Opening All 36 Apertures
Calmly Absorbing Medicinal Intent
After the golden plate entered his hands, Zhang Yan found a secluded place and focused on refining the apertures.
This closed door cultivation took an entire two years, and when he stopped cultivating and rested, he'd already refined the 35th aperture.
At this moment, he felt his entire body heat up. The true fire in his chest was like fire, overflowing his energy ocean. With a light shake, it seemed like it was about to spew out from the aperture.
He quickly suppressed his aura and slowly retracted it. In an instant, he kept the bright true fire in one place. When he looked inside, he saw that the golden fire seed was thick like paste, extremely pure and refined.
At this moment, there was only one last acupuncture point left in front of him.
Whether or not this last aperture could be opened and a complete true fire would be the key for him to condense his core in the future. He couldn't afford to make any mistakes.
Although Zhou Chongju was a direct disciple of the Zhou Clan, he only opened 32 apertures, which was already very rare.
As for Zhang Yan opening 35 apertures, it wasn't unprecedented, but it was extremely rare.
As for the 36th aperture, he had never heard of anyone opening it before. Therefore, he didn't know what would happen if he opened it.
When cultivators cultivated, unless their cultivation reached an extremely high level, they would follow the path of their predecessors and be careful. They wouldn't dare to take a single wrong step. Otherwise, if they didn't succeed in their cultivation, it would be a small matter. If their foundation was damaged, then it would be hopeless.
Even big clans and families spent hundreds of years and Just Now, they were slowly figuring out another method to open apertures.
In reality, at Zhang Yan's level, he had opened 35 apertures. Even if he didn't open the last aperture, he would still far surpass cultivators of the same generation.
However, he was a person who pursued the Grand Dao. Now that he hadn't completed it, how could he stop because of this obstacle?
He smiled and reached his hand into his sleeves. Others might not be able to continue, but he had the broken jade in his hand. He could give it a try.
He reached out and grabbed the broken jade, calmed himself down, and immersed himself in it.
This time, he was very patient and spent three months to deduce the cultivation method.
When he came out of the broken jade, his face was full of energy. At this moment, he already knew that the biggest obstacle before condensing the core was no longer able to stop him.
In his mind, he carefully recalled the situation in the broken jade. He smiled confidently and slowly began to circulate his cultivation technique.
As he circulated his Qi, his Divine Will condensed, so he did not notice the passage of time.
Suddenly, one day, the thirty-sixth acupuncture point throbbed and a sound was heard in his eardrums. However, it was different from the previous time as a wisp of Yin Qi was produced from that acupuncture point.
The True Fire in his energy sea seemed to be attracted, suddenly rolling up and swallowing it into his body.
This wisp of Yin Qi did not dissipate, but instead squeezed into the inner circle, and in an instant, it pushed all of the Essence Fire that was originally gathered there, and forced it to the outer circle. This True Fire immediately formed a situation of Yin in the middle of the Yang, mixing together into a ball. With a slight rotation, it slowly rotated like a big ball, indescribably wonderful.
Although Zhang Yan already knew that this would happen, now that he saw that his cultivation was complete, he couldn't help but reveal a hint of joy on his face.
Originally, he felt that it was a pity that the essence of the True Fire was gathered into a ball. If he really used it to refine the golden core, he wouldn't be able to use all of the firepower at the same time. But now, when it came time to condense the core, not a single bit of the firepower would be wasted.
At this moment, he had already opened all thirty-six of his acupuncture points!
Zhang Yan counted with his fingers. Unknowingly, three years had passed.
Once he got the last two ingredients, he would be able to find a cave to condense the core.
He let out a long breath and calmed his mind. He closed his eyes and sat still, calmly waiting for the time to come.
After an unknown amount of time, on this day, he suddenly heard the sound of thunder. It was caused by the Yin and Yang energies attacking each other above the Thunder Lake of Shen Du Peak, causing the thunder to shake.
Zhang Yan opened his eyes and a bright light flashed in his eyes. With a flick of his sleeve, he flew up from the stone platform and left the cave in the blink of an eye. He flew towards the place where the thunder rumbled.
At this moment, there were many cultivators riding the wind towards the Shen Du Peak. He didn't pay much attention to them and just flew, arriving at the main peak of the Shen Du Peak in a short while.
At this moment, his eyes narrowed and he saw a group of white-feathered, red-crowned cranes flying in the lightning. They flew back and forth around the peak, and every time a bolt of lightning fell, they would let out happy cries.
At this moment, his eyes narrowed and saw a group of white-feathered, red-crowned cranes flying in the lightning. They flew around the peak, and every time a bolt of lightning fell, they would let out joyful cries.
There were around a hundred cranes in this group, and although they were very eye-catching, they were extremely fast. It would be extremely difficult for normal Mystic Light Realm cultivators to catch them.
However, Zhang Yan didn't care and went straight over.
When the group of Heavenly Cranes saw that there were cultivators charging over, they were about to split up and hide in different directions. However, Zhang Yan let out a long cry, and a water-colored curtain of light suddenly appeared behind him, sweeping across the sky. In the blink of an eye, the hundred Heavenly Cranes disappeared.
After collecting the cranes, he didn't stop at all and continued to fly towards the peak. Not long later, he saw another group of demonic birds, and without saying anything, he used his true light to sweep them in.
On the way, Zhang Yan's true light of water rose and fell, and groups of demonic birds fell into the screen of water one after another, disappearing without a trace.
After sweeping through no less than a thousand demonic birds, he still didn't wave his hand. At this moment, he saw a huge and extremely fierce Green-eyed Golden Eagle flying in front of him.
Zhang Yan laughed loudly. He formed a seal and turned into a ray of green light as he flew up.
This type of ferocious demonic bird had great strength, a fierce and courageous temperament, and the steel feathers on its body were not afraid of ordinary magic treasures. Normally, it would rather die than fall into the hands of an enemy. Thus, even if the cultivators who came to collect the medicine encountered it, they would not be in the mood to fight and would let it go. But today, it was completely useless against Zhang Yan. He shook his shoulder, and a deep brilliance swept over.
The golden eagle wanted to resist, but how could it do so? As soon as the water curtain fell, it involuntarily fell into the thousands of rivers and was carried away by the current.
Originally, the higher one went up God Crossing Peak, the more ferocious the demonic birds were. Even if they weren't a match for cultivators, they could rely on their wings to quickly escape. Normally, there weren't many cultivators who came to capture them. But now that they had encountered Zhang Yan, disaster was imminent. Wherever he flew, the demonic birds were swept away.
Zhang Yan thought that with these thousand demonic birds in hand, the Hidden Refining Marrow would be enough, so he didn't attack anymore and flew towards the highest point of God Crossing Peak.
Not long after, he arrived at the top of the peak. He looked down at the surging pool of lightning, took out the golden plate from his sleeve, and threw it into the air.
As soon as this golden metal object appeared, it instantly attracted dozens of golden snake-like lightning bolts.
Zhang Yan activated his incantation, and the golden plate began to spin, absorbing the dozens of lightning bolts into it.
Harvesting Quejue Thunder also depended on one's luck. Usually, there would be one bolt of essence lightning in every hundred lightning bolts, and the more essence lightning there was, the more effective it would be when condensing the core.
The pool of lightning would only vibrate for an hour at a time, so if it didn't work the first time, one could only try again.
But if a cultivator found it too troublesome, they could also harvest the Hidden Refining Marrow on another day. However, compared to harvesting it at the same time, it was still inferior.
While Zhang Yan was plucking the lightning to his heart's content, there were two people watching from the top of another mountain, watching his every move.
One of them was the Hou Clan's Patriarch, Hou Boxu, and the other was a woman wearing a feather dress and holding a golden ring. This woman had also met Zhang Yan before. She was the dao companion of Xu Gongyuan from Nine Peace Cult.
The woman looked at Zhang Yan, then pointed at him and asked the black-clothed Daoist next to her, "Fellow Daoist Sima, who is this?"
The black-clothed Daoist thought about it and said, "I don't know this person."
The woman's voice suddenly sharpened as she said, "Could it be that Junior Zhang Yan has changed his appearance and is here?"
Hou Boxu coughed and said, "Although Fellow Daoist Sima can't recognize him, it might not be that Zhang Yan. Lady Xu, please don't be impatient. Let me ask him later."
Lady Xu said in disdain, "There's no need to go through so much trouble. He came here alone. Let me capture him and examine him first. "
When Hou Boxu heard this, his eyelids twitched, and he hurriedly stopped her. "Fellow Daoist, wait. I see this person's mysterious light. It seems to be a technique from Taihao School. You must know that this is Donghua Continent, not Donghai. Fellow Daoist, you must not be reckless."
"Taihao School?"
Lady Xu hesitated. This time, Xu Gongyuan also warned her that it would be fine if she offended others, but if it was the ten sects of Xuanmen, she must not provoke them unless it was absolutely necessary. If she was really impulsive, she would have to escape to the Outer Endless Sea at all costs.
This time, she came to find Zhang Yan to avenge her son, so she naturally wouldn't leave so easily. She said irritably, "Then, according to Fellow Daoist Hou, what should I do?"
Hou Boxu said in a deep voice, "Fellow Daoist Sima, as a servant under the master of this celestial market, you naturally have sharp eyes and ears. This person's technique is also from the orthodox Xuanmen, so he shouldn't be a nobody. Why don't you go and ask around?"
The black-clothed Daoist nodded. He took out a Jade Talisman and stretched out his hand to grab a strand of Qi, then he absorbed Zhang Yan's appearance into it. Then, he cupped his fists and said, "I will be right back."
In less than the time it took for an incense to burn, he returned and said to the two of them, "This person claims to be surnamed Yue, and he appeared here five years ago. He seems to be familiar with the manager of the Zhenyu Tower in our celestial market."
The appearance of everyone who entered and left the celestial market was reflected by the mirror at the entrance. As a servant of the celestial market, he only needed to make a slight inquiry to know the origin of the other party.
Hou Boxu thought for a while and said, "Surnamed Yue? The Yue Clan is a large clan in the southeast, could it really be from the Taihao School? "
Lady Xu said impatiently, "Since it's not that kid Zhang Yan, then there's no need to pay attention to it."
Hou Boxu shook his head and said, "Otherwise, there's still something fishy about this person. To be cautious, wait for a while, I'll go and check it out myself."
Lady Xu was a little puzzled and said in confusion, "Then why don't you ask now?
Xu Gongyuan glanced at her and said with a bitter smile, "Lady Xu, you need to know that this person is collecting herbs now. If this person is really not Zhang Yan, won't I ruin his Dao if I go up rashly? If I attract the elders of his sect out of anger, I won't be able to bear it. It's just an hour, why do you need to be so anxious, Lady Xu? "
Lady Xu blushed, snorted, and did not say anything else.
While they were talking, Zhang Yan did not stop collecting the lightning. After an hour, he put the golden plate back in his hand and released his spiritual qi to explore it. He found that there were several lightning bolts rolling back and forth, looking very lively.
He was also happy that this trip was so smooth, and he thought to himself, "Next, I just need to find a crypt in half a month, and I can refine the medicine into a pill."
He had already thought about it in advance. Although there were many spirit cleansing crypts in the world, the crypt where the two continents met was the best.
The distance between the Donghua Continent and the North Darkstar Continent was 150,000 miles, which was the border between the two continents. If he used the sword escape technique and flew at a normal speed, it would take about ten days. When he reached that place, he would have enough time to follow the map.
After making up his mind, he did not delay any longer. He absorbed the spiritual qi in the Golden Core in his abdomen, used the Minor Heavens Shifting Escape Technique, and turned into a beam of light and flew away.
Xu Gongyuan saw that he had finished absorbing the lightning and deliberated over his words. He was about to greet him, but before he could open his mouth, his vision blurred and he saw a ray of light heading north. In a flash, it disappeared into the boundless horizon.
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