The Golden Elixir is A Star, and You Call This Cultivation?
Chapter 58 - 57 Complete Five Elements? Impossible! (Please subscribe!)_1

Chapter 58: Chapter 57 Complete Five Elements? Impossible! (Please subscribe!)_1

Qi Yuan, holding Xiao Jia, was traversing through the Training Grounds.

He cast his gaze around, digesting the information that appeared before his eyes.

[Golden Soul, Level 48, can be transformed into Golden Essence.]

A beast with a disgusting yellow hue was charging towards Qi Yuan.

Its entire body was golden, its bones seemed to be comprised of solid gold, its blood a liquid form of gold, and even the air it exhaled was golden in a gaseous state.

Its appearance was quite repulsive.

Disgusted, Qi Yuan casually sliced at the Golden Soul with his sword, causing the massive creatures to fall with a thud.

Experience +100.

Golden Essence +1. strand

"Not bad, not bad at all, though I’m curious, how much of this Golden Essence do I need for perfect Gold element proficiency?"

A single Golden Soul could provide Qi Yuan with one strand of Golden Essence, which was decent for him.

As soon as Qi Yuan obtained the Golden Essence, he could feel a slight improvement in the sharpness of his attacks. It was modest, but perceivable.

Qi Yuan, holding his treasured sword and Xiao Jia, ventured deeper into the Training Grounds, where more Primal Souls of the Five Elements could be found and they brought in more experience and Golden Essence.

Qi Yuan planned to collect more Essence of the Five Elements for complete proficiency.

Doing so would mean that the Forbidden Grounds of Five Elements would fall completely under his control.

He could then acquire fragments of Heavenly Dao.

"Kill!"

Qi Yuan, alongside Xiao Jia, fought in the Five Elements Training Grounds for six hours.

At first, Qi Yuan did not engage in Combat Union with Xiao Jia, believing that she hadn’t rested enough and that combat might drain her.

However, he determined it would be safer to engage in Combat Union with Xiao Jia.

Given her inherently docile nature, leaving her by herself in a safe spot might lead her to innocently stumble into dangerous waters.

Furthermore, the enemies he was faced with were not of the same caliber as the exotic-beast king, so being in Combat Union with Xiao Jia wouldn’t be over-exertive on her.

After entering Combat Union, Qi Yuan couldn’t help but sigh, "After being married for so long, familiarities turn into affection."

Certainly, Qi Yuan’s abilities to take down formidable warriors could not be possible without Xiao Jia. Who wouldn’t like a partner like her?

Some less respectful individuals would probably start calling her ’mother’ outright.

Qi Yuan, ten meters tall, was an unstoppable force within the Forbidden Grounds of Five Elements. Every swing of his sword killed two Earth Souls.

In the game, he was slaughtering beasts in a frenzy. His only regret was that there seemed to be a shortage of Primal Souls of the Five Elements.

He spent most of his time searching for Primal Souls of the Five Elements.

"Time to log off." Just as usual, Qi Yuan ended the Combat Union with Xiao Jia.

Qi Yuan scored bountifully in the Five Elements Training Grounds today.

The last time he killed the exotic-beast king, he was at level 91 and was near to reaching level 92.

Today, he advanced to level 92.

In Combat Union with Xiao Jia, they could exert up to level 97 combat power, that is, the power level of a deity.

Besides, he looted a substantial amount of Five Elements Essence.

He obtained 20 strands of Golden Essence and 11 strands of Wooden Essence.

The other three Elemental Essence counts were within this range.

With so much Five Elements Essence acquired, Qi Yuan faintly sensed that he would need fifty times the amount he currently possessed to achieve perfect mastery in Gold element.

That is to say, he would achieve full mastery over the Five Elements by killing a thousand Primal Souls of the Five Elements.

"I would need to slaughter for no less than fifty days to achieve full mastery over Five Elements, isn’t that too slow?"

"It appears the game is designed to compel players to hoard fragments daily, disenabling express advancement even with a premium subscription!"

"I need to speed things up!"

"The primary issue now concerns the comparatively low volume of Primal Souls in the Five Elements Training Grounds. I wonder if there is a place with a larger congregation of them. If there were, I could possibly achieve full mastery over Five Elements and gain control over the Forbidden Grounds of Five Elements just by grinding away for five to six days."

"If I remember correctly, there are also other prodigies in the Five Elements Training Grounds.

Being veterans in the ground, no one would know it better than them.

Tomorrow, I’ll look for them and inquire about the whereabouts of the nests of the Primal Souls."

Qi Yuan dug a hole, held Xiao Jia in his embrace and crawled back into the hole.

Holding Xiao Jia, he opened the chat interface, looking at the messages, chatting away as he did regularly.

"I have a feeling that it won’t be long until I clear the game."

"Has the Clothing Department’s Forbidden Corps reached your side?"

"Their strength is decent, right? When your matter is concluded, we should meet up face-to-face!"

Having logged off from the game, it was still daylight outside.

Qi Yuan cast a look at the peak of the Seven Colors Mountain. The palace appeared to be a celestial palace, a full moon hung in the sky, even though it was not yet nightfall.

"The moon besides the Master looked particularly bright." Qi Yuan lamented inexplicably.

For some reason, he felt a sense of emptiness after logging off from the game.

"Hm...? The Five Elements Essence did indeed reflect in reality." Qi Yuan’s attention was quickly drawn elsewhere.

His initial Cultivation Technique was based on fire.

The spells he could cultivate were also fire-related.

Now, he felt he could manipulate water and wood, among other things.

"Now that I have water and wood attributes, could I choose to become a healer?"

"Earlier, I was devoted to Magic Cultivation, but I secretly also practiced Sword Cultivation, which could be considered Dual Cultivation."

"If I add ’healer’ into the mix, what would that constitute, Triple...?"

Qi Yuan felt that he was close to encompassing all of the dreaded ’Three Forbidden Territories’ of the Cultivation World.

For three consecutive days, Qi Yuan led a well-regulated life.

He spent his days tirelessly playing the game, and after logging off, he would study the Cultivation Technique scriptures moved from Heishan Sect.

Life passed by leisurely.

The only thing that Qi Yuan found regrettable was that he still hadn’t ran into any other prodigies in the Five Elements Training Grounds.

The harvesting of the Five Elements Essence also proceeded slowly. Even the highest, Golden Soul, was only about 7% complete.

...

The Land of Five Elements’ Trials.

Three silhouettes stand amidst the icy and snowy terrain.

A refined man in a white robe is contending with a Water Spirit.

Not far away, two Divinity Realm powerhouses are surrounding the area, preventing other Water Spirits from intruding, so as not to interfere with the battle of the elegant man in the white robe.

The man in the white robe is a Divinity Realm powerhouse, who, by all means, should effortlessly subdue a monarch-tier Ice Spirit.

The reason it is this way is because he needs to comprehend the essence of water and grasp the Divinity Realm gradually, so as to boost his strength by fighting this formidable Ice Spirit.

This reasoning justifies his current leisurely engagement.

After a seemingly endless period, a light blue hue flashed in the eyes of the refined man.

His palm struck the Ice Spirit, and a wisp of Ice Essence was absorbed.

He was delighted, unable to contain his joyous shout.

Seeing this, admiration filled the eyes of the two Divinity Realm powerhouses on the side.

A man in red robes spoke, "Brother Tang truly deserves Lord Yu’s praise, your talent is no less than his.

In just a year, you have acquired a wisp of the Water Essence.

I dare say, before the start of the Demon Subjugation Conference, Brother Tang will step into a higher realm and emerge as a significant force!"

The Land of Five Elements’ Trials possesses Five Spirits.

However, extracting the respective elemental essence of the Five Spirits you need is exceedingly challenging.

First, during the fight against the Five Spirits, one needs to concentrate their minds not to be affected by the outside world, and second, not every call you make against the Five Spirits guarantees successful comprehension and essence formation, the probability of which is greatly low.

Precisely because of this, they venture far from the gathering places of the Five Spirits and attempt to comprehend the essence in areas with fewer Spirits, yet it remains tough to obtain the required elemental essence.

This is associated with one’s aptitude.

The man in red robes is considered talented among others.

However, compared to Tang Yan, he was significantly inferior.

It may take him three to five years to manifest a wisp of the Five Elements’ essence.

For Tang Yan, it merely takes a year, and occasionally even less. That was the distance between them.

A girl with a bun hairstyle also watched Tang Yan enviously, "Tang Yan is the most gifted in this Land of Trials!"

Hearing this, the man in red robes remembered something and couldn’t help speaking, "Little Lv mentioned that someone newly entered the Land of Trials, touted as the Master of the Garment Section."

Upon hearing this, Tang Yan appeared surprised, "The Master of the Garment Section? Is he the husband of the Wedding Dress Princess?

Who is he? It seems another powerhouse has emerged among us."

Tang Yan seemed somewhat thrilled.

The more the powerhouses, the more the chances against the alien demons.

"It appears he isn’t from us forbidden ones; he should be someone from the outside world who, by fortuitous coincidence, entered the Garment Prohibition, and was granted the heritage of the Garment Section." The man in red robes spoke with a hint of envy, "This man...is utterly different from us. His talent is indeed impressive. In his lifetime, he may have never faced any setbacks and thus is rather complacent.

On his first day in the Five Elements Prohibition, he claimed that he intended to take control of it and that it should be headed by him!"

Tang Yan was taken aback by the revelation, "He must be jesting and not to be taken seriously!"

Mastering the Five Elements Prohibition implies the perfection of the Five Elements.

Tang Yan, being the most superior of the water attributes, is a rare genius once in ten thousand years.

It also takes him a year to obtain a wisp of the Water Essence.

The more of it you get, the more difficult it becomes to obtain more of it.

Perfection in the Water Essence would require at least three thousand years.

And this is just water element perfection.

Not to mention the other four elements.

The Master of the Garment Section would require understanding of the five elements comparable to Tang Yan’s comprehension of water, and would need to be polished further over ten thousand years to achieve perfection in the Five Elements.

This aspiration clearly seems unattainable.

"Hence, I told you that this Master of the Garment Section is young and immature. Having never witnessed a real genius, he is excessively arrogant," the man in the red robe couldn’t help but retort.

Hearing this, the girl with a bun hairstyle giggled with her hand over her mouth, "You can say all these things in front of us, just be careful not to say it directly in front of the Master of the Garment Section."

Hearing this, the man in red robes burst into laughter, "Of course, I am not that naive.

We share the same goals and will be participating in the Demon Subjugation Conference together. Upon a face-to-face meeting, I would need to flatter him.

Negative comments should always be kept behind one’s back."

Tang Yan and the girl with the bun hairstyle both seemed somewhat helpless.

However, at this moment, a lazy voice came, "Didn’t your mother tell you not to talk ill about others behind their back?"

The three present were stunned, their eyes quickly fixated on where the man in red robes was standing.

A hand emerged from the ground, grabbing the ankle of the man in the red robe.

All three were taken aback, but none panicked.

The ground heaved, and from it rose a handsome man pushing against it, with what seemed like the Wedding Dress Girl in his arms.

"Master of the Garment Section!" Tang Yan couldn’t hold back from acknowledging Qi Yuan’s identity. His gaze scanned the Wedding Dress Girl and finally fell on Qi Yuan’s face.

The man in the red robe also recognized the newcomer with an awkward expression on his face.

Talking behind a person’s back only to be overheard by the person itself...how awkward could it get?

With a forced smile, he said, "Ahem, my apologies, I was out of line just now."

However, what was the Master of Garment Section doing burying himself in the ground instead of collecting the Five Elemental Essences?

Next to him, the girl with the bun hairstyle curiously looked at Qi Yuan and voiced everyone’s question, "Master of the Garment Section, why...would you bury yourself in the ground?"

"To...sleep," Qi Yuan figured that he couldn’t share a lot of gaming terminologies with NPCs.

What if the NPCs became aware?

He had seen a movie where a game NPC became sentient and fell in love with a female human player.

"Sleep?" The man in the red robe’s eyes widened, "Divinity Realm warriors don’t need sleep, do they?"

Those who have reached the Heavenly Realm no longer need to sleep.

The efficiency of resting by sleeping was too low.

"I actually wanted to sleep a little more, but you wouldn’t stop your chatter, disturbing my peaceful dreams, so I had to come up.

As the price for disturbing me, you have to answer me one question," Qi Yuan’s eyes sparkled, feeling quite clever.