Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Zhao Sheng didn't haggle, directly counted out three hundred mid-grade Spirit Stones and handed them to the other party.

"This... this is not acceptable, not acceptable!" Manager Liu panicked at the sight and hurriedly declined repeatedly.

"The Manager should just accept them. The extra seventy pieces are a small token of appreciation from Zhao, there's no need to refuse!"

Hearing the distinguished guest say so, Manager Liu reluctantly accepted them.

Zhao Sheng put away the Spiritual Medicine, then agreed to return in five days and left thirty mid-grade Spirit Stones as a deposit before leaving the Hundred Herbs Pavilion.

...

That night, Zhao Sheng quietly slipped out of the Cultivation Room and was the first to enter Yu Mei House.

An hour later, after Chen Shuang fell asleep contentedly, Zhao Sheng quietly sneaked into Huixin Courtyard and harmonized with Chen Qi through the night.

For the next two days, Zhao Sheng pampered his wife and amused his daughter in Cheng Ying Courtyard during the day, but at night waged fierce battles that left several women in disarray, crying and begging for mercy.

Time flowed like water, slipping through the five days swiftly.

On the afternoon of the fifth day, Zhao Sheng entered the Cultivation Room as usual to cultivate Mysterious Skill.

Yet after the door closed and the Barrier Array Formation activated, Zhao Sheng was no longer inside the Cultivation Room.

At the same time, Zhao Sheng appeared in a temporary cave mansion two hundred miles outside Returning City.

Soon, a sword rainbow soared into the sky, speeding madly toward Returning City.

Upon entering Returning City, Zhao Sheng smoothly acquired a Thousand-year-old Flood Dragon Scale Ganoderma from Manager Liu, costing him nearly two hundred mid-grade Spirit Stones.

But he was not satisfied and quickly arranged with Manager Liu to continue gathering seven flavors of Spiritual Medicine for him; he would come periodically to collect them.

After leaving two top-grade Spirit Stones as part of the deposit, Zhao Sheng was escorted out of the medicine shop by Manager Liu.

Moments later, Zhao Sheng altered his appearance and entered the Yushu Pavilion.

About thirty minutes later, Zhao Sheng hurriedly exited, disappearing into the crowd in just a few blinks.

A few days later, Yushu Pavilion suddenly began selling a series of special Fire Talismans.

Though these Fire Talismans were not high-grade, being only First and Second Order mid-to-low-grade talismans,

the power of each Fire Talisman was astonishingly great, several times greater than that of ordinary talismans of the same rank.

Of course, the prices were also staggering, deterring countless Qi Refining Immortal Cultivators.

Meanwhile, a few top-grade talismans were also auctioned at the high-end auction held by Yushu Pavilion.

These top-grade talismans, mainly consisting of Thunder and Fire type Spirit Talismans, although only up to Second Order at most, were so powerful it was frightening, almost comparable to average third-rank Treasure Talismans!

After a brief period of coldness, these special top-grade talismans quickly became immensely popular, arousing intense bidding among Foundation Establishment Cultivators, completely unable to meet the demand.

By the time those in power at Yushu Pavilion realized their mistake and urgently wished to locate Zhao Sheng, they found no trace of him anywhere.

It was as if he evaporated into thin air, not appearing again for a long time afterward.

...

At a quarter past 3 a.m., at the darkest hour of the night.

High above, the Gang Wind howled, with giant cloud masses spanning several thousand to nearly tens of thousands of miles sweeping by rapidly from below, flying towards the end of the sky.

At this moment, a completely black Cloud Platform hovered silently, suspended in the air tens of miles below the Boundary Membrane.

The Cloud Platform was shrouded in a thick Light Shield, reducing the power of the Gang Wind and the extreme cold environment by at least half.

In the center of the Cloud Platform, Zhao Sheng faced east, sitting cross-legged in the middle of the Array Map, patiently waiting for dawn.

Time slowly passed, the horizon gradually showing a hint of fish-belly white.

Soon after, a red sun suddenly peeked out from the edge of the Cloud Sea, its red glow spilling over the Cloud Sea, dyeing half the Cloud Sea a brilliant red.

When the pale golden sunlight fell on the Cloud Platform and shone on Zhao Sheng,

the darkness above slowly receded, and threads of purple mist began to emerge.

Compared to the surface, the amount of Constant Sun Purple Qi near the Boundary Membrane was more than ten times greater.

At this moment, Zhao Sheng closed his eyes, unleashing his Divine Sense with full force, covering a range of two hundred meters in an instant.

With the Mysterious Skill in play, Spiritual Power circulated through his limbs and body, capturing all the Constant Sun Purple Qi within two hundred meters, pulling it into his Core Energy Sea in an instant.

Meanwhile, the Array Map on the platform emitted a dazzling Thunder Light, with a large amount of free-form Thunder Qi appearing out of nowhere and swarming into Zhao Sheng's Core Energy Sea.

As soon as the free Thunder Qi came into contact with the Constant Sun Purple Qi, they were instantly transformed into threads of Violet Thunder Light via a Mysterious Thunder Seal condensed by his Divine Sense.

The Violet Thunder Light was sucked into the Spirit Power Vortex, rapidly refining into a drop of Violet Thunder Spiritual Power.

No one knew how much time passed before Zhao Sheng could no longer sense any Constant Sun Purple Qi; this mystical energy came suddenly and vanished just as abruptly.

Zhao Sheng opened his eyes, saw the sun had fully risen above the horizon, and today's dawn was over.

Yet... his expression appeared indifferent.

Zhao Sheng reached out his right hand to the ground, his forefinger flickering slightly, and in an instant, the Cloud Platform beneath him vanished into thin air.

He then hovered in the air, turned his gaze westward, where the darkness had not yet entirely receded, the line between darkness and light was distinctly visible.

In the next instant, Zhao Sheng's form disappeared into thin air.

When he reappeared, he had relocated eight thousand miles to the west, just at the stage of darkness before dawn.

Zhao Sheng released the Cloud Platform, sat cross-legged in the center of the Array Map, silently waiting for the sunrise.

Soon, the sun peeked out slightly from the east, breaking through the darkness, heralding the dawn, and turning half the Cloud Sea into Fire Clouds.

In an instant, threads of Constant Sun Purple Qi arose with the morning sun, as Zhao Sheng released his Divine Sense, methodically capturing the surrounding Constant Sun Purple Qi, while simultaneously activating the Array Map and continuously refining the incoming Thunder Qi and Purple Qi.

Thus, drop by drop of Purple Cloud Thunder Power was slowly refined, gradually replacing the original Foundation Establishment Spiritual Power.

Once the Constant Sun Purple Qi vanished, Zhao Sheng once again launched Space-Time Teleportation, relentlessly chasing after "dawn."

His method of cultivation was simply unimaginable!

One could say the amount of Constant Sun Purple Qi he refined in a single attempt was equivalent to what an ordinary cultivator would achieve in ten days to half a month of effort.

On this day, Zhao Sheng teleported three consecutive times, reaching as far as over twenty-four thousand miles away.

However, this was also his relative "limit." After all, the cost of launching Space-Time Teleportation was not small, and one must act within their means.

When he returned to the Hidden Dragon Pavilion through teleportation, it was already midmorning!

Later, Zhao Sheng donned his robes, pushed open the stone gate, and walked out of the Cultivation Room into the courtyard.

"Chen Shou!"

With a call, a sturdy young man jogged in from outside the courtyard, came to Zhao Sheng's side, and bowed, saying, "Master, this humble one is here, do you have any orders?"

Zhao Sheng asked indifferently, "Have the eggs I asked you to watch shown any signs?"

Chen Shou's expression turned bitter, and he softly said, "Master, this humble one has changed the medicinal liquid three times as instructed, but most of the eggs still show no signs at all. However, there are seven eggs whose vitality is growing stronger, they should... survive!"

"Oh, quickly take me to have a look!" Zhao Sheng's interest was piqued upon hearing this, and he promptly instructed.

"Master, please follow me."

Chen Shou responded and quickly led Zhao Sheng through courtyards and corridors, finally entering a special warm house with constant temperature and humidity.

In the middle of the warm house were eight square tables, each with a jade vase about a foot in diameter.

Each vase contained a shallow layer of mottled liquid, with sesame-sized "black dots" in the Spirit Liquid.

Zhao Sheng walked past each table, using Divine Sense to sense the vitality of the eggs in the vases.

Just as Chen Shou had said, only seven eggs had doubled in size, seemingly with some hope of incubation.

Zhao Sheng specifically picked out these seven eggs, placed them in a new jade vase, and replaced them with a layer of higher concentration Resurrection Spirit Liquid.

After doing this, he instructed Chen Shou to continue looking after the remaining eggs, then took the seven eggs with him.

Passing through two courtyards, Zhao Sheng walked to the side of the garden, just in time to hear a burst of crisp and pleasant laughter coming from within.