Chapter 719 - 214: Awaiting Celestial Thunder, Assisting the Lotus Sect, Devouring the Flower Shop, Mirror of Evil Formed

Chapter 719: Chapter 214: Awaiting Celestial Thunder, Assisting the Lotus Sect, Devouring the Flower Shop, Mirror of Evil Formed

The secret chamber is quiet and vast.

Aside from some assorted clothes hanging on the black stone walls and a few silver taels and golden coins on the tea table, there’s nothing else.

This place is a heavily guarded area of the Imperial Palace, making it extremely difficult for anyone to enter.

And practicing cultivation here is barely influenced by anything, it’s very tranquil.

Li Yuan operates the Ancestral Talisman according to the Cultivation Skill.

The Ancestral Talisman is like a lotus, opening up to three thousand eight hundred and eighty petals.

One petal after another unfolds, starting to meander, "blowing sugar figures" in the fire.

However, whenever this "sugar figure" inflates larger, Li Yuan feels an indescribably great pressure and fatigue, forcing him to exhale.

With this exhale, the "sugar figure" deflates like a punctured balloon, vanishing instantly.

Yin and Yang are hard to merge, but being able to "blow sugar figures in fire" is the mysterious aspect of this Celestial Soul Cultivation Method.

And the reason Jade Remains can practice this method is now clear to Li Yuan.

In the first minor realm, without condensed yin energy, death is merely death, it will not leave the body to merge with yang energy.

In this second minor realm, without powerful enough innate yin energy, the sugar figure can’t be blown.

Since he just began cultivation not long ago, Li Yuan has no plans to communicate with Xiaozhao.

At this moment, overwhelmed by fatigue, he lays back directly, letting his thoughts wander to other matters.

The secret chamber is extremely quiet; if not listening carefully, all external sounds reaching this place are like water flowing through a deep sea, vague and indistinct.

Li Yuan’s thoughts drift.

He observes the changes in his body since reaching the Third Grade.

Soon, Li Yuan notices something strange: he seems to no longer need to "eat" for "the body’s necessary functional activity" anymore.

Even though he took the Grain Avoidance Pill, it didn’t work as it used to.

However, Li Yuan feels that this realm doesn’t forgo "eating."

On the contrary, this realm should require more "food."

The reasoning is simple, the larger a creature is, the more food it needs; the more advanced the equipment, the higher-grade energy it requires...

Xiaozhao’s Third Grade old locust tree body now has widely spreading roots, absorbing nutrients everywhere underground, benefiting from being near the Third Grade Meat Field for longevity.

Nonetheless, even so, Xiao Wu Ya often says "hungry" to him.

This shows that with a new body, "hunger" follows closely.

Which is entirely different from what Li Yuan thought.

Logically, now that you are stronger, why would you still feel "hungry"?

But the fact... is just like that.

Everyone gets hungry.

The more powerful you are, the more you "eat."

However, the ways to solve "hunger" vary.

Ordinary people need to eat food and meat to fill their stomachs while those with different bodies need to capture other energy.

This energy might be yang energy.

At least, that’s how it is for the Celestial Soul.

His current real form is a mountain, and moving a mountain requires substantial energy.

But why doesn’t he need to eat anymore?

Suddenly, Li Yuan recalls the levels he sensed in the "Yang Embryo":

[Soul], [Yin Yang Qi], [Body].

For others, energy needed by the [Body] must be obtained from the outside world.

But his "Yin Yang Qi" is slightly different.

Withered Fire directly supplies energy internally to the body.

The source of Withered Fire is the sun.

The sun’s yang energy is vast and mighty.

Yet, no matter how vast, it’s not inexhaustible.

For any race, the total amount of resources is limited, which brings about a world where the strong evolve, and the weak perish.

Ultimately, it’s about "becoming stronger" and "competing for resources," which is both vulgar and reasonable.

...

Having drifted off into thought for a while, Li Yuan feels almost recovered and rises, resuming the operation of yin energy, sending each Talisman Seed Lotus Petal into the yang energy.

He proceeds cautiously.

After all, this isn’t like merely "operating True Qi."

If True Qi stops, it merely ceases, and any trouble would only arise from an internal energy misalignment.

Whereas if he’s not careful, the Talisman Seed would directly collide with fire and then explode.

Yin and Yang do not merge, that’s no idle talk.

Li Yuan tries repeatedly.

Days pass by.

But the result is invariably the same.

This Cultivation Method seems to toy with him, inflating then deflating, deflating then inflating, with no steadiness, returning to zero time and time again.

Finally, Li Yuan realizes.

This Cultivation Skill is flawed, incomplete.

So, the Little Sparrow beside Lady Yama’s temple pecks Xiao Wu Ya’s head again, chirping bird talk, then picks up a broken branch with green leaves with its beak, writing on the ground: ’The Cultivation Skill has an issue, missing the follow-up.’

This branch fell from nearby trees, ever since the old locust tree became a Third Grade Body, its immense power constantly crushes the surrounding trees, causing their branches and roots to break...

Even though Xiaozhao wants to control it, there’s nothing he can do.

The locust tree’s air roots are like tentacles of a forbidden deep sea, growing more numerous, longer, and wilder, with even a small movement uprooting adjacent trees like encountering a ground dragon flipping over.

The old locust tree needs more nutrients; in a short time, the trees not directly "killed" will have yellowing leaves due to "nutrient deficiency."