I Became the Alchemy Master by Picking Up Trash-Chapter 313 - 311: Core Stone Space

Li Xing walked into the tree cave, and found herself in a spacious area about the size of an arena, with a flat tree stump, as big as a meditation cushion, standing alone in the center.

Li Xing turned around and discovered that the entrance she came through had disappeared. She walked forward about a dozen steps, yet still didn’t reach the cave walls, and the meditation cushion-like stump remained ten feet behind her. It seemed the tree cave was merely an entrance, and she was already within a barrier.

Li Xing, with unsteady steps, quickly approached the tree stump, pricked her fingertip, and let three drops of fresh blood fall onto it. Then she held her breath and focused, quietly waiting for what was about to happen. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Hui Hui had said that by dripping blood on the Transmission Array, she could reach the location of the Realm Heart Stone, but Li Xing knew clearly in her heart that this was just something to fool Chu Yunyi; she didn’t believe it. The Realm Heart Stone, the origin of a world, was far too important to be obtained by merely dripping some blood. There must be other selection criteria, but Li Xing didn’t know if she could pass. If she couldn’t enter, this space might become her burial ground.

Under Li Xing’s anxious and expectant gaze, the crimson blood was instantly absorbed, leaving no trace behind. In the next second, the tree stump burst out with a blazing light, which Li Xing instinctively closed her eyes to avoid.

When the light dissipated, Li Xing slowly opened her eyes and found herself in the void, surrounded by countless stones emitting faint or bright blue light, like stars.

These stones varied in size, but most were like sand, with the largest only as big as an adult’s fist. Yet, no matter the size, they all exuded a daunting Chaos Qi.

It didn’t take a genius to figure out that these blue stones were the Realm Heart Stones.

Li Xing was overjoyed and quickly ran the Eternal Green Technique to absorb the Chaos Qi. To her surprise, no matter how hard she tried, the Chaos Qi wouldn’t leave the Realm Heart Stones and enter her body. The Realm Heart Stones were like the Blue Star holding onto the atmosphere, locking the Chaos Qi around them.

It seemed that to use the Chaos Qi for cultivation, she would have to touch the Realm Heart Stone.

Li Xing noticed a Realm Heart Stone, about the size of a ring face, not far from her. It was not only the brightest in color, but even the fluctuations of Chaos Qi it emitted were much purer than the other smaller Realm Heart Stones.

Li Xing pursed her lips, stepped forward to grab it, but as luck would have it, she was like a floating object in endless space. Moving immediately threw her off balance, making her spin rapidly like a top. Not only did she fail to grab that Realm Heart Stone, but she spun towards the opposite direction instead.

This space was as vast as the universe, and Li Xing felt she spun for the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, but the speed and momentum didn’t weaken at all. She was truly afraid she would continue spinning in such an embarrassing way.

Fortunately, she soon bumped into a Realm Heart Stone like a pinball, bouncing off in another direction again.

After finally figuring out how to stabilize her body and stop spinning like a top, a long time had passed. After dispersing her energy, her physical body was less than that of an ordinary Elemental Spirit, and she was dizzy, with bruises all over her from colliding with the Realm Heart Stones.

Oddly enough, although these Realm Heart Stones floated in space like her, even those as small as grains of sand felt as firm as a rock, and didn’t drift around like Li Xing.

Li Xing was so plagued by this that she was even careful with her breathing, fearing that the slightest movement might make her drift in the unexpected direction again.

What made her feel even more frustrated was that she realized to move forward in this place, she needed to adopt the posture of a crawling turtle, using both hands and feet, slowly advancing.

After recovering a bit of stamina, Li Xing started advancing toward another Realm Heart Stone that she had her eye on, like a little turtle.

This time, Li Xing finally managed to advance without deviation, heading straight for her target, with a determined smile appearing at the corner of her mouth.

But just as her hand was about to touch the Realm Heart Stone, a breeze blew from somewhere.

In the outside world, such a small wind would at most move a woman’s skirt slightly, but here, the faintest airflow would have the effect of a raging storm.

Li Xing didn’t have time to retract her smile before it was cruelly blown away. More embarrassing than before, this time she was spiraling out in the standard turtle-crawling posture.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah——!"

"Hahaha—hahaha—!"

Suddenly, a burst of reckless laughter echoed in the space, drowning out Li Xing’s unwilling screams.

Realizing there was someone here, Li Xing was both shocked and angry, quickly stabilized her path, and shouted into the void: "Who’s there! Come out—!"

As soon as Li Xing finished speaking, a young male cultivator in a sky-blue magic robe stepped out of the void and appeared before Li Xing.

The bizarre void had no effect on the young cultivator at all. He walked as if on flat ground, without spinning or drifting away.

The young cultivator was quite handsome and carried an extraordinary temperament, but that charm lasted but a second before he bent over, holding his waist and gasping, "Oh, oh, this Immortal Monarch hasn’t laughed like that in years, hahahaha! Oh dear, I’ve got a cramp, let me catch my breath—!"

Li Xing’s heart was filled with resentment; clearly, this person had been watching her from the start and had seen all her frog squat and turtle crawl postures. The only other person who could appear here was Immortal King Wang.

Laugh! Laugh to your heart’s content!

Grumble as she might, she couldn’t let go of manners; no matter what, he was an Immortal, worthy of respect.

"Greetings, Immortal King Wang. Forgive this junior for being ignorant and immobile, unable to bow to the Immortal King."

Wang Yao wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes, looking at Li Xing with a smile, "No need for formalities. Since you’ve managed to get here, and can guess my identity, you must have seen the Taiyin Immortal Grass under my command."

"The Taiyin Immortal Grass the Immortal King mentioned, is it a purple-headed flower that loves to eat Spirit Stones?"

Wang Yao nodded, "Yes, indeed. How is she?"

"Rest assured, Immortal King, Hui Hui is well. Before I entered this place, she was already able to take human form."

Upon hearing Li Xing’s words, Wang Yao’s gaze softened greatly, "Before this wisp of my remnant soul dissipates, I’m pleased to hear news about Taiyin."

Li Xing’s gaze flickered; so he was just Wang Yao’s remnant soul.

"For you to come in here, your talent and qualifications are beyond doubt, and your luck and fortune not bad either. But I really didn’t expect, you could be so clumsy, failing to grab even a single Realm Heart Stone after so long."

"This junior’s Dantian is shattered, without Spiritual Energy for protection or Magic, relying solely on physical limbs, it’s truly challenging."

Li Xing carefully cupped her hands in respect, and Wang Yao, seeing that Li Xing drifted a further ten feet back due to the action, gave a twitch at the corner of his mouth, seemingly suppressing laughter.

"May the Immortal Venerable provide some guidance?"

"Does it need guidance?" Wang Yao pulled out a delicate folded fan from his chest and waved it twice in front of him. "Don’t use a shattered Dantian as an excuse. In my Reversal Realm, Spiritual Energy and Magic are useless; it’s all about physical limbs. As long as you know how to walk, like me, you can move freely without guidance."

"I saw your earlier frog-like and turtle-like advancing posture; it seemed to work. Keep at it!"

Li Xing’s eyebrow twitched; no wonder that gust of wind carried a medicinal fragrance earlier—it was his doing!

Darn it! Without his interference, she would’ve already grabbed a Realm Heart Stone!

"Then I shall try once more."

With that, Li Xing proceeded to use hands and feet, floating towards the nearest Realm Heart Stone grain.

With the strength within her diminishing, Li Xing couldn’t afford further delay; she had to obtain and absorb at least one Stone as soon as possible.