Chapter 696 - Controlling the Black Gourd (2/2)

The first path Xue Ying embarked on was a dead-end. And now, the second path he had decided to walk would be one where he had to walk until the end since he had no other strategies anymore.

The third character took 20 days. He discovered the mistakes he had in what he comprehended previously before amending them. But it was still a failure.

The fourth character took 15 days.

The fifth took 12 days.

The sixth took 11 days.

The seventh took ten days.

The eighth took ten days.

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Xue Ying would always amend what he had previously comprehended first before forming a white character and attempted at controlling the gourd. Even though they were all failures, he had some sort of weird feeling that it seemed this was the right path; it felt like he was moving closer to success every single time he amended the cultivation technique.

One had to know that during the first three years he started on this journey, he would comprehend a new cultivation technique every single time–he comprehended several thousands of it, and they were all wrong.

However, he was currently studying every single character in detail, and all of them led to the same cultivation technique, albeit there would be some holes here and there which he had to amend.

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Thick snow had covered the chain of mountains. It had also covered the mountain peak Xue Ying was currently cultivating on.

Xue Ying pushed opened the bamboo door, causing large amounts of accumulated snow to be pushed apart.

Stepping on the thick snow, he left behind many deep footprints. He walked to the edge of the cliff and sat cross-legged down on the soft snow, closing his eyes before continuing his cultivation once again. He was used to pondering over this cultivation technique left behind by the Voidwalker, just that he would change spots frequently. Sometimes, he would go to the lake by the foot of the mountain. Some days he would sit on top of a thick and old tree branch. But most of his time was spent either in front of the bamboo house or by the cliff of the mountain peak.

‘The 51st character…’

Many golden characters appeared in the consciousness of Xue Ying. He was comprehending the 51st character currently.

This time, he spent a shorter period–completing it in eight days. He amended the original cultivation technique slightly.

‘This is finally correct.’

Xue Ying waved his hand, causing the Black Gourd to appear on the pile of snow. Following which, he condensed the luminous sun force according to the cultivation technique, forming a single character. This character was white, yet under the fluctuations of the character, it changed color rapidly. It first transformed to dull gold before finally turning into genuine gold.

A golden character was floating beside him.

Xue Ying was surprised. He felt his heartbeat racing. It was the first time such a strange scene appeared. It gave him a massive feeling of expectation that things were different this time.

“Hu.”

The golden character permeated into the Black Gourd. “Weng~” It felt like a key entering the keyhole. The array within the Black Gourd was being activated, causing immense energy to form. It wrapped around that immensely hot ‘fireball’ within the Black Gourd. The actual body of this ‘fireball’ was tremendously huge–the size of the Sun Star. Its power was unparalleled too. The flame it was emitting gave off a feeling that it could annihilate all existences. Nonetheless, the array within the Black Gourd formed an ’empty strength’ that completely gobbled up this ‘fireball’, disallowing it from burning regardless of how strong it was.

‘So heavy.’ Xue Ying could feel how heavy this fireball was. An unseen pressure had even permeated into his true deity heart, causing it to tremble slightly.

It felt like a weak little child lifting a rock–too heavy.

The gap between them was too huge.

Controlling the Black Gourd was very taxing!

Still, Xue Ying had a feeling that if he were to use all his strength to control the ‘fireball’, he could activate a strand of it–this was already the limits of what his true deity heart could withstand. Even if it was a strand, it might just burn him to death.

“Congratulations, congratulations for comprehending the cultivation technique to control this protective treasure. I was already feeling quite worried since I would have to wait for many more epochs if you failed before another one with great potential comes.” That red-undergarment child appeared on the Black Gourd. It seemed he was genuinely excited at this moment.