Chapter 346: Soaking in the Pure Yang Waterball (2/2)

His Internal Qi had already turned into the Dragon Chimera's Demonic Fire, whose quality was much higher than most Real Essences. If it could truly evolve into a Real Essence in the future, its power would naturally get stronger at exponential speed. However, if you wanted to sustain those Real Essences, your body must also meet some extremely harsh requirements.

Real Essence and Internal Qi were two kinds of powers that were at different levels. That was why the first barrier that one shall meet after jumping out of the Three Small Realms was to refine one's tendons and meridians.

The first Realm of the Three Big Realms was to refine tendons and meridians!

Only by refining those tendons and meridians that could bear the Real Essence could one truly became a Metaphysic Individual Immortal.

Now, with the impact and nurture of Pure Yang Water, those Real Essence Sources in his nine acupoints started to change, especially the one in his Dantian. At first, it was a cluster of black flame, but now, after absorbing and transforming Pure Yang Water, it began to pulse as if Zhou Bao had taken some magic pills. A dim but explosive power was pulsing in the Real Essence Source, and the surrounding Internal Qi also drew toward that Real Essence Source and got absorbed by it. This did not only happen in his Dantian, but in other eight acupoints as well.

Thanks to the almost inexhaustible Pure Yang Water here, Zhou Bao could really make this happen. Comparing it to the present world, the amount of Pure Yang Water he had consumed was an astronomical figure, while in this place, it was merely a few drops of water at most. Abundant Pure Yang Water backed up the Real Essence Sources in Zhou Bao's acupoints to incur this ever so eccentric change.

At first, Zhou Bao did have some concerns about whether his Real Essence Sources would all burst at once and turn his Internal Qi into Real Essence, allowing him to directly jump from Level Eight up to the Mysterious Realm.

No, to Level Nine!

With only a few seconds of breathing after he entered the Pure Yang Waterball, when he experienced the nurturing and remolding of the Pure Yang Water, his body strength, his Internal Qi quality, and even the state of those Real Essence Sources in his acupoints, had all reached Level Nine.

That huge gap between Level Eight and Level Nine, as viewed in eyes of ordinary people, was easily crossed by Zhou Bao without a fuss.

If this happened to someone else, he would certainly be overjoyed. But for Zhou Bao, this might not be good news.

Yeah, not good news!

This was due to his Fiery Eyes, which was his deepest and deadliest secret. He could manage to keep it a secret when his cultivation was below the Mysterious Realm. But once he broke through that level, he would be registered on the Golden Book of Fate. When that day came, he would face some real trouble.

He was indeed powerful at present, but his experience and strength were still not sufficient enough. Thus, it was impossible for him to confront the orthodox influence represented by the Divine Wind Palace. Once this secret was exposed, he would face a close-call situation for sure. Therefore, Zhou Bao had been trying to slow down his cultivation progress. However, the more he tried, the more troublesome this turned out to be. Such being the case, if he stayed longer in Pure Yang Water, he would probably really break through the Mysterious Realm!

Thinking of this, Zhou Bao started to think about leaving.

However, right at this point, a mutation happened.

All his nine acupoints vibrated at the same time, and a strong power burst out from the nine Real Essence Sources.

”F*ck, we're done for!”

Zhou Bao's heart gave a jolt, and he really thought those Real Essence Sources were going to explode. But to his surprise, they didn't. In contrast, under the joint impact of the outside Pure Yang Water and the inside Real Essence, a wonderful change surfaced.

All the Real Essence Sources began to contract.

Yes, they didn't blow up or turn his Internal Qi into the Real Essence. On the contrary, they actually started to condense and clear themselves.

”What's going on here?” Just when Zhou Bao was at a loss, shots of faint golden light were simultaneously released from his nine Real Essence Sources. Vaguely, Zhou Bao felt that a certain kind of change was happening inside his Real Essence Sources.

Level Nine!

This was the feeling of being at Level Nine.

When he was at Level Eight, his Internal Qi, which were as hard as steel, also carried the Real Essence Sources. In emergencies, he could even draw some Real Essence Qi out of those Real Essence Sources to replenish his Internal Qi and enhance its power. But now, he had stepped into Level Nine. Level Nine!

Those Real Essence Sources could disperse Real Essence Energy of their own accord, which could naturally infuse into his Internal Qi and create a state of semi-Internal Qi and semi-Real Essence. This type of Internal Qi had gained some preliminary features of the Real Essence and possessed great intelligence. The Internal Qi could be refined into something similar to the Primordial Spirit, such as the Heavenly Devil Real Body, through some powerful cultivation methods. Lastly, it would infuse into one's body and allow one to accomplish the Individual Immortal Karma Rank.

Currently, Zhou Bao's Real Essence Sources had condensed into a blotch, which was a very peculiar shape, but was still giving off rich spirits of the Real Essence like other Level Nine experts' did. His Real Essence Sources had blended into his Dragon Chimera Fire and fallen into a state of semi-Internal Qi and semi-Real Essence, full of intelligence.

however, Zhou Bao still felt that something went wrong, for the Real Essence his Real Essence Sources issued out should be golden colored. But anyway, his initial Internal Qi was already very odd. Zhou Bao wouldn't even be surprised if it had evolved to be multi-colored Real Essence, let alone the pure golden one.

What Zhou Bao found odd was the fact that this whiff of Real Essence was mingled with a bleak and primitive spirit that seemed to have come from the primitive times or even more ancient times. There was another kind of spirit contained within that made his heart palpitate like mad. He could not tell what it was exactly, but it was truly there.

”Given that my Internal Qi is the Dragon Chimera's Demonic Fire, a kindling inside the beast of primitive times, could it be possible that both of my Internal Qi and Real Essence have returned to their ancient states?”

Zhou Bao was buried in rumination, wondering whether this change was beneficial to him or not.

All of a sudden, Zhou Bao felt his nine acupoints starting to pulsate concurrently.

”Eh? Looks like those Real Essence Sources has absorbed enough Pure Yang Water!” Zhou Bao thought. Indeed, the nine acupoints had already stored adequate Pure Yang Water. Pure Yang Water that was initially flowing along his tendons and meridians had also stopped pumping into his Dantian, and started aggregating bit by bit through a mystical and eccentric path.

Dantian!

Watching the path of Pure Yang Water, Zhou Bao was slightly taken aback. He clearly saw that Pure Yang Water was pouring into his ”Dantian”.

But this ”Dantian” was not one of his nine acupoints, instead, it was a huge ”Dantian” that was constituted by the Real Dragon's Nine Acupoints combined.

The capacity of this ”Dantian” was even larger than that of the nine acupoints, actually, over a hundred times larger than each of them. But most importantly, when Pure Yang Water flew into this Dantian, the thing produced by the gradual transformation was not the Internal Qi of his Dragon Chimera Fire, but the Real Essence!

It was a golden colored Real Essence!

What this enormous ”Dantian” was awash with was exactly the light golden Real Essence emitted from his nine Real Essence Sources.

However, compared to those vague mists blended in the Internal Qi that his Real Essence Source was giving off, the Real Essence integrated into this huge ”Dantian” was flowing like real liquid gold, emanating a kind of honorable and domineering spirit that even made Zhou Bao feel irresistible.

At the sight of this golden Real Essence Energy, Zhou Bao was somewhat dumbstruck.

”No way! Already condensed into the Real Essence? Have I reached the Mysterious Realm?” ”But that does not seem right. It can't be. Breaking through the Mysterious Realm from Level Nine can't be like this. Even though my body strength and my Internal Qi has turned into the Real Essence, my primordial spirit should have made the same change as well! These three shall act in unison, but why hasn't anything happened to my divine thoughts yet? And why has my Real Essence Source remained so quiet, too?”

Zhou Bao found this inexplicable, and also couldn't figure out what on earth his current state was.

But it was evident that he had not entered the Mysterious Realm, for his spirit had not changed a single bit. However, his internals were suffused with the Real Essence Energy. He knew for sure that although his huge ”Dantian” had not been filled up yet, in terms of the quantity of Real Essence, he should already surpass all Individual Immortals in the world regarding the quality of his Real Essence. But he was not an Individual Immortal right now, just a Level Nine expert.

At the thought of this present situation, he was amused.

This was really grotesque.

However, no matter how grotesque this was, it did happen to him. He wasn't dreaming at all.

”Fine, fine. Regardless of what happened, it must be good for me!” Zhou Bao consoled himself, allowing Pure Yang Water to freely run into his Dantian and then transform.

Having no idea about how long this had taken, when his huge ”Dantian” was filled to the full extent by a colossal amount of golden Real Essence, Pure Yang Water seemed to have lost its aim and began to run wild in his body.

As hints of a swelling sensation spread out from his tendons and meridians, Zhou Bao knew that it was time to go out.

Just when he was about to take off, something beyond his expectation happened again.

His Fiery Eyes were turned on.

Previously when he plummeted into Pure Yang Water, his Fiery Eyes remained quiet as usual, and remained so when the Pure Yang Water pumped into his body. But now, just as everything was drawing to an end and the Pure Yang Water had already offered Zhou Bao sufficient benefits, his Fiery Eyes were suddenly turned on. His eyes instantly went sanguine, and the ring of black line around each of his eyes starting circling. As the black lines started moving, something incredulously odd happened.

Both of his eyes seemed to turn into bottomless pits and sucked all the Pure Yang Water around into that mysterious space.

This time, Pure Yang Water was being actively sucked in, instead of passively seeping in as before.

The speed of this intake was amazingly fast.

In just a few seconds of breathing, the diameter of that Pure Yang Waterball rapidly shrank from 10,000 feet to 5,000 feet. While the only thing Zhou Bao could see in that mysterious space was a wisp of faint fog.

”What on earth is happening?”

As though sensing a drastic change around the corner, Zhou Bao's heart began to pump violently, while his spirit started shivering too.