Ordinary person: What to do with unused treasures? (On Zhuanzhuan)

Chapter 116 Escape Techniques and Unforeseen Problems

In a quiet room.

Qin Fang seemed to be in a state between sleep and wakefulness, standing in a corner of the room in a daze.

next moment.

Qin Fang suddenly appeared at the other end of the room, as if everything before had been an illusion.

"This method of shrinking the earth to an inch —"

Qin Fang's eyes were filled with ecstatic joy.

Even with only a rudimentary grasp of escape techniques, Qin Fang felt that if he wanted to, teleporting hundreds of feet away in an instant would be a matter of a single thought.

"However, this method is indeed extremely energy-intensive!"

"Even with my immense magical power, which far surpasses that of other cultivators, I can only sustain this for a short while."

Qin Fang quickly calmed down.

This technique of shrinking the distance to an inch is naturally an excellent way to save one's life! However, it consumes a huge amount of energy, so unless you encounter a life-or-death crisis, it is best not to use this technique casually.

It's no exaggeration to say that Qin Fang's magical power far surpasses that of other Core Formation cultivators!

It should be noted that the third profound aperture opened by the Nine Dragons Suppressing Meridian Technique greatly strengthened his dantian. As a result, as his cultivation progressed, he increasingly felt that the depth of his internal magical power was incomparable to that of ordinary early-stage Core Formation cultivators.

"Me now—"

"With the Nine Netherworld Hundred Forging Hammer, a major consumer of magical artifacts, plus this escape technique—"

"Unleashing your full potential is no easy feat!"

Qin Fang gave a wry smile.

With his current strength, even when facing a Nascent Soul stage expert, he would likely have some ability to hold his own and wouldn't be killed in a single encounter.

But it was only a temporary stalemate; the difference in cultivation levels was undeniable, and Qin Fang's internal magical power couldn't sustain him for long.

Of course, Qin Fang wasn't stupid. Why would he provoke a Nascent Soul cultivator for no reason?

A situation requiring him to flee for his life shouldn't be happening to him—

"For ordinary travel, it's better to use the Dragon-Riding Technique."

Qin Fang withdrew his magical power, and the mysterious aura around him also diminished considerably.

"But no matter what, an increase in strength is a great thing for me!"

"To unleash even 80% of the power of these two techniques, I'll probably need to reach the Nascent Soul stage in my cultivation—"

Qin Fang secretly made some calculations.

Given the energy consumption of Shrinking Earth to an Inch and Nine Netherworld Hundred Hammers, only those with Nascent Soul stage strength could truly utilize them effectively.

Of course, all of this is just speculation. Qin Fang himself has never been a Nascent Soul cultivator, and we will need to verify it in the future to know the specifics.

"The first acupoint is primarily for defense, and can release earth-attribute spiritual light to form scale armor—"

"The second aperture also increases defense slightly, but not as much as the first aperture. However, the second aperture is mainly for increasing one's own strength, so it makes my strength increase the most."

"The third profound aperture increases the depth of my magical power the most! It may not be obvious now, but as my cultivation level increases, this effect should become more and more apparent."

"And the fourth mysterious aperture—"

"It allowed me to master the technique of 'shrinking the earth to an inch' using both earth and wind attributes. Although I can't yet achieve the legendary feat of instantly shortening hundreds of miles to a mere inch, I can still traverse a range of a hundred feet in an instant, something other cultivators wouldn't even dare to dream of."

"I wonder what the effect of the fifth profound aperture, [Subduing the Rabbit], will be? I'm really looking forward to it!"

"Now that I have refined so many pills, I should have more than enough time to break through to the mid-stage of Core Formation! Once I break through the bottleneck of the mid-stage of Core Formation, I can try to open this spiritual aperture."

Qin Fang's longing was evident in his words.

Buzz!

A strange noise.

Qin Fang's body shone brightly with spiritual light. From his fists and bones to his arms, his dantian, and even the soles of his feet, bursts of spiritual light emerged and transformed into scales.

Earth-attribute spiritual energy instantly surged within this quiet cultivation room.

"Still not working?"

Qin Fang's attempt to fuse the four mysterious spiritual lights into armor ended in failure once again.

"However, activating all four orifices at the same time still provides a significant boost to my physical body."

"Under the current circumstances, I'm probably able to catch ordinary magical artifacts with my bare hands without sustaining any damage!"

Qin Fang was not discouraged by the failure; on the contrary, he was beaming with joy.

What he values ​​most about the Nine Dragons Suppressing Meridian Technique is that it gradually strengthens his physical body regardless of whether he is cultivating or not.

In a sense, it was the spirit dragon within the Xuanqiao that replaced his cultivation method for body refining!

Even if Qin Fang simply leaves this technique unattended, given enough time, his physical body will gradually become impervious to all treasures!

After all—this special body-refining method is meant to treat Qin Fang's body as a fine material for refining weapons, gradually transforming it into a unique magical artifact.

Only in this way can one ultimately withstand the refining power of the "Hundred Meridians Refining Treasure Technique" and finally cultivate this secret technique of the Immortal Realm's Hundred Refinement Mountain.

One day, five years later.

Qin Fang slowly opened his eyes and took out five pills from the medicine bottle in front of him.

These five pills, even if just one of them were ordinary, would be fought over by Core Formation stage cultivators! But Qin Fang seemed completely unconcerned, after swallowing one pill, he threw the other four into the sky behind him.

Above Qin Fang's prayer mat, in the air—

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Four spirit dragons, one yellow, two red, and one white, rose from beneath their feet and coiled in the void.

Upon seeing the pills arrive, each of them emitted a series of deep dragon roars before inhaling the pills and beginning to refine them.

"I miscalculated!"

Qin Fang did not turn his head, but there was a hint of bitterness in his words.

Logically speaking, the pills he had been working so hard to prepare for the Core Formation stage—saying they could boost Qin Fang's cultivation to the late Core Formation stage—might be a bit of an exaggeration.

However, if it's just about getting Qin Fang's cultivation to the mid-stage of Core Formation, that would be more than enough!

It might even take less than half that amount to achieve this.

However, the result was that it seemed there weren't enough pills!

Qin Fang forgot that in addition to improving his own cultivation level, he also had to take care of his spirit beast.

The cultivation level of the spirit beast that controls the acupoint is related to the depth of his body refinement cultivation, and is even the key to whether he can break through safely.

Therefore, it is necessary not only to ensure that the cultivation levels of the several spirit dragons are not much different from those of the main body, but also to ensure that the gap between their individual cultivation levels is not too large, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

"This is only after opening four orifices and raising four spirit dragons—"

"If we wait until all nine orifices are opened in the future—"

"Hiss~!"

Qin Fang unconsciously gasped.

"That's not all. As your cultivation level increases in the future, the spiritual items and pills you need will be of even higher quality."

"Just thinking about it gives me a headache!"

Faced with this situation, what could Qin Fang do but smile bitterly?

If the pills he currently possessed were in the hands of other early-stage Core Formation cultivators, as long as they were ascetic practitioners who secluded themselves in their caves and cultivated diligently for hundreds of years, they would probably have a good chance of reaching the False Infant realm, which is the peak of the Core Formation stage.

Even Han Li could probably break through to the mid-stage of Core Formation with so many opportunities.

But for Qin Fang, it seemed that even reaching the mid-stage of Core Formation was difficult.

Am I the one consuming the most resources?!

Qin Fang felt utterly helpless about the current situation; besides feeling helpless, there was really nothing else he could do.

The shortcomings of the spirit dragon were not fully exposed because its cultivation level was still too low.

This is because Qin Fang bestowed superior bloodlines upon the four dragons!

Even the worst one still possesses a trace of dragon blood, far surpassing the talent of ordinary demon beasts.

Therefore, even without much care, they can rely on their own exceptional talent to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and quickly advance in rank.

But that's no longer possible.

This is not to say that the four dragons are not talented, but rather that the cultivation methods of spirit beasts are very different from those of human cultivators.

Let me put it this way!

Any one of the four spirit dragons Qin Fang currently possesses, given enough time, would definitely have the potential to break through to the eighth rank of cultivation.

However, it is entirely possible that demonic beasts cultivate slowly, taking hundreds of years to advance, or even thousands of years to advance once.

Monsters have a lifespan far exceeding that of human cultivators, allowing them to advance slowly—but human cultivators cannot.

At the normal rate of advancement for demonic beasts, human cultivators would probably have died of old age long ago!

This is why many cultivation families like to keep a guardian spirit beast. As long as the beast's aptitude is decent and the family can continue to exist, they will eventually be able to cultivate a high-level beast.

However, this natural method of advancement is not suitable for Qin Fang.

It would take several generations to wait for the spirit dragon to slowly advance to the next level. Even if Qin Fang didn't die of old age, he would probably have completely lost the possibility of advancing to the Nascent Soul stage.

Therefore, it is necessary to consume a great deal of resources to accelerate the maturation of these spirit beasts!

As for————

Why use the elixir you painstakingly refined to feed the spirit beast?

The reason is quite simple.

The elixir is made primarily from demon cores of level five or above. In essence, all other elixirs in the world are nothing more than a mass of pure spiritual energy.

Once a spirit beast refines spiritual energy, it can naturally increase its cultivation level rapidly.

This is not much different from that of human cultivators.

The reason why no one uses elixirs to feed spirit beasts —

Ultimately, it all came down to their reluctance to part with the animals! So they started using scraps that other cultivators wouldn't even consider, to feed their own spirit beasts.

Because Qin Fang had not actively sought out a method of cultivation, and given the risk of his cultivation technique becoming unbalanced after the Four-Aperture White Dragon awakened, he had no choice but to feed the Spirit Pill to the Two-Aperture Red Dragon, the only spirit beast that had failed to break through to the Core Formation stage.

Surprisingly, the results were quite good!

With the help of a large number of pills, this "least talented" red dragon finally broke through to the fifth rank, which completely leveled the gap between the dragons and brought the cultivation techniques back to balance.

The amount of spirit pills required to break through to the fifth rank is completely incomparable to the amount required for four spirit dragons to break through to the sixth rank together.

Even Qin Fang felt he was struggling to keep up!

"The Spirit-Nourishing Pills I shamelessly obtained from Han Li were not very effective against my spirit dragon."

"While it can't be said to be completely useless, the difference in effect compared to directly consuming a Core Formation stage elixir is not even a little bit."

"If I want to quickly improve the spirit dragon's cultivation, the best way is still to directly feed it spirit pills —"

"In that case, I won't have enough pills to refine."

Qin Fang silently pondered to himself.

"This method is quite good; we must continue feeding her the elixirs!"

"If it's not enough, it's not enough—I can just go out to sea again. Hunting level five or six monsters is a risk-free and highly profitable business for me."

"If I spend a few more years, I'll eventually be able to gather enough pills to advance my level."

"There are quite a few Core Formation stage demonic beasts in the outer sea; surely they can't even meet my needs alone?!"

"The only problem is how to get more spirit dragons to break through to the eighth rank in the future —"

"That's the biggest problem."

Qin Fang felt the increasingly surging medicinal power within his body slowly dissolving in his dantian.

Amidst this anxiety, he slowly closed his eyes and began to concentrate on converting the medicinal power into magical power.

Gradually, the quiet room fell silent again, with only the occasional heavy breathing of the spirit dragon audible.

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