novelraw Chapter 217 : Refining the Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin
Chapter 217 : Refining the Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin
Chapter 217: Refining the Fragment of Xuanhuang Origin
Clad in a black long robe, Chu Huaixu saw a sword upon Mirror Lake.
A pitch-black sword.
It somewhat resembled the materialized form of the Heart Sword within the Sea of Consciousness.
On the ink-black longsword, there were not many superfluous patterns.
Ancient and simple, grand and restrained, yet giving off an incomparably sharp feeling.
“Did I train myself into… a sword in 《Borrowed Sword》?” Chu Huaixu thought.
“And this sword of mine can even borrow swords from others?”
He always felt that something was off, yet he could not quite put his finger on it.
Within the mirror surface, when he began to gaze at himself, that strand of power finally, in the truest sense, came into being inside Chu Huaixu’s body.
That was Origin Power!
Chu Huaixu saw a beam of chaotic yet incomparably pure light emerge upon the black sword in the mirror surface, wandering along the sword body.
At the same time, a chaotic and wondrous power also appeared within his body.
It was merely a single strand, yet it began to course through every part of him.
Passing through his limbs and bones, it traversed every place within the flesh that could store spirit.
Then, it entered the Spirit Embryo Secret Store.
As a result, it did not remain there for long either.
It seemed that this was not a resting place it found satisfactory.
In the end, it once more headed toward the Sea of Consciousness.
After entering the Sea of Consciousness, the black little sword trembled slightly, as if it were drawing in this power.
Immediately afterward, this strand of Origin Power filled with a sense of chaos began to continuously circle and linger around the Heart Sword.
“Looks like it just added some special effects to it?” Chu Huaixu thought.
System notification sounds began to ring in his ears.
“【Ding! Congratulations, you have successfully refined Origin Power!】”
According to the descriptions given by Xiang Yan and the others, the rank of Origin Power was far too high. Chu Huaixu was still a low-tier cultivator, and for the time being, he was unable to mobilize its power.
To fully fuse it into his body and wield it as freely as an extension of his limbs, he would likely need to at least advance to the realm of a Major Cultivator.
From Jiang Zhi’s account, during combat, if one were to activate this strand of Origin Power within the body, overall combat strength would undergo a qualitative transformation.
It was equivalent to instantly elevating the rank of all力量 within one’s body.
Including spiritual energy, divine sense, and so on.
But Chu Huaixu was still far too weak at present. They advised him not to use this power for now, as it would be easy to lose control and end up courting self-destruction.
“But it doesn’t matter, it has another characteristic—that is, accelerating cultivation speed.”
“It should exist independently of all special attribute points.”
Chu Huaixu opened his system interface and took a look.
Previously, when he raised his character level, the experience points consumed were roughly equivalent to getting a 20% discount.
He then opened his skill panel and immediately fell into wild joy!
“So even when upgrading 【Techniques】, I get a 20% discount!”
For him, this was equivalent to indirectly enhancing 【Spirit Embryo Attributes】 and 【Comprehension】!
“From a long-term perspective, refining Origin Power in the First Realm is a massive win!” he thought.
No matter whether it was leveling up or learning skills later on, everything would be discounted, saving a tremendous amount of experience points.
However, Chu Huaixu quickly froze.
“No—why hasn’t this thing changed at all?”
The Heaven-grade supreme technique 【Myriad Swords Converge】 still required 1,000,000 experience points, with only a certain probability of successful learning.
“A rock-solid one million.”
“And it’s purely luck-based.”
Chu Huaixu was not a gambler like Li Chunsong. He would never gamble such a generous sum of experience points on a low-probability event in the early stages.
So many players in 《Borrowed Sword》 refused to believe it and tried anyway—yet not a single one succeeded.
This showed just how absurdly low the probability was.
This was clearly a late-game technique.
What was more, 【Myriad Swords Converge】 was hailed as the number one technique under heaven—how could it be so easy to learn?
What puzzled him now was this: “Not even Origin Power can reduce its experience cost?”
This planted a seed of doubt in Chu Huaixu’s heart.
Inside the cultivation room, Chu Huaixu slowly opened his eyes.
He did not rush to go out, but first adapted to his greatly strengthened physical body and the surging spiritual energy within him.
Advancing in one breath to the Second Realm, Seventh Heaven, his overall strength had undergone a tremendous leap.
If he had possessed such cultivation back at the Evil Cultivator altar, then it would have been him chasing that scar-faced Evil Cultivator down and hacking him apart. After killing him, he could have used the Heart Sword to extinguish his Nascent Soul!
“Overall, for me at present, raising my realm is the most cost-effective,” he thought.
There was no longer any need to deliberately stall his level—experience points were absolutely best spent on leveling up.
“In fact, aside from character level, I’ve already caught up to my main account from before transmigration in all other aspects!” Chu Huaixu thought.
There was no need to mention special attribute points; his character panel looked exceptionally beautiful.
As for skills, he already had multiple Mystic-rank techniques at Great Perfection, and even the Earth-grade technique 【Sixfold Snow and Lightning】 had reached Minor Mastery.
Not to mention that he now also possessed Sword Intent and Sword Heart!
“If I have enough experience points next, I could raise the level of my Sword Intent.”
His Sword Heart Clarity belonged to the Spirit Embryo Divine Ability of the Heart Sword.
He had always suspected that once his Sword Intent reached Great Perfection, he might be able to attempt condensing another Sword Heart!
After exhaling a long breath of turbid air, Chu Huaixu glanced at the time displayed on the system interface.
“It’s already Xuanli 1991,” he could not help but sigh.
This seclusion had lasted a full fifty days in one go—he had directly crossed into the new year.
Yet he had little sense of time, feeling as though he had only stayed within the “Heart Lake” for about half an hour.
In merely fifty days, Chu Huaixu could not help but wonder whether anything had happened outside.
“How’s Big Ice Block been lately?”
“And Little Xu.”
This made him involuntarily feel that cultivators from Kunlun Grotto-Heaven, after emerging from each seclusion, might often experience a sense that things had changed and people were no longer the same.
After all, their seclusions were measured in years.
By comparison, the cultivation system of the Xuanhuang Realm was indeed far more fast-paced.
Although lifespans over there were longer, far more time was also spent cultivating; proportionally, they were actually quite similar.
“If cultivation were treated like making money on Earth, then in the Xuanhuang Realm you could quickly earn your first bucket of gold, while over in Kunlun Grotto-Heaven you’d have to work yourself to death for decades.”
“Major Cultivators and Golden Core cultivators are already considered regional powerhouses—their proportion might even be lower than the number of people on Earth who achieve financial freedom.”
“One side is where, as long as you’re capable, after ten or twenty or thirty hard years, you can achieve financial freedom—but life lasts less than a hundred years.”
“The other side is where, even if you’re capable, you still need to toil for hundreds or even thousands of years to achieve financial freedom—but your lifespan also spans a millennium.”
“If one truly could choose, perhaps everyone would make a different choice.”
At this thought, he suddenly remembered that within his 【Dao Birth One】, there was still an Accursed Pill—and inside that Accursed Pill was a set of 【Four Symbols Spirit Root】!
Chu Huaixu immediately poured his divine sense into the black bead.
Unexpectedly, the efficiency of 【Dao Birth One】 was far slower than his own; the cauldron was still refining that strand of Origin Power.
Only, earlier it seemed to be… working on two fronts?
Because inside the medicinal cauldron, the remaining baleful aura had completely vanished.
Instead, another Accursed Pill had appeared.
The two Accursed Pills were placed together—one was semi-transparent and empty inside, while the other had four-colored points of light floating within, gathering into the Four Symbols Spirit Root.
“Logically speaking, since that physical body could be possessed by Ye Kongxuan, this Four Symbols Spirit Root shouldn’t be bad, right?”
“If compared to a Spirit Embryo, it should at least be a top-grade Spirit Embryo,” Chu Huaixu thought.
He felt that this thing was still extremely valuable for research.
Moreover, it might come in handy someday.
After taking another look at the medicinal cauldron, Chu Huaixu withdrew his divine sense from the wondrous space inside the black bead.
He estimated that 【Dao Birth One】 would still need another ten days or half a month to finish refining.
“But since it can refine Accursed Pills while refining Origin Fragments at the same time, does that mean it can also refine spiritual pills?”
“I’ve now advanced to the Second Realm, and my development degree of my life-bound magical treasure has increased again.”
“I should already be able to refine more valuable and more useful second-grade spiritual pills, right?”
At this thought, he felt a hint of excitement.
“When the time comes, I’ll go to the Treasure Pavilion and buy some second-grade spiritual pill formulas,” he thought.
At that point, only one final thing remained undone.
—Opening the chest!
That Heaven-grade Mystery Chest was currently lying quietly within Chu Huaixu’s game 【Backpack】.
He was extremely curious what he might draw from a Heaven-grade Mystery Chest.
What left Chu Huaixu rather speechless was that the system did not even display what items were in the prize pool.
“Heaven-grade Mystery Chests are the highest-tier rewards among all chest rewards.”
“I’m really curious what’s actually in the prize pool.”
But then he thought about it again—blind draws were fine too.
Otherwise, it would be easy to become overly concerned with gains and losses.
After all, the prize pool would certainly contain things he most wanted, as well as things he did not want as much.
What should have been a happy occasion might instead end up affecting his mood.
With a thought, Chu Huaixu began opening the chest.
A new interface appeared before his eyes. Within the interface was a gigantic golden treasure chest.
After the chest opened, five-colored auspicious light surged out.
In any case, since he did not yet know what it was, the special effects might as well be cranked to the max first.
The five-colored auspicious light grew ever more dazzling, ever more blinding.
Immediately afterward, nothing could be seen clearly at all.
When Chu Huaixu’s vision finally recovered, a single item was floating within the Heaven-grade Mystery Chest.
After taking one look, his pupils could not help but constrict.
Chu Huaixu’s breathing involuntarily quickened, and boundless excitement began to grow in his heart.
How could he have forgotten this? How could he have forgotten this thing!
Only at this moment did he truly realize the preciousness and terror of the 《Dao Canon》!
Previously, he had believed that the greatest trait of the 《Dao Canon》 was its surging spiritual energy.
When adding together the spiritual energy stored in the flesh-body spirit storage and the Spirit Embryo Secret Store, it exceeded all other Heaven-grade cultivation methods by a wide margin.
Secondly, there was its heaven-defying self-healing ability.
But were the benefits of cultivating both internally and externally truly limited to just this?
No! No!
At this very moment, placed within the Heaven-grade Mystery Chest was:
——【Body Training Divine Ability】!