Having simultaneously acquired two Divine Soul Talents and comprehended the True aning of Fire, Qi Ping’s subsequent cultivation speed and his rate of nurturing spiritual herbs received a massive boost.
Qi Ping seized this hard-won opportunity, diligently improving his own strength and that of his animal companions.
The current cultivation speed he enjoyed was the result of trendous effort and step-by-step striving to create these very conditions.
Therefore, Qi Ping’s only thought now was to cherish this opportunity and quickly develop second-tier combat capabilities here.
In this state of focused effort, three months passed in the blink of an eye.
During this period, Qi Ping sold all the Spirit-Nourishing Honey produced by the Brewer Big-Bellied Bees through Boss Gao, earning five thousand three hundred and sixteen spirit stones.
For convenience, Qi Ping repaid five thousand of those spirit stones, along with the large hamr (which still contained about ninety percent of its Fire True aning essence), to ng Yan.
Having shed more than half of his debt lifted a significant psychological burden off Qi Ping’s shoulders. Carrying such a large spirit stone debt had always made him feel sowhat uneasy.
After repaying most of the debt, Qi Ping discovered that the conceptual aura surrounding his Dao Heart had grown even more concentrated. He estimated it wasn’t far from truly taking form.
However, returning the items gave ng Yan quite a scare.
It wasn’t because Qi Ping kept his promise to return the spirit stones and hamr. ng Yan, possessing keen insight and intuition since childhood, had already judged and perceived Qi Ping’s character. Through further interactions with Ya Ya (the crow) and conversations about the Dao Heart, he had gained an even deeper understanding of Qi Ping. So, he was not at all surprised that Qi Ping returned the items on ti.
What truly shocked ng Yan was that Qi Ping had only consud ten percent of the hamr’s essence and yet had successfully comprehended the True aning of Fire.
During their last battle together, ng Yan had clearly sensed that Qi Ping was still so distance away from comprehending the Fire True aning. He had estimated Qi Ping would need to consu at least fifty percent of the essence to fully grasp it.
Yet now, Qi Ping had succeeded with only a ten percent consumption!
This indicated that Qi Ping’s aptitude for comprehension was even better than ng Yan had estimated.
For a lone cultivator to reach his current level, ng Yan couldn’t help but feel admiration.
Actually, this was even better for ng Yan, as he had recently begun to have a vague premonition that soone might be planning to move against him.
Over the past six months, he had successively eliminated several groups of disciples from hostile sects, drawing increasing attention.
Now, with Qi Ping’s increased cultivation and his comprehension of the Fire True aning, his combat power was bound to skyrocket. Combined with Qi Ping’s hidden cards, even if targeted, ng Yan could potentially use Qi Ping’s help to break the situation early.
Lately, he hadn’t even been staying at his residence, lest he be surrounded and attacked soday.
Even Qi Ping could only learn ng Yan’s location through ssenger talismans.
ng Yan had specifically discussed this matter with Qi Ping, who naturally expressed his willingness to offer full assistance. As long as the enemies weren’t at the Foundation Establishnt stage, there was no need to worry.
Qi Ping’s confident words alleviated much of ng Yan’s concern.
During this sa period, with the help of Qi Ping’s resources, Sister Nan’s cultivation had long since broken through to the sixth layer of Qi Refining. She wasn’t far from the late Qi Refining stage either.
After returning from ng Yan’s place following the spirit stone repaynt, Qi Ping recalled what ng Yan had told him about the situation in the Qingtian Region and couldn’t help but sigh.
In short, as the conflicts between sects intensified, so battlefields had beco veritable at grinders. Occasionally, those once awe-inspiring, talented sect disciples, whom lone cultivators looked up to, would perish.
Although so disciples did rise to prominence in such intense life-and-death battles, they were ultimately the minority; most perished.
ng Yan had even heard rumors that soone from the three major families of Greenrock County might have been persuaded by another sect to switch sides and stir up trouble, which could potentially ignite full-blown chaos in Greenrock County.
It wasn’t even impossible that Foundation Establishnt cultivators might join the Greenrock County battlefield in the future.
Once internal strife completely erupted in Greenrock County, it wouldn’t be a matter of just one or two Foundation Establishnt cultivators. Therefore, ng Yan also urged Qi Ping to prepare, ideally achieving a breakthrough to Foundation Establishnt before that happened.
Learning this news made Qi Ping feel imnsely relieved.
“Thank goodness I didn’t imdiately choose to join the Qingyuan Sect after acquiring the Fiery Body of Departure talent.”
“Otherwise, even if I wasn’t discovered by so old monster, captured, and dissected, I’d probably be sent as cannon fodder to various dangerous areas. After all, even a core disciple like ng Yan can’t avoid it.”
Compared to that, farming here in the depths of the Misty Cloud Mountains was far more comfortable.
Currently, those who appeared here with hostile intentions towards Qi Ping were only so Qi Refining stage cultivators, posing no threat to him now.
This feeling of “calmly observing the chaos in the Qingtian Region while I secure my foundation in the immortal path” was actually sowhat thrilling for Qi Ping.
For Qi Ping, lying low was indeed the supre principle!
In the following ti, Qi Ping didn’t do anything particularly special. He continued as before: cultivating, nurturing spiritual herbs, and raising his animal companions.
He just felt a stronger sense of urgency.
After about another month—the fourth month since Qi Ping contracted the Spirit Fox and the Hundred-Eyed Flower Demon—both his Explosive Fla spell and his Wood-Fla Technique successively reached perfection!
Even his cultivation gradually approached the ninth layer of Qi Refining!
“The higher the Qi Refining cultivation goes, the more difficult it becos. Even with ample resources for cultivation, it still requires a long ti to break through again.”
Qi Ping had lost count of how many spiritual herbs he had nurtured, only knowing that if sold, the number would be absolutely staggering.
“No wonder so many people get stuck at the late Qi Refining stage. Relying on one or two spiritual herbs to break through a realm is simply impossible. You either pile on a massive amount of herbs or grind away slowly.”
“But my Explosive Fla spell and Wood-Fla Technique have finally reached perfection!”
After these two techniques were perfected, Qi Ping couldn’t wait to test them at the previous pile of rubble.
“Fiery Body of Yang… Beast King’s Blaze… True aning of Fire… Explosive Fla Movent Technique!”
Powerful auras surged from Qi Ping’s body one after another. Then, with a terrifying roar, his figure shot forward like a rocket.
Under Qi Ping’s terrifying power, the ground was blasted with large, deep pits and massive cracks!
His speed reached an extre level. An ordinary late Qi Refining expert wouldn’t even have a chance to match this speed.
After testing it out, Qi Ping looked at the nurous cracks and pits behind him, also stunned by the powerful effect.
“This is too insane!”
“Stacking the True aning of Fire and the Beast King’s Blaze, the Explosive Fla Movent Technique is terrifyingly strong!”
No wonder Lin Qingshu was able to kill a cultivator of the sa level with a single sword strike from over a hundred ters away back then. Having comprehended Sword Intent and reached an extre level in swordsmanship, what could an ordinary cultivator use to block it?
It was just like Qi Ping now. Not only had he comprehended the True aning of Fire, but he had also cultivated the Explosive Fla spell to perfection, with the added boost of the Beast King’s Blaze. The power was simply frightening!
Especially since fire attribute power is known for its explosive nature. The Explosive Fla spell maximized all the fire attribute power within Qi Ping to its limit, making it impossible for the result not to be terrifying.
“It’s just this body of mine is a bit of a pain…”
Feeling his body injured once again, Qi Ping could only helplessly heal it with the Healing Art once more.
During this period, he had consud a lot of Fiery Glow Honey, greatly increasing his physical strength. However, the boost from the Explosive Fla Movent Technique was clearly even more monstrous.
Without a formidable physique, one truly lacked the qualifications to unleash this spell technique at full power.
“I’ll have to think of another solution for the physique issue. For now, using the Healing Art isn’t a big problem; it’s just inconvenient for prolonged battles.”
“Let’s test the power of the perfected Explosive Fla Net and Explosive Fla Fireball next.”
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