Heavenly Dao Engine-Chapter 73 - 00 Third Layer of Body Refining

Chapter 73: Chapter 0073: Third Layer of Body Refining

Chapter 73 -0073: Third Layer of Body Refining

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After climbing onto the tree, Qi Tian took out a pill. This was a second-grade body refining pill, the Five Beasts Iron Bone Pill. This kind of pill was made with bones of five kinds of Lianying Realm beasts as the main ingredients, along with many other rare medicinal herbs, and its effect is exceptionally powerful. All these Five Beasts Iron Bone Pills of Qi Tian’s were leftovers from Yu Chuan. Each and every one of them was top-grade, selling for three thousand coins each.

Qi Tian was well aware of the consequences of taking body refining pills. Previously, he had bought middle-grade Tempering Body Liquid from the Imperial Master Mansion. After taking it, he felt as if he was being executed by drawing and quartering, a pain that still gave him shivers with just the thought of it.

The Five Beasts Iron Bone Pill was a second-grade body refining pill, and he expected the pain upon its consumption to be even worse. But even though it was scary, it was impossible for Qi Tian to give up taking the Five Beasts Iron Bone Pill to advance his body refining realm. In the Cultivation World, only power matters. If you are not strong enough, you would only get beaten. No one cares how much pain you have suffered, how much hardship you have been through, or how many tears you have shed during your journey to strength.

Qi Tian took a deep breath and threw the Five Beasts Iron Bone Pill into his mouth. The pill’s potent medicinal power exploded as soon as it entered his mouth, striking violently onto his oral cavity and causing several cracks to appear, resulting in massive blood loss.

Qi Tian cried out in pain, but he still kept his mouth shut tightly to prevent any medicinal power from leaking out of his mouth. However, he didn’t dare to swallow the Five Beasts Iron Bone Pill either. Instead, he quickly activated the Tiger Golden Body Skills and proceeded with his body refining practice.

Throughout the entire night, Qi Tian was digesting the Five Beasts Iron Bone Pill. It was only after dawn that he managed to fully digest the pill. At the moment of opening his eyes, Qi Tian felt an urge to cry. The suffering brought by the Five Beasts Iron Bone Pill was indescribable. When taking the Tempering Body Liquid, he thought the torture resembling a slow and cruel execution was already the limit. He didn’t expect the Five Beasts Iron Bone Pill to be even more ruthless—it felt as though five brutal beasts were continuously tearing at his body. The sensation of being gnawed on slowly, yet being unable to die, was enough to drive one to the brink of collapse.

With trembling hands, Qi Tian took out a Grain Avoidance Pill and took a few sips of spring water. After replenishing some of his energy, he started to feel slightly better. After resting for a while leaning against the tree branches, he climbed down from the tree and continued his journey towards the Tiger Demon Tribe.

By nightfall, Qi Tian found a relatively safe place to hide. That night, he planned to continue consuming the Five Beasts Iron Bone Pill for cultivation, but the thought of the pain it would bring made him hesitate and retreat in fear.

Such hesitations and retreats are of course undesirable. However, just like the saying “early bed and early rise keeps one physically fit”—everyone knows it, but how many can actually put it into practice?

Qi Tian came up with a solution for himself. He took out one of the four Storage Bags that he had seized from the robbers and began to clean it carefully.

The robbers’ Storage Bags were all excellent with a capacity exceeding fifty cubic meters. More than half of the inner space was occupied, filled with all kinds of treasures.

Naturally, the robber’s treasures couldn’t compare to Yu Chuan’s collection, but there were also plenty of good items. There were several hundreds of thousands of coins and a large number of cultivation resources. In total, their value exceeded a million coins.

The situations with the other three Storage Bags were similar. After summarizing the treasures from all four Storage Bags, their total value should be above five million coins. These robbers must have spent a lot of the goods they robbed, otherwise, their total collection value should be higher.

Such a bounty made the pain of taking the Five Beast Iron Bone Pill for body refining appear negligible to Qi Tian. He took out a Five Beast Iron Bone Pill and threw it into his mouth, marking the beginning of his Tiger Golden Body Skills practice once again.

Thus, Qi Tian traveled by day and cultivated at night. On the fifth night, he succeeded in advancing his Tiger Golden Body Skills to the second layer. Under such circumstances, without using his True Essence Power, he could unleash a punch with the strength of two tigers, amounting to roughly a thousand pounds. The limit of his physical body’s endurance greatly increased concurrently. When he used his full power to perform the Eight Desolate Demon Tiger Fist, his physical body didn’t have any issues. However, if he were to activate the Heavenly Dao Engine, he still couldn’t fully deploy the Eight Desolate Demon Tiger Fist. His physical endurance limit was slightly weaker, but it had certainly gotten stronger compared to before.

At that moment, Qi Tian arrived at the outskirts of the Tiger Demon Tribe. He still had a lot of Five Beasts Iron Bone Pills, so even if he didn’t catch Tiger Demons to prepare the Tiger Roar Pills, he could continue his body refining cultivation. But the Tiger Roar Pill and the Tiger Golden Body Skills complemented each other extremely well. It’s like him cultivating the Tiger Golden Body Skills to the second layer, and being able to punch with the strength of two tigers. These tigers refer to the common ones, not the Tiger Demons. But if he could use the Tiger Roar Pill refined from Tiger Demons for cultivation, his strength would still be proportional to two tigers when he reached the second layer of the Tiger Golden Body Skills. However, the strength of these tigers would be measured by the power of Tiger Demons, not by the common ones.

Qi Tian made up his mind that no matter what, he must kill more Tiger Demons, take all their bodies, and then find a way to prepare Tiger Roar Pills for his own use in cultivation.

Qi Tian found a place with a broad vision that would not attract the attention of Tiger Demons, and spent a day observing the entire Tiger Demon Tribe. He found that the Tiger Demon Tribe was huge, numbering around forty or fifty, and they occupied three mountains.

The distances between these three mountains were not short, all exceeding five miles. Their Spirit Qi was extraordinarily rich, even richer than the mountain belly where Qi Tian had found a water salamander. He estimated that these places would meet the standards of a second-level blessed earth and cave sky. These blessed lands and cave sky were the reasons a strong gathering of Tiger Demons formed an area that even the indigenous cultivators didn’t dare to step into.

These Tiger Demons not only had a large number, but their strength was also extremely formidable. On the main peak, the Tiger Demons were the most, more than twenty, led by the chief of their tribe, or the Tiger Demon King, who had the strength at the peak of the Ninth Level of Qi Cultivation. Under its control, there was a Tiger Demon Queen and a Tiger Demon Elder, both at the Ninth Level of Qi Cultivation.

On the two subordinate peaks, each lived a Tiger Demon Consort who was also at the Ninth Level of Qi Cultivation. Under them were numerous Tiger Demon generals and leaders at the Eighth Level and Seventh Level of Qi Cultivation.

To be honest, it was utterly foolish for Qi Tian alone to think of annihilating such a powerful Tiger Demon Tribe. Wiping out one peak of Tiger Demons would be difficult, let alone annihilating all of them.

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Qi Tian knew that it would be a bit difficult for him to accomplish this. However, he was not unprepared. At the time he found out about the existence of the Tiger Demon Tribe among the classics left behind by Yu Chuan, he began plotting how to kill Tiger Demons. He turned over many things from his spoils of war, many of them Jade Talismans. However, after killing several bandits a few days ago and cleaning up the new spoils of war, Qi Tian discovered that he had a new, better plan.

If using the Jade Talismans was considered as a forceful approach, then his new plan was more cunning. In a nutshell, it involved using Bewilderment Pills.

Shi Yufeng and his bandits had always been engaged in the act of seizing bodies and killing people. In addition to brute force, sometimes they would also use Bewilderment Pills which were odorless and tasteless but extremely potent. They once used them to render a cultivator at the Ninth Level of Qi Cultivation unconscious, killing him, and amassed a great fortune as a result.

Once Qi Tian knew about these potent Bewilderment Pills, he decided to change his strategy, prioritizing their use. However, using these pills did not guarantee a complete success, thus Qi Tian had to be fully prepared to prevent any unexpected situations.

Qi Tian decided to go under closed-door cultivation for a few more days to further advance his body refining realm. Confined to this schedule for the following three days, Qi Tian only accounted for four hours of sleep daily and spent the rest of his time taking Five Beasts Iron Bone Pills and refining his body. After days of hardship, nearly grinding his teeth to pieces, he successfully cultivated to the third layer of the Tiger Golden Body Skills. Now, without using any True Essence Power, his punch could release the force of three tigers. Additionally, his body could now withstand a massive force of seven to eight thousand pounds implying that now he could activate the Heavenly Dao Engine and fully perform the Eight Desolate Demon Tiger Fist without worrying about fracturing his own bones.

Qi Tian revealed a knowing smile. His understanding of some common sense in the Cultivation World had improved significantly relative to when he first started. During the Qi Cultivation Period, cultivators mainly focus on opening up their meridians. There are nine levels in the Qi Cultivation Period and at each level, at most, three meridians can be opened. Every additional opened meridian provides more power and True Essence.

If we take the strength provided by each opened meridian as the criteria, two hundred pounds of force is the borderline. Anything below this is considered unqualified. From two hundred to two hundred and fifty pounds is considered adequate, from two hundred and fifty-one to two hundred and eighty pounds is good, from two hundred and eighty to two hundred and ninety pounds is excellent, while anything above two hundred and ninety-one pounds is considered perfect. Three hundred pounds is known as the grand perfection or perfect realm, which is the ultimate limit of the strength that a meridian can provide.

The difficulty to reach these meridian-opening realms increases with each tier. Taking “adequate” as an example, out of the two or three thousand individuals in the Huangque Hall of the Imperial Master Mansion, the majority of them would be considered unqualified. In the context of the entire Cultivation World, more than half the cultivators would be eliminated. As for the state of grand perfection, it couldn’t merely be described as ‘one in ten thousand.’ It would be more appropriately termed as ‘one in a hundred thousand’ or even ‘one in a million’.