HCB Chapter 320: Riding a Dragon
Chapter 320: Riding a Dragon
Since there happened to be a Jindan cultivator in the Void Stone, Bai Lan used Hong Xiao to refine the remaining few thousand-year-old stalactites in his stock into spiritual liquid for his cultivation.
Previously, her cultivation level was still at the Qi Refining Stage. In order to advance two levels, she swallowed a small piece of stalactite, and her meridians were nearly burst by the surging spiritual power.
Later, not only did he break through two levels in succession, but even the spiritual fields within the Void Stone matured several times due to the surging spiritual power around them.
Now her cultivation has reached the foundation-building stage. Due to the effects of the body-refining techniques, her meridians and bones have also become much stronger.
The stalactites were then refined by Jindan monks to remove impurities from them, transforming the violent spiritual power into more gentle spiritual power.
So Bai Lan planned to drink one drop a day, refine one drop at a time, and drink the whole bottle to see what the effect was.
Bai Lan sat under the sapling of an ancient evergreen tree, took a deep breath, and then saved the file on the spot.
After taking a drop, the spiritual liquid turns into wisps of spiritual energy the moment it enters the throat and flows into the meridians throughout the body, just like hundreds of rivers returning to the sea, and all the spiritual power gathers in the dantian.
The suddenly rich spiritual power gathered in her dantian, naturally breaking the bottleneck of her third level of foundation building.
She had been stuck at the third level of foundation building for a long time, and this breakthrough was a natural progression, and there seemed to be no pressure at all.
Bai Lan carefully felt the situation in his dantian, opened his eyes again, and turned his gaze to the jade bottle containing spiritual liquid in front of him. After thinking for a second, he took another three drops.
This action frightened Master Hongxiao who was watching quietly from a distance.
For a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage to take one drop of this kind of natural treasure, Ten Thousand Years Old Stalactite, it would be a stretch. Taking three drops at once, wouldn't that be crazy?
"Is it really okay for her to drink like this?" Zhenren Hongxiao looked at the spirit who was concentrating on drawing a blueprint at the side and spoke in a trembling voice.
The spirit of the weapon looked up in confusion and glanced at Bai Lan in the distance.
The woman's spiritual power surged throughout her body, and her breathing became disordered. With such a strong spiritual power and such a low level of cultivation, a normal person would have had their tendons and veins broken long ago.
"Oh, it's okay, she does this all the time, never has an accident."
The spirit of the weapon was already used to this: "She always eats raw the natural treasures that cannot be used to make pills. This time, she asked you to refine the stalactite into spiritual liquid before consuming it. This is rare."
"..." Master Hongxiao turned her stiff gaze to Bai Lan again.
Is this how normal cultivators cultivate? This is the case even in the foundation building stage, so when it comes to the core forming stage, I’m afraid it will be a sip.
The moment the three drops of spiritual liquid turned into spiritual power and flowed into the meridians, they exploded. Bai Lan sensed something strange and his whole body was shocked. He felt that even his foundation of Taoism was shaking for a moment, and the spiritual power around him slowly gathered into a small vortex of spiritual power.
Right.
It is this feeling that the meridians are about to burst but not burst that is interesting. A cultivator must always give himself some challenges so that the originally narrow meridians can gradually be widened.
For two whole days, Bai Lan was concentrating on refining the spiritual fluid in his body, while Hong Xiao Zhenren, who was busy in the sky above, would subconsciously look back from time to time at Bai Lan, who was sitting in the center of the spiritual vein with her eyes closed practicing, for fear that she would explode on the spot in the next second.
Not until Bai Lan had refined all the spiritual liquid in his body and the aura around him calmed down again, did Bai Lan open his eyes again when Master Hong Xiao breathed a sigh of relief. After taking three drops again, Master Hong Xiao became restless.
"She took three drops of spiritual liquid in a row, why didn't she make any breakthroughs?" Hong Xiao Zhenren pointed at the spiritual power around Bai Lan, who was violently beating her again, and asked in confusion: "That is a ten thousand year old treasure!"
The weapon spirit said helplessly: "She has five spiritual roots. Isn't it normal for her to have a large demand for spiritual power? She has been practicing like this for so many years. There is nothing strange about it. Why make a fuss?"
"Five spiritual roots!? She is a cultivator with five spiritual roots?" Zhenren Hongxiao stood up suddenly.
The weapon spirit was startled by Hong Xiao: "What's wrong? You are a Jindan cultivator, why are you making so much noise? You are not as knowledgeable and calm as this weapon spirit."
"......I have been practicing for more than a hundred years, but I have never seen a person with five spiritual roots who can practice to the foundation-building stage. With such aptitude, he can achieve what he has today. It is hard to imagine what kind of cultivation he would have at this moment if he was a genius with a single spiritual root." Zhenren Hongxiao murmured.
Bai Lan, who was working hard to refine the spiritual liquid in the distance, heard the emotional words of Master Hong Xiao and felt offended. Why are there always people in the world of cultivation who discriminate against the five spiritual roots!
Bai Lan gritted his teeth in anger, but the spiritual power in his body was still raging, so he had to continue to concentrate on refining the spiritual liquid.
Listening to what Master Hongxiao said just now, it seems that in her estimation, for ordinary cultivators in the Foundation Establishment Stage, after refining these three drops of spiritual liquid, they can break through from the third level to the fourth level of the Foundation Establishment Stage.
But for Bai Lan, who has five spiritual roots and a bottomless pit, she needs to take double or even triple the amount of spiritual liquid to break through a small realm.
Bai Lan repeated the process of taking the spiritual liquid and refining it, occasionally taking a day off in between and practicing the newly acquired skills for a few days. He practiced in this immersed manner for two months.
It turns out that Long Aotian's blood does have some effect. Bai Lan has never loved Long Aotian's true dragon blood so much.
When he used dragon blood to help him practice the dragon transformation technique, although the progress was slower than what was described in the jade slip, he finally transformed into a...snake.
He raised his hand and made a gesture, offering up Aotian's blood. After Bai Lan finished chanting the spell, a chant with reverberation was indeed heard in the air.
It was not the dragon roar that Bai Lan had imagined, but a few hissing sounds, followed by a giant snake coiling around and swallowing its tongue.
This is the first level of the Dragon Transformation Technique, transformation into an anaconda.
Dragons can move clouds and rain, swallow clouds and spit out mist, but snakes...
It can spit out poisonous tongue, shake its tail, or use its body to wrap around and strangle people.
Its fighting ability is almost the same as that of the monsters in the world of cultivation.
Bai Lan studied for a few more days and combined the Dragon Transformation Technique with the Qingxia Sect's Lotus Controlling Technique. After rereading the files dozens of times, he finally created a new magical power. He controlled the anaconda and tested it in the field. Sure enough, the flying speed was much faster than before.
The speed of riding the anaconda is comparable to that of an ordinary cultivator in the early Jindan stage who travels by light.
Bai Lan rode the anaconda around the four spiritual veins in the void stone for several circles. He recorded the speed measurement data on the jade slip before he felt relieved.
After some research, it is found that the speed of controlling anaconda is greater than the speed of controlling lotus. The speed of flying sword is greater than the speed of flying mysterious step.
Looking at the huge creature before him, Bai Lan was a little disappointed, feeling that riding a snake was not very elegant, but he still accepted it with pleasure.
It was not until a month later that several strands of spiritual power in Bai Lan's body gathered in his dantian again, forming a vortex of spiritual power and breaking through the bottleneck.
Bai Lan had broken through the bottleneck of the third level of the foundation building period to the fourth level, and his cultivation reached the middle level of the foundation building period.
Bai Lan suddenly opened his eyes, and once again raised his hand and made a gesture unwillingly. A huge monster appeared in front of him, circling around.
The giant anaconda is just an illusion formed by the gathering of spiritual power. It has no self-awareness and Bai Lan can summon it at any time.
Previously, when she tried to practice the Dragon Transformation Technique, she could only condense the first level of anaconda no matter what. She almost thought that Long Aotian's bloodline was impure, and she could only control the snake for the time being.
However, she didn't expect that it was just the limitation of her cultivation. When her realm broke through to the middle stage of foundation building, she felt that the boa she transformed into was gradually undergoing some changes.
The giant anaconda twisted its body and let out a mournful cry. Silk-like patterns gradually grew on its body, scales gradually grew on its neck, and some fleshy thorns grew on its tail.
It actually turned from an anaconda into a dragon.