Cultivation : I'm an Ancient Giant Bear-Chapter 498 - 471: Sudden Impulse

Wang Wu didn’t have time to be happy, he took action immediately.

All these Spiritual Qi were absorbed by him at the first moment, invested into the Innate Bloodline Five Demon Pills, the three Support Pills inside the Second Foundation Establishment Array, and the Acquired System.

However it was previously depleted, now it’s replenished the same way.

Wang Wu could even multitask, simultaneously dissecting the Array Stones, running the Qi Blood Tide, re-training the Five Demon Pills, while splitting his focus in the Second Foundation Establishment Array, enhancing three Support Pills, and still refining Creation Fire Spiritual Qi in the Acquired System.

Delightful, thrilling.

But gradually, as time went by, in about half a year, Wang Wu was overwhelmed!

Because he found that his consumption couldn’t keep up with the speed of dissection.

Those Array Stones that weren’t severely damaged were really profitable.

Dissecting one often yielded two to three hundred million points of Spiritual Qi, and if lucky, one stone could yield five hundred million points of Spiritual Qi, a huge profit indeed.

Wang Wu had just retrained the Five Demon Pills to First Grade, the three Support Pills to Third Grade, and the total Spiritual Qi condensed by the Yin and Yang Qi in this Heaven and Earth Needle had broken through to fifty billion!

"You must not continue to dissect, the sturdiness of this Heaven and Earth Needle is naturally beyond doubt, but all these Spiritual Qi are attached to the illumination of the Yin and Yang Qi, even slight manipulation could create unpredictable variables."

"Trust us, too much Spiritual Qi is not a good thing, once the total Spiritual Qi here exceeds one hundred billion, believe it or not, if you make even one wrong move, you’ll be refined into an Immortal Pill by this hundred billion Spiritual Qi?"

The Four Clowns sternly warned!

"You must find a way to consume all these fifty billion points of Spiritual Qi before you can continue dissection."

Wang Wu was also anxious, having too much Spiritual Qi is dangerous too.

He immediately began consolidating, filled all his Spiritual Essence Gourds, Spiritual Essence Cauldrons, Spiritual Essence Jars to the brim, and compressed them as much as possible, but ultimately only accommodated thirty billion.

His Innate Bloodline Five Demon Pills also reached the theoretical maximum storage, a total of fifteen million points of Level 4 Refined Qi Blood.

Five million of which were stored inside the Five Demon Pills, the remaining ten million circulated around the Heart of the Earth, constantly transporting relevant Spiritual Qi to the Acquired Spirit Pill System, this wasn’t permanent storage, just like guests in a hotel, cargo at a port, it was temporarily stored.

Prolonged time wouldn’t work.

But even so, the Innate Bloodline System barely absorbed twelve billion points of Spiritual Qi.

And in his Acquired Spirit Pill System, the Creation Fire Spirit Pill became the largest buyer, it could store ten million points of Level 7 Creation Fire Spiritual Qi, which according to conversion rules, equated to about six hundred forty million points of Ordinary Spiritual Qi.

Of course, there were four other Spirit Pills within the Acquired Spirit Pill System.

Wang Wu sent a gift of one hundred million points of Spiritual Qi to the Wind Spirit Pill.

The Ice Spirit Pill, Wood Spirit Pill, and Golden Spirit Pill each received a gift of fifty million points of Spiritual Qi, required to cycle by themselves, and only to be refined and absorbed when they could.

In total, Wang Wu’s efforts only deposited less than fifty-one billion points of usable ’cash flow’ of Spiritual Qi.

Note, this wasn’t fixed assets.

A few years ago, Wang Wu had scraped together fifty billion by selling possessions and had already paid back four-fifths of it in the past half year.

Ah! He missed the Maximal Common Denominator Pill a little, without it, storing a hundred billion was completely without any pressure.

Wang Wu was very anxious because the remaining Array Stones in his Qiankun Bag were not bound by any conditions, and were gradually vanishing over time.

As they vanished, they released Spiritual Qi, and thus the Spiritual Qi in this Heaven and Earth Needle would continue to increase.

Now he had two choices, either throw out the remaining Array Stones or open a hole in the Heaven and Earth Needle to let the Spiritual Qi dissipate.

But that was precious Spiritual Qi, dissipate it?

Discard!

A sin indeed.

Might as well kill me instead.

"I need to enhance the Support Pills, to hide wealth in the Pill. Then, I need to deploy two Foundation Establishment Arrays within the Innate Bloodline System, one Five Elements Breaking Array, and another... another Five Elements Breaking Array."

Wang Wu decided to initiate three major projects to see if they could consume some Spiritual Qi.

"Impossible, Wang Wu, please calm down, maybe your ideas were great in the past, but this time, you must heed our advice, you must make a choice!"

The Four Clowns sternly warned again.

And their warning finally calmed Wang Wu down.

Yes, not to mention three major projects, even thirty projects wouldn’t suffice, he still had many Array Stones left, and if all these Spiritual Qi were dissected, it could at least reach a scale of three trillion.

This was too fatal, if there were no Yin and Yang Qi illumination, it would be okay, now with illumination, it was like setting a fuse in the midst of a hundred billion tons of TNT.

Any enlightenment of his, any residual effects of his cultivation, could cause minute changes in the Yin and Yang Qi, and then, it would immediately trigger an explosion of these hundreds of billions, trillions level of Spiritual Qi.

By then, he would only have two outcomes.

One would be his soul utterly destroyed, the other being refined into an Immortal Pill.

"Alright then, let’s think of another plan."

Wang Wu sighed, five years had already passed, leaving only half of his ten-year promise with Qingxue. He was destined not to resolve all the Array Stones within ten years.

Unless—

He glanced down at the nearly invisible red dot on his wrist. With a thought, the Vermilion Bird Array Soul floated out. However, it was only the size of a butterfly, cheerfully fluttering around Wang Wu’s body.

"Do you need Spiritual Qi?"

The Vermilion Bird Array Soul did not respond, nor did it absorb Spiritual Qi, which was correct. The power within the Vermilion Bird Array Soul was borrowed from the Great Wilderness Sin Prison Tower, consisting of countless Pale Fire combined with at least Level 15 Creation Fire Spiritual Qi.

"Wait, there’s still a way!"

Wang Wu had a flash of insight and gently commanded the Vermilion Bird Array Soul to launch a very weak attack, truly extremely weak, reducing its strength by ten thousand times!

Fortunately, this Vermilion Bird Array Soul was incredibly sensitive and easy to control. Otherwise, if it were the one Qingxue took, which was as large as a peacock in its smallest state and clumsy at that, Wang Wu was sure he’d be the first to die if he attempted such a maneuver.

But now, a miracle occurred.

The Vermilion Bird Array Soul gently flapped its wings, and a Pale Fire emerged. This substance couldn’t react directly with Spiritual Qi without a physical medium...

Aside from that, the Vermilion Bird Array Soul also released half of it as at least Level 15 Creation Fire Spiritual Qi.

This power could trigger a dimensional strike-like reaction with ordinary Spiritual Qi.

The Creation Fire Spiritual Qi released by the Vermilion Bird Array Soul might only amount to 10 points, but within moments, a hundred million points of ordinary Spiritual Qi were forcibly compressed, refined, and thus forming a chain reaction.

More Spiritual Qi was refined, compressed, and then spread throughout the Heaven and Earth Needle Space.

Moreover, the Pale Fire wasn’t entirely without function. Although it couldn’t react with Spiritual Qi, it could compress space and exert a physical pressure.

Just like stones and wood, although they coexisted peacefully, a large stone pressing down could be crushing.

In this way, much like slowly cooking a bird’s nest soup, Wang Wu relentlessly controlled the Vermilion Bird Array Soul to compress and refine, taking three hours to successfully refine and purify the five hundred billion points of Spiritual Qi into Level 6 Creation Fire Spiritual Qi, reducing the total to a mere billion points.

At this moment, the Vermilion Bird Array Soul finally took interest in these Creation Fire Spiritual Qi. Its minuscule figure, unfettered by Wang Wu’s control, started to absorb them whole, like a whale swallowing water, and consumed more than half with a single breath, then absorbed the rest in full with another.

Afterward, it seemed to burp contentedly and nonchalantly began fluttering again.

Wang Wu couldn’t comprehend the cause, claiming not to feel a pinch would be untrue, but it seemed there was no other way.

With this realization, he decided once again.

"I want to deploy the Five Aggregates Breaking Array on the Innate Bloodline Five Demon Pills! Start the calculations for me."

"Why? Your Innate Bloodline could wait for an opportunity to deploy the Five Elements Profound Yellow Array in the future, can’t we have some aspirations? Would you waste such a chance just for spending Spiritual Qi; are three hundred billion points of Spiritual Qi really worth wasting?"

The Four Clowns continued their painstaking persuasion, suggesting that the Tier Three Five Elements Profound Yellow Array best suited Wang Wu.

Earlier, he had already obtained some of the Array Map from Xiong Wang Shou, and with a little more effort, perhaps he could acquire the entire Array Map.

"It’s not about wasting an opportunity, nor about expending Spiritual Qi, but rather an enlightenment struck me. Just as the moon waxes and wanes, human relations experience happiness and sorrow—all is anciently difficult to perfect. From now on, I aim to avoid the pursuit of perfection and obsession, as everything should be eight-tenths full."

Wang Wu expressed with profound understanding.

"What do you mean?" The Four Clowns found it inexplicable; everything appeared fine, and here he was, discussing this.

"You could understand it as my Level 27 Danger Perception + Level 3 Warning in action."

"Remember what Qingxue said about how She Shoujiu and the others died?"

"The Cyan Dragon Race had extracted their Hidden Dragon Sinews."

"Just now, while manipulating the Vermilion Bird Array Soul, it’s like I borrowed the power from the Great Wilderness Sin Prison Tower, reminding me of this incident rather unexpectedly, perhaps not without reason."

"I’ve already pledged loyalty to the Frost Domain, theoretically holding onto the Frost Monarch’s leg, but my former Master, Elder Hui, simply wouldn’t let me rest at ease. If he were to inquire Frost Monarch whether I was still alive, do you reckon Elder Hui would unquestioningly believe the answer?"

"Back when I was Elder Hui’s disciple, even the pure-hearted Baiyu knew to request a Great Witch Priest from the Mang Mountain Ancient Bear Race to place a Blood Curse on me. Now when it’s Elder Hui’s turn, do you think he wouldn’t inform the Cyan Dragon Race to extract my Hidden Dragon Sinew?"

"But hasn’t his Level 27 Divine Calculation already determined Feng Muhai was the one who killed Qin Yu?"

"Indeed, in theory, I have perfectly hidden and faked my death, now free to live carefree. Nevertheless, the smoother and more flawless everything goes, the more essential it is to anticipate and prepare."

"Moreover, is there no doubt about this affair?"

"Though I was instructed by the Qin Family to enter here, and there are over ten Criminal Prisoners who can testify that it was my Spirit Essence Microscopic Perception that assisted the Frost Monarch in deploying the Heaven and Earth Needle, such matters can’t be concealed. Even if Qingxue later brought in a so-called Array Grandmaster like Master Zhi Shui, it might deceive ordinary people but could it really fool Elder Hui?"

"He doesn’t even have to extend his Level 27 Divine Calculation to involve me; examining the so-called Master Zhi Shui around me alone, he could discern the forgery."