Chapter 135 – Gray Pillar

Chapter 135 – The Gray Pillar
In addition to her monthly rounds, Xu Chuniang spent all of her time on the single matter of quenching and refining her body.

And the original extremely large valley in front of her, after less than one-fifth, at a speed visible to the naked eye, condensed and shrunk.

In the third year of Xu Chuniang’s quenching, the Black Earth Valley was left at half its original size.

And while the quality of its soil became more and more solid and hard, the color became lighter and lighter, presenting a color between grey and black.

The terrain of the valley, once again, sank a lot.

In these few years, Xu Chuniang had never stopped quenching and refining her body, and at this time, her body strength was even more on a higher level than before.

Spiritual root purity, likewise, was purified once more.

Xu Chuniang opened her eyes, her gaze falling above the valley.

The Black Earth Valley, despite having shrunk by half, still had a sizeable volume.

It seemed like it would take a long time to completely solve the valley’s problems.

She closed her eyes and once again plunged into the cultivation of quenching and refining her body.

In the blink of an eye, another five years or so had passed, and this was already the ninth year that Xu Chuniang had come to Yang County.

She got up and looked around, satisfied to find that the Black Earth Valley had further shrunk in size, remaining only one-twentieth of its initial size, less than the size of a house.

The soil around the Black Earth Valley, on the other hand, had even returned to its normal color.

However, it was not appropriate to call the Black Earth Valley now, probably in the eighth year, the color of the black earth gradually transformed into gray earth, and it was more appropriate to call it the Gray Earth Valley right now.

Xu Chuniang sighed softly, after the black soil became gray soil, she obviously felt that the scorching breath from the quenching fire was getting less and less.

After the valley in front of her turned completely gray, the Spirit Dew Technique was even more directly ineffective, sprinkling on it, there was no longer any hot breath spread out.

When the Spiritual Rain Technique was changed, it was also unable to do anything with the gray soil.

She guessed that the transformation of the black soil into gray soil was equivalent to completing some kind of metamorphosis, and if she wanted to continue quenching the hot breath, I’m afraid that it was not something she could do with her current cultivation level.

Good in this more than eight years of time, Xu Chuniang constantly quenching refining body, get the benefits of great, not only the body strength reached an extremely amazing point, is the purity of the spiritual root, but also got a substantial increase.

Originally, her qualifications were very average, being a water, wood, and earth spiritual root.

Among them, the water spirit root had the highest purity of sixty-five, the wood spirit root was the second highest, only forty-five, and the earth spirit root was the worst, only thirty-five.

But now, even though she hadn’t been tested by a professional Spirit Measuring Tool, Xu Chuniang believed that the increase in Spirit Root purity was definitely more than just a fraction of a point.

After all, the higher the purity of the spirit root, the faster the speed of spiritual energy absorption would be.

When cultivating, she was able to feel the changes.

As for her cultivation, Xu Chuniang had been busy quenching and refining her body all these years, so she hadn’t deliberately tried to raise it.

But every time she absorbed that sizzling breath, she needed to guide it with her aura, and in essence, when she was absorbing the sizzling breath, it was equivalent to cultivating.

After years and years, she had unexpectedly reached the late stage of the ninth level of qi cultivation, not far from the great circle of qi cultivation.

Xu Chuniang guessed that it was highly likely that the speed of cultivation had accelerated because the purity of her spiritual roots had increased.

Otherwise, under normal circumstances, after so many years of hard cultivation, she would at most be able to reach the middle of the ninth level of Qi cultivation.

Since the Spirit Dew Technique had failed and could not be quenched, it was pointless to guard here.

Xu Chuniang looked at the gray soil in front of her, pondering.

Originally, she had thought that if she kept quenching, she would be able to find the Heavenly Flame and solve the drought in Yang County, but now it seemed that she had thought of the problem too simply.

However, this gray soil in front of her wasn’t big, so she wondered if she could dig it out.

Xu Chuniang took out her flying sword and chopped to the side of the gray soil, quickly hollowing out a circle around it.

Only after digging for about ten feet, the gray soil still looked like it was deeply rooted.

Xu Chunniang clenched her teeth and continued to drive her flying sword towards deeper digging. It was only after digging about three zhang deep that she finally reached the point where the gray soil connected to the soil.

She let out a small sigh of relief, if this gray soil was bigger, even if it could be taken out and taken away, she didn’t have that much storage space to fit it in.

The gray soil in front of her was three feet high, with a length and width of about ten feet each, not like a valley, but like a large gray pillar.

Xu Chuniang tried to put it into the storage ring, only shook the pillar a little, not slightly changed color.

It seemed to be too heavy for the spiritual power to bring it in.

She stepped forward, sank her qi into her dantian, and clasped her hands around the large pillar, while her spiritual energy rapidly worked to communicate with the storage ring.

The large gray pillar shuddered for a while, but the chassis was solid and was not taken in.

Xu Chuniang was tired and sweating, but she couldn’t even make it move slightly.

She stopped and gasped for air.

She was already not small in strength, and after so many years of refining her body with sizzling breath, her strength was even more impressive.

However, under her full strength, she could only make this large pillar tremble.

Xu Chuniang clenched her teeth, this big pillar, she is non-take away today.

Not to mention the Heavenly Flame that might be hidden in it, just the mysterious and unpredictable hot aura that was enough to purify the Spirit Veins, she couldn’t possibly give it up!
Xu Chuniang flipped out several piles of talismans from her storage bag, all of which were mid-grade Golden Armor Talismans, Giant Strength Talismans, and Blood Rising Talismans, a type of talisman that could increase one’s strength and qi and blood.

These talismans were all refined by her some years ago when she was in the sect in order to break through the shackles of the mid-grade talismans.

Since they were made, they had been kept in the back of the box, but she never thought that they would come in handy now.

Not bothering to save, Xu Chuniang pasted hundreds of talisman seals onto her body and activated them together.

Layers and layers of golden light immediately emerged from her body, her pent-up qi and blood continued to surge, and her strength increased by dozens of times.

The pain coming from her limbs and meridians caused Xu Chunniang’s face to turn white, even though her body was not weak in strength, she was unable to withstand the power of so many talismanic seals.

It had to be quick, or else it wouldn’t be long before the power of these talismanic seals would call for her blood veins to explode!
Without hesitation, she clasped her hands around the pillar and gritted her teeth as she gave it a fierce hold.

Then she saw that under the support of hundreds of talisman seals, she finally barely shook the large gray pillar, lifting it up by a hair, and managed to put it into her storage bag.

Xu Chuniang’s mind loosened, and her entire body was directly planted in the deep pit in front of her.

Without changing her expression, she lightly shook her spiritual energy, shaking away all the talismanic seals, leaving only two or three Golden Armor Talismans to protect her body, and then let her body fall towards the bottom.

“Bang!”

Xu Chuniang fell to the bottom of the pit, with the Golden Armor Technique protecting her, the height of three feet didn’t cause her to be injured, but only a gray head was unavoidable.

Exhausted and off her feet, she rolled over and simply lay still at the bottom of the pit.

After resting for a while, Xu Chuniang opened her eyes and saw the tiny sky above her.

The sky was as blue as a wash, blue and transparent, as if it had the power to cleanse the mind.

She looked a little mesmerized for a moment, forgetting even the pain in her body.

Until a white cloud drifted by, blocking this small piece of sky, she only smiled slightly and said to herself, “Is this the perspective of a frog in a well?”

Despite being at the bottom of the cramped and narrow mud, she still had the right to look up to the beautiful, and the lonely heart to aspire to the sky.

Lying down until the body pain gradually subsided, Xu Chuniang got up unhurriedly, not using the Pure Dust Technique, but instead patting away the dirt on her body, and then climbed out from the bottom of the pit.

Stepping out of the bottom of the pit, the entire sky and earth opened up in front of her with a sense of enlightenment.

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