Stronger with Crimson Modifier

Chapter 196 - 194: Refining God (2)

This space.

This was the third great Divine Treasure of the human body, the Celestial Heart Divine Treasure.

But it wasn’t over yet.

The next moment.

Inside the Qi Vein Divine Treasure, the figure of the Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent, which had been coiled atop the crimson True Pill that resembled a great sun, suddenly moved.

It raised its head slightly, and its form transformed into a streak of red light, shooting straight out of the Qi Vein Divine Treasure.

When it reappeared, it had already arrived within the Celestial Heart Divine Treasure space that Hu Qi had just opened.

It was a product of Hu Qi’s Essence and Qi and his own Martial Arts Will.

It followed him into the Celestial Heart Divine Treasure.

In that instant, the once-calm Celestial Heart Divine Treasure began to change again.

The surrounding chaotic gas rapidly expanded and swelled outward.

Faced with this situation,

the Three-Eyed Primordial Serpent simply coiled its body, remained in the very center, and closed its eyes.

At the same time, along with the Mutation in the Celestial Heart Divine Treasure, an inexplicable ripple spread out, enveloping his entire body.

’Has the transformation begun?’

Hu Qi’s expression was calm.

He had opened the Celestial Heart Divine Treasure, performed Punching Brain Transformation, and condensed his Martial Arts Will into an avatar to preside over the Celestial Heart.

However, it was not yet over. There was one final step: the transformation of his soul to give birth to the Power of the Heart.

Only by completing this step could one be considered to have truly stepped into Refining God.

Under normal circumstances, the soul’s transformation process would usually take over a month, or even several years.

Thanks to the Crimson Modifier, Hu Qi had saved a great deal of time and wouldn’t need that long.

But even so, it couldn’t be completed in a short while.

...

As Hu Qi was ascending to Refining God, the Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy from the surroundings surged toward him like a tide.

The abnormally violent fluctuations of the Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy naturally and inevitably attracted the attention of some people.

Not far from the deserted island where Hu Qi was having his breakthrough, there was an island nation.

Its name was Yunhe Country.

To withstand disasters like earthquakes and tsunamis, the country’s buildings were generally low in height and mostly constructed from lightweight steel plates.

However, there were exceptions.

In a massive Shrine, moonlight, like water, spilled over the Shrine’s Bird House, its vermilion pillars appearing all the more solemn under the moon.

The Stone Lanterns lining both sides of the Cultivation Dao gave off a faint light. The Shrine’s courtyard was silent, with only a few cherry blossom trees standing quietly.

A night breeze blew past, and petals drifted down like snowflakes, forming a thick carpet on the ground.

Inside the Shrine, beneath a Divine Statue.

A young girl who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen sat quietly with her legs crossed.

Her skin was like snow, her eyebrows like a new moon, and her jet-black hair cascaded down her back.

The girl was dressed in a white Witch’s Robe, as pure and sacred as snow. Its long sleeves hung down by her sides, and a red sash tied at her waist perfectly accentuated her slender figure.

At this moment, her eyes were slightly closed, and she was perfectly still.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, she snapped her eyes open, and a wisp of cyan light flashed within them.

Just then, a soft sound came from outside.

In the next instant, a figure completely wrapped in black clothes and wearing a cat mask appeared at the entrance of the Shrine.

He knelt on one knee at the Shrine’s entrance.

"Lady Chisui, there’s an unusual situation over at Sea Lizard Island!"

The masked man looked at the young girl with a fervent gaze, as if he were seeing a god he worshipped.

The girl, Habukawa Chisui, stood up upon hearing his words.

She turned to look at the black-clothed, masked man, her gaze placid, her face devoid of any extra expression.

"What’s going on?"

Her outward demeanor was far too mature, completely at odds with her apparent age.

"Reporting to Lady Chisui, our monitoring shows that the fluctuations of Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy above Sea Lizard Island are extremely intense.

Three minutes ago, dark clouds suddenly gathered there, but they dispersed just as suddenly after only a few seconds.

The Lord of the Cabinet specially ordered me to ask if you need to go and investigate."

The masked man explained in a low voice.

The Sea Lizard Island he mentioned was one of Yunhe Country’s nearly one thousand islands, named for the enormous number of lizards on it.

It was located on the outermost edge of Yunhe Country’s archipelago and, due to its size, was just a deserted island with no inhabitants.

After speaking, the masked man took a cell phone out of his pocket and played a video.

’Hm? So something like that did happen.’

Habukawa Chisui’s gaze shifted and fell upon the video.

It showed a slightly blurry perspective.

In the footage, a large patch of dark clouds had suddenly swarmed into the night sky from an unknown source, only to vanish a few seconds later.

"I am aware of the matter. I will personally go and investigate the cause.

You are dismissed! Inform the Lord of the Cabinet not to worry. I will handle everything!"

Habukawa Chisui said coolly.

With that, she raised her hand and made a grasping motion toward the Divine Statue enshrined to the side.

In the next second, an object originally held in the Divine Statue’s hands transformed into a streak of cyan light and flew straight into Habukawa Chisui’s grasp.

It was a peculiar, crescent-moon-shaped weapon, glowing cyan all over, like a curved blade without a hilt.

The aura it emitted revealed it to be a Blood Refining Spiritual Soldier.

The curved blade swiftly shrank, turning into a turquoise bracelet that clasped onto her fair wrist.

Then, Habukawa Chisui took a step and arrived in the courtyard.

A faint white light glowed around her body, and she immediately shot up into the sky.

The resulting airflow swirled the flower petals on the ground, sending them dancing into the air.

Seeing this, the masked man bowed low, his voice filled with utmost reverence. "I respectfully see you off, Lady Chisui."

His eyes were filled with pride.

On the surface, Yunhe Country’s strongest combat power was a Martial Arts Family, and the same was true for other small nations.

This was partly because small nations had small populations and few resources, but a bigger reason was that there were problems with the Secret Martial Arts they practiced.

After the Xia Federation was formed, in order to better control and consolidate its rule,

a highly forward-thinking think tank made a suggestion.

A century ago, they abolished the sections concerning Qi Veins and the Celestial Heart Divine Treasure from the Inheritance Secret Martial Arts of all their vassal states. This fundamentally eliminated the possibility of Qi Dao Grandmasters emerging in these small nations.

Faced with a behemoth like the Xia Federation, which was formed from the merger of the two great Empires of Purple Gold and Longyuan, disagreement meant only one thing: destruction.

Therefore, even if these small nations were unwilling,

they were helpless to do anything about it.

Reason is needed everywhere, but on a certain level,

whoever has the biggest fist is also more persuasive.

However, nothing is ever absolute.

As an island nation, Yunhe Country’s natural geography meant it was perennially plagued by earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons.

The number of people who died each year as a result was not small.

「More than thirty years ago.」

A massive earthquake in Yunhe Country caused numerous casualties.

However, He Yun Country also had a blessing in disguise, discovering something inside a fissure on a solitary island.

It was the ruins of a certain School from the Miwu Civilization era.

From it, they obtained a complete Inheritance Secret Martial Arts. After acquiring it,

they immediately locked down all information.

Afterward, they secretly searched the entire nation for saplings of Upper Class aptitude to practice this complete Secret Martial Arts inheritance.

As for why the aforementioned Martial Arts Family didn’t switch to cultivating this Secret Martial Arts,

it was because while one could switch to a different Inheritance Secret Martial Arts, there were huge uncertainties. The slightest mistake could result in immediate death.

It was an extremely dangerous affair. Moreover, starting over did not guarantee rapid progress.

And everyone is suited to different Secret Martial Arts.

After weighing the pros and cons, they gave up on the idea.

And Habukawa Chisui, as the strongest genius secretly nurtured by Yunhe Country, had successfully broken through several years ago, reaching the Qi Dao Grandmaster Realm.

She could be called the strongest expert in all of Yunhe Country.

It was just that she had little interest in power and usually just stayed within the Shrine.

...

A Qi Dao Grandmaster’s speed was extremely fast. A journey of fifty to sixty kilometers only took her a few minutes to complete.

’The concentration of Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy has actually reached this level...’

Habukawa Chisui walked on empty air, standing in the sky.

The night wind howled, rustling the red hem of her skirt, making her look like a blooming rose.

At this moment, her gaze swept over the solitary Sea Lizard Island in the distance.

To an ordinary person, they might at most feel that the wind here was a bit strong. But to the senses of a Qi Dao Grandmaster, nearly all the Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy in the surroundings was converging on this spot.

A giant, translucent funnel had formed over Sea Lizard Island, and endless Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy was continuously pouring into it.

This was far more exaggerated than any Treasure Land.

It wasn’t that Yunhe Country had no Treasure Lands. For example, the Shrine where she cultivated was a Treasure Land, with a concentration of Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy that far surpassed other places.

But compared to this place before her, it didn’t even have one percent of the concentration.

Even from this distance, just by absorbing a little, she could feel the concentration of True Essence Power in her body starting to increase steadily.

There even seemed to be faint signs of Qi Condensation Liquid.

If she could practice her Cultivation here, she was afraid it wouldn’t be long before she could enter Tier Two of the Qi Dao Grandmaster Realm, Condensing Liquid into Pill.

’This Mutation... could it be some Treasure Medicine is being born?’

At this thought, even she couldn’t help but feel a flicker of fervent heat in her eyes.

Her figure descended rapidly toward Sea Lizard Island, while at the same time, she spread her True Essence Power throughout her body, remaining vigilant against any potential dangers.

Sea Lizard Island was not large, but its terrain was complex and covered in jungle, severely obstructing one’s line of sight.

However, this posed no major problem for Habukawa Chisui.

Her figure leaped through the air like a fired Arrow.

Following the pull of the Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy, she quickly arrived at the side of a mountain cliff.

She looked up.

’What is that thing?’

A look of astonishment flashed across Habukawa Chisui’s face.

It was as if she had just seen something utterly unbelievable.

There, on the precipitous cliff face, a giant cocoon three to four meters tall stood abruptly.

Its entire body was a pale red color.

The surface of the giant cocoon was covered in a crisscrossing network of red veins that looked like silk threads.

As the Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy poured in ceaselessly, the giant cocoon seemed to be alive, constantly contracting and throbbing.

A dull thumping sound, like the beating of a war drum, emanated continuously from the giant cocoon, echoing between the cliffs.