Longevity through Upgrading Buildings

Chapter 813 - 337: Mid-stage Muscle Forging Realm

Ji Yuan poured his Mana into this Chasing Thunder Cloud like it cost nothing, and in just a short while, half the Mana in his Dantian was gone.

But the effect was still like a clay ox sinking into the sea.

The Chasing Thunder Cloud didn’t react in the slightest.

Ji Yuan had no choice but to grit his teeth and keep going, until only a small half of the Mana in his Dantian remained; only then did the cloud beneath his feet finally move.

Ji Yuan carefully urged it, just a tiny bit.

"Whoosh—"

After a faint sound, "Bang—", a deafening crash followed.

Even though Ji Yuan had already raised both hands to shield his head, he was still smashed deep into the stone wall in front of him.

Thankfully his body was decent enough; Ji Yuan pulled himself out of the wall, landed back on the cloud, and recalled that speed just now...

With his Mid-stage Core Formation Divine Sense, he actually couldn’t react at all.

Put bluntly, he hadn’t even had time to hit the brakes before he’d already crashed.

"This speed... just what level has it reached?"

For a moment, Ji Yuan even wanted to hurry out to sea and race across the Jiyuan Continent up above.

No.

His Mana was still insufficient; it didn’t flow smoothly when he urged it. The best plan was still to form his Core as soon as possible; once his Cultivation rose to the Golden Core Stage, [Celestial Craft Square] could be upgraded.

By then he could not only refine the Canglan Sword, his Mana would grow even deeper, and driving this Chasing Thunder would become much more effortless.

But for now, the space was too small; he really couldn’t stretch his arms and legs.

Thinking this, Ji Yuan could only, very unwillingly, jump down from midair and land on the ground.

The Chasing Thunder also reverted to a wisp of aura, drifting around Ji Yuan.

If he needed to use it, a single Heart Thought would suffice.

"Chasing Thunder!"

A few arcs of lightning flashed around Ji Yuan, and a dark cloud had already formed under his feet.

This feeling—exhilarating!

"If this Chasing Lightning Cloud could be like the Somersault Cloud, one flip for a hundred and eight thousand li, then who could ever catch up to me?"

Ji Yuan indulged in that fantasy for a while, then put the cloud away again.

Next... he glanced at the exit; the Array had reappeared there now.

Should he use the Spirit Liquid here in the cave to strengthen his body?

After thinking it over for a few moments, he gave up on that idea.

For no other reason.

Inside this cave, things were far too uncontrollable; if that Array suddenly vanished and he couldn’t get out, that would be trouble.

Better to leave and break through somewhere inside the Merfolk Ancestral Land.

After he broke through, he could try to take some of those Divine Sense-isolating ores and leave.

Compared to the Spirit Liquid, those ores were also good stuff.

You never knew when they might produce some miraculous effect.

With that thought, Ji Yuan stepped up before the Array, took a single step in, the surroundings twisted, and at the instant seawater surged in, he had already returned to the Merfolk Ancestral Land.

He turned back and used the PWoang Divine Eyes to look at that wall.

The Array seemed embedded in it and couldn’t be removed, so all he could do was record those strange Array Patterns and take them away.

When he studied Arrays later, these patterns might prove useful.

As Ji Yuan was now, he was like a hamster; anything that might help him, he was unwilling to let slip by.

Then he took out a Jade Scroll and began copying.

Fortunately he could still use Mana here in the ancestral land, or he wouldn’t even know where to start with this alone.

After a long while, once he was sure he hadn’t missed a single Array Pattern, he finally put away the PWoang Divine Eyes and the Jade Scroll, then with another Heart Thought, his figure vanished from the seafloor.

Spiritual Qi surged, stirring up quite a bit of sand on the seabed.

Among the grains was one called "Mountain of Mind and Heart," which fell along with the rest.

Into the Lifebound Magical Treasure.

Ji Yuan took off the Spirit Devouring Armor he was wearing, and put all the Spirit-Devouring Bees away into the Spirit Beast Bag.

He lifted his right hand and looked at it; after the Qi Blood Pill and the recovery of his physique...

The wound had already healed, and the new flesh that had grown was even paler than the surrounding skin.

If not for that, you wouldn’t even be able to tell it had been injured.

He saw Tu Yue once more walking over obediently, both hands holding the Storage Bag.

Ji Yuan just waved his hand, sending her back.

He hadn’t come back today to collect rent, but to break through in strength.

Ji Yuan took out the Jade Bottle from the Storage Bag.

Inside was brimming with Spirit Liquid; when he shook it slightly, he could see the Spirit Paste settled at the bottom.

"No idea what this stuff really is. It’s one thing that it can exist in Fallen Immortal Gully, but it can actually be used to strengthen the body."

Ji Yuan gazed at the Spirit Liquid in his hand, thinking it over carefully.

With his years of experience, the problem shouldn’t be with the Spirit Liquid, but with this miraculous undersea mountain range!

The first thing he could confirm was that the endless astral winds above Fallen Immortal Gully, as well as the Water Blades within it, were all generated by Arrays.

And that Array was the one imprisoning and encircling the whole continent; its power went without saying.

Yet even against such an Array, this undersea mountain range could still completely block its effects.

What did that say?

It said that the undersea mountain range was at least on the same level as that Array; so for it to produce this kind of miraculous Spirit Liquid was perfectly plausible.

Ji Yuan had already tested the effects of the Spirit Liquid just now.

Excellent—compared to the Profound Sun Blood Amber, it was no worse, though still a bit inferior to the Blazing Sun Bones.

But what it lacked in potency, it made up for in quantity; Ji Yuan had a whole Jade Bottle full of it.

Not to mention that there was still Spirit Paste at the bottom. Once he consumed all of this, his physique should rise another level.

After running through all this in his head, Ji Yuan’s originally complicated emotions gradually calmed. While sensing the Chasing Thunder circling around him...

He picked up the Jade Bottle and took a big swig.

Abundant blood energy spread through his body; Ji Yuan didn’t dare waste even a bit, and immediately began practicing the Pile Skill that came with the "Nine-Turn Mysterious Sun" on the spot.

Without a suitable place for Body Refinement, he could only use this clumsy method.

Grinding his way through to a breakthrough.

One gulp refined, then another.

When he finished the Spirit Liquid, Ji Yuan smashed the Jade Bottle and began eating the Spirit Paste inside.

When the Spirit Paste was down to a thin layer...

He finally felt his blood and Qi reach some critical point, and as he completed another round of pile-walking...

The critical point was broken through.

His blood and Qi were like a great river entering the sea, surging into a far vaster world.

His physique...

Had finally reached the Mid-stage Muscle Forging Realm!