Mynovel Chapter 291 - 157: Devouring a Source Crystal Again, Ultimate Compression
Chapter 291 - 157: Devouring a Source Crystal Again, Ultimate Compression
Pain had long since become a part of Lin Ye’s body.
As he forced himself to absorb the Three Talents Medicine Liquid at an increasingly frenzied pace, the heart-piercing, bone-chilling agony didn’t lessen. It only intensified.
But Lin Ye had already gone numb to it.
Whenever he saw the strands of Innate Qi inside him growing purer, the physical torment seemed insignificant.
He had [Healing out of combat].
Even if the Viper Poison Blood truly corroded his meridians, or even shattered them inch by inch, he only needed to stop for a moment. Ten seconds later, they would be restored to their original state.
’Since I can’t die, I’ll train myself to death!’
This was the only thought left in Lin Ye’s mind.
His speed at absorbing a pool of the medicine liquid gradually shortened from nearly two hours at the start to an hour and a half.
Then to one hour.
Eventually, the staff at the Bone Marrow Cleansing Hall couldn’t even be bothered to run back and forth anymore.
They simply wheeled entire carts loaded with the various bottles and jars for concocting the liquid right to the door of his bathing chamber.
The moment Lin Ye shouted, they would immediately rush in and refill the pool with the pre-mixed solution.
Every time they saw Lin Ye absorb every last drop of the solution, only to start on a new pool with a blank expression, the staff members’ faces were filled with incomprehensible shock.
’Is he even fucking human?’
’Does he really not feel any pain at all?’
’He’s practically a savage beast in human skin!’
When Lin Ye found that the vortex in his Dantian could securely hold the newly formed Innate Qi without the aid of Dragon Shedding Fragrance, he decisively cut the expense.
As for the Soul Reviving Grass Extract, he hadn’t used it from the very beginning.
Time flew by amidst this day after day of arduous cultivation.
「Fifteen days later.」
Inside the Bone Marrow Cleansing Hall, Lin Ye slowly opened his eyes.
He stood up and stepped out of the medicinal pool.
Behind him, the water in the pool formed a massive whirlpool, its current swirling rapidly with a loud, gushing sound.
The staff members waiting by the side stared, their mouths agape in horror, their eyes nearly popping out of their sockets.
They had never witnessed such a strange phenomenon!
What they didn’t know was that the changes within Lin Ye’s body were a hundred times more exaggerated than what they were seeing.
At this moment, Lin Ye didn’t even need to look inward to clearly see a terrifying vortex of incomparably pure Innate Qi spinning wildly at an astonishing speed in his lower abdomen, his Dantian.
Like a never-sated black hole, it greedily devoured everything around it.
With this, the vast, sea-like acquired Qi and Blood within him had finally undergone its first complete purge.
’The first step, separating the wheat from the chaff, is complete!’
Nineteen days had now passed since the start of the training camp.
The day after tomorrow was the third and final assessment.
Lin Ye himself didn’t know how many credits he owed, but he estimated it was an astronomical figure.
If he couldn’t pay them back by tomorrow, he would be ruthlessly kicked out of the training camp by Yin Liulan, just like the other eliminated trainees.
Lin Ye sensed the power within his body.
If his previous total volume of Qi and Blood was a hundred, now it was less than twenty.
In his pursuit of ultimate purity, he had adopted a ruthless, all-or-nothing approach, purging any Qi and Blood that fell into the gray area of being potentially discardable.
Quality over quantity.
But even so, Lin Ye was still not satisfied.
He could feel that the Innate Qi within him was still not pure enough.
It had not yet reached the perfect state of "innate flawlessness" described in the Tai Xu Two Principles True Understanding.
And the effectiveness of the Three Talents Medicine Pool had reached its limit for him.
Continuing to soak in it would yield negligible results.
A bold idea began to form in Lin Ye’s mind.
’Back in the Vein Opening Realm, I could use Source Crystals to temper my Qi and Blood.’
’So what would happen now if my Innate Qi, which has already completed the first stage of its transformation, was tempered with Source Crystals?’
To test this hypothesis, Lin Ye no longer hesitated.
He got dressed, left the Bone Marrow Cleansing Hall, and headed straight for the Nirvana Tower.
As he passed the Martial Arts Hall, Lin Ye saw that it was filled with trainees sitting cross-legged, deep in arduous cultivation.
Visible anxiety and urgency were etched on their faces.
Most of them were the ones who had ranked at the bottom in the previous two assessments, trying to make one last desperate push at the final hour.
Lin Ye sighed inwardly.
’Aren’t I in the same boat?’
Over the past fifteen days, his power had plummeted.
His three-dimensional stats on the attribute panel, which had once broken the 600-point mark, were now just over 100—weaker than he had been when fighting the Doctor back in the ruined city.
His overall rank in the training camp had also dropped from a stable top-three position all the way down to fifteenth.
These past days had been a true ordeal.
The feeling of watching the power he had worked so hard to cultivate continuously drain away was enough to shatter any Martial Artist’s Dao Heart.
But Lin Ye gritted his teeth and endured.
He firmly believed that all this forbearance and sacrifice was for the sake of an earth-shattering transformation after his breakthrough!
Just as Lin Ye was silently walking past the entrance of the Martial Arts Hall, a sudden change erupted within!
"What’s happening? The Source Energy... I can’t feel the Source Energy anymore!"
A cultivating trainee’s eyes shot open, his face filled with terror.
"What’s going on?!"
"What the fuck, I feel like I’m suffocating! It’s like all the Source Energy around us has been sucked dry!"
In an instant, the entire Martial Arts Hall descended into chaos.
Everyone was startled out of their cultivation state, looking around in horror.
Only then did they see Lin Ye’s somewhat gaunt figure walking unhurriedly past the door.