At present, Ling Xiao’s greatest weakness was his cultivation base.
Ming Tian had a cultivation base of Initial Rank Nine Martial Vein, while his cultivation base was just Peak Rank Seven Martial Vein.
Because he had already fallen behind the starting line, he had to work very hard to make it up quickly.
Thinking this, Ling Xiao began to browse through the Technique Imparting Hall’s ‘Panacea Secret Scripture.’
The so-called Panacea Secret Scripture was actually a book of Technique Imparting Hall that recorded medicinal herbs and pills. Those medicinal herbs and pills were all owned by White Cloud Great Master and could be exchanged for military merit points.
“Heavens Bone Changing Pill: a spiritual pill to temper and refine the body. It can be used to improve the realm of defensive martial arts while tempering the body to lay a solid foundation for advancing to the Transcendent Realm. Requirements: at least 4-star and ninety percent body potential and a cultivation of at least Rank Eight Martial Vein!”
“Three Hearts Gathering Soul Pill: a spiritual pill to temper and refine the soul. It can be used to increase the strength of the soul and increase its power. It lays a solid foundation to advance to the Transcendent Realm. Requirements: at least 4-star and ninety percent soul potential and a cultivation of at least Rank Seven Martial Vein!”
“Top Grade True Essence Pill: a spiritual pill to temper and refine martial veins. It can be used to increase the strength of martial veins and the amount of true essence. It lays a solid foundation to advance to the Transcendent Realm. Requirements: at least 4-star and ninety percent internal energy potential and a cultivation of at least Rank Seven Martial Vein!”
There was an additional note on these three pills: ‘If you don’t fulfill the requirements, it might cause qi deviation, bleeding from seven orifices, or even death on the spot.’
These three pills required 150 military merit points each!
This was simply robbery.
The military merit points needed for a single pill was actually more than a Quasi-Transcendent Martial Art.
However, you got what you paid for.
Such an expensive thing would be worth the price.
Ling Xiao gritted his teeth and exchanged for two pills of each, directly using up 900 military merit points.
As for the remaining 160 military merit points, he exchanged them for gold.
In his previous battle, he had repaired his body and consumed all his gold.
Although the consumption was terrifying, his life had been saved, so he felt that gold was very important.
He exchanged 16 million taels of gold with 160 military merit points. In truth, the higher one’s cultivation base, the less people cared about gold.
The total gold reserves in Ren Race’s auction house barely exceeded 20 million, but White Cloud Great Master could easily exchange it with his disciples.
Naturally, no one else would exchange military merit points for gold besides Ling Xiao.
After all, the higher the cultivation base, the lesser the role of gold. Other than the basic necessities of life, gold was practically worthless for cultivators.
After the exchange, Ling Xiao returned to his residence and began to cultivate.
His first choice was naturally <Snow Lotus True Solution>, his strongest internal core law at present.
If he wanted to advance his cultivation base, he had to cultivate <Snow Lotus True Solution>.
Moreover, in the previous war, many strange energies had poured into his body, including the true essence of both White Cloud Great Master and that wolf-shaped fierce beast.
It shouldn’t be a problem to advance his cultivation to Rank Eight Martial Vein by refining this external true essence.
As long as his cultivation base reached Rank Eight Martial Vein, he could use Heavens Bone Changing Pill without risking anything.
After all, he had only one life. Although he was impatient, it was better to cultivate step by step.
He took a Top Grade True Essence Pill; true essence surged within his body like a tide.
In the Landscape World, a wolf-shaped shadow and White Cloud Great Master’s shadow fought.
Ling Xiao’s shadow stood at one side, accumulating strength. He planned to seize these two true essences in one fell swoop.
Suddenly, his shadow rushed out, and taking advantage of flaws revealed by both the wolf-shaped shadow and White Cloud Great Master’s shadow, his shadow turned into a golden dragon and swallowed them.
Although the grades of these two true essences was a lot higher than his snow lotus true essence, they didn’t have an advantage against his heavenly dragon true essence.
In addition, they had revealed a flaw, so they were unable to resist.
He digested them.
Seven days later, Ling Xiao exhaled a mouthful of turbid qi. His eighth martial vein had finally been opened.
His breakthrough to Rank Eight Martial Vein had been much easier than he had imagined, almost a matter of course.
However, he hadn’t assimilated the wolf-shaped fierce beast’s ‘Red Flame True Essence’ or White Cloud Great Master’s ‘Thunderbolt True Essence.’
Although he could have done it, he refrained from doing so.
He found that once they were assimilated, their level would fall to the same level as his snow lotus true essence.
This was not worth the loss.
Therefore, he isolated these two true essences, much like heavenly dragon true essence. By keeping them independent of the snow lotus true essence, he could use them as a hidden trump.
Now, he had eight martial veins. One martial vein had heavenly dragon true essence, one martial vein had red flame true essence, one martial vein had thunderbolt true essence, and the remaining five had snow lotus true essence.
He was able to do this because of the eighth special ability of his Landscape Martial Soul that he had unlocked upon stepping into Rank Eight Martial Vein Realm——Nine Veins Spiritual Body.
This ability could allow one’s nine martial veins to store nine different types of true essence without clashing.
Naturally, the true essence you got from other people was limited. After using it, he could only fill the martial vein with snow lotus true essence or heavenly dragon true essence or someone else’s true essence.
General martial artists could only hold two types of true essence at most, but he could have nine types
The higher levels of the Landscape Martial Soul brought great surprises.
After his cultivation base reached Rank Eight Martial Vein, his <Snow Lotus True Solution> finally reached the ninth layer, the perfection realm.
In the previous war, he had gained great insights from the battle between Transcendent Martial Artists. Therefore, his speed in cultivating Quasi-Transcendent Martial Arts also increased.
Even he himself found his results unbelievable. However, the gap was still very big, and it was a pity that he didn’t have any more Top Grade True Essence Pills.
He swallowed a few low-grade True Essence Pills to consolidate his cultivation.
After three days, he swallowed the Three Hearts Gathering Soul Pill to condense his soul.
He had once used Seven Star Flower to test his potential. At this time, all three of his potentials had been above seven-stars, so he wanted to use all three methods.
Like that, his foundation would be far stronger at the Transcendent Realm.
<Soul Burning Formula> was a Quasi-Transcendent Martial Art like <Snow Lotus True Solution>.
After cultivating it for seven days, his soul power had obviously improved, and his soul had also grown stronger.
The most obvious effect was his thinking had become clearer and faster. Moreover, he could quickly understand things he couldn’t in the past.
He could more easily remember things he hadn’t been able to before.
Not only that, but because of the improvement in his soul power, the effect of A Terrifying Finger had become even more terrifying. Its might was not inferior to <Snow Lotus Sword Art>, even more terrifying to some extent.
<Soul Burning Formula> had also reached the perfection realm. In the future, other than using it in battle, he would leave it alone.
Next, he decided to take ‘Heavens Bone Changing Pill’ to cultivate <Heavenly Dragon Golden Body>.
In this period of time, his Heavenly Dragon Golden Body hadn’t made any progress, remaining on the second layer.
However, with Heavens Bone Changing Pill, coupled with his breakthrough in cultivation base and soul, he estimated that <Heavenly Dragon Golden Body> would soon advance.
Nevertheless, he didn’t use <Shadow Cultivation Secret Technique>, the implications were too great. If something went wrong, he would be in danger of a qi deviation.
Moreover, the shadow clones couldn’t take pills. It was fine to use shadow clones in normal cultivation, but when it came to precious pills, the main body was the safest.
