Chapter 63

Xuan Bing Jupyter Snake used the spatial teleportation array to leave the Qing Huan Realm, and no one knew where it had gone.

The secret realm gate formed by the light screen exploded, scattering light points across the sky. The twelve stone pillars, which spewed flames and cold currents, instantly returned to calm.

Nie Tian stood at the base of a stone pillar, intending to inspect the stone hall and observe its wonders.

However, he soon discovered that the bone fragments scattered from the sacrificial altar, after exploding, still contained considerable energy.

His eyes lit up, and he immediately used his mental energy to sense the surroundings. He quickly found that the entire stone hall was filled with extremely dense energy.

This energy originated from high-grade bones, each of which was a crystalline bone, the primary source of power for the spatial teleportation array.

The numerous bones might have been collected by Xuan Bing Jupyter Snake after expending a great deal of effort, serving as the key to its departure.

Now, all the bones were shattered, but the energy they formed in an instant still existed in the stone hall, slowly dissipating.

"What a vast amount of energy!"

Nie Tian immediately abandoned the idea of exploring the stone hall and instead sat down cross-legged on the spot. He immediately began to practice the Qi Refinement Art.

With a movement of his Spirit Sea, he seemed to become a giant magnet, beginning to疯狂地吸收石殿内逐渐消失的能量。

一道道银白色的雾气，夹杂着碎芒，像飞蛾扑火一般，从四面八方汇聚向他。

仅仅一瞬，他就感觉到，他的灵海充满了充沛的灵力！

炼气境一共有九层境界，从一到九的修炼，没有瓶颈需要突破，只需要不断改造扩张灵海，就能顺势进阶。

到了第九层，向后天境突破时，才不仅仅只是依靠灵力的积累和灵海的改造。

瓶颈，只出现在炼气九层到后天境。

而聂天的丹田灵海，经过这段时间吞食地行蜥的肉，不断的改造，本就处于即将突破的关键卡口。

如果不是遇到玄冰巨蟒，他或许能借助上一次的苦修，就迈入到第八层炼气境。

这一次，缭绕于石殿内的浓郁能量，疯狂涌入他灵海以后，他很快就发现，他即将达成他的目标——炼气境第八层！

他凝神苦修。

不知过了多久，他盘坐着的身形，微微一震。

睁开眼以后，他脸上满是喜悦，低喝道：“成了！”

他成功踏入到炼气境的第八层！

没有急着站起，他继续以心神感知，发现石殿内的能量，虽然稀薄了一些，可依然还是相当充沛。

他觉察到，每过一段时间，石殿内的能量就会少一些。

“机会难得，以后……未必就能得到一头新的二级灵兽。没有二级灵兽的血肉，想要在第八层炼气境，快速地突破，恐怕没那么容易。”

“此地的能量，来源于那一块块高等级的兽骨，而且也很容易吸收。”

“在那些能量彻底消散于天地之前，一定要抓住这个千载难逢的机会，尽可能多地继续扩张灵海！”

这般想着，他重新静下心来，没有因突破到炼气境的第八层，就感到满足。

他又开始施展出炼气诀，借助于石殿内依然存在的浓郁能量，进行新一轮的苦修，再次开始了对灵海的改造。

不知不觉间，又是几天过去了。

端坐于石殿，废寝忘食修炼着的聂天，沉迷于对灵海的改造，浑然不知时间的流失。

直到，他再也无法从石殿内，去吸纳到精纯浓郁的能量时，他才停了下来。

然后，他就发现寂静的石殿内，再也没有一点碎芒，再也没有令他激动的浓郁能量。

他很快意识到，那些残留于石殿内的能量，经过这段时间的流失，已经彻底消散开来。

而他，在突破到炼气境第八层后，因为又一次的苦修，他借助于石殿内的能量，将其灵海，硬生生地又扩张了三成！

在第八层的基础上，再扩张三成灵海所需要的力量，其实是非常庞大的。

没有石殿内的那些精纯能量，他如果是在聂家修炼，他可能需要半年，甚至更长的时间，才有可能令炼气第八层境界的灵海，扩张到如此程度。

这座石殿，将他的修炼速度，提升了十几倍都不止！

心情愉悦的聂天，知道能量散尽，继续修炼已经没有意义，终于站了起来，仔细去检查这座石殿。

他绕着石殿，走了三圈，发现石殿内其实只有那座空间传送阵。

殿内的墙壁上，雕刻着很多稀奇古怪的灵兽，还有一些兽形的古怪文字。

那一个个奇怪的兽性文字，似乎是高等级的灵兽，智慧出众后所创造出来的。

那些文字刻在石壁上，似乎在说明着什么，可惜他并不识得那些文字，只能徒呼奈何。

众多的兽骨炸碎，十二根石柱内的那座祭台，似乎再也无法开启，暂时失去了作用。

他仔细检查了一番，也没有更多的发现，只觉得那六根雕刻着炎龙的石柱，可能对他有大用。

六根石柱上，那六条盘绕着的炎龙，并不是由炎龙之骨形成，而是雕刻出来的石物。

可他却感觉到，那六条石制的炎龙体内，也蕴藏着恐怖的火焰能量。

他的那块也分明来自于炎龙的兽骨，对于火焰力量的需求，简直就是没有止境的。

兽骨，将聂家开采的那座矿山，所有的火云石吸收以后，才凝结出一滴鲜血。

那滴鲜血成形以后，兽骨似发生了蜕变，让他在返回时，轻而易举将两个袁秋莹安排的强者烧成了灰烬。

而且，在他回到聂家不久以后，那兽骨还撕裂了空间，将他带到了那神秘异地。

在那神秘异地内，有着诸多的神妙，他也是在那儿悟到了一式怒拳。

但，兽骨将他送往那神秘异地，将他带回聂家，都需要庞大的火焰能量来支撑。

他若想随时通过那兽骨，撕裂空间，去探知那神秘的异地，就需要让兽骨吸纳更多的火焰力量。

这座石殿内，那六根盘绕着炎龙的石柱，就能提供巨额的火焰能量！

“有点可惜了，没有能将那块炎龙的兽骨带进来。不然，那块兽骨，应该是可以将六根石柱内蕴藏的炎能，都给抽离干净的。”

心有遗憾的聂天，又在石殿内走动了一会儿，再细致地检查了一番。

发现再无所获以后，他爬到一根石柱顶部，通过那根靠近石殿顶部窟窿的石柱，冲入了那窟窿内。

那个窟窿，连接着头顶湖泊中的泥洞。

构成窟窿的，乃是荒漠中的沙砾，他一手插下去，就能刺入沙砾内。

两手为梯，他一点点往上攀爬，用了半个时辰，终于从进来的泥洞内，重返湖泊中心。

一出泥洞，一站在湖泊中央，他就发现湖面异光微闪。

被玄冰巨蟒的尾巴，给破开的泥洞，竟诡异地一点点愈合。

他走出湖泊，站在湖边上，再去看湖水中央时，发现一切都恢复了正常，什么端倪都瞧不出了。

“石殿，就在底下。以后若能再进青幻界，定要带着那块兽骨，将那六根石柱内的炎能，全部吸纳干净。”

眯着眼，他将周边的地形，湖泊的颜色，种种细节记在心里。

他期望着，下一次有机会进入青幻界时，能准确地找到此地。

“应该过去很久了，也不知道安颖他们，有没有能够和郑彬汇合。鬼宗和血宗，可能早就找到他们了，希望他们都还活着。”

身边再没有灵兽肉，地底石殿内的能量，也被他抓住机会炼化了一番。

如今，他不但顺利突破到炼气境的第八层，还多扩充了三成的灵海，后面再也没有什么事可做了。

“看看能否与他们汇合，帮他们去斩杀鬼宗和血宗的弟子。”

辨别了一下方向，他便离开了此处，朝着玄冰巨蟒将他带来前的位置而去。

他独自行走在荒漠中。

大概过了五六个时辰，略有些疲惫的他，先停了下来，从腰间的布袋内，取出一块灵石，去恢复灵力。

“嗯？有人？”

一会儿后，他听到了声响，将那块已失去灵力的灵石扔掉，便皱眉站起。

他释放出精神意识感知。

“两个人，生命的波动，一强一弱，会是谁呢？”身影一动，他朝着感知到的区域冲去。

两个身穿灰衣，胸襟上布满血迹，一边低声交流，一边赶路的人，突然映入他眼帘。

“袁锋！云松！”

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Xuan Bing Jupyter Snake used the spatial teleportation array to leave the Qing Huan Realm, and no one knew where it had gone.

The secret realm gate formed by the light screen exploded, scattering light points across the sky. The twelve stone pillars, which spewed flames and cold currents, instantly returned to calm.

Nie Tian stood at the base of a stone pillar, intending to inspect the stone hall and observe its wonders.

However, he soon discovered that the bone fragments scattered from the sacrificial altar, after exploding, still contained considerable energy.

His eyes lit up, and he immediately used his mental energy to sense the surroundings. He quickly found that the entire stone hall was filled with extremely dense energy.

This energy originated from high-grade bones, each of which was a crystalline bone, the primary source of power for the spatial teleportation array.

The numerous bones might have been collected by Xuan Bing Jupyter Snake after expending a great deal of effort, serving as the key to its departure.

Now, all the bones were shattered, but the energy they formed in an instant still existed in the stone hall, slowly dissipating.

"What a vast amount of energy!"

Nie Tian immediately abandoned the idea of exploring the stone hall and instead sat down cross-legged on the spot. He immediately began to practice the Qi Refinement Art.

With a movement of his Spirit Sea, he seemed to become a giant magnet, beginning to疯狂地吸收石殿内逐渐消失的能量。

A stream of silver-white mist, mixed with fragments of light, gathered towards him like moths drawn to a flame.

In just a moment, he felt that his Spirit Sea was filled with abundant spiritual energy!

The Qi Refinement Realm has nine levels, from one to nine, with no bottlenecks to break through. One only needs to continuously expand and transform the Spirit Sea to advance smoothly.

At the ninth level, when breaking through to the Postnatal Realm, it is not just a matter of accumulating spiritual energy and transforming the Spirit Sea.

Bottlenecks only appear between the ninth level of Qi Refinement and the Postnatal Realm.

Nie Tian's Spirit Sea in his dantian, after consuming the meat of the Earth Lizard and continuous transformation, was already at a critical point of breakthrough.

If he hadn't encountered the Xuan Bing Jupyter Snake, he might have been able to advance to the eighth level of Qi Refinement through his previous intense cultivation.

This time, the dense energy swirling in the stone hall, after flooding into his Spirit Sea, he soon realized that he was about to achieve his goal—the eighth level of Qi Refinement!

He focused on his intense cultivation.

After an unknown amount of time, his cross-legged figure trembled slightly.

When he opened his eyes, his face was full of joy, and he exclaimed, "I've made it!"

He successfully advanced to the eighth level of Qi Refinement!

Without rushing to stand up, he continued to use his mental energy to sense the surroundings and found that although the energy in the stone hall had thinned, it was still quite abundant.

He noticed that the energy in the stone hall decreased over time.

"This is a rare opportunity. In the future... it might not be easy to obtain a new second-level spirit beast. Without the flesh of a second-level spirit beast, it will be difficult to quickly break through the eighth level of Qi Refinement."

"The energy here comes from those high-grade bones and is very easy to absorb."

"Before this energy completely dissipates, I must seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expand my Spirit Sea as much as possible!"

With this thought, he calmed his mind again, not feeling satisfied just because he had advanced to the eighth level of Qi Refinement.

He began to practice the Qi Refinement Art again, using the dense energy still present in the stone hall for another round of intense cultivation, further transforming his Spirit Sea.

Unconsciously, several days passed.

Sitting in the stone hall, Nie Tian, who had been cultivating without rest, was completely absorbed in transforming his Spirit Sea, unaware of the passage of time.

Until he could no longer absorb the pure and dense energy from the stone hall, he finally stopped.

Then, he realized that the stone hall was completely silent, with no more fragments of light or the dense energy that had excited him.

He quickly understood that the energy remaining in the stone hall had completely dissipated over time.

After breaking through to the eighth level of Qi Refinement, he had, through another round of intense cultivation, expanded his Spirit Sea by another thirty percent using the energy in the stone hall!

Expanding the Spirit Sea by thirty percent on top of the eighth level actually required a tremendous amount of energy.

Without the pure energy in the stone hall, if he were cultivating in the Nie family, it might have taken him half a year or even longer to expand his Spirit Sea to this extent at the eighth level of Qi Refinement.

This stone hall had increased his cultivation speed by more than ten times!

Feeling pleased, Nie Tian knew that with the energy dissipated, further cultivation was meaningless. He finally stood up and carefully inspected the stone hall.

He walked around the stone hall three times and found that it actually only contained the spatial teleportation array.

The walls of the hall were carved with many strange and exotic spirit beasts, as well as some strange animal-shaped characters.

These strange animal characters seemed to have been created by high-level spirit beasts with outstanding intelligence.

The characters carved on the stone walls seemed to convey some message, but unfortunately, he did not recognize them and could only sigh in frustration.

The numerous bones had exploded, and the sacrificial altar within the twelve stone pillars seemed to be unable to open again, temporarily losing its function.

He carefully inspected it but found nothing more, only feeling that the six stone pillars carved with fiery dragons might be of great use to him.

The six fiery dragons coiled on the six stone pillars were not made of fiery dragon bones but were carved from stone.

However, he sensed that these stone fiery dragons also contained terrifying fire energy.

His bone, which clearly came from a fiery dragon, had an insatiable need for fire energy.

The bone, after absorbing all the fire cloud stones from the mine the Nie family had excavated, had condensed a drop of blood.

After the drop of blood formed, the bone seemed to have undergone a transformation, allowing him to easily burn two of Yuan Qiuying's arranged experts to ashes when he returned.

Moreover, not long after he returned to the Nie family, the bone had torn through space, bringing him to a mysterious place.

In that mysterious place, he had comprehended a powerful fist technique.

However, to send him to that mysterious place and bring him back to the Nie family, the bone required a tremendous amount of fire energy.

If he wanted to tear through space at any time using the bone to explore that mysterious place, he needed to let the bone absorb more fire energy.

The six stone pillars coiled with fiery dragons in the stone hall could provide a huge amount of fire energy!

"It's a bit of a pity that I couldn't bring the fiery dragon bone in. Otherwise, the bone could have absorbed all the fire energy stored in the six stone pillars."

With a sense of regret, Nie Tian walked around the stone hall for a while and inspected it again.

Finding nothing more, he climbed to the top of a stone pillar and, through the hole near the top of the stone hall, entered the hole.

The hole connected to a mud cave in the lake above.

The hole was made of sand from the desert, and he could easily insert his hand into the sand.

Using his hands as a ladder, he climbed up bit by bit and, after half an hour, finally returned to the center of the lake through the mud cave.

As soon as he emerged from the mud cave and stood in the center of the lake, he noticed a faint glow on the lake surface.

The mud cave, broken by the tail of the Xuan Bing Jupyter Snake, was mysteriously healing bit by bit.

He walked out of the lake and stood by the shore. Looking at the center of the lake, he found that everything had returned to normal, with no trace of anything unusual.

"The stone hall is below. If I can enter the Qing Huan Realm again in the future, I must bring the bone and absorb all the fire energy from the six stone pillars."

Squinting, he memorized the surrounding terrain, the color of the lake, and various details.

He hoped that the next time he had the opportunity to enter the Qing Huan Realm, he could accurately find this place.

"It must have been a long time. I wonder if An Ying and the others have managed to meet up with Zheng Bin. The Ghost Sect and Blood Sect might have already found them. I hope they are all still alive."

With no more spirit beast meat and the energy in the underground stone hall already absorbed, there was nothing else for him to do.

"Let's see if I can meet up with them and help them kill the disciples of the Ghost Sect and Blood Sect."

After determining the direction, he left the place and headed toward where the Xuan Bing Jupyter Snake had brought him before.

He walked alone in the desert.

After about five or six hours, feeling slightly tired, he stopped, took a spirit stone from the bag at his waist, and used it to restore his spiritual energy.

"Hmm? Someone?"

After a while, he heard a sound, threw away the spirit stone that had lost its energy, and frowned as he stood up.

He released his mental energy to sense the surroundings.

"Two people, one strong and one weak. Who could they be?" He moved and rushed toward the area he sensed.

Two people in gray clothes, with bloodstains on their chests, talking in low voices and walking, suddenly came into his view.

"Yuan Feng! Yun Song!"

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