All-class Gu Immortal

Chapter 211 Opening the Second Yuan Aperture (Bonus Chapter for the Silver Alliance)
Zhou Qing took out the Wooden King Cauldron, then poured in various medicinal herbs, followed by meat paste and ointment made from the flesh and blood of various exotic beasts, and then the flesh of the Tiger Demon Tai Sui.

Finally, he poured in the Yuanhun Golden Liquid, which was refined from the essence blood of the Ice Soul Mystic Spider.

He would use the Myriad Beasts Tempering Ointment to temporarily enhance his physical strength, and with the help of the Four Flavors Wine Worm's ability to gather Qi throughout the body, absorb a small amount of the power of heaven and earth to open his second Yuan Aperture.

However, opening the second Yuan Aperture does not mean becoming a second-tier Gu Master; this is only the first step.

The second step is to complete the transformation of true essence.

After all, the quality of a second-tier Gu Master's true essence is three times that of a first-tier Gu Master, and it cannot be converted in a short time.

However, this is just right. Even if the true essence is not transformed, having an additional acupoint will greatly enhance the power and recovery speed of the true essence. In addition, with the four wine worms strengthening the true essence, this improvement is already sufficient for Zhou Qing.

It's more than enough to deal with these first-tier Gu Masters.

Soon, seeing the bubbling liquid ointment emitting a strange smell inside the Wooden King Cauldron, Zhou Qing gritted his teeth, put a piece of Life Leaf in his mouth, and sat directly inside the Wooden King Cauldron.

"hiss!"

The intense pain combined with the extreme cold caused Zhou Qing's muscles to spasm. At this moment, as the four wine worms inhaled and exhaled, the seven-colored light in the space slowly converged towards Zhou Qing's body once again.

"what--!"

The indescribable pain made Zhou Qing let out a low growl. He felt as if countless fine needles were piercing through his pores and into his skin and flesh.

At this moment, the powerful blood and qi contained in the Myriad Beasts Tempering Ointment continuously nourished Zhou Qing's physical body.

On one hand, it's destroying things; on the other hand, it's repairing them.

In just a short while, Zhou Qing's skin developed numerous small, tearing wounds, and blood oozed from the wounds. Under the influence of the icy chill, the blood quickly congealed, and he soon became a 'blood man'.

When he felt he couldn't take it anymore, he immediately chewed up the leaf of vitality in his mouth.

A gentle, warm current emerged from the lower abdomen, eventually flowing to the limbs and bones, continuously healing the internal and external damage to the body.

"Sure enough, after cultivating the Poison Dragon Golden Body, my body is now able to withstand a small amount of the power of heaven and earth!" Although his body was constantly in pain, Zhou Qing's eyes revealed joy.

When he first tried to absorb Qi from the body by accident, he was only at the Tendon Refining level. If the power of heaven and earth in the outside world had not been so scarce, he might have been sent to his death.

The power of heaven and earth in Fallen Immortal Valley is much denser now, but Zhou Qing is no longer the same as before. He is now a Grand Martial Master who has undergone a second blood transfusion, and his physical body has been strengthened by the Poison Dragon Golden Body and the Yuan Soul Golden Liquid. With the assistance of the Myriad Beasts Tempering Ointment and the Vitality Leaf, he can finally withstand a small amount of the power of heaven and earth.

Rather than facing the combined attack of the four races with our current strength, it's safer to take a risk and break through.

Even if others obtain the Longevity Gu, the Ice Spirit Clan will still be the strongest.

Because the Ice Spirit Clan possesses the second-tier 'Blood Bursting Gu,' which is arguably the strongest consumable Gu worm that a first-tier Gu Master can use.

It can unleash all of its bloodline power at once, and is intended to be used in conjunction with the Ice Spirit Clan's bloodline power.

Zhou Qing can activate his bloodline power and release the icy cold energy without the help of the Xuanbing Gu. If he uses the Exploding Blood Gu, he can even release the icy light to fight enemies. This mainly consumes bloodline power, while the consumption of true essence is relatively small.

However, the price of using the Blood Explosion Gu is enormous. It will completely deplete the Xuanzhu Venerable's bloodline within the body, and the body will reject the same bloodline in the future.

In other words, once the Blood Explosion Gu is used, the power of one's bloodline can never be restored.

If Zhou Qing had a better option in the future, he might remove the Ice Soul Profound Spider bloodline from his body, but if he uses the Blood Explosion Gu now, he will basically be half-crippled, and his martial arts cultivation will be greatly affected.

This time, only Wanqi Wenlan and Wanqi Yushu brought the Blood Explosion Gu with them, because the Blood Explosion Gu is extremely precious. There are only two in the entire Ice Spirit Clan, and only those with strong bloodline power can unleash the true power of the Blood Explosion Gu.

As for Zhou Qing, the reason he didn't bring the Blood Explosion Gu was the clan leader's idea.

Because Zhou Qing's bloodline is too strong, almost at the ancestral level, if he uses the Blood Explosion Gu, although it can unleash immeasurable power, his bloodline is too pure, and if it erupts all at once, it may endanger his life.

Therefore, Wanqi Zongyuan did not allow him to bring the Blood Explosion Gu.

Kaka!

As the power of heaven and earth slowly entered Zhou Qing's body, he felt his flesh and blood and meridians bearing immense pressure. Meanwhile, the essence blood of the Ice Soul Mystic Spider contained in the Yuan Soul Golden Liquid was also rapidly taking effect, causing the cold air emanating from his body to condense into frost.

In just a short while, the entire wooden cauldron was covered in ice.

At this moment, Zhou Qing reached out from the ointment, and a rhombus-shaped ice cone appeared in his palm, emitting a faint white light.

When it came into contact with the icy chill emanating from Zhou Qing's body, the white light emitted by the rhombus-shaped ice cone suddenly brightened, flickering continuously as it began to absorb the icy chill.

This rhomboid ice cone was none other than the Xuanbing Gu, the most common first-tier Gu worm of the Ice Spirit Clan. Before Zhou Qing entered this time, he considered that he might need to use the Four Flavor Wine Worms to open his Yuan Aperture, and at that time he would need to rely on the power of the Yuan Soul Golden Liquid. However, the accompanying cold energy was too much for him to bear.

Excessive icy energy might accumulate in the body, so Zhou Qing brought in a Xuanbing Gu.

Although he cultivated a second-tier mid-grade Ice Fiend Gu himself, the creation of the Ice Fiend Gu involved a lot of luck and was not the purest ice-attribute Gu worm.

The Xuanbing Gu is a Gu worm that has been cultivated by generations of Gu masters of the Ice Spirit Clan over two to three hundred years. It is the most compatible with the bloodline of the Xuanzhu Venerable and has the highest affinity with the Ice Soul Cold Qi.

At this moment, the Xuanbing Gu was continuously absorbing the icy cold energy of the Ice Soul and receiving the true essence replenished by Zhou Qing, and was being strengthened at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In a short while, the icy chill emanating from Zhou Qing's body was completely absorbed by the Xuanbing Gu. "It really works!" Zhou Qing's eyes lit up as he stored the Xuanbing Gu in his Yuanqiao acupoint, where it, along with the Bingsha Gu, absorbed the icy chill accumulated in his body.

As time went on, Zhou Qing used up the second Vitality Leaf when her body could no longer bear it.

Then came the third and fourth pieces.

The fifth piece.

The sixth piece.

By the time he used the eighth piece, it was already broad daylight.

Zhou Qing's body suddenly trembled violently.

At the same time, the power of heaven and earth gradually formed a seven-colored vortex at the crown of his head.

Above his dantian, there was originally only a pure white spherical light membrane—the first primordial aperture.

At this moment, a black dot appeared next to the pure white spherical light film. The black dot expanded rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned into a pitch-black spherical light film.

The second primordial aperture.

Become!

The power of heaven and earth slowly transformed into true essence, converging towards the second primordial aperture, and the water level of the true essence lake also slowly rose.

However, Zhou Qing soon felt that his body was about to be overloaded.

So he stopped absorbing the power of heaven and earth and instead used spirit stones to replenish his true essence.

Five days passed as scheduled.

In the northern central area of ​​Fallen Immortal Valley, there is a huge valley called Rejuvenation Valley.

The valley contains many rare Gu insects that are rarely seen outside the world, as well as spiritual herbs and precious medicines.

There are also some strange beasts around that are quite troublesome for first-level Gu masters, which may jump out from some corner at any time and attack the strangers who suddenly appear.

However, if we're talking about danger, the most dangerous thing here is people.

The five great spirit races abide by the rules: no grudges or conflicts can be taken out of the clan.

Nevertheless, rules are rigid, but people are flexible.

The best way to settle a grudge is to kill all the enemies and leave only the members of your own clan alive.

Of course, there have also been truly ruthless individuals who, in order to hide the precious Gu worms obtained from Fallen Immortal Valley, killed their own clansmen.

After five days, the Gu Masters of the five major spirit races have arrived one after another. Even if a few people are unlucky and appear in the outermost area, they will soon arrive at Huanyang Valley.

At this moment, Wanqi Wenlan, Wanqi Yushu, Wanqi Bowen, and Wanqi Qingshi had already met up and appeared on the hillside a hundred meters away from the entrance of Huanyang Valley.

The four of them gazed at the entrance to Huanyang Valley in the distance. On both sides were steep mountain walls hundreds of meters high, with only a gap less than five meters wide in the middle. This was the only entrance and the only exit of Huanyang Valley.

At this moment, four Gu Masters were already guarding the entrance, one from each of the other four clans.

"What should we do? Should we go in now?" Wan Qibo asked with a grave expression.

“Brother Zongzheng hasn’t arrived yet. It would be best to wait for him to enter the valley together.” Wanqi Wenlan shook her head.

“The Valley of Rejuvenation is quite large. Although the Longevity Gu will not leave the valley after twenty years, it certainly won’t stay in the same place forever. We will need to spend several days searching inside, and at most we can only wait another day,” Wan Qiyushu pondered.

"Is the Imperial Clan Headmaster in trouble?" Wanqi Qingshi suddenly asked. "The location I was teleported to is closest to Huanyang Valley. I arrived near the valley the day before yesterday. From my observations these past few days, the other four clans, plus the four guarding the entrance, have a total of eighteen people who have arrived at Huanyang Valley. If the other six join forces, and the Imperial Clan Headmaster happens to encounter them on the way, what if..."

"It shouldn't be that unlucky," Wan Qibo said, frowning.

They didn't doubt Zhou Qing's willingness to back down at the last minute, but they were afraid he might be unlucky enough to encounter an accident.

"Wait for him for one more day. If he doesn't appear after one day, we'll enter the valley together. As long as one of us obtains the Longevity Gu, we don't need to worry about the others. Just hide. If we can hide for four days, we'll succeed!"

Wan Qiyu looked at the other three people in a deep voice, and suddenly stretched out his hand.

"Everyone, for the sake of the Ice Spirit Clan."

"For the Ice Spirit Clan!" Upon seeing this, Wanqi Wenlan and Wanqi Bowen reached out their hands one after the other.

Among the four, Wanqi Yushu, Wanqi Wenlan, and Wanqi Bowen, as descendants of powerful elders of the Ice Spirit Clan, enjoyed preferential treatment that ordinary clansmen could not enjoy. Now that the Ice Spirit Clan is in trouble, they have no intention of backing down.

"For the Ice Spirit Clan!" Wanqi Qingshi also firmly extended his hand. He came from an ordinary background and had mainly relied on himself to get to where he was today, but he had not forgotten the cultivation of the clan and the help of the clan leader.

All four were prepared to sacrifice themselves for their people.

(End of this chapter)