Cultivation begins with ice harvesters

Chapter 141: Qi Refining Level 9

If one continues to be obstinate and devotes all one's attention to stopping the circulation of the Great Heavenly Cycle, the consequences for the dantian under the impact of magical power will be unimaginable. Once the dantian is damaged, not to mention the future path of cultivation, even the current cultivation level will be impossible to preserve.

"Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it."

Tong Bingfeng barely managed to control his consciousness, actively merging it into the magical power in his dantian. He artificially interfered with the magical power within, piling up pieces of it together to forcibly improve its quality.

Although cultivators temporarily lose some control over their physical bodies, they can still maintain some control over the magical power in their dantian under the forceful intervention of their divine sense.

Through his efforts, the quality of the magical power in his dantian was significantly improved. Although the process of refining and replenishing magical power through the Great Circulation continued, the capacity of his dantian was significantly increased.

Advancing from the eighth to the ninth level of Qi Refining is neither too difficult nor too difficult. For cultivators, as long as they have sufficient mana to support them, breaking through the bottleneck and advancing their cultivation level is just a natural outcome with persistent effort.

The entire late-stage Qi Refining cultivation process is essentially just a series of improvements to the quality of the dantian's magical power, bringing it infinitely close to a liquid state. Only after the foundation of the Dao is established and the first drop of liquid magical power is condensed can one achieve a leap in the level of life.

This is why Tong Bingfeng was willing to expend his spiritual consciousness to forcibly intervene and improve the quality of the magical power in his dantian.

Only by being down-to-earth and going all out to improve the quality of the magical power in the dantian during each stage of the later stages of Qi Refining can one achieve a more significant effect than simply increasing the quantity of magical power.

In fact, according to Tong Bingfeng's plan, there is no rush to advance to the ninth level of Qi Refining. At least two years should be spent accumulating experience based on the current foundation.

But plans can't keep up with changes, and nothing ever changes according to a cultivator's subjective will. Now that things have come to this, he has no other choice.

Under the stirring of divine sense, the magical power in the dantian surged up and, with an overwhelming numerical advantage, violently crashed against the bottleneck.

Having lost the precise control over their physical body they used to have, they can only break through the bottleneck in the most primitive state through this crude and wasteful method.

After each failed attempt to break through the bottleneck, some of the surging magical power would be lost, some would dissipate into the physical body, and most would return to the dantian to be re-condensed.

This newly condensed magical power also brings a certain degree of reaction force from the bottleneck. After each failure, it will bring a certain impact to the dantian. Once or twice is not too significant and can still be within the range that the physical body can bear. However, once it exceeds the limit of bearing, the dantian and internal organs will inevitably suffer certain damage, and some bloodstains will appear on the corner of the cultivator's mouth.

Moreover, since each impact was initiated by a limited amount of divine sense, the divine sense also consumed a certain amount of energy, causing dizziness and lightheadedness in the mind, leaving the cultivator in a dazed state.

Unfortunately, during the entire Qi Refining stage of cultivation, the divine sense is basically in a dormant and developing state. Apart from a few spiritual pills and medicines that can nourish it to a certain extent, it can only rely on sufficient time to recover naturally.

Elixirs suitable for restoring the consciousness of cultivators in the Qi Refining stage are already rare, and in a barren place like the Bitter Sea Ice Domain, they are even more difficult to find.

Normally, such excessive consumption of spiritual energy would rarely occur, and if it did happen, the excessive consumption would be stopped immediately. But things are different now.

This is a critical moment for advancing to the ninth level of Qi Refining. Giving up would not only mean failure in this attempt to break through the bottleneck, but also require paying an even heavier price for the second attempt. Furthermore, the Great Circulation that is currently in operation cannot be stopped or intervened.

Once the continuous replenishment of magical power exceeds the dantian's capacity, the consequences are far more severe than what a cultivator can bear. Damage to the dantian and the severance of the cultivation path can, in some cases, be far more devastating than the cultivator's life.

"It's all or nothing! Today, I'm attempting to break through to the ninth level of Qi Refining. I can only succeed, I cannot afford to fail. I'll unleash my full power of divine sense and magic, putting myself in a do-or-die situation."

Tong Bingfeng forcibly suppressed and endured the excruciating pain in his mind caused by the excessive consumption of his divine sense. He once again transformed into a ruthless exploiter, forcibly extracting a large portion of the already meager divine sense from his mind.

As this divine consciousness left the mind, an unprecedented sense of emptiness arose in the entire head. Under this special state, the originally unbearable pain seemed to have become less important, and the cultivator was in a daze.

However, even in this state, Tong Bingfeng barely maintained the last shred of consciousness, exhausting all his strength to forcibly merge his divine sense with the magical power in his dantian.

"boom"

When the two forces were fully integrated, a violent explosion occurred in the dantian. An unprecedented and immense power surged upwards and crashed directly into the bottleneck of the ninth level of Qi Refining.

The power contained in this explosion came from the dual impact of divine sense and magical power. Its effect was in no way inferior to the full-force attack of a cultivator at the eighth level of Qi Refining, and the destructive power it produced was also more pure.

"Click"

This surge of energy impacted the bottleneck, which was not particularly sturdy to begin with, and naturally could not withstand it any longer. Spiderweb-like cracks quickly appeared, covering the entire bottleneck.

Tong Bingfeng still had some magical power remaining in his dantian after this attack, but his spiritual consciousness in his mind was almost completely reduced to a thin layer, no longer able to support a cultivator's basic clarity of mind.

The magical power in the dantian flowed smoothly upwards, entering the new cultivation realm of the ninth level of Qi Refining along the cracks above the bottleneck, forming the most basic layer of magical power in the new cultivation realm of the ninth level of Qi Refining.

After overcoming the bottleneck, this limited amount of magical power was effectively improved in quality, and it was now almost in a liquid state.

This magical power barely covered the dantian of the ninth level of Qi Refining with a thin layer, but it successfully stabilized the cultivation level of the ninth level of Qi Refining. At least in the short term, there was no risk of the cultivation level dropping, which bought the cultivator who had fallen into a coma an extremely valuable buffer time.

At this moment, the seven-colored spirit-gathering pearl at Tong Bingfeng's waist was still actively playing an auxiliary role, gathering spiritual energy within a radius of a hundred feet. This spiritual energy surrounded the cultivator's body, and some of it actively flowed into the meridians through the pores, accumulating little by little, and slowly replenishing the dantian.

Although the amount of spiritual power with such initiative is small and has not been refined through the Great Circulation, it inevitably has a slight negative impact on the quality of the mana in the cultivator's dantian. However, in such a critical moment of life and death, these minor details cannot be taken into account. As long as there is a little more mana in the dantian, the cultivator will have more self-healing power.