Gao Yuan's body swayed and he flew back tens of meters.
Easily get rid of the influence of the huge energy turbulence caused by the explosion of a large number of second-order talismans.
He stood there, and first glanced at the corpse of the "weird demon" lying on the ground like a rag in the opposite direction with some scrutiny.
Finally, he focused on the system prompts that flashed before his eyes.
"Breath of another world?"
"concise?"
He repeated the sentence subconsciously, but did not rush to open the system panel.
Instead, his body flashed several times in succession, bypassing the energy turbulence not far away that had not completely subsided, and went straight to the body of this 'weird demon'.
The latter had just been hit by his 'Tianshaking Fist' superimposed with the full power of 'Collapse Mountain Strength'. At this time, most of the skin and flesh inside had been shattered into mud.
"But luckily this guy still has his head!"
Gao Yuan whispered to himself.
Then he stretched out his feet and stepped hard on the head of this 'weird demon'.
While taking out the homemade collection fork from the storage bag, he inserted it into the head of the 'weird demon' with some difficulty, and started digging bit by bit.
It has to be said that this 'weird demon' is a high-level monster and its physical defense is indeed extremely powerful.
Even if it is already dead and cannot die anymore, the puddle of dead flesh on its head is still much tougher than a second-level monster.
Even the collection rod in his hand has been updated more than ten times.
Leaving aside other powers, just in terms of its sharpness when tearing apart flesh and blood, it is no less than an ordinary second-level top-grade magic weapon.
Coupled with Gao Yuan's horrifyingly increased strength after long-term physical training, even if it is used to break mountains and crack rocks, it will not be very strenuous.
However, even with the help of this homemade collection fork, it was still very difficult to dissect the head of this 'weird monster'.
After spending a long time, Gao Yuan took out a dark crystal object from the head of this 'weird demon'.
"Huh?"
Looking at this high-grade crystallized magic core, which was the size of a goose egg and was as black as jade, he couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise.
The movements of his hands also stagnated slightly.
"This thing...how come I seem to have seen it somewhere?"
He whispered to himself in confusion.
But for a while, I couldn't remember where I had seen this thing.
But he knew very well that now was definitely not the time to focus on memories.
Immediately, he put the huge 'advanced crystallized magic core', together with the collection fork in his hand, into the storage bag on his waist.
After doing all this, he quickly looked around.
After confirming that there was nothing missing, he no longer delayed, and directly activated the Wind Curse, swaying towards the north and galloping away.
…
It didn't take long.
Gao Yuan had already crossed more than ten miles and went straight out of the "Grey Desert North No. 16" area and came to the top of the hill where he had rested briefly before.
His spiritual consciousness radiated out, and he instantly located several new "succubi" that had grown out of the void around him.
He skillfully stepped forward to attract them and kill them one by one.
Then he came to the area where he had just rested, took out an armchair from his storage bag, and sat directly on it.
As soon as his mind moved, the familiar system panel suddenly unfolded before his eyes:
【Name】: Gao Yuan
【Shouyuan】:26/523
[Realm]: First level of Hunyuan realm
…
[Condensation]: Breath of another world: 3, can be condensed
Sure enough, the corresponding 'Condensation' function label has been updated on the system panel.
Out of curiosity, Gao Yuan directly clicked on the newly added 'Condensation' page.
The system panel in front of him flipped slightly, and a slightly empty page came into view.
The most eye-catching among them are undoubtedly the two large characters "condensed" in ancient handwriting and slightly lighter color in the center of the panel.
In the area below these two words, a line of smaller fonts reads:
[Lack of ‘magic source’, it cannot be condensed for the time being. 】
"Magic source? What is this?"
Staring at the line of small words at the bottom of the panel, Gao Yuan frowned subconsciously and repeated it in his heart.
After a moment, an idea flashed in his mind.
He reached out and patted the storage bag on his waist, and the 'high-level crystallized magic core' that he had just dug out from the head of the 'weird demon' appeared in his hand out of thin air.
"In this world, anything that involves the word 'demon' is basically more or less related to 'grey desert'."
"And the most likely thing at the moment, apart from the corpse of the 'Weird Demon' that has been digested, is the only one that has just been dug out, the 'Advanced Crystallized Demonic Core'."
He muttered softly, and then opened the system panel again.
As expected, he saw that at the bottom of the 'Condensation' page, the previously smaller line of instructive text had disappeared.
It was replaced by another line of text:
[Lower level magic source]: Condensation consumption: Breath of Another World 1.
And the color of the fonts of those two huge "condensations" also seems to be unlocked, darker than before.
"Is that true?"
"Is this 'advanced crystallized magic core' dug out from the body of the 'Weird Demon' actually called the 'Demon Source' in the system's perception?"
"But it's just right. This crystallized magic core is essentially the source of power for these monsters!"
He muttered a few words to himself in a low voice, and then focused on the words 'lower level demon source'.
"The 'Weird Demon' is a high-level monster, and the thing dug out from its body should obviously be called the 'Advanced Crystallized Demonic Core'. Why was it judged by the system to be a 'lower-level demonic source'?"
"Based on this, what should we call the 'elementary and intermediate crystallized magic cores' produced by the 'Shadow Demon' and the 'Succubus'?"
Gao Yuan whispered a few words in confusion.
But he just said it casually, not intending to delve into anything in depth.
Without too much hesitation, he directly chose to activate 'Condensation' on the panel.
Almost instantly, an indescribable numbness suddenly appeared on his chest.
Before he could react, the tingling sensation was like an electric current, instantly passing through his arm and establishing some kind of connection with the 'advanced crystallized magic core' he held in his hand.
In a daze, Gao Yuan felt the 'advanced crystallized magic core' in his hand shake slightly.
After a moment, there was a touch of warm energy that made him feel quite familiar, flowing out from the 'advanced crystallized magic core' in his hand.
This warm energy flowed straight into his palm, then along his arm, and finally gathered near his 'natal pearl'.
At the same time, in the center of his field of vision, a line of gray-white system prompts flashed away:
[Condensation is successful, you have obtained 10 True Source Qi]
"True source of energy?"
"This time the system unlocked new features, and it gave me a lot of new terms!"
Subconsciously repeating this unfamiliar word in his mind, Gao Yuan said to himself with some emotion.
But before he could carefully figure out the specific meaning of this term, his thoughts were interrupted by an increasingly strong feeling of swelling.
He only felt that his whole body was filled with warm energy.
The latter flowed out from the 'advanced crystallized magic core' in his hand, first gathered near his 'natal pearl', and then accumulated all the way, filling his whole body.
Then it gradually exceeded the upper limit of his body's accumulation, causing an indescribable feeling of bulging.
He was slightly startled, and quickly used his spiritual consciousness to look inside the body.
"This... this so-called 'True Origin Qi', isn't it the 'spiritual energy' that I absorb into my body from the outside world through my daily practice?"
Through the induction of his spiritual consciousness, Gao Yuan immediately recognized the nature of this warm energy in his body.
He was surprised at first, and then he was happy.
"These 'spirits' condensed by the system are so pure!"
"The thing is, I couldn't tell the difference at first!"
"The most important thing is, isn't the amount of these 'spiritual energy' too large?"
"The amount of 'spiritual energy' that poured into my body at once is almost as much as the total amount of 'spiritual energy' that I absorbed into my body after carrying the Great Zhou Tian seven or eight times in a row!"
Feeling that his 'natal pearl' is running crazily under the stimulation of these extremely pure 'spiritual energy'.
In conjunction with the operation of the "Red Flame True Art", it is quickly transformed into wisps of pure new 'spiritual power'.
Like a spring, it continuously flows into your own meridian system.
Affected by this, when Gao Yuan had a battle with the 'weird demon' before, he consumed a lot of 'spiritual power' because he kept activating the 'Tian Jue Gang Jin'.
Surprisingly, within just a few breaths, he had completely recovered to his original state!
Even this was not enough. In the process of restoring his 'spiritual power', the pure 'spiritual energy' that had just been 'condensed' by the system had only been consumed less than 20%!
After completely replenishing the 'spiritual energy' he had consumed before.
With nowhere to go, this surplus 'spiritual energy' flowed within his body for a while, and actually had a tendency to escape towards the outside world.
This discovery immediately made Gao Yuan very upset.
After all, the 'spiritual energy' accumulated in his body would have been stronger if he practiced at home.
Even with the assistance of the 'Xiao Sumeru Yin-Yang Five Elements Spirit Gathering Array' that was just deployed, it would take at least more than a month to slowly gather it!
It is precisely because of this that he sees that these 'spiritual energy' have nowhere to go and are slowly dissipating towards the outside world through the pores of his body.
When Gao Yuan saw this, he naturally felt distressed.
However, for the time being, he didn't have any good solution.
After all, he is still in the depths of the "grey desert" near the area where the "weird demon" appears!
No matter how big his heart was, he would never dare to find a place to meditate in such an environment.
And if we set out to go home now, according to the current speed of these 'spiritual energy' dissipating.
I'm afraid that these 'spiritual energies' would have dissipated on their own before he could reach the border of the 'grey desert'.
"Forget it, it's going to rain and my mother wants to get married, so just do whatever you want!"
"With this newly unlocked 'Condensation' function, 'Aura' will no longer be such a rare thing to me from now on!"
He sighed helplessly and whispered to himself.
Then he forcibly shifted his attention to the new 'condensation' function of this system.
In his mind, he quickly recalled the moment when he killed the 'Weird Demon' before, and the system flashed two prompts one after another:
"Breath of Another World 3..."
[The task is completed, the ‘Condensation’ module is loaded successfully! 】
"From this point of view, this so-called 'Breath of Another World' should be an invisible trophy similar to the 'Twisted Will' and the 'Source of Mutation'."
"It can only be obtained by hunting 'demon', and it is also a consumable used to activate the 'condensation' function of the system."
"And this 'condensation' function uses the 'advanced crystallized magic core' obtained from the 'devil' as the raw material."
"Finally, a certain amount of pure 'spiritual energy' named 'True Source Qi' by the system can be extracted!"
"To put it simply, this new 'condensation' function is essentially a way for me to quickly obtain 'spiritual energy' by hunting down 'weird demons'!"
As his mind turned, Gao Yuan analyzed the information bit by bit in his mind based on the known information.
When he came to a conclusion, his breathing became rapid.
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What is the biggest restricting factor in the entire Hunyuan Realm stage of cultivation?
Is it a skill or a pill?
Is it a supernatural power or a magic weapon?
None of them!
Of course, these kinds of things are also very important to Hunyuan realm monks.
But if you want to compare it with 'reiki', it is still far inferior.
Because only the latter is the basis for the Hunyuan Realm monks to gain a foothold and be strong.
In essence, exercises and elixirs are just channels to speed up the acquisition of 'spiritual energy'.
As for ‘magic weapons’ and ‘supernatural powers’.
If these two want to show truly powerful power, they need a huge amount of "spiritual energy" and long-term and continuous infusion to achieve it.
Even the entire cultivation in the Hunyuan realm relies on the ‘spiritual power’ transformed from cultivation to continuously refine the ‘natal pearl’ in the body.
Let it continue to accumulate and grow during this period until fundamental qualitative changes and improvements occur!
It is precisely because of this that when there is no reliable source of 'spiritual energy'.
Although almost a year has passed since Gao Yuan entered the Hunyuan realm.
However, his personal cultivation realm is still basically at the level where he has just broken through, and there is not much improvement at all.
And this was what gave him the most headache in the past period of time.
After all, in addition to looking for the elusive 'Land of Spiritual Veins', even if the complete version of the "Xiao Sumeru Yin-Yang Five Elements Spirit Gathering Array" is arranged, it cannot fundamentally solve the problem of lack of "spiritual energy"
question.
Even though he seems to have nearly five hundred years of life left now, if he is placed on the scale of Hunyuan realm improvement.
Actually...it's not that abundant!
So, he has been doing this for a while.
I have been collecting and arranging the complete version of the 'Xiao Sumeru Yin-Yang Five Elements Spirit Gathering Array' at all costs.
The purpose is to be able to completely lay out this set of formations that can increase the concentration of the 'spiritual energy' area in the shortest possible time.
This allows him to improve his strength as quickly as possible in a training cycle that is not too long.
So that I can accumulate enough capital in advance for the subsequent search for the ‘Spiritual Vein Land’.
But now, the system's new 'condensation' function has opened up a whole new path for him.
With this function, he no longer needs to worry about the source of his 'spiritual energy'.
As long as he can continue to hunt the 'weird demons', he can rely on the 'condensation' function to quickly and efficiently obtain a large amount of 'spiritual energy'.
In this way, it can not only greatly increase the speed of his daily practice.
On this basis, when his 'spiritual power' is abundant, he can also spare more time and energy to spend on tempering his 'supernatural powers' and 'magic weapons'.
As he improves his cultivation, his strength will also increase by leaps and bounds.
Thus, in a shorter period of time, he can grow to the point of crushing the same level, just like he did in the previous two realms!
After all, according to his understanding, at the level of Hunyuan Realm, spells, talismans and even puppets can only be considered auxiliary abilities.
Only 'supernatural powers' and 'magic weapons' are the fundamental ways to truly widen the gap between you and the same level.
The power of both requires massive amounts of 'spiritual power' to be tempered.
This is doomed to monks at the level of Hunyuan Realm, unless like Gao Yuan, they have the function of systematic 'condensation', which can efficiently obtain 'spiritual energy'.
Otherwise, even if you have excellent cultivation qualifications, it will be difficult to overtake someone in a corner.
After all, a good woman can't make a meal without straw, and a question about the source of 'spiritual energy' can easily block the promotion path of a large number of geniuses.
…
After sitting there and admiring for a while, Gao Yuan suddenly seemed to remember something.
He quickly opened the system panel and went to the 'Deduction' page.
Looking at the dense list of skills, the various options for 'deduction' to the third level are displayed.
He suddenly felt relieved.
"It seems that this 'breath of another world' is not only used for the 'condensation' function."
"If you want to continue to 'deduce' various skills to level three or above, in addition to the original consumption of 'Source of Mutation', you will also have to spend a certain amount of 'Breath of Another World'!"
Looking at the numerous deduction options in front of him, Gao Yuan flipped through a few casually and said with emotion in his heart.
"But there is no need to rush into the advancement of the previous skills."
"Whether it is 'condensation' or 'deduction', it cannot be separated from the step of hunting down the 'devil'."
"So the top priority should still be on improving hunting efficiency."
"Although the battle just now was won quite easily, it was based on spending a lot of spiritual stones."
"As this is the first battle, in order to avoid accidents, it is natural to focus on stability and not worry about consumption."
"But there will be a lot of 'weird demons' that need to be hunted in the future. Once the hunting of 'weird demons' becomes normal, if we continue to do what we did just now, no matter how many spiritual stones we have, we won't be able to handle it!"
As his mind turned, Gao Yuan's eyes accidentally fell on the 'Advanced Crystallized Magic Core' that was still held in his hand.
"Huh?"
His eyes paused, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
"Damn it, this... is this 'Essential Essence Stone'?"
Watching the black light inside the crystal in his hand disappear, leaving only countless transparent crystals with gray mist-like energy, Gao Yuan muttered to himself uncertainly.
In his hand, the original pure black appearance of the 'advanced crystallized magic core' that had been 'condensed' by the system had long faded away.
It turned into a thin and translucent crystal shell, filled with countless strange crystals of gray mist-like energy.
At first glance, it looked very similar to the Yuan Jing Stone that he and Fatty Zheng had worked so hard to obtain.
The only difference is that within this crystal, there is too much mist-like energy that is suspected of being 'sourceless innate essence'.
Thinking of this, Gao Yuan touched the storage bag at his heart and took out an extremely exquisite brocade box.
After opening the latter, a crystal clear Yuan Jing Stone came into his eyes.
It was the Yuan Jing Stone contained in the package of cultivation resources that Chen Ziming gave him before.
He picked up the Essence Stone casually, placed it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully.
Inside this crystal-like transparent crystal, a small group of gray energy as thin as a cicada's wings was seen, as if it were alive, floating and wandering gently inside the crystal.
After a moment, Gao Yuan turned his eyes and looked at the 'advanced crystallized magic core' that was 'condensed' by the system in his right hand.
The latter's size, shell texture, and even the shape of the gray energy inside are all the same as the Essence Stone in his left hand.
It's just that this advanced crystallized magic core, except for the thin outer shell, is completely filled with that gray energy inside.
Judging from the volume of this gray energy alone, the difference between the two is at least a hundred times!
Putting the Essence Stone in a brocade box and putting it into a storage bag, Gao Yuan looked at the high-grade crystallized magic core in his hand, and his heart moved slightly.
His consciousness immediately came out and spread towards the inside of the latter.
For a moment, an extremely familiar feeling suddenly appeared in his mind.
Even though more than five years had passed, he still recognized it immediately.
This gray energy is indeed the 'sourceless innate essence' that he refined and transplanted into his body in order to break through to the Kaiyuan Realm!
"Could it be that the Yuanjing Stones that the Hunyuan Realm families in the outside world offer to their disciples in exchange are actually processed from high-grade crystallized magic cores?"
Thinking of this, a series of pictures instantly flashed in Gao Yuan's mind.
The first of these is what he has learned over the years. Each of the Hunyuan realm families in the sixteen main cities in the Northern Territory supports thousands of Kaiyuan realm disciples.
But in the past few years, he has basically traveled all over the Northern Territory in order to perform various tasks.
Among them, he saw many large and small mines belonging to various forces, including some spirit stone veins.
But he has never had the slightest clue about the origin of this Yuan Jing Stone.
We can only vaguely guess that the origin of this Essence Stone may be related to the depths of the Gray Desert based on the importance that major forces attach to the Gray Desert.
Then he remembered that when he and Fatty Zheng entered the Qingyuan Mountain ruins, there was a warehouse where a large number of Yuan Jingshi was stored.
As well as those pure black stones that were broken on the puppet production line and placed on the puppet's chest base.
"Now that I think about it, the pure black stones in the puppets' chests, both in size and texture, are very similar to the high-grade crystallized magic cores that were just dug out!"
"No wonder when I first got it, I felt it was inexplicably familiar at first glance. It turns out that the root is here!"
Gao Yuan said a few words to himself with a look of surprise on his face.
"If the essence stones controlled by those Hunyuan realm families are really transformed from high-level crystallized magic cores, then all this will make sense."
"As for why there is only so little of the 'sourceless innate essence' in the Essence Stone."
"Either it is because the specific refining and transformation process cannot be compared with the 'condensation' of my system, which resulted in a lot of waste when making Yuanjing Stone."
"Either those Hunyuan Realm families did it deliberately in order to increase the production of Yuanjing Stone."
"After all, if an 'advanced crystallized magic core' can only transform into one Essence Stone."
"Then if the Hunyuan families in the cities in the northern region want to cultivate a large team of Kaiyuan realm disciples, don't they need to slaughter tens of thousands of strange demons?"
"This is impossible even if you think about it. What's more, the strength of the strange demon is actually very powerful. If an ordinary Hunyuan realm monk wants to hunt it down, he has to bear considerable risks."
"From this point of view, the second possibility is still more likely."
"After all, the most important role of Yuanjing Stone for monks who have perfected the Qi training realm is to condense the 'sourceless innate essence' that condenses the seeds of the 'innate air sea'."
"As long as it can be implanted into the Dantian, it can be continuously strengthened by the pouring of internal energy."
"In comparison, there are really not many requirements for the quantity of 'Passive Innate Essence' to be implanted for the first time. Too much will not only cause waste, but will also be difficult to refine."
Sitting in an armchair, Gao Yuan speculated on various possibilities one by one.
As for the specific method of converting a high-level crystallized magic core into a large number of essence stones, it is not very attractive to him who has no plans to establish a force for the time being.
In his opinion, it was probably related to the 'primary and intermediate crystallized magic cores' that all the major forces were collecting.
Like the origin of Yuanjing Stone, although these two crystallized magic cores are very easy to obtain, their specific uses have always been a mystery.
He didn't even see anyone in the Exile Alliance asking for it or consigning it.
After figuring this out, Gao Yuan no longer wastes time on this issue.
Instead, he focused his attention on how to hunt down the 'demon' efficiently.