"Why is the heaven and earth origin energy here so dense!?"
Nan Qiuqiu looked at the scene before her, involuntarily reaching out to touch it.
When she withdrew her hand, it was covered in "water vapor." Upon careful sensing, she could tell this was already liquefied heaven and earth origin energy.
Just at this moment, the method Chen Junting was using also reached its final step. The array's rapid operation caused the basement's heaven and earth origin energy to quickly gather, continuously surging toward his direction.
As the array shone, nine vortexes hung upside down.
In the next second, the gushing of origin energy became increasingly fierce, almost triggering tremors in the basement.
Then, Chen Junting reached out with a gesture, and the vortexes above the array instantly dissipated without a trace.
At the same time, nine crystals appeared in his hand. Crystal clear, like crystals.
Chen Junting picked up one of them and examined it briefly, "The contained origin energy is extremely pure, it should be perfectly absorbable."
"Since you're here, find a place to sit down first."
Chen Junting turned to look at the eight people who had arrived, then handed the eight crystals one by one to Ning Tian and the other seven.
The moment the eight people received them, they could feel the massive energy contained within.
Obviously, this energy crystal was a heavenly material and earthly treasure. Moreover, it was of the top tier.
Wu Feng had just received hers, and before she could even sit down cross-legged, she couldn't help but ask.
"Sword guy, did you create this?"
She had clearly seen the scene of condensing energy into crystals just now.
At this moment, Wu Feng's eyes were wide, staring straight at Chen Junting.
Right now, the meaning in her eyes was clear: "I'm smart, you can't fool me, quickly confess."
"What are you thinking."
Chen Junting said irritably, extending his finger. Facing her puzzled gaze, with lightning speed—pop—he flicked her.
Amid a cry of pain, a red mark appeared on Wu Feng's forehead.
Then, Chen Junting ignored Wu Feng and spoke directly, "This crystal is a product of me filtering out the cold energy from the ten-thousand-year Profound Ice Essence. Although the quality has decreased somewhat, it's still a rare treasure that can help your cultivation advance by leaps and bounds."
"As for where the ten-thousand-year Profound Ice Essence came from..."
Chen Junting looked at Nan Qiuqiu, showing no intention of hiding anything.
"That secret place of the Earth Dragon Sect doesn't just nurture rare metals, it also contains treasures like ten-thousand-year Profound Ice Essence. So this ninth energy crystal will be absorbed by you."
After speaking, he flicked his finger.
This ninth crystal also landed in Nan Qiuqiu's hand.
The moment Nan Qiuqiu received the energy crystal, she was also filled with emotion. She never imagined that her sect's secret place would contain such a treasure—truly possessing a mountain of treasures without knowing it!
However...
"If you've given all the energy crystals to us, what about you?"
"Don't worry, I naturally have more."
Chen Junting didn't say much more on this topic, just waved his hand grandly, and the basement's array immediately began to operate.
"Starting from today, everyone will cultivate here in closed-door training. Unless there's an important matter, you can only leave after breaking through to the next ten levels. As for food and water, I will have someone specially deliver them. If you want to wash up, I'll also have someone open a small room next to the secret chamber where you can take care of that."
"Ah!?"
Instantly, Wu Feng's face fell.
No way!
She still had a long way to go to reach Level 70!
Carefully calculated, how long would she have to stay here!? And she was worried about one thing—what if she cultivated slowly and ended up being the last one left here?
Just thinking about this, Wu Feng immediately felt extremely uncomfortable.
However, no one cared about her feelings.
One after another, they all found places to sit down cross-legged and cultivate. Then everywhere their gazes reached, they all closed their eyes.
Finally, it was Gu Tianchen who opened his eyes again.
"Cultivate, I'll accompany you."
These simple six words couldn't help but settle Wu Feng's heart.
This basement, under Chen Junting's modifications, had already become a cultivation treasure land.
Externally, there was dense heaven and earth origin energy and life energy permeating down from the Golden Tree to nourish them. Internally, the people had taken the energy crystals one by one.
And Chen Junting also mobilized the energy of the ten-thousand-year Profound Ice Essence. With Snow Empress's assistance, he circulated his soul power and entered cultivation.
Even every seven days, Chen Junting would activate the array, filling the entire basement with ice-fire energy and life-death qi.
As tempering, this enhanced the physical bodies and expanded the meridians of the seven people including himself, thereby increasing their cultivation speed.
...
One month later.
Ten people were sitting cross-legged cultivating in the basement. And this extra person was precisely Huo Yuhao, who had returned after sending Wang Dong'er back to Shrek Academy and handling the Dai Huabin matter.
Up to now, except for Huo Yuhao who was five days late, the others had cultivated in this cultivation treasure land for a full month.
And it was this month that gave them a feeling of being worlds apart.
Under the multiple effects of energy crystals, the Golden Tree, the Yuan Gathering Array, as well as ice-fire energy and life-death qi, each person's cultivation could be described as advancing by leaps and bounds.
During this period, some even ran out of energy, so Chen Junting took out two more stalks of ten-thousand-year Profound Ice Essence from Snow Empress's storage to supplement everyone, helping them break through their current realms.
And the first to break through was Nan Qiuqiu.
Because at the Earth Dragon Sect, her fifth soul ring had already contracted a spirit soul, so when she broke through Level 60, she smoothly obtained her sixth soul ring, becoming a Soul Emperor level powerhouse.
Following closely was Xiao Xiao.
Like Nan Qiuqiu, after breaking through Level 60, she obtained her sixth soul ring with the help of her spirit soul, smoothly becoming a Soul Emperor.
As for Ning Tian, because she had residual medicinal power from the Yearning-Heartbroken Red, she was the fourth to break through among everyone. From Soul Emperor to quasi-Soul Douluo, it took less than a month and a half.
It made people exclaim, was this cheating!?
But just as she was about to have her Beautiful Silk Tulip spirit soul condense a soul ring, she was stopped by Chen Junting. As for the reason, Ning Tian's next two soul rings were extremely important and couldn't be rushed.
Wait until he himself broke through to Soul Douluo and opened up the path of self-condensing soul rings, then let Ning Tian self-condense her soul rings.
This way, the eighth soul ring would definitely be extremely suitable for her.
Regarding this, Ning Tian naturally had no objections.
And besides Ning Tian, there were two others not allowed to have their spirit souls condense soul rings.
One of them was Wu Feng. But her reason was somewhat different from Ning Tian's...
Rip—
A strong physique tore through her clothing. Accompanied by a crisp sound, Wu Feng's outer clothes were suddenly torn apart, revealing her tight-fitting undergarments and athletic figure.
Just as she was about to let out a dragon roar, "Don't howl!"
A voice transmitted into her ear, interrupting her subconscious reaction. Wu Feng immediately sobered up, looking around. Seeing that she was the fourth to break through, she felt pleasantly surprised in her heart.
Just as she was about to have her spirit soul condense a soul ring, she was stopped by Chen Junting again. The reason given was, "Your grandfather has already prepared a hundred-thousand-year soul ring as your seventh soul ring, which can also help your martial soul complete its transformation."
Hearing this, Wu Feng was immediately overjoyed!
Seventh soul ring at hundred-thousand-years!
Could her luck be this good too?!
Thus, Wu Feng immediately calmed down.
After this came Ye Guyi, Ji Juechen, and Gu Tianchen—one broke through Level 70, two broke through Level 80. Except Ji Juechen's soul skills were all fixed, not pursuing power, so he let his Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid spirit soul condense his eighth soul ring.
As for Ye Guyi and Gu Tianchen, one had no spirit soul and couldn't become an official Soul Sage; the other was in the same situation as Ning Tian, not allowed to break through.
Besides these, Huo Yuhao and Chen Junting also broke through successively, but didn't advance to the next stage.
Chen Junting need not be mentioned. As for Huo Yuhao, it was because his spirit soul Ali had already given him four soul rings, and without her breaking through to become a hundred-thousand-year spirit soul, she couldn't condense more soul rings. And the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion martial soul's situation was the same as his Spirit Eyes martial soul.
As for the last one among the ten who hadn't broken through, only Dugu Xin remained.
Due to his martial soul's nature, when he cultivated to a certain degree, he still had to force the extreme poison in his body into his Eight Spider Lances, so he was slightly slower.
But even so, five days after the month passed, a domineering soul power fluctuation originating from poison attributes erupted. This caused Chen Junting to immediately open his eyes, as if two swords shot out from them.
In the next second, he acted decisively! The array enveloped, suddenly isolating Dugu Xin's breakthrough commotion.
At this moment, everyone was awakened. They rose one after another, directing their gazes toward Dugu Xin.
Dugu Xin slowly opened his eyes, his viper-like eyes sweeping around. With a smile in his tone, he said, "It seems I'm the last one."
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