual energy, replenishing the spiritual energy consumed in the previous impact and repairing the minor damage caused by the backlash.

After a moment, Wu Fan calmed down and once again mobilized the spiritual power within his body.

This time, the gathered spiritual power was even more immense than before, and with an indomitable momentum, it crashed fiercely into that invisible barrier.

Once, twice, three times...

Each impact was more intense than the last, and the pain in his meridians was even more severe, but Wu Fan's expression remained unchanged as he continued to thrust.

The effects of the Supreme Breakthrough Pill were indeed miraculous. Even with such intense consumption, the spiritual energy in his dantian remained abundant, supporting him to launch several fierce attacks.

Suddenly, Wu Fan had a thought.

That tough barrier seemed to have loosened slightly.

He immediately stopped acting recklessly and suddenly activated the Crimson Fire Technique to its limit, condensing all the spiritual power in his body into a large crimson needle. Following the tiny crack that had just been created, he precisely pierced the weak point of the barrier.

"Sizzle!!!"

The cracks in that invisible barrier instantly widened, and the immense spiritual power seemed to have found an outlet, surging wildly along the cracks and impacting the wider meridians.

At this moment, Wu Fan felt unbearable pain and swelling in his meridians, and sweat poured out.

He endured the excruciating pain within his body, daring not to relax even for a moment.

Once you've broken through to this point, the worst thing you can do is give up halfway. If you can't take this opportunity to fully expand your new meridians and solidify this new realm, all your previous efforts will be in vain, and you'll even suffer a backlash.

So, Wu Fan gritted his teeth and manipulated his spiritual power to repeatedly flush out the newly developed meridians, clearing away the obstructions that hindered the flow of spiritual energy.

After an unknown amount of time, when the last blockage in his meridians was cleared, Wu Fan felt a lightness throughout his body, as if a thousand-pound burden had been suddenly lifted from his shoulders.

The spiritual energy within his dantian began to spin wildly, rapidly absorbing the remaining medicinal power of the top-grade Breakthrough Pill. The circulation speed of the spiritual energy in his meridians also increased dramatically, circulating continuously along the path of the Crimson Fire Technique, forming a perfect Möbius strip.

He could also clearly feel that his perception of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth far exceeded that of the mid-stage of Qi Refining.

The spiritual energy in the room was continuously flowing into his body, replenishing the depleted magical power in his dantian.

Wu Fan slowly finished his practice, the incantation dissipated, and he exhaled a long breath of turbid air.

At this moment, the red halo on the body surface began to gradually fade, and the fluctuations of spiritual energy around the body slowly stabilized.

He slowly opened his eyes, a glint of light flashing in them before quickly returning to calm, leaving only a hint of joy deep within them.

As he raised his hand and clenched it, a sense of power far exceeding that of the mid-stage of Qi Refining surged into his heart. A faint red spiritual light condensed at the tip of his fist. Although it was not very stable, it was truly floating outside his body.

This is?!!!

Spiritual energy leaving the body?!

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