Beast Taming: Slaughter Atlas-Chapter 489 - 435: The Terrifying Difficulty of Cultivation
After making his choice, Chu Chen did not rush to leave, but instead walked towards other areas.
Although his major achievements had been completely consumed, getting a chance to enter the Celestial Tier treasure trove was extremely rare. It would be a pity not to broaden his knowledge.
Chu Chen looked at the Celestial Tier treasures, and tears almost rolled down from the corners of his mouth.
Any one of these treasures, if taken out, would be enough to attract countless powerful factions to fight over it.
"Oh, this is the Pure Heaven Snow Lotus," Chu Chen exclaimed in surprise.
The Pure Heaven Snow Lotus is a Middle Grade Celestial heavenly and earthly treasure, requiring five major achievements to exchange. Its effect is to purify the body of the consumer, whether toxins or impurities, all can be thoroughly purified, and it can greatly enhance the cultivation talent of a Beast Master. 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
The effect of the Pure Heaven Snow Lotus is several times stronger than that of Washing Essence and Marrow.
Chu Chen rubbed his hands together, his eyes full of fanaticism. If he could consume this Pure Heaven Snow Lotus, his talent might improve again and even reach the elusive Purple Grade talent.
It was unknown how much time had passed when Zhao Wudi’s voice came from not far away.
"Time’s up. Have you all made your selections?"
Hearing this, Chu Chen snapped back to reality and hurriedly walked towards Zhao Wudi.
Long Batian also hastily came over after hearing the words.
After the two informed each other of the meditation techniques they had chosen, they were invited out of the treasure trove to wait outside.
Not long after, Zhao Wudi came in holding two jade boxes.
"Take them. It’s best to refine them before leaving to avoid attracting the attention of those with ulterior motives." With that, he tossed the two jade boxes to them.
After receiving the jade boxes, Chu Chen and the others quickly went to the cultivation room.
After closing the door to the cultivation room, Chu Chen couldn’t wait to take out the meditation seed.
This meditation seed was not heavy, and a sensation of heat and numbness spread through his fingertips as he held it.
Chu Chen waved his hand to summon Nirvana. He directly used Damage Transfer to transfer all his injuries to Nirvana.
As Nirvana’s chest armor shattered instantly, streams of insect blood gushed from its chest.
Nirvana let out an angry roar, scanning its surroundings as if searching for something.
Seeing this, Chu Chen quickly reminded, "Don’t worry, there are no enemies here."
Hearing this, Nirvana immediately focused its gaze on Chu Chen, saying discontentedly, "Master, at least notify me when you’re using Damage Transfer; I thought there was an enemy."
Chu Chen quickly offered some comforting words and then stored it back in the Soul Sea.
All he wanted now was to successfully cultivate the "Furious Thunder Meditation Technique."
Chu Chen pinched the meditation seed and infused his soul power into it.
The meditation seed suddenly emitted red and blue colors, flames and thunder instantly enveloping it.
The warmth in his fingertips turned into burning, and the numbness transformed into paralysis.
Just as Chu Chen was about to throw the meditation seed away, it automatically broke free from his fingers and slowly floated into the air.
The flames and thunder grew increasingly powerful, and the temperature in the cultivation room was rising at an astonishing rate.
Witnessing this, Chu Chen was filled with horror. This was no meditation seed; it was practically a bomb.
He intended to retract his soul power and inquire if Zhao Wudi had made any mistakes.
At this moment, a crisp cracking sound was heard as a crack appeared on the meditation seed, and the flames and thunder became even more terrifying.
Realizing the danger, Chu Chen decided to cut off the supply of soul power.
However, the meditation seed suddenly exploded, an endless sea of fire and thunder engulfing Chu Chen.
Before he could scream, he felt the world spin and directly fainted.
At this point, Chu Chen’s soul had already appeared inside the meditation seed, in a space resembling purgatory.
Flames covered the entire land, the terrible heat distorting even space, leaving not a blade of grass on the ground, with trees and stones reduced to nothingness in the flames.
Facing the raging flames, Chu Chen immediately controlled his soul to fly into the air.
Suddenly, a flash of lightning streaked across the sky, a lightning bolt as thick as a barrel struck directly at Chu Chen.
Lightning was so fast that Chu Chen had no time to dodge, having no choice but to watch it strike his soul.
The terrifying power of the thunder smashed Chu Chen into the ground, paralyzing his entire body so severely that he couldn’t move a muscle, unable even to produce a sound.
At this time, the flames seemed to be drawn by some force, surging directly at Chu Chen.
Chu Chen, unable to evade, could only let the flames swallow him.
Flashes of lightning lit up the sky, bolts of thunder struck accurately upon him.
On the ground, thunder serpents slithered around, emitting an eerie "sizzling" sound.
Cultivating the "Thunder Meditation Technique," Chu Chen had a strong resistance to thunder, so its damage was limited, but the paralyzing effect still took hold.
As for fire-type meditation techniques, he had never practiced them, and thus the flames inflicted far more damage than the thunder.
He curled up in agony in the pit blasted by thunder, his body twitching as if seizing.
The unbearable pain that struck directly at his soul could not be withstood by ordinary people.
Even Chu Chen found it insurmountable; he could only grit his teeth and endure, passively bearing it all, knowing that to entertain thoughts of giving up would mean leaving this space, with the meditation seed vanishing along with him.
This would mean all ten of his major achievements would go down the drain, the alliance losing a top-level Celestial Rank Upper Grade cultivation technique.
Ten major achievements could be reluctantly accepted by Chu Chen, but losing a top-tier meditation technique was something he could not bear, especially since there were only two in the entire alliance.
Therefore, he had to persist no matter what; this had become an obsession, and he could only rely on this obsession to hold on by sheer force.
The pain he endured was far more terrifying than ancient tortures, a hundred, a thousand times worse.
Simultaneously, Long Batian’s soul also entered the space within the meditation seed.
He chose a Celestial Rank Lower Grade cultivation technique, the "Construct Wood Meditation Technique," a wood attribute meditation technique.
Currently, he was being crushed under a towering giant tree, the deadwood repeatedly grinding against his soul, yet the giant tree had a healing effect.
After grinding his soul, it would be healed, and then ground again, in a tormenting cycle of endless repetition, the pain he endured not any less than Chu Chen’s.
However, after being healed, he was still able to think.
He was eager to know how Chu Chen was faring, considering that his Celestial Rank Lower Grade meditation technique inflicted such terrifying pain, while the meditation technique his counterpart practiced was Celestial Rank Upper Grade, surely the pain must be unimaginable.
At this moment, Chu Chen had long been struck underground by the thunder, while flames rampaged in the pit, the confined space doubling the heat of the flames.
Chu Chen could only desperately cling to the obsession within his heart for support.
Strangely, though the power of the flames and thunder was terrifying, Chu Chen’s soul seemed to be protected by an inexplicable force; as long as he didn’t give up, his soul wouldn’t perish.
It was unclear how much time had passed, but Chu Chen felt the power of the thunder seemed to diminish, the paralysis of his soul lessening, and the burning pain from the flames easing slightly.
Although the reduction in pain was very small, it was indeed a significant step forward.
As time passed, Chu Chen’s consciousness became increasingly clear.
Once he could think again, he realized it wasn’t that the power of thunder and flames had weakened, but that his soul had grown stronger.
He struggled to sit up, adopting the Seven-Branch Meditation Technique, and as if stimulated, the flames and thunder surged towards him wildly.
Some time passed, and an image of a world intertwined with fire and thunder suddenly emerged in Chu Chen’s mind.
At this point, his soul automatically flew out of the pit, through the flames, into the thunder.
Chu Chen’s mind once again experienced a familiar dizziness; he could distinctly feel his soul seemingly leaving this space.
When he opened his eyes again, his soul had returned to his body.
By this time, his clothes were soaked with sweat, and he appeared as if he’d been fished out of water.
Chu Chen, disregarding the discomfort from his body, immediately entered a state of meditation. His soul once again entered that realm of thunder and fire.
Feeling the familiar thunder and fire, Chu Chen let out a long sigh of relief, proving he had successfully cultivated this meditation technique.
