Chapter 154 - 152: Massive Harvest

Chapter 154: Chapter 152: Massive Harvest

Previously, two Bone Marrow Cleansing and Body Refining Pills were enough to make Chen Yue feel saturated. Now, it took three just to reach his limit.

’A realm breakthrough really does bring an all-around improvement,’ Chen Yue thought.

However, his increased consumption of Elixirs meant that his daily expenses on them alone were now a considerable sum.

With his current income and expenditure of Contribution Points, even the five hundred Contribution Points reward for first place in Panshi Lane wouldn’t last long at his current rate of consumption.

’Things will get a lot easier once I can skillfully refine Nourishing Spirit Pills.’ A glint appeared in Chen Yue’s eyes.

The profit from the Nourishing Spirit Pill Yang Pills was already quite good, but it couldn’t keep up with his own high daily consumption.

If a batch only yielded one Nourishing Spirit Pill, there wasn’t much profit. The real money would come when he could produce three pills per batch.

The night was deep, and all was silent.

Chen Yue’s breathing was long and even, the Qi Blood in his body flowing as steadily as a great river.

Outside the window, moonlight like water spilled onto the still-crooked wooden door in the courtyard, casting a long shadow.

As time quietly slipped past midnight, the familiar fluctuation arrived right on schedule.

[Daily Settlement]

[Diligently cultivated, Cultivation +157]

[Diligently attempted to fuse Cultivation Techniques. Fusion successful. Obtained new Cultivation Technique: Ten Thousand Forms Tiger Roar Golden Bell]

[Diligently attempted to fuse Cultivation Techniques. Fusion successful. Obtained new Cultivation Technique: Furious Wave Saber Intent]

[Diligently cultivated Great Vajra Palm, Experience Points +721]

[Diligently cultivated Soaring Void Thousand Layer Step, Experience Points +523]

[Diligently cultivated Vast Heart Rock Skill, Experience Points +515]

[Suppressed a Refining Organ Realm Martial Artist, Source Point +1]

...

[Ten Thousand Forms Tiger Roar Golden Bell (Perfection 12,311/157,895)]

[Furious Wave Saber Intent (Entry Level 1,896/2,767)]

[Soaring Void Thousand Layer Step (Perfection 16,757/35,548)]

[Vast Heart Rock Skill Fifth Layer (12,751/31,280)]

[Marrow Refining Realm (158/9,231)]

[Source Point: 1]

...

Chen Yue’s gaze slowly swept across the panel.

Even though he was long accustomed to the surprises of the daily settlement, he couldn’t help but be momentarily stunned by this string of numbers.

Today’s settlement had far exceeded his expectations.

First was his Cultivation.

points!

Before breaking through to the Marrow Refining Realm, his highest daily Cultivation growth was 103 points.

But today, that number had jumped directly to 157.

After breaking through a major realm, his daily Cultivation gain hadn’t decreased as one would expect. Instead, it had shot up by more than fifty percent!

For one, the Fifth Layer of the Vast Heart Rock Skill corresponded to the Refining Organ Realm, so its effect on increasing Cultivation wouldn’t diminish while he was in the Marrow Refining Realm.

Also, Chen Yue had taken a full five Nourishing Spirit Pill Yang Pills today, providing a much more abundant supply of Medicinal Power than before.

On the other hand, his coordination with the Heart-Burning Record had entered a more harmonious stage.

Each catalysis by the Heart Fire could extract the maximum amount of Medicinal Power from the Elixirs, converting it into pure Cultivation growth.

And after breaking through to the Marrow Refining Realm, his body’s capacity to handle and convert Medicinal Power was much greater than it had been in the Bone Forging Realm.

With all these factors at play, it was only natural that his rate of Cultivation growth increased instead of decreased.

The Marrow Refining Realm required a total of 9,231 Cultivation points to go from entry to Perfection.

At his current growth rate of 157 points per day, combined with the Bone Marrow Cleansing and Body Refining Pill’s effect of lowering the Cultivation cap, Chen Yue would need a little over fifty days to break through to the Refining Organ Realm.

Less than two months.

It had taken Chen Yue a little over a month to break through from the Bone Forging Realm to the Marrow Refining Realm.

And at this rate, breaking through from the Marrow Refining Realm to the Refining Organ Realm would also take just a little over a month!

In the Martial Dao, the time required to advance to the next realm had always grown longer the further one progressed.

For most Inner Sect Disciples, advancing from the Marrow Refining Realm to the Refining Organ Realm normally took three to five years, and that was already considered extremely fast. It wasn’t rare for the majority to be stuck for eight or ten years.

Those who could make the leap in just one or two years were already considered exceptionally talented.

Even more disciples might never cross the threshold into the Refining Organ Realm, remaining stuck in the Marrow Refining Realm for their entire lives.

Yet Chen Yue had compressed that time to less than two months.

This couldn’t be described by the word "genius" anymore; this was an outright defiance of the fundamental principles of the Martial Dao.

Moreover, Chen Yue knew that this wasn’t even his final speed; there was still considerable room for improvement.

First, there was the Fifth Layer of the Vast Heart Rock Skill.

Currently, the technique’s proficiency was 12,751/31,280. At a growth rate of over 500 Experience Points per day, it would only take a little over thirty days to reach Perfection.

Once the Fifth Layer of the Vast Heart Rock Skill reached Perfection, his control over his Qi Blood, Power, and Heart Spirit would rise to another level.

At that point, the number of Nourishing Spirit Pill Yang Pills he could handle each day would likely increase from five to six.

The Cultivation growth from circulating the Vast Heart Rock Skill itself would also increase.

Second, there was the matter of replacing his Heart Method.

The Panshi Sect had a clear rule: any Inner Sect Disciple who could fully comprehend all five layers of the Panshi Skill was qualified to go to the Hidden Skills Pavilion and exchange for a higher-level Heart Method.

Conversely, those who failed to master the Panshi Skill were deemed to have an insufficiently solid foundation and were forbidden from exchanging for other Heart Methods.

This was a rule the Sect had established to prevent disciples from becoming overly ambitious and developing a shallow foundation.

And Chen Yue was only a little over thirty days away from cultivating the Fifth Layer of the Vast Heart Rock Skill to Perfection.

Then, he could justifiably go and exchange for a more powerful Heart Method. Once he did, his cultivation speed would see yet another boost.

As his realm advanced from Bone Forging to Marrow Refining, the Experience Points Chen Yue gained for every Cultivation Technique had nearly doubled, with even Celestial Demon Dissolution and his Pill Formulas being no exception.

In the future, when Chen Yue’s Martial Dao realm was high enough, he might truly be able to comprehend and completely master a new Cultivation Technique in a single day.

Chen Yue’s gaze swept slowly across the panel, landing on the two newly fused Cultivation Techniques.

[Ten Thousand Forms Tiger Roar Golden Bell (Perfection 12,311/157,895)]

This was the new Cultivation Technique fused from the Tiger Roar Golden Bell Shield and All Things Return to the Source. With All Things Transforming into Appearances and Tiger Qi Condensing Gang, it inherited the essential Origin of both top-tier Body Refining Techniques.

Based on the panel’s information, the upper limit of this new technique had been raised from the Tiger Roar Golden Bell Shield’s original ninety-eight thousand to over one hundred fifty-seven thousand.

This meant the power and potential of the Ten Thousand Forms Tiger Roar Golden Bell were far greater than the original Tiger Roar Golden Bell Shield.

[Furious Wave Saber Intent (Entry Level 1,896/2,767)]

This was the result of fusing the Furious Wave Saber Technique with the Hidden Blade Technique. The words "Entry Level" showed that this new Saber Technique was still in its initial stages.

The over eighteen hundred Experience Points indicated that his previous work on the Furious Wave Saber Technique hadn’t been for nothing.

It was only a matter of time before he invested more time and energy to cultivate this Saber Technique to a higher realm.

In the Quiet Chamber, Chen Yue’s gaze shifted from the Cultivation Techniques to the line of golden text.

[Source Point: 1]

This was Chen Yue’s biggest surprise of the day.

He had always thought he could only obtain a Source Point by killing an opponent of a higher realm.

That was how he had obtained the two Source Points back in Youlin County.

But today, he hadn’t killed Cheng Fengjun.

He had only severely injured him, completely neutralizing his ability to fight. And yet, the Source Point had still appeared.

’Suppressed?’ Chen Yue’s eyes flickered as thoughts raced through his mind.

’Does this mean I can get a Source Point just by defeating a higher-realm opponent, regardless of whether I kill them? Or do I have to meet a specific condition, like completely neutralizing them as a threat?’

Chen Yue couldn’t be sure of the exact criteria for now, but this was undoubtedly an extremely important discovery.

If suppression also granted Source Points, it meant his methods for obtaining them were no longer limited to extreme, life-or-death situations.

However, the most important thing right now was deciding how to use this hard-earned Source Point.

Should he save it for later?

Or should he convert it into tangible strength right now?

’The Ten Thousand Forms Tiger Roar Golden Bell is currently my most powerful Cultivation Technique with the highest potential.’ That was beyond doubt; even the Furious Wave Saber Intent couldn’t compare.

’Moreover, it has already reached the Perfection Realm and is at a stage where it needs a huge amount of Experience Points. If I use the Source Point on it, I’ll undoubtedly save a massive amount of time.’

Because it was a newly fused technique, the panel didn’t show its daily experience gain, so Chen Yue didn’t know how much it would be.

But based on the pattern, he conservatively estimated that the Ten Thousand Forms Tiger Roar Golden Bell could gain thirteen to fourteen hundred Experience Points per day.

At that rate, cultivating the Ten Thousand Forms Tiger Roar Golden Bell from its current 12,311 points to the 157,895 needed for Perfection would take just under four months.

Four months was an incredibly short time for such a powerful Body Refining Technique.

Many Inner Sect Disciples spent years without even reaching the Entry Level of the original All Things Return to the Source, let alone cultivating it to the Perfection Realm.

So even without using the Source Point, he could still level up the Ten Thousand Forms Tiger Roar Golden Bell quickly.

But the memories of Youlin County—those moments on the brink of life and death—surfaced in his mind.

Often, there was no time to use a Source Point in the heat of battle.

’If I have a Source Point, I should use it immediately!’

The hesitation in Chen Yue’s eyes vanished.

He no longer hesitated. With a thought, the Source Point transformed into an invisible stream of light and merged into the line of text for [Ten Thousand Forms Tiger Roar Golden Bell].

BUZZ!

The instant the Source Point vanished, the entire world froze.

The sound of the wind outside stopped. The chirping of insects vanished.

Even the flame of the flickering oil lamp in the Quiet Chamber froze mid-flicker, as if time itself had ceased to exist.

On the panel, the words [Ten Thousand Forms Tiger Roar Golden Bell] began to blur, like ink dropped into water, slowly spreading outwards.

At the same time, a vast and complex torrent of information, like a bursting dam, flooded into Chen Yue’s Sea of Consciousness.

It was the true essence of the Tiger Roar Golden Bell Shield: the roaring white tiger, how its bones moved, how its Qi Blood surged, how its Gang Qi condensed.

It was the profound concept of All Things Return to the Source: the mystery of how it encompassed heaven and earth, contained all things, and returned them to their true nature, smelting myriad changes in a single crucible.

Two completely different yet equally profound insights, drawn together by the Source Point’s mysterious power, merged and reorganized, clashing billions of times in a single instant!

Finally, a brand-new river slowly formed within Chen Yue’s Sea of Consciousness.