Jian Chen stowed the Scarlet Gold Ore into his Space Ring as if he had just obtained a treasure. Afterward, he sucked in a deep breath and slowly calmed his excitement. He was getting closer and closer to the day when he could forge the twin swords because he was only missing the final ingredient, the Yin Hellstone, out of all the most precious materials he needed to forge the twin swords.
Jianchen then arrived before the Comprehension Tea Tree. It was the same size as the ones he had seen before, but the presence of ways on each leaf was even denser. This Tree of Enlightenment was a fifth-grade Immortal Grade Tree of Enlightenment. It was far more precious than the three first-grade Trees of Enlightenment he had encountered before.
Jianchen took out a crude wooden box from the artifact space before carefully breaking off two twigs from the tree. Using the twigs as chopsticks, he began to pluck the leaves one by one.
After plucking all eighty-one leaves, Jianchen arrived at the edge of the cliff. He carefully climbed down the smooth cliff face before arriving beside the Flamecloud Fruit Tree. He then took out a slightly larger wooden box from the artifact space and began to collect the Flamecloud Fruits.
The Flamecloud Fruits were completely red. Every single one of them was only the size of a finger. They were the smallest heavenly resources Jianchen had ever seen. However, although the Flamecloud Fruits were extremely small, the energy they contained could not be underestimated. As soon as Jianchen touched the fruit, he could clearly sense an extremely lively fire-attributed energy. It was extremely pure and vast. Even a hundred-thousand-year-old heavenly resource could not compare to a finger-sized Flamecloud Fruit.
A total of ninety-nine Flamecloud Fruits were plucked by Jianchen without leaving a single one behind. After collecting the Flamecloud Fruits, Jianchen arrived before the Spring of Life that nourished the land of life.
The Spring of Life in the oasis was the largest Spring of Life Jianchen had seen since he had come to the Xuanhuang Microcosm. Before him was a small lake that was thirty meters wide. It was filled with green Spring of Life, radiating with an extremely vast presence of life.
"This is fifth grade Spring of Life!" Ziying recognized the grade of the Spring of Life with a single glance and immediately informed Jianchen.
Jianchen rejoiced inside with that. The best Spring of Life he had stored in the artifact space was only of the third grade, yet not only was the Spring of Life before him at the fifth grade, but there was so much of it as well. He immediately became wild with joy.
Without any hesitation, Jianchen immediately took out a container to collect the Spring of Life. In the end, half of the lake's Spring of Life was taken away by him as well.
He also found a head-sized essence in the center of the lake. It was also of the fifth grade of the Immortal Tier.
Afterward, Jianchen searched around the peak of the mountain before leaving without finding anything. He searched the surroundings of the land of life, basically turning it upside down. In the end, he found over a dozen Immortal Tier heavenly resources with the help of the sword spirit.
"It's time to increase my strength. I can finally break through to the fourth layer of the Chaotic Body." Jianchen patted the dust off his hands before taking out the saint artifact. He called out to Tie Ta and entered the artifact space with Tie Ta. The saint artifact was not exposed to the outside world. It turned into a golden streak of light and disappeared into the ground. It had already hidden itself deeply, preventing any sudden Class 9 Xuanhuang beasts from coming. After all, the saint artifact could only block attacks from experts like the Holy Emperor. Class 9 Xuanhuang beasts on par with the Holy Emperor were enough to destroy the saint artifact.
Jianchen tossed a few Immortal Tier heavenly resources to the White Tiger within the artifact space, causing the white Tiger to fall into a deep slumber that it had not appeared for quite some time. Afterward, he and Tie Ta chose a place to begin cultivating.
Jianchen organized his cultivation resources in the cold and gloomy room. The resources that could help him break through to the fourth layer of the Chaotic Body were Violet Cloud Peaches that could increase his cultivation by five hundred years. They were equivalent to two Class 9 Monster Cores, an energy crystal from a Class 9 Xuanhuang beast, two of the five Class 9 Monster Cores he had obtained from the Heaven's Incense School to Shangguan Aojian, so he still had three left. He also had several Class 7 and 8 Monster Cores.
"I'm about to break through to the fourth layer of the Chaotic Body, so I need a Violet Cloud Peach that can increase my cultivation by fifteen hundred years. I don't have any third grade Violet Cloud Peaches, but I do have some first grade ones. Coupled with the four Class 9 Monster Cores I have, it's just enough. However, I can only eat a single Violet Cloud Peach every hundred years. If I eat one now, I'll have to wait a hundred years before I can eat a second one. I might even be able to find a Violet Cloud Peach of an even higher grade in the future, so I can't waste this once-in-a-century opportunity. Whatever, I won't eat a Violet Cloud Peach this time. I'll use Class 7 and 8 Monster Cores instead, "Jian Chen thought. He then pulled out all the high class monster cores and several dozen Class 7 and 8 energy crystals he had obtained from killing Xuanhuang beasts. He placed them all on the ground and began to cultivate.
Jianchen first absorbed the energy crystals he had obtained from the Xuanhuang beasts. He discovered that the energy crystals were far more powerful than monster cores of the same grade. Not only was the energy inside much purer than monster cores, but they also lacked the berserk factor from monster cores, so absorbing them was much easier.
On the Tian Yuan Continent, no one dared to simply absorb the energy within monster cores to cultivate. The main reason for this was that the energy within monster cores, regardless of whether they were high or low class, contained a berserk factor. Not only could it destroy the body, but if this berserk factor was concealed, it would cause great problems for one's future cultivation. In serious cases, it could even cause one to explode and die.
As a result, all the cultivators on the Tian Yuan Continent needed to absorb a certain amount of energy before they could stabilize their strength. At the same time, they had to purge the berserk factor from their bodies. This would take up quite a lot of time.
The reason why Jianchen could ignore the berserk factor from monster cores in the past was all because of the assistance of the sword spirits. They allowed Jianchen to cultivate without any worries.
The energy crystals from the Xuanhuang beasts did not contain the berserk factor from monster cores, so even if he gave them to the cultivators on the Tian Yuan Continent to absorb, they would not suffer from any side effects.
Jianchen was immediately overjoyed after understanding this. He thought of Ming Dong's friends and his family. He only needed to bring back enough energy crystals, and the strength of the people around him would rapidly increase.
"Once I break through to the fourth layer of the Chaotic Body, I'll definitely hunt down a few more Xuanhuang beasts and collect even more energy crystals," Jian Chen made up his mind. Before he had entered the Xuanhuang Microcosm, he had planned on returning immediately after collecting everything the sea goddess needed, but now that he had discovered the benefits of the Xuanhuang Microcosm, he was tempted to stay in there for a few more years. He might even stay in there and not leave at all.
Other than that, Jianchen also sensed extremely thin strands of Xuanhuang Qi from the energy crystals. However, he was unable to absorb the Xuanhuang Qi, so he could only let it disperse in the air. Even the sword spirits were unable to do anything about it.
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