“Devil Ape, you first recuperate in the valley and wait for me to return.”
Zhang Ruochen gave an order to the Devil Ape, and then, with a long leap, he fell into the Black Water Cold Pool and went forward to excavate the Black Water Glazed Crystal.
At the bottom of the two-hundred-metre-deep cold pool, the water pressure was intense and bone-chillingly cold, and the stone walls of the surrounding water pool were so hard that Zhang Ruochen had only dug out a small piece after nine oxen and two tigers of effort.
It probably only weighed a couple of pounds, and was about the same size as the piece of Black Water Glazed Crystal on top of Archmage Longze’s Divine Staff.
“Who would have thought that the legendary Black Water Glazed Crystal would be birthed at the bottom of a cold pool.”
The Black Water Glazed Crystal was condensed from the purest water attribute power of the Five Elements Market Realm, and even if it was taken back to the Kunlun Realm, it could still fetch a hefty price.
It took half a day for Zhang Ruochen to dig out all of the Black Water Glazed Crystals that were exposed on the surface, and a total of more than six hundred and twenty pounds were dug out.
The largest piece, which was the size of a basin, weighed more than two hundred jin, and the water attribute power it contained was extremely pure, and a hint of golden glazed light could be seen in the interior of the crystal.
Subsequently, Zhang Ruochen unleashed his Heavenly Eyes and discovered that a small amount of some Black Water Glazed Crystals were still buried deep underneath the soil, so he continued to dig down again.
Spending a whole day and night, he dug out another two hundred jin of Black Water Glazed Crystals, digging cleanly without leaving a single grain.
In total, Zhang Ruochen had harvested over eight hundred and twenty jin of Black Water Glazed Crystals.
“The Black Water Cold Pool is an excellent place for cultivation, it’s just right to refine the Black Water Glazed Crystals here.”
Zhang Ruochen didn’t enter the inner space of the Space-Time Crystal Stone, instead, he was going to make use of the outer environment of the Black Water Cold Pool.
Taking out a piece of Black Water Glazed Crystal that weighed almost a kilogram, he pinched it in the palm of his hand and used the Green Void True Qi to wrap it.
“Boom!”
Under the extrusion of the True Qi, the Black Water Glazed Crystal burst open, turning into a black crystal mist that flowed with the True Qi and entered Zhang Ruochen’s meridians.
Running through the body for a large circumference, the power contained in that piece of Black Water Glazed Crystal was absorbed by a third.
The water attribute power contained in the Black Water Glazed Crystal was quite cold, freezing Zhang Ruochen’s body and causing him to shiver, and his muscles, bones, organs, and internal organs, emitted crackling sounds, like the sound of frying.
Wisps of black air flow were injected into Zhang Ruochen’s bones, leaving a tattoo mark on top of them.
Running for another three large circumference days, Zhang Ruochen absorbed the power of the piece of Black Water Glazed Crystal almost completely.
“The cultivation level has indeed increased by a large margin, almost equivalent to the results of a year’s cultivation, reaching the peak of the late stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, and only a short distance away from the Small Extremity Position of the Heavenly Extremity Realm.”
Without the Black Water Glazed Crystal, Zhang Ruochen would have had to cultivate for another year to have his current realm.
Even with the Hourly Space Crystal, it would still take four months.
Of course, Zhang Ruochen had the Dragon Pearl, which allowed him to constantly absorb the power of the Holy Dragon and save half of the time. Even so, it still took two months.
This was the importance of cultivation resources, if there weren’t enough cultivation resources, even if a top genius cultivated for a lifetime, he probably wouldn’t be able to reach the Fish Dragon Realm.
Zhang Ruochen checked his bones and found that the black lines on top of his bones had increased tenfold, becoming even harder, and vaguely, it seemed to give off a crystal clear feeling.
Apart from the bones, every single structure in his entire body underwent an obvious metamorphosis.
Not only the strength and defence, but also the fit between the body and the heaven and earth aura was also increasing, to be exact, it was the water attribute power between heaven and earth.
If he was able to cultivate into the Water Spirit Treasure Body, Zhang Ruochen would be the spokesperson for the water attribute power between heaven and earth, and could easily manipulate the water of the earth and the water of the void, the water of the flesh.
Just like the Demonic Ape, he could directly condense ice spikes in his abdomen and spit them out of his mouth.
Only, after all, the Demonic Ape was only a savage beast and did not know how to use the special power of the Water Spirit Treasure Body. If it was able to utilise that power, Zhang Ruochen might not be able to suppress it even if he used his Martial Soul.
Water, being the source of all things, contained power that was unpredictable.
It could attack as well as defend.
If one were to cultivate into the Water Spirit Treasure Body, apart from the great increase in physical constitution, there were two other major advantages:
Firstly, the martial artist could directly cultivate to the Fish Dragon Realm without any bottlenecks.
Just like a martial artist with a Saint Body could directly cultivate to the Saint Realm without any bottlenecks. Of course, the Water Spirit Treasure Body couldn’t be compared to the Saint Body yet, it was weaker by more than one level.
The cultivation speed of the second martial artist was obviously faster than that of an ordinary martial artist, and, it was also easier to sense the Holy Dao and comprehend its true meaning.
This was because, a martial artist with a Water Spirit Treasure Body was more in tune with the aura of heaven and earth.
Although Zhang Ruochen was only an ordinary physique, he possessed many heavenly advantages that other martial artists did not have, such as the “Space-Time Crystal Stone”, “Memories of Past Lives”, and “Strong Spiritual Power”,”Nine Heavenly Bright Emperor Scripture”…… and so on, that’s why his cultivation speed was faster than the Saint Body.
Cultivation experience was also an advantage.
If he could cultivate into a Water Spirit Treasure Body, his cultivation speed would be even faster.
Zhang Ruochen took out another one kilogram Black Water Glazed Crystal and began to refine it, preparing to impact the Small Extreme Position of the Heavenly Extreme Realm.
After running three more large circumference days in his body and completely absorbing the Black Water Glazed Crystal, his cultivation level increased again, and he still didn’t break through to the Heavenly Extremity Realm Minor Extremity Position.
It had already reached the limit of the late stage of the Heavenly Extremity Realm, and was just short of the final critical kick to break through the realm barrier.
“Reaching the Heavenly Extreme Realm, it’s true that every realm isn’t that good to break through, even if there’s no bottleneck, just the amount of true essence that needs to be accumulated to break through the realm would be able to drain countless martial artists to death.”
The Heavenly Extreme Realm, known as the ultimate realm of martial arts, was not without reason.
Countless martial artists were stopped at the Heavenly Extreme Realm, unable to break through, and could only ever be a mortal martial cultivator, unable to impact the coveted Holy Dao.
Only by reaching the Fish Dragon Realm could one be considered to have initially crossed the threshold of the Holy Dao.
Zhang Ruochen took out the third Black Water Glazed Crystal, and when he was halfway through refining it, in his Qi Sea, a low rumble was emitted.
Subsequently, a devouring Qi was emitted, and Zhang Ruochen’s speed of absorbing the Black Water Glazed Crystal doubled.
In an instant, he absorbed the piece of Black Water Glazed Crystal, completely.
Finally, breaking the realm barrier, crossing into the Heavenly Extremity Realm Minor Extremity Position.
Zhang Ruochen felt an incomparable emptiness in his Qi Sea and urgently needed to absorb more Spiritual Qi.
Thus, Zhang Ruochen took out another Black Water Glazed Crystal and continued to refine it, converting the power of the water attribute into true essence, causing the ball of true essence in the Qi Sea to grow.
In total, after absorbing roughly six jin and five taels of Black Water Glazed Crystal, Zhang Ruochen’s physique, it seemed, was already saturated and unable to refine the Black Water Glazed Crystal into his body anymore.
“How can this be?”
Zhang Ruochen took out a small two-two-weight Black Water Glazed Crystal, squeezed it in his hand, absorbed it into his body, and continued to refine it.
However, only just after running his gong method, Zhang Ruochen’s entire body ached and a mouthful of blood was spat out.
The power of the Black Water Glazed Crystal also automatically surged out of his body and dissipated into the water.
Zhang Ruochen covered his chest and took a deep breath, saying, “It seems that my body has already reached saturation, and before there is a breakthrough in the realm, I reckon that I won’t be able to absorb the Black Water Glazed Crystal into my body again.”
Even if he tried again, it would be useless, not only would he burst his body, he would also waste the Black Water Glazed Crystal.
Of course, by absorbing six jin and five taels of Black Water Glazed Crystals, Zhang Ruochen’s cultivation had already risen to the pinnacle of the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Small Extremity Position, and was not far away from the Heavenly Extremity Realm’s Medium Extremity Position, which had probably saved Zhang Ruochen seven years of bitter cultivation.
“When the Artifact Spirit of the Heavenly Ranking said that finding the Black Water Glazed Crystal would save ten years of bitter cultivation, it shouldn’t be referring to mere cultivation, it should be referring to the Water Spirit Treasure Body.”
“Refining one jin of Black Water Glazed Crystal would probably save one year of bitter cultivation.”
“In other words, by absorbing ten jin of Black Water Glazed Crystal, one can cultivate into a Water Spirit Treasure Body?”
Zhang Ruochen had already checked his physique, especially his bones.
The bones, which were almost completely covered with black lines, had become more crystalline, and although they were still far inferior to those of the Demonic Ape, they were already far superior to what they used to be.
His guess, perhaps not wrong, was that if he absorbed another three pounds and five taels of black water glazed crystals, he would have a chance to cultivate into a Water Spirit Treasure Body.
“Now, my physique, it has reached its limit. I must break through to the middle extreme position of the Heavenly Extreme Realm before I can continue absorbing Black Water Glazed Crystals. By then, I should be able to cultivate into a Water Spirit Treasure Body.”
Zhang Ruochen rushed out of the Black Water Cold Pool and landed on the shore of the cold pool, noticing that the water in the cold pool was no longer so cold.
Looking towards the surface of the water, even the quality of the water was no longer so dark and had become a little clearer.
“After the Black Water Glazed Crystal was taken away, this cold pool, too, is tantamount to being ruined!”Zhang Ruochen sighed.
Seeing Zhang Ruochen flying out of the Black Water Cold Pool, the Demon Ape stood up and roared, his huge body moving and kneeling in front of Zhang Ruochen.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Devil Ape, how many days have I been cultivating in the Black Water Cold Pool?”
The Devil Ape transmitted a thought, to Zhang Ruochen, saying, “Back to master, five days.”
Zhang Ruochen nodded and said, “It’s been so long, I think the Five Elements Market Realm must have been in chaos under the heavens as well. I will also go out for a walk and try to take advantage of the chaos to seize the other four spiritual treasures.”
Refining the Black Water Glazed Crystal would allow one to cultivate into a “Water Spirit Treasure Body”.
By obtaining the Source of Spiritual Fire, would it be possible to cultivate into a “Fire Spirit Treasure Body”?
By obtaining the Purple Cloud Incense Wood, would it be possible to cultivate into a Wood Spirit Treasure Body?
……
Each of the five types of spiritual treasures represented the purest origin power of the Five Elements Market Realm, and even Half Saints would grab them.
If you find all five types of spiritual treasures, you will have a chance to cultivate into the legendary “Five Elements Chaotic Body”.
The Five Elements Chaotic Body was more powerful than the Five Elements Sacred Body, however, it was also extremely difficult to cultivate, even more so than the Supreme Extreme Realm.
Even if Zhang Ruochen captured all the five spiritual treasures, he might not be able to successfully cultivate them.
The capacity of the human body, after all, was limited, and being able to cultivate into a treasure body with one attribute was already quite remarkable.
If one wanted to merge two types of power and cultivate into a “Dual Spirit Treasure Body”, the difficulty would have already increased tenfold.
Not to mention the Five Elements Chaotic Body?
Zhang Ruochen’s current goal was only to cultivate into the Water Spirit Treasure Body, but of course, he could also strive to achieve the Double Spirit Treasure Body or even the Triple Spirit Treasure Body.
