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Chapter 709 - 401 Promotion

Chapter 709: Chapter 401 Promotion

Li Yuanba entered the massive corpse, which in itself was a rare stroke of fortune.

Fortune, for a cultivator, can be both good and bad, depending on how the cultivator deals with it.

When Li Yuanba entered the massive corpse, he did so in a Corpse Refining state, which turned this stroke of fortune into a good thing.

In fact, this massive corpse was also in a state of Corpse Refining, only this state was not complete.

Due to the Corpse Lotus, the Yin Cold Energy produced by the massive corpse was devoured and absorbed by the Corpse Lotus, becoming nourishment for it.

However, the Corpse Lotus couldn’t absorb a large amount of Yin Cold Energy in a short time, for as a Spirit Plant, its energy absorption rate was limited, especially when faced with the corpse of a creature surpassing a Fourth Grade Spirit Beast, which made the absorption process even longer.

The Corpse Lotus had grown in the massive corpse for over a thousand years and, in fact, hadn’t absorbed even a third of the corpse’s energy.

With a special method, the Corpse Lotus locked up the energy of the massive corpse, transforming it into a sort of Corpse-Refining existence; however, this Corpse Refining didn’t generate a soul, its soul being artificially created by the Corpse Lotus.

The Corpse Lotus, controlling the massive corpse, would emit a fixed amount of Yin Cold Energy daily; even with such control, a small amount of Yin Cold Energy would still leak out, creating this pool of Yin Cold water.

Once the Corpse Lotus matured, the massive corpse would continue to slowly lose Yin Cold Energy until after many years all the Yin Cold Energy inside would be lost, and the massive corpse would become ordinary soil.

But after the Corpse Lotus matured, when Li Yuanba entered the giant corpse in a Corpse-Refining state, the Yin Cold Energy in the massive corpse was of a higher quality. Moreover, since the massive corpse lacked even a trace of a soul, the high-quality Yin Cold Energy naturally flowed into the lower-quality Corpse-Refining body.

If Li Shiming hadn’t controlled Li Yuanba to cultivate the "Evil Corpse Spirit Record," perhaps the influx of Yin Cold Energy into Li Yuanba’s Corpse-Refining body would have been extremely slow because the inflow rate was very slow in itself.

But after Li Yuanba cultivated the "Evil Corpse Spirit Record," the "Evil Corpse Spirit Record" actively absorbed external Yin Cold Energy, and since the massive corpse had no awareness to actively lock down its loss of Yin Cold Energy, it resulted in Li Yuanba gaining immense benefits.

The Yin Cold Spiritual Power inside the Corpse Pill was rapidly increasing. Given Li Yuanba’s own cultivation speed, even in a saturated state using a Third Grade Cultivation Assistance High-level Spirit Pill, the increase of Yin Cold Spiritual Power in the Corpse Pill per breath was equivalent to what he could increase in a month of cultivation.

Moreover, the quality of the Yin Cold Spiritual Power exceeded that of his own cultivation. The quality of the Yin Cold Spiritual Power in his Corpse Pill now surpassed that expected of a Silver Corpse at the mid-stage.

All this was originally impossible, but who would have thought he’d encounter a soulless Half-refined Corpse of a creature surpassing the Fourth Grade and be cultivating Corpse Refining Technique within it?

After forty hours had passed, the massive corpse slowly dissolved into the pool of water, transforming into dust as it lacked the support of energy.

Now there was no longer a need for Li Shiming’s control, with the Corpse Pill inside Li Yuanba having reached the late stage of a Silver Corpse and being half full of spiritual energy.

Actually, if all the Yin Cold Energy inside the massive corpse had been absorbed by his "Evil Corpse Spirit Record," his realm could possibly have reached the peak of a Silver Corpse directly.

But the vast amount of Yin Cold Energy inside the massive corpse was transformed into reforming Li Yuanba’s Corpse-Refining body.

Li Yuanba slowly opened his eyes; he was still in the pool of water.

This pool of water would have affected him significantly twenty hours ago, but now he felt not the slightest discomfort.

He didn’t need "Within a Hair’s Breadth" to exit the massive corpse anymore, as the massive corpse had already fused into the pool, becoming the mud at the bottom.

He moved his body, feeling a terrifying strength emanating from within, a strength even stronger than the Great Elder-level Body Refining strength of his main body, Li Shiming.

Li Yuanba didn’t examine his body further; he needed to leave immediately as he had been delayed here too long.

There was no telling when the Wolf-headed Human-shaped Fourth-grade Spirit Beast would arrive, and now that the massive corpse was gone, its arrival would certainly reveal his presence.

With a single step, he was out of the pool, and with another step, he exited the mountain belly.

He discerned his direction and moved step by step, each step surpassing the distance covered by Li Shiming’s use of "Within a Hair’s Breadth" for Space Movement, almost covering nearly two kilometers with each step.

This was still when he wasn’t using his full strength, not because his spiritual power was stronger than the main body Li Shiming’s, but because he wore Tiangu (Mind Ring) on his head, a special treasure.

The function of Mind Ring is to greatly enhance the user’s spiritual power, and the maximum distance of "Within a Hair’s Breadth" also depends on the cultivator’s spiritual power.

The seemingly ordinary Mind Ring actually had the greatest effect.

Li Yuanba did not know the importance of Mind Ring in Qianye Temple; he had obtained it from Zhi Xin Arhat, who had mastered Telepathy.

The reason such a treasure was not used by his main body, Li Shiming, was because it wouldn’t be convenient for Li Shiming to use it all the time.

Most importantly, Mind Ring had its limitations. Once the spiritual power reached a certain level, the efficacy of this treasure would significantly decrease, and he estimated it would only be effective within the Golden Core Stage, losing its effect at higher realms.