The Sun Divine Light shines upon Kyushu, colliding and interacting with Kyushu's Spiritual Qi to transform into various types of Fire Element and Yang Element Spiritual Qi. When ordinary people cultivate the True Yang Body, they are like blind men feeling an elephant. They indiscriminately combine whatever Spiritual Qi they can find with their own Blood Qi, refining it into True Yang, and only then do they try to find ways to purify that True Yang.
Most of the content within the True Yang Body manual is about how to purify True Yang. While Five Element Spiritual Energy is manageable, various kinds of Yin Qi and Muddy Qi are extremely difficult to remove.
Rumor has it that within the Nine Yang Sect's grounds, there is a Tier Five Nine Heavens Profound Sun Array. It can purify various types of Yang Qi from the mixed Spiritual Qi, providing it for True Disciples to cultivate.
But Iron Head, possessing the Bright Qi Talent, could skip this step entirely and choose the exact Yang Qi it wanted. After consulting with Yang Jing, it selected Celestial Yang Qi, the most abundant among the several types of Yang Qi suitable for the True Yang Body, and began to guide and refine it.
Celestial Yang Qi is formed from the natural combination of Jia Wood Spiritual Qi and Yang Fire Qi in the world. It contains vibrant life force. When used for Body Refinement, the resulting True Yang is far more effective at nourishing the physical body than other types of True Yang.
Furthermore, San Yuanli was covered in Spirit Rice and other Spirit Plants. They absorbed and exhaled Jia Wood Spiritual Qi, which suffused the air, making Celestial Yang Qi much more abundant than other types of Yang Qi.
Aided by its Bright Qi Talent, Iron Head carefully absorbed the Celestial Yang Qi, combining it with its own Blood Qi within its Shenque Acupoint. In the True Yang Dharma Body technique, this is known as Celestial True Yang.
A steady stream of Celestial Yang Qi flowed into the Shenque Acupoint, combining with all the Blood Qi in its body to become Celestial True Yang.
After a little over three hours, Iron Head had finally converted all the Blood Qi in its body into Celestial True Yang. The power of Celestial True Yang far surpassed that of Blood Qi, but its quantity was much smaller. Its entire body's surging Blood Qi was reduced to a single wisp of Celestial True Yang, nourished within the Shenque Acupoint.
With its Blood Qi depleted, Iron Head collapsed to the ground in a boneless heap, its vision going dark. Yang Jing quickly took out an Upper Grade Blood Circulation Pill and fed it into its mouth.
It took a while for it to recover.
Over the next month, thanks to a plentiful supply of Blood Circulation Pills, Iron Head's cultivation of the True Yang Body went very smoothly. Every day, it would completely exhaust its Blood Qi, converting it into Celestial True Yang. The limit of Celestial True Yang its body could contain was equivalent to its Blood Qi capacity. Until this limit was reached, it could continuously accumulate more.
Once it reached the limit, it would have to either try to open the next Acupoint or consume an Elixir that could increase its maximum Blood Qi.
With the Celestial True Yang performing a Yijing Marrow Cleansing, Iron Head expelled large amounts of impurities from its body every day. Its appearance grew more and more majestic, as if it were a divine hound from myth and legend.
Yang Jing was in no hurry to share Iron Head's True Yang Body.
After a month of cultivation, Yang Jing once again poured all the Spirit Stones he had earned into the True Yang Body.
[True Yang Body: Adept (53%)]
Maxing out the experience for the Adept stage required a full one thousand Spirit Stones!
If Iron Head's Alchemy hadn't become increasingly proficient, he really wouldn't have known how to gather so many Spirit Stones.
Because he had been selling large quantities of Yellow Bud Pills, more and more people were starting to watch him. Yang Jing planned to slow down the sale of Yellow Bud Pills next month and switch to Yang Returning Pills and Cyan Cicada Pills instead.
These two types of Elixirs were not as profitable as Yellow Bud Pills, but the sales volume was also massive. Yang Returning Pills were excellent Healing Elixirs, while Cyan Cicada Pills were suitable for Cultivators with Wood Element Techniques to increase their Magical Power. Since the Alchemy Techniques were vastly different from that of the Yellow Bud Pill, those watching Yang Jing would likely never guess that the same person was refining both.
An Alchemist proficient in several types of Tier One Middle Grade Spirit Pills was more than qualified to serve as an Honored Guest Elder for a Foundation Establishment Clan and would have no need to sell their wares in secret.
During this time, Yang Jing intensified his practice of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Swordsmanship. He used this Sword Mantra to enhance his Blood Qi, laying a solid foundation for cultivating the True Yang Body.
With the Five Elements Lock Jade Formation as his trump card, and with Iron Head's Power greatly increased due to its initial success with the True Yang Body, Yang Jing was very patient.
Iron Head had been cultivating the Jade Water Skill the longest and had ground its proficiency to a respectable level.
[Jade Water Skill: Integration and Mastery (2%)]
This meant that even though it spent a great deal of energy on the True Yang Body, its progress in the Jade Water Skill wasn't hindered. In fact, it was even faster, allowing it to reach the Qi Cultivation Third Layer once again.
Yang Jing used his sharing Skill directly, applying it to the Bright Qi Talent twice.
[Bright Qi (35%)]
[Bright Qi (40%)]
A golden ring appeared around Yang Jing's pupils, then quickly faded away.
His newly enhanced Bright Qi Talent made his ability to perceive the Heaven and Earth Spirit Mechanism even more detailed. When he channeled Magical Power to his eyes, the world was no longer just five crude colors. Light green, dark green, pale yellow—all sorts of more complex colors filled his vision.
Even the Water Element Spiritual Qi gushing from the Spiritual Spring was a composite of various types of Spiritual Qi. Yang Jing could now distinguish Ren Water Spiritual Qi, Kui Water Spiritual Qi, and Earth Element Nether Qi within it. There was much Ren Water and little Kui Water, along with a stream of Earth Element Nether Qi. 'It seems this Spiritual Spring originates deep underground; otherwise, it wouldn't have brought the Earth Element Nether Qi up with it.'
He looked up at the sky and could finally see the Celestial Yang Qi clearly, suffused between the heavens, the earth, and the multicolored Spirit Plants. The Celestial Yang Qi was bluish-yellow, appearing in fine wisps like smoke.
With his Bright Qi Talent at this level, it was finally sufficient to support his own cultivation of the True Yang Body. This made Yang Jing let out a huge sigh of relief. 'Come to think of it, my disciple Iron Head's combat power has already far surpassed my own.'
Yang Jing had Iron Head focus all its efforts on cultivating the Jade Water Skill so that it could pass on its True Yang Body Realm to him sooner.
The Integration and Mastery level of the Jade Water Skill allowed Iron Head to absorb nature's spiritual energy and convert it into Magical Power much faster. Even the Magical Power it produced was slightly purer. At the very least, breaking through the Early Stage Qi Cultivation was no longer as difficult as it was with the original version of the Cultivation Technique.
Supplemented with Middle Grade Water Cloud Pills, its cultivation progress with the technique far surpassed even that of a Cultivator with an Upper Grade Water Spirit Root. It would take less than a month and a half to cultivate back to the Qi Cultivation Third Layer.
This speed was enough to leave any Independent Cultivator dumbfounded. If it kept cultivating like this, it could reach Qi Cultivation Perfection in less than ten years.
However, a Cultivation Technique with no future like the Jade Water Skill made it nearly impossible to reach Foundation Establishment. During the attempt, it would still be very difficult to pass the Magical Power Barrier, one of the three great trials. Even if it managed to force its way to Foundation Establishment, its Magical Power would be so meager that it would undoubtedly be at the very bottom of all Foundation Establishment cultivators.
However, this cultivation speed was extremely beneficial for Yang Jing when it came to adding points.
Over the next month, Yang Jing followed a strict routine. He practiced the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Swordsmanship daily, and every few days, he would take the Spirit Pills refined by Iron Head to the Marketplace to sell.
Iron Head's Alchemy skills became more and more superb, and it also broke open the second Acupoint for its True Yang Body. The Celestial True Yang throughout its body grew even more profound.
Yang Jing had tested it; even when he channeled all his Magical Power into a full-force attack with the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Swordsmanship, he couldn't even scratch its skin. 'Such astonishing Defense Power,' he marveled. 'Only a Sect's Foundation Method like the True Yang Body could achieve something like this.'