Chapter 43 - Consecutive Breakthroughs! (1/2)

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Yan Zaizen didn't know what had just happened or the eternal hatred he had just formed with an entire clan, but he also wouldn't care if he did. His priority, at the moment, was cultivating with his full undivided attention.

With the mid-grade essence crystal, he focused refining it thoroughly. The pure essence entered from the pores into the myriad of meridians, surging through his pathways, and entering his dantian where it was converted into Qi. However, its purity was so great that when he converted it, it was already at the qi-essence form. The purer, stronger, and overall greater form of Qi.

This discovery caused him to explode with jubilation. With this, it would essentially cut down his conversion time by several dozen times. This put the 'twice the results for half the effort' saying to shame. Originally, he needed only 5% of his Qi to be converted into qi-essence before making a proper breakthrough to the Essence Formation Realm. By expelling his basic qi and converting the essence directly into qi-essence, he ascended to the Essence Formation after a single day!

If he keeps going at this rate, he should be able to reach 40% in two weeks and 100% in six weeks! 5% was the initial stage, 40% for the mid, 80% for late and 100% for the peak!

When he's completed his conversion, he would be able to unify his qi with his dantian, allowing him to naturally produce qi-essence and use it in combat. If one used their qi-essence in the Essence Formation Realm, the power of their attacks would definitely be great, but it'll cause their cultivation to drop as a result. This is why many were unwilling to do so, letting dozens of years go to waste unless it was a life or death situation.

Qi Unification Cultivators didn't need to worry about that. All the qi they produced was qi-essence.

Despite this, the Qi Realms were divided into six core and three foundational realms. The first two foundational realms were significant dividers in determining the strong and weak amongst the Qi Unification Realm. This excludes one's art mastery or conceptual laws comprehended.

The two foundational realms — Dantian Refinement & Pathway Expansion — which determined how durable and the amount of energy your dantian and pathways can contain. This would play largely into one's endurance and qi output in their arts.

Some arts required massive quantities of qi to execute, with a stronger dantian and larger pathway, one would have the reserves and be able to execute it quickly without worry about damage to one's foundation. However, the resources required to cultivate these two things were exceptionally expensive. At least, not a single person in the Yan Clan had been able to reach the peak stages in both before ascending to the Qi Unification Realm.

Yan Zaizen intended doing just that.

Weeks passed by.

Initial-Essence Formation!

Mid-Essence Formation!

Late-Essence Formation!!

Peak-Essence Formation!!!

His breakthroughs were exceptionally easy with the stone at hand and only took time. Now, each foundation realm was divided into the four stages, initial, mid, late, and peak with their own identifying markers. When he ascended to the peak-Essence Formation, he didn't even use 5% of the mid-grade crystal essence. The worth of this one crystal could cover a century of Yan Clan's expenses and then some. Not to mention, he had more in his ring.

”Let's do this!” He gritted his teeth. He could see it now, when he returned back to the clan, when he saw Ya Qinqan or sees those mocking faces, they would be thoroughly surprised at his transformation. As for his parents, he couldn't wait to tell them about his adventures. When he recalled his parents grave, he couldn't help but be overwhelmed with emotions. It took him quite a while before he could refocus himself and continue with the refinements.

He refined his dantian first.

Initial-Dantian Refinement!

Mid-Dantian Refinement!

Late-Dantian Refinement!!

Peak-Dantian Refinement!!!

He could feel that his dantian was improving with each step and the energy he could contain was growing. When he reached the initial-stage, his dantian could already contain two times the amount of qi than before. The mid-stage was five times the amount of qi! The late-stage rose to ten times! The peak-stage rose to thirteen times!! In combat, the reason many cultivators lose against their equals was due to their differing endurance and qi pacing. Now, he reached the absolute peak in endurance!