Chapter 39: Ye Yang Creates Ten Spiritual Vortexes

“With the items listed for exchange settled, I can now focus on preparing for seclusion to become invincible.”

The next moment, Ye Yang closed the mission tablet and took out the Life-Extending Flower, the Seven Days Seven Colors Flower, and the Nine Extremes Fruit from his storage ring.

After retrieving these three elixirs, Ye Yang began continuously using the spiritual energy of the Life-Extending Spiritual Dew to produce ordinary spiritual dew, enabling the Life-Extending Flower to seamlessly generate more Life-Extending Spiritual Dew. Once the cycle began, Ye Yang repeatedly converted the Life-Extending Spiritual Dew into spiritual energy and infused it into the Seven Days Seven Colors Flower and the Nine Extremes Fruit.

Upon contact with the spiritual energy, the Seven Days Seven Colors Flower and the Nine Extremes Fruit immediately began emitting a medicinal fragrance, which grew stronger as more spiritual energy from the Life-Extending Spiritual Dew was infused.

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Five hours later, the Seven Days Seven Colors Flower, a high-grade elixir, had its medicinal potency fully maximized by the spiritual energy of the Life-Extending Spiritual Dew. With its potency maximized, Ye Yang shifted his focus to infusing the Life-Extending Spiritual Dew into the Nine Extremes Fruit.

Another ten hours passed, and the medicinal fragrance of the Nine Extremes Fruit began to recede inward, a sign that its potency had reached its maximum.

“It’s finally almost fully maximized,” Ye Yang thought, breathing a sigh of relief.

Ten minutes later, the Nine Extremes Fruit’s fragrance completely receded, and its potency was fully maximized. At that moment, Ye Yang immediately picked up the Nine Extremes Fruit, took a bite, and began consuming it.

To be honest, it was fortunate that Ye Yang found the Nine Extremes Fruit on Earth, where there is no Heavenly Dao. In the cultivation world, a heavenly treasure like the Nine Extremes Fruit, nurtured by the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, would have long developed its own sentience. A Nine Extremes Fruit with maximized potency could even overpower an ordinary Golden Core cultivator.

But on Earth, the Nine Extremes Fruit only possessed spirituality, not sentience. Spirituality isn’t the same as sentience. A sentient Nine Extremes Fruit could actively mobilize its internal spiritual energy to fend off enemies, making it impossible for someone at Ye Yang’s modest Qi Refining Realm cultivation to consume it. However, with only spirituality, the Nine Extremes Fruit posed no danger. At most, it could instinctively deter ordinary people.

For a cultivator like Ye Yang, it had no effect.

Crunch.

Ye Yang cleanly bit off a large piece of the Nine Extremes Fruit and began chewing. The taste of a top-tier supreme heavenly treasure was simply indescribable—almost impossible to put into words. But this was expected. How could a delicacy born of heaven and earth, infused with so much spiritual energy, taste anything less than extraordinary?

In about a dozen breaths, Ye Yang finished eating the palm-sized Nine Extremes Fruit. The moment he consumed it, he felt a cool sensation in his dantian. Suddenly, he sensed an additional spiritual vortex forming within him.

After the new vortex appeared, a subtle prompt emerged in Ye Yang’s mind, as if asking whether he wished to continue increasing the number of vortexes.

“Increase.”

Sensing the prompt, Ye Yang chose to proceed without hesitation. Each time the prompt reappeared after adding a vortex, he made the same choice, continuing to increase them. In the end, his body formed nine additional vortexes, bringing the total to ten, including his original one.

With the appearance of the ten vortexes, Ye Yang felt an immense sense of weakness, akin to the hunger an ordinary person might feel. This weakness stemmed from the spiritual energy in his body being distributed across the ten vortexes, leaving him drained.

Gulp.

Ye Yang, having anticipated this, took out a bottle of Life-Extending Spiritual Dew and drank a large gulp. The emptiness in his body began to recover rapidly. In just a few dozen breaths, the spiritual energy that had been depleted by the ten vortexes returned to normal.

“Ten vortexes—the enhancement is truly terrifying. With my current power, I could probably kill dozens of my former self with a casual wave of my hand.” Ye Yang marveled at the surging spiritual energy within him.

Ye Yang turned his attention to the Seven Days Seven Colors Flower, its spiritual energy also fully receded and maximized.

“The Seven Days Seven Colors Flower, with its seven days of seven transformations—let’s see how much of a boost it can give me, combined with my ten vortexes.”

Ye Yang spoke solemnly as he looked at the flower. With that, he grabbed the Seven Days Seven Colors Flower and stuffed it into his mouth.

The moment he swallowed it, Ye Yang felt the first transformation take place within him—a boost to his comprehension. His mind became exceptionally clear, and all the things he previously couldn’t understand suddenly became crystal clear.

“The Tianhuang Sect has many spells that, with my normal comprehension, would take a long time to learn. Now, with the comprehension boost from the Seven Days Seven Colors Flower, I should be able to master quite a few with ease.”

Feeling the increase in comprehension, Ye Yang immediately took out the spell jade slips from his technique library and began studying them one by one.

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Meanwhile, as Ye Yang entered seclusion, significant changes were occurring with Zhao Qingzhi of the Zhao family and Yao Lai of the Yao family. After reviewing the exchange list for mid-level Kunlun members, both simultaneously exchanged for the Purple True Sun Technique.

Yao Lai purchased five Qi Pills, directly cultivating the Purple True Sun Technique to perfection. Zhao Qingzhi, limited by insufficient points, only bought two One Qi Pills. However, due to his high-grade special physique, two pills brought him to the major success stage, just one step shy of perfection.

After mastering the Purple True Sun Technique, both Zhao Qingzhi and Yao Lai felt their newfound strength. They then made nearly identical decisions: to visit major prominent families and find ways to collect their treasured elixirs.

It’s worth noting that before Yao Lai’s return, the Yao family’s efforts to collect elixirs from other families had been far from smooth. Despite the Yao family’s reputation, they had only managed to acquire elixirs that amounted to only single digits, a result that left Yao Lai extremely dissatisfied.

Now, having nearly depleted his points by cultivating the Purple True Sun Technique, Yao Lai needed to acquire more points. To feel secure, he had to collect more heavenly elixirs to exchange for points. He was confident that, by personally taking action, he would succeed. With his transcendent strength, no longer that of an ordinary person, combined with his status and a few tactics, he could easily obtain the elixirs he wanted.

Moreover, he wouldn’t entirely rely on force. If the families he visited had individuals with aptitude, he could use his authority to recommend them to join Kunlun, just as he and Zhao Qingzhi had done. By offering Kunlun membership as a condition, he was confident they wouldn’t refuse to hand over their elixirs.

Given his deep understanding of the major families, Yao Lai knew exactly how many heavenly elixirs each possessed. Unlike Zhao Qingzhi, who had only requested one-fifth of the Yao family’s elixirs, Yao Lai was confident he could secure over sixty percent of their elixir reserves.

Zhao Qingzhi, who had been the first to use Kunlun membership as leverage for benefits, was equally adept at this strategy. This time, he had learned to aim high, refusing to budge initially, and then gradually lowering his demands based on years of experience, assessing whether the other party could meet his requests. He, too, was confident he could secure over sixty percent of the elixir reserves from families holding such treasures.