Chapter 25: Breakthrough, Yuan Ying Period
Today's two battles were the most exhausting and severely injured ones for Little Meteor since he started practicing alchemy. Although he had fought against other demons before, the strongest among them was only at the Golden Core stage, which Little Meteor didn't take seriously. With the help of his Flowing Star Sword, it was truly a case of "one comes, one dies; two come, two die". Now, in Little Meteor's carefree ring, who knows how many types and sizes of "demon cores" are stored?!
But this time was different, both were in the middle of the Yuan Infant stage, and that horse would also suffer the most damage from the thunder attack. Even Xiaoliu's body, which had been tempered by the Chaotic Air Hammer, couldn't withstand it and suffered serious injuries. The power is evident. Fortunately, we subdued these two monsters this time, otherwise, we would have lost big.
Sitting on the ground, Xiao Liu Xing was operating the Chaos Qi in his body with all his might. The Chaos Qi between heaven and earth also continuously flowed through his meridians to gather at his Dantian. Every time the Chaos Qi circulated a circle, it grew stronger by a bit, and the originally dimmed Chaos Golden Dan due to severe injury would increase its luster by a bit. Circle after circle, round after round, Xiao Liu Xing tirelessly operated the Chaos Qi.
Just as it was about to start, the small meteorite had been tracking the Chaos Qi with its divine consciousness all along, preventing any mistakes. However, after its divine consciousness had followed the Chaos Qi in circles for who-knows-how-many laps around the Chaos Formula route, the small meteorite suddenly discovered that its divine consciousness seemed to have split into two parts. One part of the divine consciousness was still following the Chaos Qi as before, monitoring it as it made a big cycle along the Chaos Formula route. The other part had jumped out and stood at a height, looking down at the Chaos Qi and the part of the divine consciousness that was monitoring it as it made a big cycle.
This situation is like running, the primordial energy is the runner, running along the track of the playground, and the first part of the divine consciousness is like a camera following behind him, taking pictures of him as he runs. The second part of the divine consciousness is like a camera suspended in mid-air above the playground, filming the runner and the first camera as they run around the playground. This feeling is very strange, Xiaoliu himself doesn't know what's going on, or rather, he doesn't know how to describe it, because he hasn't even realized that his consciousness has split into two parts. His whole person is in a state of enlightenment, unable to be put into words.
He, who had been constantly observing the circulation of the chaotic air with his divine consciousness, suddenly felt that the familiar grand cycle movement of the chaotic air seemed to have another epiphany, and he had a feeling that the original grand cycle movement of his own chaotic air was actually like this. At the same time when he had this feeling, he also felt that this grand cycle movement seemed to contain some kind of heavenly way.
Completely still, immersed in the primordial aura of the universe, making a great heavenly cycle movement, the small meteor that contained the Heavenly Way completely forgot that it was heavily injured and had come to heal itself. It also completely didn't know that at the moment its divine consciousness split into two, the golden elixir in its dantian had already fully recovered its former brilliance. Moreover, as the primordial aura continued to circulate, the golden elixir continuously became more inclined towards gold and grew a bit larger.
The chaotic aura's operation also suddenly accelerated several times at that time, and it was still accelerating. The outside world's primordial energy was stirred up again, and the chaotic aura within a thousand miles began to converge with his body as the center, then entered his body.
The heavens and earth's original energy stirred, and Little Spring was startled awake. However, she wasn't surprised because the last time at the cliff bottom, when Little Meteor broke through to the Golden Elixir stage, a similar situation had occurred. "Could it be that Big Brother is going to break through again? Just now, Big Brother was still in the late Golden Elixir stage; if he breaks through again, wouldn't that mean...?" As soon as Little Spring thought of this, her heart became extremely excited. Big Brother was going to become even stronger.
Apart from the little spring outside, who saw the changes caused by Little Meteor, there was another person, or rather a beast, that knew about this change. It was the giant eagle that had been quietly healing its wounds in a certain space. After acknowledging Little Meteor as its master, it established a very peculiar connection with Little Meteor. When Little Meteor was fully immersed in contemplation, a small portion of the chaotic energy that had entered Little Meteor's body also reached that space and transmitted to the giant eagle's body. Under normal circumstances, the giant eagle could only absorb the kind of energy it had before, but the chaotic energy was too special - it could combine with any energy and even surpass any energy.
The chaotic energy entered its body and began to wander around each position, every time it passed through a place, it would think of tempering the small meteor's body, first regardless of whether the cell was normal or not, they were all burst open, and stimulated the giant eagle's body to reproduce a new cell again. In the process of reproducing new cells, a little bit of chaotic energy would be injected into them to enhance their strength.
Of course, the cells are bursting, stimulating the body to regenerate cells. This process is not carried out one by one, but many cells are undergoing it simultaneously. Any area that has been passed through by the chaotic energy will undergo this destructive and regenerative process at the same time. A large number of cells burst at the same time, causing the heavily injured giant eagle to scream in pain, yet it does not faint because, along with the bursting of many cells, there are also many cells being reborn. This cell regeneration makes the giant eagle feel very comfortable and extremely comfortable. It is this comfort that constantly soothes the giant eagle's twisted nerves due to its intense suffering, preventing it from passing out from pain. Thus, the giant eagle struggles in this double feeling of severe pain and comfort. At this time, it feels exceptionally painful, thinking that Little Meteor is punishing it, and secretly scolding Little Meteor in its heart. What it doesn't know is that after enduring this pain, what awaits it will be another breakthrough.
Little Meteor was unaware of the situation outside and also didn't know the pain he had brought to the giant eagle. Immersed in his thoughts, he even forgot about the passage of time. Little Meteor remained sitting on the ground in the same posture for one hour, a day, two days... until the 15th day.
On this day, the part of the divine consciousness that had been watching the chaotic air and a portion of the divine consciousness suddenly felt something. Specifically, what insight he gained Xiao Liuxing couldn't say clearly, but he knew he was one step closer to the Heavenly Way. Moreover, through this realization, Xiao Liuxing discovered why the chaotic air needed to operate in such a way and what benefits it would bring him.
He used to only know how to operate according to the specified route on the Chaotic Decision, and he didn't even think about why. Now that he has figured out the reason through that realization, it will definitely be of great help to his future cultivation. And in the instant when he emerged from that realization, Xiaoliu suddenly felt a change in his Golden Elixir.
The originally fist-sized Golden Elixir has now grown to nearly twice its size, and the original gray color has turned into a complete golden color. Among these changes, what surprised Little Meteorite the most was that on the surface of the Golden Elixir, those tiny cracks - Breaking the Elixir to Rebirth! He is finally going to break the elixir and be reborn.
Operating his Chaos Qi at full capacity, he continuously poured the Chaos Qi into the already cracked Golden Elixir. Originally, when Xiao Liuxing was out of control, the Chaos Qi circulated very quickly. Now that Xiao Liuxing was in full control, the circulation of the Chaos Qi became even faster. This directly resulted in the originally 1000-li radius of turbulent Heavenly Earth Yuan Qi increasing to 2000 li!
The cracks in the golden elixir grew wider and longer as the chaotic energy increased, and new cracks also appeared. At this rate, after about half an hour, a faint "click" sounded in the heart of the small meteorite, and then the golden elixir shattered completely. In the center of the shattered golden elixir, a one-inch-tall, golden, miniature version of the small meteorite sat cross-legged with its eyes closed.
The Flowing Star Sword that was originally hovering above the dantian now appeared in Little Flowing Star's left hand, and below him was a cyan hexagon with strange flower patterns, which was the one that the giant eagle had taken from his forehead when it acknowledged Little Flowing Star as its master.
The golden elixir shattered into pieces, and those fragments transformed into the chaotic aura of gas, which was immediately sucked in by the newly emerged yuan infant. Moreover, not only did the fragments turn into chaotic aura, but also the chaotic aura that had just entered the small shooting star's body was swallowed up by it, at a speed several dozen times faster than when the chaotic aura entered the golden elixir.
If the golden elixir absorbed into the body's primordial energy is compared to eating, then now the yuan infant absorbs it like drinking water, pouring it in big mouthfuls. After absorbing the primordial energy that had just entered the body, the yuan infant was still not satisfied and mobilized its own primordial energy to circulate and absorb external primordial energy. The large amount of primordial energy that had been attracted by Xiaoliu outside his body, originally piled up in the air above the small wooden house, waiting in line to enter Xiaoliu's body, poured into Xiaoliu's body like a mighty river bursting its banks, while the yuan infant absorbed all the primordial energy that entered the body like a whale swallowing water.
Due to the accumulation of too much chaotic energy, although the small yuan infant absorbed it quickly, it still took twenty or so minutes to fully absorb. After absorbing this chaotic energy, the original one-inch-tall small yuan infant grew half an inch taller. Only then did the yuan infant gently close its mouth and open its eyes.
The Downstream Star, who had been observing the situation in his dantian with introspection, felt a sudden dizziness as soon as Yuanying opened its eyes. The next moment he woke up and found himself appearing in an empty space. Looking again, he not only saw that his hands had shrunk, but also that his body had turned golden! He looked at the Flowing Star Sword in his hand, then looked at the hexagonal pattern under him. Little Downstream Star knew that he had entered Yuanying's inside and was now staying in his own dantian.
She waved her small golden arm. Looking at this golden body, this is her own soul! Little meteor couldn't help but exclaim.
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