Chapter 29: Inner Dan

  This strange cliff is steep and has a thousand peculiar shapes. Logically, such a place should be teeming with birds and beasts, but as soon as Lv Bu Zhen stepped into this area, he felt a suffocating silence that was out of place. For hundreds of kilometers, there was not a single bird cry, the silence was terrifying.

  Lü Bu Zhen was taken aback for a moment, but as a warrior who had been climbing the ranks for over a hundred years, he had seen all sorts of ferocious beasts and dangers. Seeing the Crowned Scaled Python on the verge of death, he naturally wouldn't let his efforts go to waste. The ravines were densely covered with towering forests that blocked out the sky, and the Crowned Scaled Python was not only enormous in size, but also had a severed tail, causing blood to flow like a river, making it impossible to conceal its tracks.

  Lü Bu Zhen chased after and arrived at a towering mountain peak that was one hundred thousand feet high, then entered a valley with lush green trees on both sides, but the bottom of the valley was dry and barren without any grass. He saw the crown of the scaled python about to enter a black cave on the right side.

  "Domestic animal, still want to escape!" He flew up and caught the demon crown python's blood-soaked tail segment that was exposed outside the cave, dragging it outwards.

  The demon crown python exerted itself and broke free from its control, desperately burrowing inward. The cave entrance was quite spacious, with a height of tens of meters, and on the ground were scattered bloodstains left behind by the demon crown python.

  "You may be familiar with the terrain, but I want your inner elixir, and you must give it to me!" Lv Bu's dragon-like body and tiger-like posture took several steps into the dark cave.

  The cave entrance extended downward, winding and twisting, perhaps because it was the lair of the Crowned Scale Python. The air inside was thick with a pungent smell that had accumulated over years. Lü Bu Zhen chased after the python's tail while punching at it. Inside the cave, which was much narrower than the entrance, the Crowned Scale Python couldn't turn around and let out a mournful screech every time it was hit.

  A python and a person arrived at an empty cave, on the upper side of the big hole there was a peculiar thing that seemed to be a mirror, which made the originally dark hall slightly bright. The python finally turned its head, and when it did, it spat out a mouthful of venom, the black venomous gas dyed the empty black hole into a layer of thick ink.

  "Hmph, still want to resist?" Lv Bu's fist and palm condensed into the previous posture again, with a surge of power bursting out, another Eternal Axe!

  After all, this place is the lair of the Crowned Scaled Python, and to avoid having too many nightmares, he didn't dare let the Crowned Scaled Python delay any longer.

  The Crowned Scale Snake also foresaw the end of its life, twisted its body and burst out, stretched its neck and opened its mouth to spit out its inner dan, wanting to perish together with this human master before it died.

  But before it could even attack, the giant snake's head was chopped into a pile of minced meat by the axe-wielding figure, completely annihilated. The dark cave fell silent, with only Lv Bu Zhen's exhausted panting and the pungent smell of blood remaining. At this moment, he had no idea that inside the snake's belly, Lin Heng, an ordinary person, was still alive.

  Two "Eternal Axes" had depleted Lu Bu's energy by more than half. He carefully took out a delicate blue jade porcelain bottle from his bosom and poured out a dan pill. The cave was instantly filled with the fragrance of the dan, and the accumulated years of filth and bloody smell disappeared. Lu Bu reluctantly gazed at the dan pill in his palm, and only after a while did he slowly swallow it down.

  He hesitated for a moment, then poured out another one with reluctance, his face full of painful expressions, muttering to himself: "What a beast, in order to kill you, I've spent half of my accumulated energy. This 'Rebirth Dan' is extremely rare, it's taken me decades to accumulate only five, and to destroy this beast, I'm using two."

  "But to get back the 'Clear Thunder Bow', and that four-star peak demon core of yours, it's barely worth it." He said with a turn of his tone, pleased.

  "Hui Yun Tong" is indeed a rare fifth-grade elixir, and in an instant, his accumulated power not only recovered to its full state but also had a subtle feeling of abundance overflowing.

  "It's a pity that I'm still stuck in the middle stage of the sixth rank, unable to absorb any more excess medicinal power. If I were in the late stage of the sixth rank, I might be able to increase my cultivation by just a fraction."

  Lü Bu Zhen looked around the dimly lit and empty cave, not wanting to delay any further. Although "Qing Lei Gou Xian" had been swallowed by the Crowned Scale Python, it would inevitably be eroded by the beast's inner dan, causing some damage, but it was a high-grade treasure, impossible to digest.

  "Qing Lei Hou Xian" was the treasured instrument he had followed for many years, and it had long since merged with his heart's intent. No matter where Qing Lei Hou Xian was placed, he could easily find it. He simply closed his eyes, and with a wave of "Divine Sense Heaven and Earth", he immediately made contact with Qing Lei Hou Xian inside the snake's abdomen.

  Immediately afterwards, a ray of light rose up, and an object resembling a black bowl flew out from the snake's abdomen into mid-air, shooting towards him.

  He held it in his hand, wiping away the bloodstains on its surface, gazing at this long-lost treasure with a loving and tender look, as if he were looking at a beloved child.

  "No significant damage? This beast swallowed it into its belly, and didn't have the ability to expel its mark and spiritual energy." He put the Qing Lei hook into his storage bag, his gaze falling on the massive snake corpse on the ground, full of greedy color.

  The most precious thing about the demon beast is its inner elixir, which is in a state close to that of a fifth-grade elixir. This means that, apart from what he said earlier, it can be refined into 7 or 8 "Condensed Elixirs", increasing the chances of a second-grade warrior in the sect advancing to third grade. Most importantly, using half of it for refinement and purification, and cultivating breakthroughs, can stabilize and expand his "Spiritual Heaven and Earth", allowing him to accelerate his progress beyond mid-sixth grade.

  "Divine Consciousness Heaven and Earth" is a special area that only appears in warriors above the fifth rank, it is formed by the combination of the original Divine Consciousness Sea and the Divine Core Seed, evolving from there. Of course, whether it's refining the quality and quantity of the stored energy, or storing the vast amount of energy, it far surpasses what the Divine Consciousness Sea can compare to. It can be said that if the Divine Consciousness Sea is a lake, then "Divine Consciousness Heaven and Earth" is a vast ocean.

  Lin Heng's Qili Gou is one of the tens of billions of villages in Jinyuan City, and Jinyuan City is a medium-sized city on the northeast side of the Han State. This poor mountain village has many young people with great ambitions and ideals, and many of them have embarked on a lifelong path of martial arts without regret.

  It's just that the remote mountain villages have limited resources, making it extremely difficult for high-level warriors to emerge. Even if one or two high-quality warriors occasionally appear, they will go to Jinyuan City or other major cities and powerful sects to pursue higher dreams. Although there are not many high-level warriors, some basic cultivation knowledge and concepts are still known to everyone. For example, the warrior's upward promotion system...

  The entire continent has a simple promotion system for checking the rank of warriors.

  Ordinary people who undergo medicine washing produce "divine core seeds" and are considered to have formally become warriors. Becoming a warrior means being able to generate potential that ordinary people cannot possess. After further arduous cultivation, the layer of potential quality surrounding the "divine core seed" is completed, and it is then considered to be promoted to first-class.

  A first-rate warrior, the exertion is no longer ordinary potential, but a more dense and refined first-rate potential. First-rate potential means being able to attack remotely.

  Right before his eyes, Lin Feng was on the path to becoming a first-class warrior, as long as he could form an Energy Ball Layer. Once formed, he would be able to advance to first-class and possess a layer of Reincarnation Power that allowed for out-of-body attacks. At the moment he became a first-class warrior, the warrior's Sea of Consciousness also produced a Reincarnation Vortex corresponding to the warrior.

  Going further up, there are the second-grade warriors, divided into two vortex of internal energy, generating second-grade internal energy. The third grade has three vortex of internal energy, generating third-grade internal energy, and can possess a spiritual ability: flying objects control. By the time they reach the fourth grade, they can merge four vortex of internal energy.

  Fusion refers to the integration of the divine core seed and the four elemental vortex, and the sea of consciousness into a unified entity, like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly. Once fusion is successful, the sea of consciousness disappears and transforms into a more mysterious and profound "heavenly realm of consciousness", officially becoming a highly respected master: a 5th-grade warrior.

  The cultivation career of a warrior is fraught with countless dangers, but the most perilous one in the early stages is the derivation of "Divine Awareness of Heaven and Earth". The entire process is complex and precarious, and if one is not careful for even a moment, they will die and their Dao will be extinguished, becoming a martyr. One particularly difficult condition is that during the integration of the derivation, three kinds of extremely rare medicinal materials and beast blood must be used as assistance.

  Even so, there is only a 30% chance of success, and if successful, one will be promoted to the fifth rank. If failed for the first time, there will be another chance. If failed again, there will be no hope for life.

  It is precisely because of this that although there are many fourth-grade warriors in the Han State, those who can enter the fifth grade are extremely rare and precious.

  Possessing the "Divine Body of Heaven and Earth", a five-product ultimate expert, the divine core seed is no longer in a pure material form, but has transformed into a towering green tree that pierces the sky and binds the earth. The martial artist can fly freely in the air, and the deployment of magical treasures is no longer restricted. The strength of his abilities is so powerful that it can even be compared to that of legendary gods.