Chapter 424 - 227: Establishing the Golden-Edge Abode

The numerous taboos and dangers of Foundation Establishment were all relayed to his ears in Liou Zhen’s gentle voice.

Liou Yuan listened intently, savoring every word spoken by Liou Zhen, and for a moment, the cave abode fell silent.

Liou Zhen glanced at Liou Yuan but didn’t disturb him.

He took the All Heaven Derivation Array Disc and quietly left.

By the time Liou Yuan snapped back to reality, Liou Zhen’s figure had already disappeared from the cave abode.

He tightened his grip on the Stabilizing Elixir in his hand and softly said two words: "Closed-door training!"

Before Liou Zhen imparted his teachings, Liou Yuan estimated that his success rate in opening the Qi Mansion was around seventy percent, or perhaps even higher.

After all, his talent as a possessor of two Five-Star Star Acupoints was not just for show; if he didn’t have a seventy percent assurance, he would indeed be a failure.

Now with the assistance of the Stabilizing Elixir needed for opening the Qi Mansion, his probability increased by thirty percent, bringing Liou Yuan’s success rate to nearly one hundred percent.

"Why not start today rather than waiting? I will begin my closed-door cultivation today."

Saying so, Liou Yuan took out the jade scroll of the cave abode.

Rumble! The stone door closed.

The two arrays Liou Yuan set up outside the cave abode were activated one after another, surrounding the cave abode tightly.

After completing these preparations, Liou Yuan sat cross-legged directly on the cold stone bed.

Feeling the chill continuously transmitted from the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone beneath him, he faintly smiled.

"Opening the Qi Mansion requires condensing a large amount of spiritual energy into a blade to cleave open the Qi Mansion. This Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone logically should also be beneficial for my Qi Mansion opening."

"Two Five-Star Star Acupoints, the Stabilizing Elixir, the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone, so many aids."

"If I fail to open the Qi Mansion this time, I rightly deserve death!"

Saying this, Liou Yuan closed his eyes deeply, focusing all his consciousness on operating the "Geng Metal Refining Form Skill."

The brilliant golden Geng Metal Spiritual Qi danced like a raging tide from every part of his body.

Rumble! Inside the cave abode, the sound of the tide-like surging echoed.

Every Foundation Establishment Cultivation Technique has its own method for Qi Mansion opening.

Geng Metal Refining Form Skill is no exception.

It requires condensing spiritual energy into a golden blade to cleave the physical form and build the Qi Mansion out of nothingness.

Condensing the golden blade for Qi Mansion opening demands a vast amount of spiritual energy.

At this time, the spiritual energy that had condensed for months within Liou Yuan’s cave abode came into play.

Under the guidance of Liou Yuan’s cultivation technique, it began to flow into his body.

During this process, the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone emitted a dim blue glow, seeping out from under the stone bed and spreading through Liou Yuan’s body.

A golden, ethereal blade slowly formed within him.

At first, the blade was merely an outline, waiting for a large amount of spiritual energy to flood into it, allowing the golden blade to take shape.

Liou Yuan was in no hurry, driving the cultivation technique to draw the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi into the body of the blade at a slow yet determined pace.

Day by day passed.

As previously agreed, three days later, Liou Zhen arrived outside Liou Yuan’s cave abode with the All Heaven Derivation Array Disc, having removed the Divine Sense Mark.

His Divine Sense sweep detected that Liou Yuan was in closed-door training, so Liou Zhen did not disturb him and left again with the Array Disc.

After the demon cultivators retreated from Youhuang State, the disciples sent out by the Five Extremes Mountain gradually returned, and the disciples seemed to resume their daily cultivation lives.

During this period, an event that caught the attention of the Five Extremes Mountain Outer Sect occurred.

Lan Chenyu, the top powerhouse of the Five Extremes Mountain Outer Sect, broke through to Foundation Establishment, entered the Inner Sect, and became the second disciple to enter Foundation Establishment after Lao Xiuyuan in recent times.

Lan Chenyu breaking through to Foundation Establishment didn’t cause much shock among the Outer Sect disciples.

After all, he had dominated for three years, and during that time, more than one Outer Sect disciple tried to shake his position as the Outer Sect’s number one but failed, including Lao Xiuyuan, who had already reached Foundation Establishment.

The interest of the Outer Sect disciples lay in the changing dynamics within the Outer Sect.

Lan Chenyu entered Foundation Establishment, and it was natural for the second strongest in the Outer Sect to take his place, becoming the new first powerhouse.

While Lan Chenyu used to suppress many Outer Sect disciples, not everyone was Lan Chenyu.

Almost as if it had been prearranged, the top ten powerhouses of the Outer Sect challenged the former second strongest of the Outer Sect in quick succession, almost immediately after Lan Chenyu entered the Inner Sect.

The ideology of the Five Extremes Mountain, where the strongest rules, made the disciples place great importance on the title of the Outer Sect’s first.

This battle lasted almost a month.

Even Yan Yingsi, who had been punished by the Disciplinary Hall and locked up for half a month, came out to join the excitement.

Under such an onslaught of numerous experts, the former second strongest finally couldn’t hold out and was defeated.

A new first powerhouse of the Outer Sect was born.

She was the former third-ranked Outer Sect disciple, Lv Zexuan.

A half-month after Lan Chenyu’s Foundation Establishment breakthrough, Lv Zexuan successfully performed the Sinking Star, sinking her Star Acupoint into her Qi Mansion, reaching Half-Step Foundation Establishment.

She swept through the top ten powerhouses of the Outer Sect as if crushing them.

Naturally, there were still some top ten powerhouses of the Outer Sect unwilling to be outdone by a woman, and they launched several intense battles over the course of a few days.

The fierce battles almost flattened Lv Zexuan’s cave abode.

Yet no one could shake her position as the first of the Outer Sect.

Thus Lv Zexuan firmly established her position as the first in the Outer Sect.

Just as the storm over the Outer Sect’s first was settling.

In the second month of Liou Yuan’s closed-door training.

A Foundation Establishment female cultivator visited Five Extremes Mountain, accompanied by a Peak of Qi Cultivation female cultivator carrying a black iron longsword on her back.

It was none other than Wan Dongling, the Foundation Establishment cultivator from the Yanluo Sect, and Lin Qianyin, the first of the Yanluo Sect’s Outer Sword Dao.

Their unexpected visit received courteous treatment from the upper echelons of Five Extremes Mountain, who specially dispatched the sect’s Protector, Zhao Zhuoran, to accompany them throughout.

Wan Dongling claimed to be visiting Liou Yuan, her savior, with Lin Qianyin.

Zhao Zhuoran led the two to Liou Yuan’s cave abode.

Unfortunately, Liou Yuan was in closed-door training and couldn’t meet them; Zhao Zhuoran dared not disturb him either.