Yuantian Pidao

Chapter 170 The Stubborn Stone Is Not Stubborn
In Changfeng County, heavy snow fell, covering the earth with a layer of white gauze.

Compared to Qingyuan County, Changfeng County has a much more extreme climate, with only two seasons: summer and winter. Summers are extremely hot, and winters are extremely cold.

Sensing this change in weather, Jiang Chen transformed into a dragon and arrived high in the sky.

Winter has arrived, and the world is bitterly cold...

With his senses expanding, Jiang Chen detected the chilling aura surging between heaven and earth.

"Ascending to the clouds to gather vital energy..."

As he circulated his cultivation technique and took a deep breath, Jiang Chen began to continuously capture that chilling aura.

As a pure-blooded dragon, the Mist Dragon inherited the "Mist Sea Ascending to Clouds Scripture," which allows it to ascend to the clouds and gather energy to enhance its own ascending energy. Now that the world is extremely cold, this cold energy is a good resource for it, especially after it has refined the Frost Spirit Water.

With a hum, wisps of cold air surged into Jiang Chen's body, transforming several times to make the chill of the Cloud Qi even deeper.

"not bad!"

After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the surging chill began to thin out, and Jiang Chen temporarily ended his cultivation. Compared to ordinary true qi, the Cloud Ascension Qi had a considerable advantage in terms of transformation.

Gathering the energy of rivers can increase the richness of one's true energy; gathering cold energy can increase its chilliness; gathering cloud energy can increase its ethereal quality. Although these changes are not as obvious as those brought about by spiritual objects like Frost Spirit Water in the short term, they have their own unique mysteries over time.

"The Mist Dragon used to reside at the nodes of the water veins, and unintentionally absorbed the energy of the rivers and streams the most. It is precisely because of this that its cloud-ascending energy is relatively thick, giving it a slight advantage in using water techniques and power. It's just a pity that it was too ignorant before and wasted too much time."

"Now that the world is extremely cold, I can often collect cold air."

After glancing at the sky, Jiang Chen's dragon form slithered down and descended.

At that moment, a scorching aura rose from the Fiery Hill, causing the snowflakes that had just fallen to melt away.

Noticing this change, Jiang Chen turned his gaze in that direction.

"This aura..."

With a glint of ghostly light in his eyes, observing the changes in the scorching heat, Jiang Chen sensed the brutality of the earth fire.

"It seems that Du Zhong is really going to succeed, even faster than I expected. I just don't know if he can ultimately restrain this earth fire energy."

Having understood something, Jiang Chen's face showed a hint of interest.

Although he himself had not practiced the Earthly Lung True Flame Sutra, he had studied it many times and absorbed the principles of cultivation within it. Naturally, he knew that there would be considerable dangers when practicing this technique during the Qi cultivation stage.

"The Earth Lung True Flame Scripture is incomplete. The complete Earth Lung True Flame Scripture should have corresponding methods to help cultivators restrain the earth fire energy at the Qi cultivation stage."

"However, Du Zhong's stubborn body is quite mysterious, and the possibility of overcoming this hurdle is not small."

Silently watching, Jiang Chen's thoughts kept turning.

The Earth Lung True Flame Scripture is not easy to cultivate. An Yuxuan, a remnant of the An family, cultivated this technique. It seemed to be without problems, but in fact, there were hidden dangers. Under such circumstances, even if he had managed to pass the Iron Man Butcher's test, he would most likely have fallen at the Qi Refining stage. The day he broke through to Qi Refining would probably be the day he died.

At this very moment, in the secret chamber, Du Zhong had indeed reached the most critical juncture.

As the spiritual energy of heaven and earth entered his body and the true energy of earth fire was generated, his blood and qi boiled, his mind became drowsy, and his flesh and blood even showed signs of melting.

"I still have grudges to settle, I can't die..." A burning sensation pierced his heart, and without a thought, Du Zhong forced himself to come to his senses.

As his unwavering willpower erupted, the extraordinary nature of his stubborn body began to manifest. No matter how rampant the earth fire energy was, he remained unmoved. At this moment, Du Zhong's flesh and blood seemed to have become a furnace, firmly trapping that earth fire energy.

"Refining!"

Once he recovered, Du Zhong seized the opportunity and attempted to truly tame the Earth Fire Qi.

A moment later, the ferocity of the earth fire energy dissipated and gently returned to the dantian.

"It's done."

Noticing this change, Du Zhong finally relaxed and successfully restrained the earth fire energy. He has now truly entered the Qi Refining Realm.

Meanwhile, Jiang Chen, who clearly sensed all these changes, seemed to be deep in thought.

"The stubborn rock is not stubborn, it just needs to be polished. Now it seems that the Earth Lung True Flame Scripture is particularly compatible with this stubborn rock body. They even have a complementary relationship. The stubborn rock body can bear the violence of the earth fire energy, while the earth fire energy can further polish the stubborn rock body and stimulate its potential."

Having gained some understanding, Jiang Chen didn't look any further and turned to go to the weapon-refining room.

In the past few days, he has collected four weapon-forging inheritances in Changfeng County, including the Thousand Hammers Weapon Forging Technique. Although most of them are of average quality and do not have any special methods, there are still many principles to learn from, which has improved his weapon-forging skills. The large number of spirit ores has also given him enough materials to practice with.

"With my current weapon-refining skills, even without the aid of the weapon pool, refining ordinary low-grade magic weapons should not be a problem."

"Moreover, the perfected Blood Fiend True Flame might be of particular benefit to my weapon refining."

Bloodfire rose, illuminating the entire weapon-refining room, and Jiang Chen began a new round of attempts.

In the following period, perhaps due to the heavy snowfall, the entire Changfeng County was very quiet. Under such circumstances, Jiang Chen did not take any special actions. He spent his days ascending the clouds to gather qi and digesting the weapon-refining inheritance to improve his weapon-refining skills.

Under these circumstances, Jiang Chen's weapon-refining skills and the Mist Dragon's cultivation level both steadily increased. After refining the Flood Dragon Armor into its natal magic weapon, its cultivation speed not only did not slow down due to the increase in cultivation level, but actually increased. It has now opened eighty acupoints.

Just then, a message was sent to Yanqiu.

"Is this intelligence on some of the Yellow Wind Cult's hidden resource points? The local demon race is quite interesting."

Upon seeing the message sent by the Sand Weasel Clan through secret channels, Jiang Chen smiled.

His relationship with the local demon race was not good, while the Yellow Wind Sect had many exchanges of interests with the local demon race. Now, these local demon races have turned around and sold out the Yellow Wind Sect.

"Those who are not of our kind are sure to have different hearts. This saying does have some truth to it. Although I have killed many demons, in the eyes of these demons I am still one of them."

"Of course, this is also related to the internal environment of the demon race. The demon race is a law of the jungle, and in their eyes, fighting among themselves is normal."

"However, the Sand Weasel Clan may not be entirely well-intentioned in sending this message at this time. They may also be thinking of having someone share the Yellow Wind Cult's attention."

After a moment of reflection, Jiang Chen roughly understood the Sand Weasel Clan's plan.

"This is indeed a very valuable piece of intelligence."

Looking at the resource points recorded in the letter, Jiang Chen fell into deep thought.

(End of this chapter)