A brief moment later, Huang Xiaolong canceled the soul transformation. Both the blue and black dragon scales on his arms as well as the two tattooed-like dragon heads on his back disappeared. Exhaustion hit him all of a sudden.
Although soul transformation increases his power and strength by many folds, it also consumed a large amount of battle qi; moreover, Huang Xiaolong had just advanced to the Seventh Order.
After Huang Xiaolong returned to his normal self, tiny blue dots of lights shimmered around his body, and as they shone, the exhaustion Huang Xiaolong felt due to the soul transformation vanished instantly. His battle qi along his meridians recovered in a short few seconds.
This was Huang Xiaolong martial spirit's third ability after breaking through to the Seventh Order: Instant Recovery!
Instant Recovery!
Roughly a few breaths' time, Huang Xiaolong had fully recovered the depleted battle qi!
Although it needed ten seconds' time to fully recover his battle qi, it was already a heaven-defying level ability. From a certain aspect, this Instant Recovery was stronger than Space Concealment and Phantom Shadow.
Combining Instant Recovery with Space Concealment, Huang Xiaolong needn't worry about the side effect of depleted battle qi.
Well, the only 'misfortune' for this ability was it can only recover battle qi and not heal injuries.
Ten seconds later, Huang Xiaolong's battle qi had fully recovered; he vanished right on the spot and vanishing along with him was the chair next to him. Ten breaths' time later, Huang Xiaolong reappeared from the space.
Coming out from the space concealment, Huang Xiaolong continued to test the ability, appearing and disappearing meters away, and in the blink of an eye, he was more than ten meters from the original spot.
After the second transformation, other than awakening a third ability, the previous two abilities were more powerful.
Before, entering the concealment space, he could only go in alone whereas now, he could bring another person. And with Phantom Shadow ability, he actually could shift his position with his will within a ten meters range, teleportation. His speed was twice as fast the one Lu Kai possessed with his Sky Peng martial spirit!
Huang Xiaolong inhaled deeply while his heart was rejoicing. He didn't expect he would have a new ability after his martial spirits evolved a second time and the first two had such an improvement.
Then, Huang Xiaolong called out the Linglong Treasure Pagoda.
According to what Yu Ming had said, he could open the first layer once he broke through to the Seventh Order.
Huang Xiaolong initiated the netherworld battle qi on both palms, and as per Yu Ming's instruction, sent his battle qi into the pagoda. When the netherworld battle qi entered the Linglong Treasure Pagoda, it shone brightly and absorbed Huang Xiaolong's battle qi. He was somewhat taken aback by the reaction, and without warning, Huang Xiaolong's eyes blurred as he appeared in a different space.
This space was not big, merely several hundred square meters with a height of ten meters. In the four directions were walls that were made of unknown material.
"This is the first floor space inside the Linglong Treasure Pagoda?" Huang Xiaolong surveyed around wide-eyed; this situation was not consistent with Yu Ming's description.
This Linglong Treasure Pagoda's space actually allows the owner to enter inside?
Doesn't this mean….!
Getting over his shock, he was more than thrilled because he noticed the spiritual aura within the Linglong Treasure Pagoda was thicker and much purer than the outside. Furthermore, up above the space, scuds of fire dragon qi flowed upwards, forming groups of thick fire dragon qi clouds. If he cultivated inside this space absorbing the fire dragon qi clouds, it would be far more effective than cultivating in the Dragon Flame Valley.
Floating above these clouds were thumb-sized red beads, and they were shiny as they reflected the light like the twinkling stars in the night sky. However, the stars were white, and these beads glittered a fiery-red.
"Fire Dragon Pearl!" A thought flashed across Huang Xiaolong's brain.
This must be the Fire Dragon Pearl that Yu Ming said!
One, two, three!
Huang Xiaolong slowly counted one by one and came up to a hundred and eight!
His eyes lit up, one hundred and eight Fire Dragon Pearl!
This number was greatly out of his expectation. This amount of Fire Dragon Pearls was enough for himself to cultivate with for some time and even distribute some to his parents and little siblings.
Suddenly at this point, a coruscating fire-red glow fell on Huang Xiaolong and shrouded over him before he could react. Subsequently, in Huang Xiaolong's mind, a physique cultivation technique appeared with information about the Golden Linglong Body.
The Golden Linglong Body has a total of nine layers, and every layer brings about a mythical effect, and when one reached the ninth layer to achieve the Linglong Treasure Body, the person's body would be as resilient as the Linglong Treasure Pagoda, nearing invincible.
Huang Xiaolong repeated the mantra once in his mind, and seconds later, he sat down cross-legged and started practicing. In the blink of an eye, a layer of fiery-red golden light similar to the Linglong Treasure Pagoda burst out from Huang Xiaolong's body.
A few hours later, Huang Xiaolong finally stopped. During these few hours of practice, Huang Xiaolong observed that there was a mystical force strengthening his muscles, bones, tendons, and the surface of his skin, improving his overall defense.
After stopping his practice, Huang Xiaolong turned his attention to the glittering red pearls hanging above the thick red clouds. With a thought, his right hand teleported one of the Fire Dragon Pearls.
On his palm, the Fire Dragon Pearl felt a little hot, like a fire pearl burning at fifty to sixty celsius.
Huang Xiaolong opened his mouth and threw the fire-red pearl into his mouth-- the moment the Fire Dragon Pearl reached his stomach, it turned into a hot stream of energy that rushed into every corner of his body.
Sensing this, Huang Xiaolong quickly calmed down again and ran Asura Tactics to refine the stream of hot energy. The netherworld battle qi in his meridians became active, surging and crashing the entire time while the dark gray color started to change slowly to a light gray.
The same thing process emerged again, just like the time he was cultivating in the Dragon Flame Valley. Black impurities mixed with blood formed a layer over his skin, and these impurities were hidden deep down inside of his body instead of the normal ones.
Another few hours passed.
A layer of hardened blood and waste covered Huang Xiaolong.
One day passed and the layer of impurities fell off as a new layer of waste was dispelled again, and the process repeated itself once more.
After five days, it stopped.
Huang Xiaolong took one day's time to fully refine one Fire Dragon Pearl, and each time he finished one, he would take another pearl down from the clouds as he continued to swallow and cultivate. In ten days' time, he had refined ten Fire Dragon Pearls. He stopped when he finished the tenth pearl and stood up, feeling immensely relaxed and comfortable from head to toe, akin to throwing away a hundred jin burden.
Ten days of practice resulted in Huang Xiaolong's strength improving again, nearing peak early-Seventh Order.
According to Huang Xiaolong's estimation, if he continued to stay and practice in the Linglong Treasure Pagoda space while swallowing the Fire Dragon Pearls, in another two weeks' time, he could reach peak early-Seventh Order, and given two months' time – mid-Seventh Order.
However, with this cultivation speed, even if he monopolizes all one hundred and eight Fire Dragon pearls, it could only last him three to four months.
That, and the speed at which the Linglong Treasure Pagoda condensed one pearl, even ten days was not sufficient to complete one. Thus, Huang Xiaolong must think of a method that will speed up the process.
Note:
A hundred jin approx. 50 kg
Huang Xiaolong stared up at the litter of Fire Dragon Pearls and a thought suddenly flashed across his mind-- he took out a cycad fruit from the Asura Ring.
Without warning, a suction force came from the pagoda, and streams of spiritual energy drilled out from the cycad fruit. Before Huang Xiaolong's eyes, the cycad fruit dried up, wrinkled and deflated in front of his eyes, before finally vanishing into thin air.
And above him, after the spiritual energy from the cycad fruit was absorbed, fire dragon qi swirled rapidly, showing signs of condensing a new Fire Dragon Pearl.
Watching this phenomenon, Huang Xiaolong's heart was delighted: sure enough, this method works.
Following that, Huang Xiaolong took out another cycad fruit. Just like what happened previously, the cycad fruit was sucked empty of the spiritual energy within it and vanished, swallowed by the pagoda. Huang Xiaolong continued to take out one cycad fruit after another, and after the number had surpassed ten, a new Fire Dragon Pearl was successfully formed, hanging above the clouds.
Staring at the newly condensed Fire Dragon Pearl, Huang Xiaolong felt like crying. Now, he knew that cycad fruits and possibly other elixirs could speed up the time of condensing a Fire Dragon Pearl, but the expense is too big.
More than ten cycad fruits!
Huang Xiaolong only had less than twenty cycad fruits left in his spatial Asura Ring.
Although these types of herb and fruit elixirs can be bought from auction and trading houses, the prices were somewhat scary. Not to mention Huang Xiaolong, probably not even the kingdom's ruler, King Lu Zhe could afford it on a long term basis.
Next, Huang Xiaolong took out over a hundred Battle Qi Dan, and after absorbing all of them, the pagoda finally condensed out one Fire Dragon Pearl.
More than one hundred Battle Qi Dan was equivalent to one Fire Dragon Pearl; this amount was more or less the same of the ten cycad fruits.
I wonder if a demonic beast's beast core has an effect. Suddenly, Huang Xiaolong thought of a possibility and wondered to himself.
However, there was no beast core in his ring.
A short while later, Huang Xiaolong came out from the Linglong Treasure Pagoda space and headed to the main hall. Calling Fei Hou, he gave Fei Hou one hundred thousand gold coins tasking him to purchase beast cores from auction and trading houses.
Even though Fei Hou was puzzled with Huang Xiaolong's request of buying so many beast cores, he dared not ask too many questions.
Roughly one hour later Fei Hou returned to the mansion and as per Huang Xiaolong's order, he procured more than forty pieces of Stage Seven beast cores.
Huang Xiaolong was looking forward to testing out his theory; after he got the items from Fei Hou, Huang Xiaolong hurried back to his room and entered the Linglong Treasure Pagoda space, taking out all the Stage Seven beast cores.
Just like what Huang Xiaolong guessed earlier, the pagoda could also absorb the violent demonic energy inside beast cores, and very soon, the pagoda space had sucked out all the energy from the forty plus beast cores that Fei Hou brought back. These beast cores turned into dull, gray ash, and disappeared.
And the space that had absorbed more than forty demonic beast cores' energy and condensed out two new Fire Dragon Pearls.
Seeing this result, Huang Xiaolong breathed out in relieved. This result was still acceptable to him, less than fifty beast cores in exchange for two Fire Dragon Pearls, meaning fifty thousand gold coins for one Fire Dragon Pearl
This was way more cost effective than using cycad fruits or spirit dans.
Still, fifty thousand gold coins was no a small sum, and he decided to enter the Silvermoon Forest himself to hunt for Stage Seven demonic beasts.
And this time, the duration spent inside the Silvermoon Forest would be longer than the last time, Huang Xiaolong decided before he headed towards the Silvermoon Forest to kill demonic beasts, he would make a trip to the Academy first. He wanted to request for a class advancement test into the Second Year class since he had a breakthrough to Seventh Order.
Early next morning, Huang Xiaolong came to the Cosmic Star Academy and went directly to the Principal's room. Actually, the matter regarding class advancements usually belonged to the class teachers, but by the time it was approved, six months would have gone by; if he went through Sun Zhang or Xiong Cu directly, it would save him a lot of time and trouble.
When Huang Xiaolong arrived at the Principal's room, coincidentally, both Sun Zhang and Xiong Chu were inside.
Both were a little surprised seeing Huang Xiaolong, and then both stood up with smiling faces.
"Xiaolong, how come you have the free time to come over and look for us two old fellows?" Sun Zhang grinned and asked, "Did you come across some problems in your practice?"
Xiong Chu was also smiling, "Whatever problems you have, be at ease and tell us."
The two of them thought Huang Xiaolong's abrupt visit was due him coming across come cultivation problems. Thus, he came over to ask them for guidance.
Huang Xiaolong shook his head, clarifying "I came because I wanted to request for the class advancement test."
"Request for the Second Year class advancement test?!" Both old fellows blanked for a moment; Sun Zhang and Xiong Chu exchanged a glance, resulting in four widened eyes staring back at each other in shock.
"You…you're saying you have broken through to the Seventh Order?!" Sun Zhang blurted out; not half a year had passed since the Academy competition ended-- even if Huang Xiaolong had taken the Xingyao Dan and Qi Sea Dan, it was impossible for him to advance in such a short time! According to their secret estimate, Huang Xiaolong needs at least one year to do so.
Xiong Chu also has an inconceivable expression on his face as he stared at Huang Xiaolong.
Huang Xiaolong nodded, reaffirming what he had just said, "That is correct." And he released his battle qi energy outward.
"Seventh Order! It really is the Seventh Order!" When Huang Xiaolong released his battle qi outside his body, Sun Zhang and Xiong Chu who found it hard to believe initially and they broke out in excitement.
It was quite sometime later before the two old fellows recovered their dignified image.
Still, both of them scrutinized Huang Xiaolong with weird looks on their faces.
They didn't expect in less than four months, just slightly over three, that Huang Xiaolong gave them another wonderful surprise.
If this was Huang Xiaolong's cultivation speed, he probably could win the Academy's overall champion before ten years' time and represent Cosmic Star Academy in the Duanren Empire's Battle of the Imperial City.
"Then, my request on the class advance test…?" Seeing that Sun Zhang and Xiong Chu just stood there and stared at him without an answer, Huang Xiaolong's brows creased and prodded them.
Hearing Huang Xiaolong speak, Sun Zhang and Xiong Chu realized their gaffe, coming to their senses.
"Xiaolong ah, I didn't expect you would breakthrough Seventh Order so soon!" Sun Zhang was smiling as if spring had arrived as he looked at Huang Xiaolong, "Your request for class advancement test, we approve. Let's do it this way, tomorrow, the Second Year Class Six is going near the border to kill some bandits, you follow along with the Second Year Class Six. As long as you can kill ten bandits, you pass the test."
"Prince Lu Kai also requested for the class advancement test two days ago," At this time, Xiong Chu informed Huang Xiaolong, "Tomorrow, like you, he would be joining the Second Year Class Six to kill bandits at the kingdom's border."
Lu Kai is also going? Huang Xiaolong was taken aback by the news, but he just nodded and bid farewell to the two old fellows.
After Huang Xiaolong had left Sun Zhang's room, they sent Huang Xiaolong out personally; watching Huang Xiaolong's back as he walked away until he vanished from view did the two look away.
"Now, I'll eagerly anticipate what the little guy will achieve in ten years!" Sun Zhang exclaimed.
Xiong Chu agreed, "Perhaps a hundred years later, our Cosmic Star Academy needs this little guy's care."
Sun Zhang nodded his head, thinking about this matter pensively.
Huang Xiaolong headed straight back to Tianxuan Mansion, not bothering to attend class after he left the Principal's room. Entering the Linglong Treasure Pagoda space, he continued to practice using the Fire Dragon Pearls.
One day passed.
On the second morning, Huang Xiaolong once again came to the Academy and waited at the square. He noted the Second Year Class Six students were already gathered, and Huang Xiaolong could recognize one of them, the student who won the Class Six battle, Ye Yong. Ye Yong was one of the people who entered the Dragon Flame Valley.
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