98. Chapter 95: Five Years in a Blink of an Eye (First Shift)
Chapter 95 – Five Years in a Blink of an Eye (First Shift)
“Ice Spear Art!”
In the Demon Wood Forest, he flipped his palm, and the air around him seemed to freeze, as countless tiny ice crystals quickly converged in his palm.
These ice crystals seemed to be guided by some kind of power, gradually fusing into a sharp ice spear.
“Whoosh!”
Chen Fan gently waved his palm, and the ice spear hanging in front of him was like an arrow that had left the string, shooting towards a boulder not far away with a piercing coldness.
Only a muffled “bang” sound was heard, the surface of the boulder was instantly covered with cracks, and then it was split into pieces with a loud bang.
At the same time, those scattered debris, but also all over the ice crystals.
“Another door!”
Chen Fan looked elated.
This was already a month after he had exchanged the Ice Spear Technique, Golden Light Technique, and the Cangwu Five Elements Sword Formation into his hands.
During this month, he had first mastered the Golden Light Art, and then today, he had finally mastered the Ice Spear Art.
The spells he redeemed this time were all more complex than the ones he redeemed last time, and were capable of mobilizing more law arcana.
But even so, he still managed to learn two spells in succession at an average speed of one per half month.
This was the effect of the mid-grade five-star spiritual root, iterated with his own enlightenment.
And after mastering these two spells, the corresponding Law Arcana were branded into his dantian, and the mana in his body was also a little thicker.
Just a little, not much.
But when he learned more spells in the future, as well as continuously refining these spells, and accumulating less into more, he could expect it.
“Whoosh!”
While Chen Fan was cultivating, a sword light flashed and sped straight towards the Demon Wood Forest, on the flying sword stood a figure, it was none other than Xu Shida.
He seemed to have greeted in advance.
As he arrived at the Demon Wood Forest, a twisted tree branch above the Demon Wood Forest retreated to make way for a passage.
He then rode his sword to the depths of the Demon Wood Forest, in front of a tree house.
“Congratulations Master Xu Nephew!”
Wei Mingyuan stepped out of a tree house and said in congratulations.
He had watched Xu Shida grow up, so even if Xu Shida had broken through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, he still referred to him as Senior Nephew.
Xu Shida was a middle grade three star spiritual root, he cultivated relatively early, he started cultivating at the age of eight, and with the aid of a large amount of resources, it only took him fifteen years to break through to the Great Circle of Qi Practicing.
After that, he spent another five years comprehending the arcane mysteries of the Laws and finally broke through to the Foundation Establishment Stage.
Such a cultivation speed could already be comparable to some mid-grade five-star spirit root disciples.
“Thank you, senior uncle.”
A trace of a smile surfaced on Xu Shida’s face.
“Let’s go, I know the reason for your visit, and it just so happens that I’m also curious about how far that boy Chen Fan’s spirit root has grown.”
Wei Mingyuan spoke.
With that, he took Xu Shida by sword and arrived in front of Chen Fan’s tree house.
“Uncle Wei, Senior Brother Xu.”
Chen Fan had just returned from his cultivation, and at a glance, he saw the two who landed in front of his study house and even greeted them.
“Chen Fan, your senior brother Xu, this time the retreat, but it is a breakthrough …… hmm?”
Wei Mingyuan said with a smile.
Only halfway through his words, his tone changed, and he carefully looked at Chen Fan: “Your physical cultivation realm, you broke through to the seventh layer of body refining?”
After Chen Fan’s Physical Cultivation Realm broke through, no one had ever discovered it.
But Wei Mingyuan was different.
As an Immortal Cultivator of the Foundation Establishment Stage, he could clearly feel that powerful qi and blood power contained in Chen Fan’s body.
“Just broke through ten days ago.”
Chen Fan replied respectfully.
“Physical cultivation?”
“And reached the seventh level of Body Refinement?”
Xu Shida, who was on the side, looked at Chen Fan in astonishment.
Three years ago, he had left Cangwu Mountain after bringing Chen Fan to the mountain.
Therefore, he did not know that Chen Fan had also practiced the Physical Cultivation Dao in addition to the orthodox path of Qi Refining.
And it had also reached such a realm.
“Awesome!”
“I really didn’t expect that in just over three years, you have reached this level.”
Xu Shida sighed and opened his mouth.
It was only three years, not anyone was able to progress so quickly in the two paths of body refining and qi cultivation.
“It’s awesome.”
Wei Mingyuan also opened his mouth, “But not only Chen Fan, you are the same, a new generation is a new generation, you are only twenty-eight years old and you have broken through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, you are much stronger than me back then.”
After saying that, he looked at Chen Fan and said, “Chen Fan, you are afraid that you still don’t know that this Senior Brother Xu of yours, in the future, you will have to change your name to Senior Uncle Xu.”
Chen Fan was stunned and immediately looked at Xu Shida, “Congratulations to Uncle Xu on his success in building the foundation.”
“Don’t.”
Xu Shida even waved his hand, “With your qualifications, sooner or later you will be able to break through to the Foundation Establishment Stage, let’s just refer to each other as senior brothers.”
“Also, I came over this time, mainly because I wanted to see to what extent your Spirit Root Qualification has grown over the past two years.”
With that, he spoke of his purpose for coming over this time.
“Come on.”
After saying that, he took out the Spirit Measuring Pillar that he had prepared in advance and looked at Chen Fan with a smile.
A hint of helplessness appeared on Chen Fan’s face.
However, he could only walk up and place his hand on the bead of the Spirit Measuring Pillar.
“Buzz!”
In the next instant, the Spirit Measuring Pillar shook, and a five-colored light, danced out, while the scale on it, also began to rise rapidly.
“Medium grade five stars!”
When the scale stopped, both Xu Shida and Wei Mingyuan’s eyes stared.
They had guessed Chen Fan’s spiritual root before. But at best, they had guessed that Chen Fan’s spiritual root could possibly have grown to a middle grade three stars.
If not, there was not much of a problem.
All that was needed was for Chen Fan’s spiritual root to be upgraded from a medium grade one star, to a medium grade two star, and that would be considered enough for them.
However, they did not expect ……
In just three short years, Chen Fan’s Spiritual Root Qualification had grown to five stars of the Middle Grade.
“Is this a growing spirit root?”
Xu Shida was shocked in his heart.
He still clearly remembered that when he had brought Chen Fan within the Immortal Ascension City, the quality of Chen Fan’s Spiritual Root was only five stars of the lower grade.
At the same time, because Xu Shida did not hide it, there were many disciples around who saw this scene.
These disciples looked at Chen Fan with the same surprise.
………………
“Chen Fan’s Spiritual Root has grown to five stars of the middle grade?”
“It’s only been a few years?”
“It’s also too fast, isn’t it?”
“Worthy of being a growth spirit root!”
It didn’t take long for a message related to Chen Fan to come out on the Cangwu Mountain disciple exchange board.
On the other side, Lu Ziying, who had not watched the scene from before, saw these messages from the token space and her complexion changed for a while.
How could she not expect that in just a few years’ time, Chen Fan’s Spiritual Root Qualification had caught up with her.
It could be imagined, I’m afraid that it wouldn’t be long before her Spiritual Root Qualification, would be completely surpassed by Chen Fan.
However, while the outside world was in a flurry, Chen Fan was not affected by all this.
He remained the same as usual.
“Whew!”
In the tree house, as Chen Fan operated the Five Spirit Yuan Qi Scripture, a heaven and earth spiritual qi, like birds returning to their nests, surged into his body.
Some of these heaven and earth spiritual qi, after entering his body, were refined into his mana.
There were also some that were temporarily stored.
“To the limit!”
At a certain moment, Chen Fan opened his eyes.
At this moment, a rich Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi had already accumulated among his body.
Previously, when he had just switched to the Immortal Dao, every time he cultivated, he had to refine the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi absorbed into his body into his own mana.
But later on, as his mastery of the Five Spirit Yuan Qi Scripture became more and more pure, now he only needed to absorb the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi from the outside world into his body and store it temporarily.
Then the Five Spirit Yuan Qi Scripture would operate spontaneously, bit by bit, refining this spiritual qi into his mana.
During this process, the heaven and earth spiritual qi contained all kinds of heaven and earth law mysteries that were beneficial to him, and there was a chance that he would be able to see them, and even master them.
It was precisely for this reason that the time he spent on practicing qi every day nowadays was a great deal less compared to before.
The time he saved was mostly spent on physical cultivation, as well as the cultivation of spells.
“Meng Shan is back?”
Just as Chen Fan was immersed in his cultivation, a month later, a flying boat flew from a distance and landed in Cangwu Mountain.
Not long afterward, Meng Shan, who had traveled to the Foundation Building Mound Domain a year ago, returned to the Demon Wood Forest.
It was just that it was different from the spiritedness he had when he went.
After returning, his face was all depressed.
At the same time, one of his arms remained in the Foundation Building Mound Domain forever.
“It’s just an arm, it won’t affect your future foundation building.”
“With your spirit root qualification, there is still hope that you will succeed in building a foundation.”
Chen Fan said comfortingly after seeing Meng Shan.
“I have already given up on the path of physical cultivation, losing an arm is nothing to me.”
Meng Shan shook his head, his voice low, “It’s just that the four teammates who traveled with me to the Foundation Building Mound Domain this time ……”
Chen Fan did not know what to say.
Regarding Meng Shan’s encounter in the Foundation Building Mound Domain, he had already heard about it.
It was said that he and his squad, in the middle of the Foundation Building Mound Domain, had encountered a disciple from the White Bone Sect, amongst the seven sects of the Heavenly North, who possessed a top-grade spiritual root.
That White Bone Sect disciple had sacrificed a White Bone Killing Sword, and the moment he encountered them, without any conflict, he had killed the members of the squad that was with him, one after another.
If he hadn’t been lucky and encountered Shi Wenzhao of Bibo Island, I’m afraid that he would have perished in the Foundation Building Mound Domain just like the others.
“Shi Wenzhao ……”
Chen Fan muttered after leaving from Meng Shan.
The name Shi Wenzhao had not appeared in his ears for some time.
However, he still clearly remembered that this person had created an astonishing creation and obtained the Black Lotus Spirit Root in the Heaven Intercepting Mountain Range back then.
Yet, he did not expect that he had also entered the Foundation Establishment Mound Domain.
Half a year ……
One year ……
Two years ……
Time passed day by day.
While the outside world is in turmoil, Chen Fan is in the Demon Wood Forest, devoting himself to cultivation, as if all the disturbances have nothing to do with him.
Only occasionally, he would let himself relax for a day.
In this process, he was in the Demon Wood Forest, and found a few good friends, can be in the rare leisure time to chat and make fun.
Meanwhile, Meng Shan had also recovered and broken through to the sixth level of Qi cultivation about a year after returning from the Foundation Building Mound Domain.
“Buzz!”
One day two years later, and at the same time, five years after Chen Fan came to the Demon Wood Forest.
He was in the middle of a cultivation session when he suddenly captured an aura, and his mind immersed itself into the dense Laws of Heaven and Earth around him.
(End of Chapter)