Chapter 111: Underground Fire Vein (1/2)

Chapter 111: Underground Fire Vein

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The deep and bottomless cave spiraled down to the underground. Junior Leopard, Jin Nanqing and the other Wu disciples closely followed Zhao Ting, heading towards the deep bottom.

At the very front of the marching team was Wang She, beside whom were four experts of the Bone-Forging Realm. Two were from Mingyi School, while the other two were experts of Tian Long Taoism.

Zhao Ting trod on the heels of them and followed by Junior Leopard and the other people.

The look of Wang She was kind of dark, as was Junior Leopard's, who grasped the twin hammers tightly, looking serious, as if he was a little bit nervous.

Jin Nanqing and other people's expressions, however, were more of excitement than nervousness.

It was an underground fire vein!

It was unexpected that there should be an underground fire vein down below Zhonghe City!

What was in front of Jin Nanqing made him excited, for an underground fire vein was the place that gathered the most original energy of fire in the world. It was the Cave Paradise from legend for those who practiced Internal Qi of fire, which could help them almost skip the most troublesome step.

The first step of practicing Internal Qi of fire is to bring original energy inside of the body. This means it needs to first inhale the original energy of the world and then, by using Internal Strength to disintegrate the pneuma, only absorb the original energy of fire while exhaling others. This is called 'Inhale and Exhale'.

But this step can be skipped if you practice the Fire Way Method in the fire vein because all of the original energy in the fire vein is an original energy of fire. You only need to bring that original energy inside of your body, which will greatly improve your practice efficiency. Spending one day practicing here equals to one or more months outside.

Regardless of physical strength, practicing the Fire Way Method here can promote Internal Qi cultivation to Level Six in the shortest time.

Because of this, Junior Leopard seemed pissed off. ”If I had known this, I shouldn't have listened to Wang She, and let my External Elixir practice Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique instead. If so, shouldn't practicing here rocket my External Elixir cultivation?”

Sadly, there was no use crying over spilled milk.

”Besides, Wang She didn't force me to practice. What he did was just give me advice. I practiced after he left. So Wang She is not the one to blame, but rather I should blame myself.” Junior Leopard could only accept this.

And of course, this is only one function of the underground fire vein, a very small one.

After all, there are numerous cultivation methods in the world, among which, the Five Way Method is only one kind of Internal Qi cultivation methods, while the Fire Way Method was only one kind of Five Way Method. It might need more practice, but not that much. Moreover, the underground fire vein could not simply be used by anyone. Like the Ignis Skill which Junior Leopard used to practice, if he practiced it here in the underground fire vein, the powerful original energy of fire might cause his death in just a few days.

The underground fire vein was most useful to the Wu Family.

The smelting families like that of the Wu Family forged different kinds of weapons. The less the foreign matter that existed within, the better the wizard weapon was. The heat became the key to reduce the amount of foreign matter in the weapons. Even within smelting families like the Wu Family, the ability to control the heat was limited. At best they would put some spiritual stone of fire attribute in the oven to raise the temperature and reduce foreign matter when forging some of the wizard weapons.

Despite the preciousness of the fire attribute spiritual stone, even if they actually used the spiritual stone, the temperature of the boiler water would not raise that much. For a long time, smelting families like the Wu Family had been working on how to raise the furnace temperature. The reason why the ancestors of the Wu Family could build this family was that they not only depended on their efforts and abilities but more importantly, they had this fuel which could greatly raise the furnace temperature. It helped them seize the initiative compared with other smelting families at the beginning.

However, after 500 years, the Wu Family had suffered times of tribulation. The exclusive fuel was not exclusive anymore because the recipe of it had been disclosed.

Although it was not popularized, smelt stores of a certain scale had started to use the exclusive fuel fifty years ago, which brought the smelt level of Jin to a higher grade. But for the Wu Family, it was not a thing worth celebrating.

Their biggest advantage was gone.

Fortunately, they still had the Nine Dragons Heavenly Fire Technique.

This Internal Qi cultivation method handed down from Tian Long Taoism could not be touched by anybody. No one was stupid enough to have designs on that. Obviously, it was the same effect of reducing the foreign matter in the metal. That was how the Wu's weathered the most difficult times after the beginning.

This was off-topic.

The topic was that the fire attribute original energy from the underground fire vein was extremely powerful and even capable of reaching the underground lava. If anyone could build a smelting room here, then the weapon forged would be three levels higher than those from elsewhere. If properly operated, even Secondary Heavenly Weapons could be produced in bulk.