When he left the elixir refining hall, the sun had already been setting. That busy day filled with surprises left Chu Chen with mixed feelings.
With the setting sun in his face, Chu Chen returned to his hut and took the heavy bag of spirit stones before he ran to the sect market.
The feeling of spending money had totally been different between the rich and the poor. With a hundred spirit stones in hand, he had no longer felt the pain of when he purchased elixirs.
Whenever he saw spirit gathering elixirs, he purchased them decisively. Chu Chen had been in the mindset for a mass purchase.
In the past, Chu Chen had been stared at with cold looks or disgust whenever he came to the market. People looked down on him and wished for him to go away.
At that moment, he was met with all sorts of flattering smiles and their attitudes had been extremely friendly.
Without him realizing, the bag of spirit stones were all spent. At the same time Chu Chen had a bag filled with spirit gathering elixirs.
When he was purchasing spirit gathering elixirs, Chu Chen ran out of patience after holding back for such a long time, ever since he reached the ninth-level of the Spiritual Mist Stage. He had been determined to make a breakthrough within the next few days, to have made an attempt for the tenth-level, great perfection of the Spiritual Mist Stage!
Returning home, Chu Chen hurriedly put the elixirs in place and sat on his bed in a lotus position, getting ready to focus on his cultivation.
Having been useless for the past three years, he had really held back for far too long. He had been unwilling to let go of any chance at breaking through.
This time, Chu Chen once again took out the black jade slip and placed it before him. After that, he fully extended his spiritual consciousness into the black jade slip.
Having probed it with his spiritual consciousness had just a short process, yet Chu Chen felt that a century had passed. He could not have helped but to have taken a deep breath.
His body shuddered suddenly as the mysterious dimension appeared before his eyes once again. In the grey surroundings, there had been a few words emitting a dazzling glow. It floated in the air, extremely eye-catching.
"Great kindness is like water. Water benefits all and does not compete!"
'That's it! No matter how slow or weird this cultivation method is, I'm going to cultivate it to the great perfection stage of the Spiritual Mist Stage. I want to see what's so special about this cultivation that came from the Black Fog Valley.'
That was the only thing he could have depended on in order to have fought Yao Jinghai!
"Great kindness is like water. Water benefits all and does not compete!"
Having floated in the air, the 12 words glowed brightly, having illuminated the world while hanging midair. It had carried the radiance from ancient times, emanating a vibe of an endless mystery before Chu Chen.
He once again poured his entire being into the Spiritual Genesis Mantra. Chu Chen felt that his spiritual consciousness underwent a transformation. Under the bright divine illumination of those 12 words, he seemed to have had an epiphany.
Those 12 words seemed to continually have absorbed all the spiritual energy around them. It also converted them into a divine light, sustaining Chu Chen's body and nurturing his muscles, bones, meridians, and every inch of his body.
Elixir after elixir entered his mouth and transformed into a torrent that washed through his entire body. Chu Chen felt as though a tsunami had been crashing through his body as waves after waves of powerful medicinal strength led the divine light into his Qi ocean within his dantian.
The training for the last level of the Spiritual Mist Stage had been a continual cycle of creation and destruction in order to have filled the true essence in his Qi ocean to the utmost limit.
When the true essence within the Qi ocean was filled to around 80 percent, adding every bit of it would have been extremely difficult, much less having reached a full 100 percent limit.
That was why the cultivation stage barrier had been even tougher than the nine previous barriers, having made it difficult to break through. Countless people had been stuck at the last level of the Spiritual Mist Stage, never broke through it in their entire life, limited their achievements and could only have been among the commoners.
Meanwhile, Chu Chen's three years of hard work laid him an unbelievably sturdy foundation. Due to his accumulations, when compared to other disciples, his cultivation stage barrier had been even tougher and harder to break through. However, that only lit up the strong sense of challenge within him.
As the saying went, keep a low profile until one shocks the world in one move. That was Chu Chen's philosophy in cultivation!
Under the illumination of that divine light, Chu Chen continued his cultivation like a mad man.
Day after day, Chu Chen had been in an oblivious state and would not notice the heavy rain that went on for days outside his house.
That day, the weather finally turned sunny. There had been a young girl that wandered back and forth outside his tent.
Before Chu Chen went into his temporary seclusion for cultivation, he had notified his junior sister Tong Meng that it would have taken anywhere from three days to half a month before he was done, asking her not to be worried about him.
As a favored disciple of the sect, his junior sister had plenty of cultivation missions to fulfill. However, she missed Chu Chen greatly. She kept wondering when he would have been done and why he had not been looking for her if he was done.
Tong Meng had been counting the days and painstakingly waited until the tenth day. That day, she finally left the Blue Flower Valley, arriving outside of Chu Chen's hut. She wanted to go in, but she had been afraid to have disturbed his cultivation in seclusion, therefore having no choice, she loitered outside Chu Chen's yard.
Whenever someone passed by, she would act as though she was looking for something she dropped by the road. Some disciple sisters that were close to her knew that she was there for Chu Chen and could not help but have teased her slightly. Tong Meng blushed, yet had been unwilling to leave.
The longer she loitered outside the yard, the more worried she had been about Chu Chen.
She thought of how he had broken through from the second level to the ninth level of the Spiritual Mist Stage in such a short time. That would have easily led to his spiritual energy being unstable and might have led to a reversion of his cultivation stage, or even having his Qi deviate. While thinking about that, she unconsciously walked into his yard.
With that thought in mind, Tong Meng grew extremely worried. 'This won't do. I'll have to see him in person first.'
'Regardless of a drop in his cultivation stage or deviation of his Qi, all is fine as long as Brother Chu Chen is still alive.'
Tong Meng mustered her courage and walked to the door. Just as she was about to knock, her body froze up suddenly.
She sensed the spiritual energy in the air vibrating vigorously all of a sudden. In an instant, a ray of yellow light surged out from within Chu Chen's room. It was as though the first light of the day had cut through the thick horizon and shot into the air above!
'T-t-this is…'
Tong Meng's eyes went wide.
The yellow light came and went very quickly in less than a breath. That gentle, warm, and dense yellow light retreated back into the house and disappeared. A normal person who had seen that might have thought that they had been hallucinating.
However, Tong Meng knew what it was. She could not have been mistaken. In the process of cultivation, under the effects of the law of heaven and earth, the spiritual gleam when one broke through, would have taken on the appearance of a ray of dawn only when one reached the great perfection level of a cultivation stage. It symbolized the cultivator's path had reached a level that had been recognized and his future would have been bright!