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#599 - Flowers on the tree

"Upgrade!"

"Ding~! Command confirmed. This system permission upgrade is estimated to take 30 minutes. Please wait patiently, Host."

After hearing the familiar system prompt in his mind, Liang Yue couldn't wait to confirm.

Turning his head, he began to absentmindedly instruct his disciples in their cultivation.

Speaking of which, the body refining technique created by Liang Yue is indeed very good, relying on consuming the water vapor energy in his body to maintain its operation and enhancement.

During this period, as his physical fitness continued to improve, along with his various stats, and the further growth of the Thunderfire Wood sapling in his dantian.

The "water vapor" produced by conventional spiritual power circulation and cultivation had begun to become somewhat insufficient.

Therefore, the cosmic energy from outside the atmosphere began to become the main source of supply for this consumption.

Cosmic energy is free, and the production conversion rate is extremely high. Its level of existence is obviously more profound than ordinary heaven and earth spiritual energy.

So, unknowingly, Liang Yue began to increase the frequency of absorbing this energy.

Afterward, as the quantity and efficiency of conversion continued to increase, the existence of his Thunderfire Wood sapling itself also became more mysterious and real.

The process of absorbing cosmic energy became even more effortless and familiar.

Now, he doesn't even need Liang Yue to deliberately intervene. It can quickly complete the entire conversion process on its own!

As a result, with more and more water vapor energy being produced, and unable to be consumed all at once, they collided and merged in Liang Yue's dantian, forming a considerable cloud layer.

Then, it turned into "water droplets," dripping down like rain.

Finally, it gathered into a pool of water, accumulating at the roots of the Thunderfire Wood sapling.

Under the nourishment of this pool, the Thunderfire Wood sapling seemed to be becoming more refined and vivid.

Every leaf, every scale of bark, every branch was exuding amazing vitality. The entire tree began to become crystal clear and jade-like, with its branches and leaves swaying.

This really made Liang Yue feel a little incredible!

And what made him even more incomprehensible was that, under the nourishment of this pool, a flower bud was actually nurtured on one of the branches of the Thunderfire Wood sapling...

This situation had definitely exceeded Liang Yue's expectations.

Because this was not his instruction or manipulation at all, but stemmed from the natural evolution of the sapling itself!

In that flower bud, Liang Yue could feel a vigorous vitality and energy!

It was a crystal with mysterious attributes, yet seemingly natural. For Liang Yue, it was a pleasant surprise, but for the dantian sapling, it seemed to be its destiny.

Compared to an energy crystal, it was actually more like a non-material existence that was similar but not quite!

Vaguely, Liang Yue could sense a faint thunderous fluctuation from it, but if he wanted to understand it further, he was temporarily helpless.

Obscured and unable to be explored.

Regarding this, Liang Yue was looking forward to it, but he wasn't too anxious.

After all, the thing was on his body, and there would be results sooner or later. Was he afraid it would run away?

Compared to Liang Yue's rapid progress and abundant resources, his disciples seemed to be a bit "malnourished."

After all, they didn't have any cosmic energy to supplement.

Even those who hadn't reached the innate realm, the sixth level of Qi training, couldn't even absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth from the outside world.

Strengthening themselves and maintaining the consumption of body refining techniques all had to be borne by the true qi, spiritual power, blood energy, and even the most basic human bio-energy in their bodies.

But body refining was not their only focus. In addition to the main Qi training techniques practiced every day, the practice of the Immortal Martial Spirit Qi Shield was also a considerable expense.

Therefore, since becoming Liang Yue's disciples, these disciples had begun to become thinner day by day~

In fact, it wasn't just these fourteen people. Almost all the disciples in the Flowing Cloud Sect were like this.

After a month or two, they had all become lean and wiry.

Incidentally, even the daily food consumption in the mountain gate academy had begun to surge.

Faced with this situation, those ordinary disciples could only gradually adapt and adjust under the guidance of Senior Sister Saeko, Xiao Zhao, and others.

Appropriately reducing the frequency and time of body refining to balance their own cultivation accumulation.

However, since more than a year ago, when these disciples returned to the mountain gate and began to come into contact with body refining, they had been getting stronger day by day at a visible rate.

Faced with this magical technique, faced with their own physical functions continuing to rise, and their physical fitness becoming stronger day by day.

How could the disciples under Liang Yue easily abandon this seemingly limitless improvement?

Therefore, even with the women beside them, responsible for supervising and restraining them, they still couldn't stop the eagerness of these young people~

Secretly, if they weren't careful, they would spontaneously organize themselves and continue to practice, chasing after each other.

Fortunately, the daily instructions of Teacher Shizuka and the others had not been in vain.

Knowing that excessive consumption of true qi and spiritual power would overdraft their own foundation, which would be detrimental to future cultivation.

Therefore, when the disciples practiced privately, they still maintained a bottom line.

When the energy in their bodies was exhausted to the limit, they would immediately stop the body refining technique and then find a place to quietly practice Qi and meditate.

Back and forth like this, between consumption and increase, invisibly, it also made the cultivation progress of these disciples appear to be rapidly improving!

Nowadays, all the Flowing Cloud Sect disciples who have a bit of ambition and aspirations have mostly begun to use Qi training to replace sleep after nightfall.

At night, as long as you take a walk in the dormitory corridor, the beds are basically filled with figures meditating and cultivating.

A wave of cultivation fever has thus been set off within the Flowing Cloud Sect!

However, as the disciple of the sect leader, Liang Yue naturally couldn't let his fourteen direct disciples bear a good-sounding title in vain.

Sometimes, different groups of people should indeed be treated differently.

Therefore, as a special treat between master and disciples, Liang Yue took out fourteen drops of water from the small pool in his dantian and had them each take one drop.

It must be said that these water droplets, mainly converted from cosmic energy, were indeed very extraordinary.

Just one drop alone was enough for his fourteen disciples to digest and use for more than half a year!

In addition, feeling that it was really difficult to balance body refining and strengthening with the cultivation of the Immortal Martial Spirit Qi Shield, and that it was difficult for the disciples to find a balance between the two.

Therefore, Liang Yue also secluded himself again for more than a month.

Finally, he opened up the internal and external cultivation system of this spirit qi shield, making it possible to additionally serve as an extension of Qi training techniques, connecting with the Flowing Cloud Sect's "Upper Purity Qi Technique", "Pure Yang Profound Technique", "Spirit Yuan Technique" and other techniques.

Simply put, he made certain improvements to his "Immortal Martial Spirit Qi Shield", making it possible to be embedded on top of his own Qi training techniques.

When the disciples meditate and practice at night, circulating true qi and spiritual power, they can also practice this "Immortal Martial Spirit Qi Shield" together.

Compared to the original method of circulating qi, it was just that there was an additional set of operational methods.

In this way, the complexity of the disciples' meditation and cultivation increased.

But the benefit was that the true qi and spiritual power cultivated were additionally tempered.

Over time, both the purity and controllability of the energy would become higher.

The "Immortal Martial Spirit Qi Shield" technique will also be completely integrated into their respective cultivation.

This idea is similar to the "Golden Light Charm" of Dragon Tiger Mountain!

Of course, the promotion and modification of any technique is not achieved overnight.

In order to test the operational difficulty of this compatible cultivation, Liang Yue also first taught the fourteen disciples under his command.

It took about three months to get them one by one on the right track of their respective cultivation~

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