Chapter 46

Could it be that the process of refining the Immortal Spirit has reached saturation?

After temporarily restraining Su Baozhang's rash actions, Yang Junshan once again came to the underground cave beneath the pomegranate grove to cultivate. However, after half a day, the usual feeling of clear progress that Yang Junshan could distinctly sense was gone. The last segment of the Tiger Tooth Immortal Spirit in the vertebrae remained completely still.

This situation had not changed over the past few days, which was extremely rare during the process of summoning the Immortal Spirit. Ordinary cultivators would never encounter a bottleneck during the process of refining the Immortal Spirit until it was fully refined and reached perfection. This made Yang Junshan wonder if it was because his potential had been exhausted.

If that were truly the case, then Yang Junshan had already reached the perfected realm. As for the remaining small segment of the Tiger Tooth Immortal Spirit, would he have to cut open his skin to remove it?

With this thought in mind, Yang Junshan decided to interrupt the final refinement of the Tiger Tooth Immortal Spirit and attempt to exclude it from the circulation path of the Earth Spirit Technique.

It was not unheard of for the process of refining the Immortal Spirit to reach saturation in the cultivation world, but such cases were mostly found in cultivators with innate deficiencies or weak bodies. For the vast majority of cultivators, this situation would never occur regardless of the type of Immortal Spirit they were refining.

Yang Junshan positioned his body in the posture of the Lying Tiger, and the speed of the Earth Spirit Technique circulating in his meridians suddenly increased. It struck the remaining Tiger Tooth Immortal Spirit outside the Immortal Spirit acupoint, attempting to dislodge it from its position to make room for the already refined and accumulated Immortal Spirit essence to impact the Immortal Spirit acupoint.

Unexpectedly, as the Tiger Tooth Immortal Spirit moved and gave up its position, intense pain immediately swept through his entire body. A sharp explosion suddenly sounded from within his vertebrae, as if something had been shattered.

The unexpected turn of events made Yang Junshan momentarily forget the intense pain and focus all his attention inward. Initially, he thought that the refinement of the Immortal Spirit could continue as he circulated his spiritual energy to impact the remaining Immortal Spirit. However, while the surface of the remaining Immortal Spirit was indeed covered in cracks, the sharp explosion did not come from the remaining Immortal Spirit.

Just as Yang Junshan was puzzled, he suddenly noticed that the circulation path of his spiritual energy had changed. The path that had been opened during the initial stage of drawing in spiritual energy suddenly seemed to have broken through another hidden channel after the Immortal Spirit acupoint, a channel that Yang Junshan had never discovered before.

With a thunderous roar that only Yang Junshan could hear, the surging spiritual energy, after clearing this hidden channel, returned to the original circulation path, and the Earth Spirit Technique resumed its smooth operation. However, when it circled back to the vertebrae, an additional channel for the circulation of spiritual energy had been added.

At the end of this newly opened channel, a barrier blocked the impact of the spiritual energy, forcing it to retreat to the original circulation path.

An Immortal Spirit acupoint, there was actually an Immortal Spirit acupoint here!

Yang Junshan was so shocked that he could hardly believe it. If it were not for the critical moment of cultivation, he would have stood up and shouted, "This is impossible!"

How could there be an Immortal Spirit acupoint here!

He was clearly only a fourth-grade innate talent with two Immortal Spirit acupoints. How could such a strange Immortal Spirit acupoint appear, and why was it not discovered during the innate talent test?

Yang Junshan's mind was in a complete mess. In his previous life, he had always been a fourth-grade talent. Even if someone had used a technique to hide his Immortal Spirit acupoints, he would have certainly discovered them once he reached the Martial Human Realm.

This meant that whether in his previous life or this one, Yang Junshan's innate talent was always fourth-grade, and he undeniably had two Immortal Spirit acupoints.

So, what was the sudden appearance of this Immortal Spirit acupoint all about? Did it truly exist in Yang Junshan's body, and what caused its appearance?

Before Yang Junshan could calm down and ponder the reason for the hidden Immortal Spirit acupoint, another sharp sound came from within his body, drawing his attention back inward. He then saw that the small segment of the Tiger Tooth Immortal Spirit, which was already covered in cracks, suddenly began to shatter, and a small clump of blood-red liquid flowed out, moving along the newly opened spiritual energy channel directly to the barrier of the newly appeared Immortal Spirit acupoint.

The Earth Spirit Technique continued to circulate, and the fragments of the shattered Tiger Tooth Immortal Spirit were continuously flushed by the spiritual energy, causing the previously stagnant Immortal Spirit essence to begin refining and condensing again.

At the same time, the small clump of blood-red liquid that flowed out of the Tiger Tooth Immortal Spirit also began to be refined under the flushing of the spiritual energy. This clump of blood-red liquid turned out to be an Immortal Spirit, and it was directly heading for the newly appeared Immortal Spirit acupoint.

If someone were still in the spirit spring cave at this moment, they would notice that the originally dim cave was now faintly glowing with a pale red light, which originated from Yang Junshan's back. This scene was identical to when the Mountain Tiger in Bai Que Mountain had attempted to "condense bone into spirit" in front of Yang Junshan.

At this moment, Yang Junshan also realized that this clump of blood-red liquid was likely the supreme-grade Immortal Spirit that the Mountain Tiger had tried to accumulate through "condensing bone into spirit." He had thought the Mountain Tiger had failed, but it turned out that this most precious supreme-grade Immortal Spirit was hidden within the high-grade Tiger Tooth Immortal Spirit.

The Mountain Tiger had actually nurtured two types of Immortal Spirits, and they were of higher quality than the Earth Bear's high-grade Immortal Spirit and supreme-grade Immortal Spirit. If the Mountain Tiger had not been injured by Zhang Yueming first, even if it had been ambushed, the Earth Bear would have been no match for the Mountain Tiger.

Having understood the secret hidden within the Immortal Spirit, the calmed-down Yang Junshan recalled the secret legends about Immortal Spirit acupoints from his previous life. Finally, he remembered a secret he had heard in his previous life.

After the great changes in the world in his previous life, natural disasters and human calamities arose, marking the end times of the cultivation world. Many secrets of the cultivation world gradually became known, including the legend of hidden acupoints in cultivators' bodies.

Hidden acupoints, one explanation was that a very few cultivators might have hidden Immortal Spirit acupoints that they were unaware of. These acupoints often only became apparent when the cultivator reached the Martial Human Realm, but by then, the cultivator's cultivation was already fixed, and the discovered acupoints could not provide any further support.

This phenomenon might be due to innate reasons, but Yang Junshan was more inclined to believe it was a result of malicious intent, where someone deliberately used secret techniques to hide the true innate talent of young cultivators during the innate talent test.

Yang Junshan had also suspected that someone in his family had tampered with the test when the hidden acupoint appeared in his body, but he quickly dismissed this suspicion because he had not discovered any hidden acupoints in his body when he reached the Martial Human Realm in his previous life.

Since he had not discovered any hidden acupoints in his body when he reached the Martial Human Realm in his previous life, it proved that he had not been a victim of malicious intent, and it also indicated that the hidden acupoint in his body was not innate.

Therefore, it could only be a result of postnatal cultivation!

This time, Yang Junshan focused his attention on the Eight Mountain Lord Diagrams!

The second legend about hidden acupoints was even more unbelievable. It was said that if a young cultivator possessed some mysterious innate talent and met several necessary conditions, and if they diligently practiced a supreme-grade body cultivation technique, they might form an additional hidden acupoint.

Yang Junshan did not know if he possessed the mysterious innate talent or what other necessary conditions were required, but he knew that the Eight Mountain Lord Diagrams, which he had thought were only high-grade body cultivation techniques, were actually considered supreme-grade body cultivation techniques in the legends of his previous life, after the great changes and the exchange and fusion of various secret techniques and magical powers.

Yang Junshan's heart raced. The discovery of a hidden acupoint raised his innate talent from fourth-grade to a higher level, which would undoubtedly have a very positive impact on his future cultivation prospects.

The appearance of the supreme-grade Immortal Spirit was an unexpected joy, allowing Yang Junshan to accumulate a more substantial foundation and build a more solid base, making his future cultivation path more stable.

As for the supreme-grade body cultivation technique, which Yang Junshan believed only existed in legends, it would almost accompany his entire cultivation life, making his future path even longer.

A series of pleasant surprises plunged Yang Junshan into a state of excitement, even making him forget the pain of cultivation, fully immersing himself in the process of refining the Immortal Spirit.

Meanwhile, the atmosphere in the village of Tushan became increasingly tense as the spirit fields matured. The village, which was usually filled with children playing, became quiet. Villagers who met on the road mostly nodded in greeting, skipping the usual pleasantries, each seeming to be preoccupied with their own thoughts. Only the number of guards patrolling the spirit fields at the foot of West Mountain had increased significantly.

In the underground secret room of Yang Tangan's house, An Xia shook the purple-skinned storage bag in his hand, and a dozen or so red-rust raw stones of various sizes fell to the ground. "After Brother Three told me the news, I've been to many places and have been working hard to gather them, but red-rust raw stones are rare, so I could only get this much!"

Yang Tangan waved his hand and said, "Put them away. Your cultivation is about to break through, and Sister Seven has been stuck at the peak of the Mortal Realm for a long time. This is the time when jade coins are needed. Besides, Brother Three has already collected some raw stones, and the current jade coins are enough."

An Xia did not refuse, putting away most of the raw stones and leaving only one about the size of a fist. "This one is for Xiaoshan. This kid is so clever, whatever amount of spirit jade he extracts will be his reward."

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