lcionline Chapter 368 If not now, when?
Chapter 368 If not now, when?
Several more months passed. In the dark cave, Ding Yi slowly opened his eyes and then released his grip on the Mother Fiend Stone.
"My lifespan has reached 2000 years."
A thought flashed through Ding Yi's mind.
After refining the evil energy in the Mother Evil Stone day and night for the past few months, his lifespan has recovered from the critical value to about two thousand years.
Such a long lifespan does seem quite good, but Ding Yi understands that such a rate of improvement is far less efficient than killing a few True Immortals.
Unfortunately, the True Immortals of this realm are far more difficult to deal with than those of the lower realm, and Ding Yi himself is unaware of his own strength at this moment.
Although his cultivation method was enhanced based on the Daoist scriptures of the upper realm, it has become more of a cultivation technique for immortality because the word "suitable" has been added to it.
These five elements of energy can only be refined with spiritual fire, and even the knowledgeable Ji Huanxue could not recognize what spiritual fire was.
Therefore, Ding Yi could only use the Flowing Sand Diagram to measure the speed at which his strength improved during his daily cultivation.
If the red crosses become smaller or their number decreases, it proves that you have become stronger again.
Unfortunately, although this method of identification is simple, even Ding Yi is unsure about its accuracy.
After all, killing intent is something that changes every moment.
It's possible that this person was thinking about killing you one breath, but the next moment, when they're in a good mood, they've completely forgotten about you.
This is not the lower realm. There are at least eight hundred or a thousand ascendants like Ding Yi in this Little Yuan Palace, so they won't attract much attention.
Therefore, when Ding Yi saw that the red cross on the quicksand diagram had shrunk again, he did not show any joy on his face. Instead, he rested his chin on his hand and fell into deep thought.
Three months have passed since the ascension, and according to the plan, Ji Huanxue should also take action.
I can't just sit here and wait to die.
Ding Yi looked at the scratches on the wall next to him. These were marks he had left to count, and now he had counted more than ninety.
Three months is but a fleeting moment for cultivators in the upper realm, but Ding Yi knew that Jin Wuhuan's affair could not be kept secret for long.
Once those above become suspicious, I, who belong to the same realm as Jin Wuhuan, will inevitably be implicated. My strength is still improving too slowly.
Now it seems like it's time to go all in again.
Ding Yi stroked his chin, then touched his chest and took out a pill the size of a longan.
This pill was none other than the Yin-Yang Creation Pill that Jin Wuhuan had brought down to the mortal realm!
According to Ji Huanxue, even within the Yin-Yang Palace, this Yin-Yang Creation Pill is a rare and precious divine pill. If it weren't for Changqingzi, the Yin-Yang Palace would never have given this pill to Jin Wuhuan.
Now that this pill has fallen into Ding Yi's hands, it is natural that it should be used to its full potential.
Thinking of this, Ding Yi spat into the air and then used his divine sense to control the saliva to write the words "Five Elements Heaven-Mending Scripture, Minor Completion, No Side Effects" on the pill.
The next moment, a line of text appeared in Ding Yi's field of vision.
[Currently available for enhancement; required lifespan: 12955 years and 13 days. Enhance now?]
Ding Yi was stunned when he saw the number.
"Damn, it's only at the minor stage of development, yet it requires a lifespan of 12,000?!"
Ding Yi cursed inwardly, but at that moment, a question suddenly occurred to him.
The classification of minor success, major success, and perfection is for cultivation techniques in the lower realm. However, the Five Elements Heaven-Mending Scripture is based on cultivation techniques from the upper realm, so whether it is still applicable to these three classifications is still unknown.
Upon realizing this, Ding Yi suddenly understood.
If reaching perfection in cultivation equates to becoming a Venerable, then minor achievement should correspond to the Profound Realm, and major achievement to the True Person Realm; only then would it be considered reasonable.
According to this logic, a newly ascended being should be about as strong as a warrior in this world, and only slightly stronger than that Daoist boy.
"So, if we directly strengthen it to the minor completion level, that is, directly advance to the Xuanzhe realm, it would require 12,000 years of lifespan, but that number is really exaggerated."
"No matter what, I, Ding Yi, have gotten to where I am today through talent. I'm a top-tier existence in the lower realm. How could it have taken me so many years?!"
Ding Yi's expression turned somewhat grim, and he even wondered if the system had made a mistake.
Damn it, never mind, let's just go for it!
Ding Yi wiped the saliva off the pill, then spat it out again in the same way, except this time he changed the enhancement attribute to "increase proficiency and limit lifespan by 2000 years".
This time, the prompt in front of Ding Yi was reduced to the year 2000.
call!
Ding Yi, who hadn't gone all-in in a long time, suddenly felt a little dazed when he saw this lifespan value.
He thought back to the moment he first stepped into Xiaotan Village, and also to the moment he first learned that he only had eight years left to live.
Go all in! Go all in!
Upon thinking about the plan ahead, Ding Yi immediately made up his mind and then decisively chose "yes".
The next moment, the pill in Ding Yi's hand was suddenly enveloped in a faint light. Upon seeing this, Ding Yi quickly clenched the pill into his palm.
After a moment, seemingly noticing that the pill in his hand had stopped vibrating, Ding Yi opened his palm and saw a delicate and translucent pill lying quietly in his palm.
[Divine Illumination Five Elements Heaven-Mending Pill - Two Thousand Years Old]
[The Five Elements of Heaven and Earth, the Three Thousand Daoist Methods—using the Divine Illumination Method to perceive the Five Elements Body Refinement Method, all things in Heaven and Earth return to one's own body; Heaven is me, and I am Heaven!]
[Remaining lifespan: 32 years and 14 days]
At this moment, the divine pill itself still emitted a faint light and even a refreshing fragrance.
Moreover, upon closer inspection, one can discover a faint, hazy starry river imprint within the elixir, slowly shifting.
Ding Yi asked himself honestly, he had never seen any pill that was so miraculous, and he felt that this pill, which had been strengthened over two thousand years, was indeed extraordinary.
The next moment, Ding Yi pinched the pill and threw it into his mouth, then closed his eyes and sat cross-legged.
...
After an unknown amount of time, Ding Yi awoke again in the dark cave.
call!call!call!
He suddenly gasped for breath, his eyes filled with indescribable pain, his muscles tensed, and sweat poured from his strong back.
Even though he had been divinely inspired many times before, Ding Yi had never experienced such pain as this time.
This pain even made him tremble deep in his soul, as if someone had pierced his soul directly with an awl!
Countless strange and bizarre pieces of knowledge were shattered, then rapidly reassembled and surged into his mind at an eerie speed, making him even forget the existence of his physical body.
Grass! !
Ding Yi clenched his fists and slammed them hard against the ground, making a dull thud.
Is it really this painful for a mere two thousand years of divine illumination?!
How will he continue to shine for ten thousand years?!
The next moment, Ding Yi's expression suddenly relaxed, and he couldn't help but slump to the ground, his eyes becoming somewhat vacant.
But just a moment ago, the pain in his soul reached its peak, and then vanished instantly, causing his soul to plummet to the ground from a great height as if he had jumped off a building.
This extreme contrast made him forget the existence of his physical body, and also deeply imprinted countless fragments of the Great Dao into his soul, making them indelible.
His body began to show a subtle change, and this change was not under Ding Yi's control, but rather changed in accordance with some inherent logic.
Split, recombine, split again, and reassemble.
The entanglement between the cellular atoms generated a kind of electric current that flowed across Ding Yi's body surface.
"This is fucking awesome, I love this feeling."
Ding Yi stared blankly at the empty space above him and spoke slowly.