Chapter 469
"Hiss!"
The block of ice which condensed around Lu Sheng increased in size, while its color darkened, now being somewhere in shades of blue . In the air inside the cave, several blue serpents that could be vaguely seen were attracted to it . They danced slowly around the block of ice .
Lu Sheng felt the changes within himself carefully . Huge amounts of Yin Chill Pure Qi continued to surge wildly into his 99 vortexes . His body grew heavy to the point where he could not even move a muscle . His attempt to break through to the Late-stage Foundation Building tier was a slightly different experience from what he went through before this .
After the 99 vortexes madly absorbed huge amounts of Yin Chill Pure Qi, the middle of his lower dantian released copious amounts of pure cold air silently . A vague small semi-transparent ball was condensed before him .
This little ball had just appeared, and Lu Sheng already felt illusions flickering in front of him . Hints of special aura which Lu Sheng was extremely familiar with suddenly lingered in the air .
In the quiet cave, the eyes of the blue semi-transparent snake-like creatures which were slithering around moments ago turned red at the same time . They unleashed strange screams and pounced toward Lu Sheng in a frenzy .
"Devil Tribulation?" Lu Sheng opened his eyes in shock . The Devil Tribulation was a special tribulation which one would only face after one started to condense a Virtual Core in the Late-stage Foundation Building tier .
It was one of the complications faced by any Foundation Building cultivators . From this moment on, every improvement in tier would result in varying degrees of tribulations .
The serpent-like creatures plunged into the block of ice as if they were illusory images . They instantly dived into Lu Sheng's body and disappeared .
They had no physical bodies . They were but some Wicked and Devil Intentions that lingered in the world . After the appearance of the Virtual Core which was an extremely pure and a vacuum-like region devoid of thoughts or desires, they were inevitably drawn toward it by nature's law, and surged into it with the intentions of filling and destroying the Virtual Core .
"Aarrrgghhh!"
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Lu Sheng was about to make a move when the semi-transparent serpent-like creatures which had just entered his body shrieked and escaped from his body in all directions . They instantly disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye .
Lu Sheng's main body was curled up in his heart . He did not even have the chance to grab some of them to have a taste when this bunch of little serpents fled at lightning speed and disappeared in the blink of an eye .
'What the… Have they become demons already? I thought these were only Wicked and Devil Intentions that did not have individual intelligence . ' He had just stretched out his claws and was poised for strike . The only thing left for him to do was to exert force .
He understood that he was a Foreign Heavenly Devil . This was genuinely not a misunderstanding, and the original inhabitants of the Worlds did not call him that by chance . He knew from seeing the reactions of the Wicked and Devil Intentions that his identity as a Foreign Heavenly Devil placed him at the top of the food chain .
'Forget it… At least I've completed this Late-stage Foundation Building . I can't move my body now . After this, I'll have to form my Virtual Core and gather my mind before reaching the Complete stage . I'll only be able to condense my Core after that . The tiers after this will undoubtedly involve me condensing the pure Yin Chill Pure Qu with the 99 vortexes and infusing it into my Virtual Core to solidify it . Then, I'll merge my spirit into it . After my Core Spirit is completed and the foundation lain, I can allow my Virtual Core to come into contact with pure Yang and give rise to the possibility of actually condensing my Inner Core . ' Lu Sheng reviewed his situation . The breakthroughs after this were not difficult . All he had to do was to follow the steps laid out for him .
After consuming another 200 units of Mental Energy, he easily entered the tier of Virtual Core . The steps after this would be gathering his mind and merging his spirit with the Virtual Core . His Divine Lord-level spirit merging into and controlling a tiny Virtual Core was too simple a process for him . He could achieve complete mastery in a few minutes .
In truth, a small Virtual Core such as that could not contain the entirety of his spirit . It managed to contain less than a tenth of it before it overflowed . Its capacity was exceeded .
He had progressed to Complete Foundation Building in one go . Lu Sheng was finally able to move again . His body, mind, and spirit merged into one . Naturally, he could easily control the Yin Chill Pure Qi in his body . The problem whereby his reflexes slowed down due to the cold was easily overcome after he adjusted his blood flow with his spirit .
Then, there was the matter of the Devil Tribulations in the higher tiers . However, after the little serpents were scared away, Lu Sheng met with no Devil Tribulations in his various breakthroughs after that . Instead, he had encountered several instances of Red Lotus Tribulation, City Wind Tribulation, Heavy Water Tribulation, and others . However, for Lu Sheng's Divine Lord-level spirit, they were child's play . All he had to do was to casually distort his body's condition, and he easily duped the lock on mechanisms of these tribulations . He tricked the world into thinking that he had died from the tribulation and had his cultivation base destroyed . Then, he passed the tribulation easily .
Lu Sheng controlled his spirit with high proficiency . He felt that the world here was extremely easy to trick .
After he achieved the breakthrough to Complete, the Pure Qi within his body was like the deep abyssal ocean—its supply was practically endless . The region around his body was even collapsing and distorting peculiarly . It seemed as if there were all kinds of Spiritual Power and other impurities being attracted toward him and covered his skin .
In merely half a minute after he achieved his breakthrough, a thin layer of various impurities, dust, spores, and some unknown insects covered Lu Sheng's skin . It was a mess .
To avoid these peculiar troubles, Lu Sheng unleashed some vaguely visible Pure Qi which continuously circled him . It isolated him from the mess of impurities which were attracted toward him .
'I'm done! Next up is to form my Core . ' He got up slowly . The ice around him shattered loudly and scattered all across the floor .
'Forming a Core isn't difficult, but I want to improve my Natal Artifact . If I want to fuse it with better materials and increase its might, I must procure some good materials to fuse with it when I form my Core . '
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Lu Sheng waved his arm and the cold air inside the cave suddenly shrunk and was sucked into his body . The temperature inside the abode instantly rose and returned to normal .
'The better the materials I use, the more powerful the Artifact will be . The process of forming a Core is also a process of upgrading an Artifact to an Instrument . Let's see what I can fuse it with…' Lu Sheng's interest was piqued . He reached out and grabbed the silver metal ball, and then walked out of the secluded cultivation cave and went straight to the treasury .
He rummaged the contents of the treasury for a long while . Regretfully, he could not find anything that was worth fusing into his Artifact .
In the eyes of mortals, he was the lofty master of the Wood Martial Abode with wealth that could go against a country's . In the eyes of cultivators with their Cores, he was only a backward countryman, economically poor and culturally blank . Perhaps the Foundation Building disciples of great sects were richer than he was .
After a long and fruitless search, Lu Sheng went back, disappointed .
'It seems that I can only try out my idea before this . ' The materials which he wanted to fuse into his Artifact had to be compatible with the properties of his cultivation method .
Moreover, if he wanted to capitalize on the advantage of his overall Pure Qi volume, he needed a great quantity of materials as well . With these requirements, the few clusters of Yin Chill materials the size of his fist in the treasury were not even enough to fill the gaps between his teeth .
'My current Pure Qi volume is a few hundred times more compared to Mu Yun's when he was at his Foundation Building tier, maybe even more . The might of the same units of my Pure Qi is even a few times greater than his . If I want to completely unleash the advantage of my Pure Qi, I'll need more materials . But… With the amount of materials I need, if I require them to be of greater quality, even if I only need hematite, even great sects will be hard-pressed to get it, let alone a mere Wood Martial Abode Master like me . It seems that I can only go in that direction…'
Lu Sheng pondered this and walked out of Wood Martial Abode without noticing it .
The abode faced the ocean . Waves rose and fell on the azure seawater . The sun shone bright in the skies, which were clear for ten thousand miles . The winds were strong .
"Abode Master . " When the children on guard duty saw that he had exited his seclusion, they quickly bowed their heads and greeted him .
"If Iron Hammer and Yun Huan look for me, tell them that I have gone to gather materials . If they have really urgent matters, inform me with a messenger talisman . " Lu Sheng gave simple instructions and ignored the young children . He waved his sleeves softly and leapt, disappearing down the black cliff in the blink of an eye . He plunged into the ocean and vanished from sight .
The two children looked at each other . They did not know what the Abode Master was up to again this time . Could it be to deal with the Mist Clam Clan?
. . . .
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Under the faint blue seawater, rays of sunlight penetrated the ocean's surface and formed golden columns .
A rocking sea surface glittered gold on top of Lu Sheng's head . Bluish cold air lingered around him . He strolled leisurely toward the deeper regions of the sea as if he was in a courtyard .
The Triad Brilliant Nether Collection had a certain ability to control water . The Pure Qi cultivated according to it could also repel water . As he circulated his Pure Qi, he continually parted the water before him and went deeper .
He could see bright-colored coral reefs that were resplendent with variegated coloration where schools of anchovies swam . Occasionally, some larger-sized sea serpents would appear . However, when they were about a hundred meters from Lu Sheng, they turned around and fled .
The anchovies, on the other hand, were brainless . The did not know what fear was, and dared to linger around Lu Sheng .
Lu Sheng kept walking forward from the shallow regions toward the deeper regions of the ocean .
The Mist Clam Clan lived in the underwater sand layer in the shallow regions, which was right next to the middle-depth regions . They had occupied the most beautiful coral reef, and even built a delicate palace .
Lu Sheng had no intention of drawing the attention of the Mist Clam Clan . Instead, he kept going deeper and deeper .
If it was Taoist Mu Yun from before, the most he could do was dive up to a depth of around 2000 meters . However, Lu Sheng was different . Whether it was his Pure Qi's quality or volume, they were both greater than Mu Yun's . Hence, Lu Sheng planned to challenge the deepest depth he could reach .
He quickly found a pitch-black submarine trench and swam downward in a straight line .
With the circulation of his Pure Qi, he dived at a great speed . In less than ten minutes, according to his estimation of his distance to the sea's surface made with his spirit, he was almost at the depth of 6000 meters .
"Glup . "
A chain of air bubbles was released from Lu Sheng's body . The Pure Qi barrier which he maintained around his body was currently under great stress .
Fortunately, the rate of consumption was still manageable .
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Lu Sheng looked around him and saw nothing but a pitch-black environment . The light that came down from the sea surface was already completely negligible .
He could feel that the temperature here was very cold . Although it was not low enough for ice to form, the bone-chilling cold was already seeping through his Pure Qi protective barrier into his body .
"Although I can still go deeper, there's no need for that now . Here is enough . " He circulated his Pure Qi and hovered where he was .
All around him was a mass of pitch black and deep silence akin to death .
Lu Sheng slowly spread his arms and the 99 Pure Qi vortexes and his Virtual Core pumped out copious amounts of blue Pure Qi .
His entire person was like a glowing blue light source in the sea .
"Birth of Prime Blood, may all things return to nothing…"
In the darkness, his initially pitch-black eyes gradually lit up with a brilliant and even blinding blue light .
"Assimilate!"
Amid the loud explosion sound, Lu Sheng roared furiously .
"Boom!"
In the blink of eye, countless blue threads shot outward with him as the center in a manner that seemed to cover the heavens and the earth . Among the huge amounts of threads, 99 vortex discs of varying sizes quickly formed . A light blue ice layer that was bordering on white started to form .
All the vortex-shaped ice layer discs formed a huge fierce-looking ice-cold beast around him .
From afar, the entire huge beast was like a mammoth blue serpent that sat up straight .
"Hiss!"
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