The Purgatory Calamity-Chapter 48 - 38 Charging Up_1

Chapter 48: Chapter 38: Charging Up_1

Chapter 48 -38: Charging Up_1

The night in the Fourth Realm was pitch black.

Since they never saw the sun, the moon, or the stars all year round, and there was no natural light source, the beasts would restrain themselves from hunting once night fell.

The weary group decided to rest for the night, moving away from the Phoenix Bone in the Insect Valley.

This was because around the Phoenix Bone, there were many scattered skeletons of explorers from the Ouyang Family, and on such a deep night, having a pile of dry bones beside them was something most people were not accustomed to.

Pang Jian didn’t mind.

Without lighting a lamp or building a fire, he sat down cross-legged next to the Phoenix Bone that had pierced into a beehive.

Luo Hongyan, understanding as ever, laughed softly and turned away, her manner graceful.

This was the tacit understanding between the two of them lately.

As Pang Jian sat down relying on the Phoenix Bone, he could see that the people from the Su and He families were making a fire and meditating at the other end of the Insect Valley.

In the darkness, everyone’s vision was limited. Only when he felt Su Yuntian and He Rong could not see him did he take down the bamboo basket behind him.

After taking a deep breath, he cleared his mind of distractions and quickly entered a state of cultivation.

This time, as he entered meditation, he actually had a strange illusion that his perceptive abilities had greatly increased.

He directly felt that his Spiritual Sea in his dantian, just like the world he was in, was divided into two layers: upper and lower.

He didn’t hurry to use the Spirit Stones in his hand but tried to absorb the mixed nature’s spiritual energy in the Insect Valley. Slowly, he felt the spiritual energy, as it entered his body, reside in the upper layer of his Spiritual Sea.

The spiritual energy in the upper layer was like clumps of mist.

When he operated the “Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell,” he instantly noticed a huge vortex appearing between the upper and lower layers, connecting them, and the gentle rotation of the vortex slowly drew in the mist-like spiritual energy.

As the vortex turned round and round, refining the spiritual energy and sinking toward the funnel’s lower end, it began to extract… Spiritual Power.

In the lower layer of the Spiritual Sea, strands of Spiritual Power gradually gathered, slowly forming a small pool.

At this moment, Pang Jian’s heart stirred, and he immediately understood the complete layout of the Spiritual Sea and also realized that this mysterious inner world of the body seemed to have always been two-tiered.

The reason it was called the Spiritual Sea was that the dantian was above and the gathering place for Spiritual Power below was the Spiritual Sea.

The dantian and the Spiritual Sea were connected by a funnel-shaped vortex, through which the dantian purified the spiritual energy and other energies absorbed from the outside world, refining them into Spiritual Power that would accumulate below in the Spiritual Sea.

With this insight, Pang Jian began to absorb the mixed spiritual energy of the Fourth Realm in the Insect Valley, finely feeling the wonders of the Spiritual Sea within his dantian.

After a while, he suddenly felt as if many mosquitoes, flies, insects, and bees were “buzzing” toward him from all directions, as if to devour him.

Before he could be startled awake, he saw that those so-called mosquitoes, flies, and bugs were all Alien Powers hidden within the spiritual energy.

The tiny lives that had died in the Insect Valley because of the Phoenix Bone, whose flesh and essence had been consumed, had remnants of their souls that merged into the spiritual energy, which he had absorbed into his body all at once using the “Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell.”

When he used the vortex to purify the spiritual energy in the Insect Valley, he first needed to grind away the mosquitoes, flies, and bugs.

This step, called removing the dross, actually took quite some time, and the Spiritual Power refined in this way was not much.

After hesitating for a moment, he took out two Spirit Stones that he had scrounged from Jin Yang, Xu Rui, and the man wearing the mask.

The two Spirit Stones were shaped like white jade; one had scattered impurities, while the other was pure and flawless.

He tried absorbing a Spirit Stone with impurities and immediately felt that the Spiritual Power he pulled from it contained a small portion of the Power of Filth.

This was not the mist-like “energy” but a kind of Spiritual Power consistent with the force within his Spiritual Sea, like flowing water.

However, the Spiritual Power contained some impurities that needed to be purified round and round by the vortex connecting the dantian and the Spiritual Sea, grinding away the impurities to dissolve them.

Even so, the Spiritual Power he could gain from such a Spirit Stone far surpassed the so-called spiritual energy in the Insect Valley.

The efficiency was more than ten times faster.

Although both contained impurities, spiritual energy and Spiritual Power were fundamentally two different concepts. It seems that ten times the spiritual energy was required to refine a single strand of Spiritual Power.

The Spiritual Power within the Spirit Stones was already existing and did not require him to refine it over and over, only needing to remove the impurities.

In the darkness, Pang Jian slightly opened his eyes, looking at the Spirit Stone in his hand that had many spots.

He finally understood why Jin Yang and others, besides their usual equipment, would only carry these Spirit Stones from the Fourth Realm.

With these Spirit Stones, they could quickly recover their strength, much faster than absorbing spiritual energy in the Solitude Mountain Range.

“What about the pure Spirit Stones?”

Thinking this, he looked towards the other flawlessly pure Spirit Stone.

This Stone came from Ning Yao’s pouch, belonging to a relic left by a Blood Moon powerhouse from the “Unstable Ferry.”

When he tried absorbing the Spiritual Power within it, his eyes burst out with brilliant light.

The Spirit Stone from the Third Realm contained not a trace of impurity. When he took it into his dantian above, it slid down the funnel-shaped vortex and merged directly into his Spiritual Sea!

Without needing to refine and purify impurities, without further refinement, it immediately became part of his Spiritual Sea!

The efficiency and speed at which this enhanced his Spiritual Power, compared to cultivating with those impure Spirit Stones, had increased several times!

“No wonder she sees it as a treasure after obtaining it from the Unstable Ferry,”

Because his perceptive abilities had increased, Pang Jian’s cultivation allowed him to directly feel the condition of the Spiritual Sea within his dantian, far more deeply than his last understanding at the Black Water Pool.

He finally understood just how valuable Spirit Stones were to cultivators.

“With these pure Spirit Stones, I can gather Spiritual Power in my Spiritual Sea even faster.”

Pang Jian now knew that the main goal during the Qi Refining Realm was to constantly refine Spiritual Power until the Spiritual Sea was completely filled with it.

Having pure Spirit Stones at hand, he had no intention of conserving them and immediately began to cultivate without reservation.

…

In the shadows.

Luo Hongyan, who was situated some distance from Pang Jian, was habitually sitting cross-legged among the tree leaves, looking down at Pang Jian from above.

With her level of cultivation and the refinement of her soul, she faintly saw that as Pang Jian cultivated, many remnants of mosquitoes, flies, and other insect souls and spirits were also being indiscriminately absorbed into his dantian’s Spiritual Sea.

Suddenly, her eyes showed a look of astonishment.

Hidden in the darkness, like Roman, were “Spirit Evils” that, attracted by Pang Jian’s use of the “Pot Heaven Nourishing Qi Spell” during cultivation, uncontrollably yearned to infiltrate his dantian.

Startled, she urgently interfered with her will, causing those “Spirit Evils” to retreat from the edge of Insect Valley.

“Such a domineering Spirit Spell, this level of cultivation technique should not be a product of the Fourth Realm.”

She became even more curious about the boy’s past.

…

Time flew by.

As dawn was approaching and he had unknowingly assimilated two pure Spirit Stones, Pang Jian was abruptly awakened.

Instinctively, he gripped his Dragon Pattern Spear tightly, casting a stern look towards the approaching He Rong.

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Seeing Pang Jian suddenly wake up, He Rong immediately halted and said lightly, “I want to know the details about He Ziren’s death.”

“If you have doubts, you can ask Ning Yao, or you can wait until daylight to ask me, why be so sneaky?”

Pang Jian said displeasedly.

“Because Ziren was once engaged to her, she holds some dissatisfaction with our He family and has always been cold, she would not be willing to cooperate with me,” He Rong explained helplessly.

Pang Jian thought for a moment and then said, “Among those Dark Ghosts who attacked us, there was one person wearing a golden mask, who seemed to have some special status.”

“Later, he died at the bottom of Black Water Pool, and his mask was shattered. I saw that his entire face was covered with crisscrossing scars; he was the one who killed your family’s son.”

The face beneath the broken mask was what left the deepest impression on Pang Jian, so he used that person as a scapegoat.

After listening, He Rong’s expression changed slightly; he nodded, thanked Pang Jian, and then turned and left.

From afar in the tree leaves, Luo Hongyan had been watching He Rong all along, shifting from a sitting to a standing position, holding back the blade-like chill in her eyes until he returned to Su Yuntian’s side.

In the darkness high above Pang Jian’s head, Hong Tai, who had been refined into a “Spirit Evil,” floated like a ghost.

After Hong Tai, who was of the Marrow Cleansing Realm, was refined into a “Spirit Evil,” he would not be detected by the people present as long as he deliberately concealed his presence in the night — including He Rong and Su Yuntian.

Luo Hongyan, who had been keeping an eye on He Rong, saw that he merely asked about the cause of Ziren’s death and then left with a greatly altered expression, so she didn’t secretly instruct the “Spirit Evil” to strike.

“It was Dong Qianfeng! Dong Qianfeng of the Dong family has actually joined forces with the Dark Ghost!”

He Rong returned to Su Yuntian, his eyes filled with panic as he said in a low voice, “It was also Dong Qianfeng who killed Ziren!”

“Originally, he was tortured by the Raging Sun Sect, his face slashed with over a dozen cuts, leaving indelible scars before being expelled from the sect.”

“It was him, wearing a mask, who colluded with the Dark Ghost Hong Tai, hunting our seven great families in the Solitude Mountain Range!”

Su Yuntian could no longer sit still and exclaimed, “It’s actually him!”

“Fortunately, he’s already dead,” He Rong added.

“Although Dong Qianfeng is dead, …” Su Yuntian stroked his chin, his expression growing grave, and said, “If Dong Qianfeng has become a person of Dark Ghost, does that mean his adopted son Dong Tianze might also have become one of them?”

He Rong was shocked: “That’s not possible, is it?”

“Dad, what are you two whispering about in the dead of night?”

Su Meng woke up groggily, and upon seeing their ugly expressions, she couldn’t help but inquire.

“It’s nothing.”

Su Yuntian tried to smile and comfort her but found that he couldn’t, so he said, “Dawn is almost here, it’s time for you to get up, and we need to prepare to hit the road.”

“Oh.”

Su Meng rubbed her eyes and responded.

In the tree leaves, Luo Hongyan watched the two from a distance, her lightly pursed lips exuding a cold intent.

Having extracted many secrets of the Dark Ghost from Hong Tai, she naturally knew who the discussed Dong Tianze was.

She also knew that the man was indeed in the Solitude Mountain Range.

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