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102: Chapter 101: The First Prohibition (4/3, 5000 bonus for first subscription) 102: Chapter 101: The First Prohibition (4/3, 5000 bonus for first subscription) “Then we’ll talk about it next time,” The Sword Spirit said earnestly, “For now, focus on your cultivation. Your Seven Fiend Fate has a high resistance to both Demonic Qi and Calamity Qi, so there isn’t much trouble during the Qi Refinement Realm.” “Once you break free from the pursuit of the Heaven’s Will Demon Sect and the Heavenly Demons, find a place to settle down. Then we can think of a plan together to thoroughly resolve the issue of Demonic Qi.” That made sense. Even if there was Demonic Qi in the spirit veins, one couldn’t just stop practicing. After all, everything depended on the dosage, even poison and carcinogens. An Jing collected his thoughts and continued to cultivate using the energy of the spirit vein and the Evil Qi of the Jade Cutting Steel. The people from the Black Market delivered his food and drink, but just as with the canned food he received back in the recycling shack, the Black Market’s food was all liquid convenience meals, and the drinks were like vegetable juice—a hydrolyzed nutrient solution. They satisfied the body’s needs, but the taste… was far too lacking. It was even worse than the mutton soup in Danlin Town. But An Jing had just emerged from the famine in the Northern Border and the dungeons. Back when he was hungry, even gnawing on tree bark was a treat. Having anything to eat made him content and did not interfere with his cultivation. Moreover, he had asked the service staff at the Black Market for a few books about the history and current affairs of the Tianyuan Realm, which he studied after finishing his daily cultivation. After making all the preparations, An Jing first practiced the Tranquil Sword Manual to clear his mind of distracting thoughts, then calmed his heart and steadied his breath, grasping the Jade Cutting Steel and absorbing Spirit Qi for his cultivation. Thanks to the safe and tranquil environment, and his natural talents, once An Jing started his cultivation, he would immerse himself completely in visualization and the circulation of internal Spirit Qi. Controlling the Taibai Forbidden Seed to condense the ‘prohibitions’ was actually a pleasure for him, and he could quickly enter a state of self-forgetfulness, staying there until his energy limits forced him out of that mode. In Subdue Evil Sword Spirit’s opinion, although An Jing’s Qi refining talents were average, his mental cultivation was among the best. If guided by a good teacher, he could surely become a true successor in the Sects. “Aren’t you the good teacher?” In response to his confusion, the Sword Spirit conveyed a denial, “I have forgotten too much. Not to mention the specific cultivation methods, I have even forgotten the names of my Sect and my past friends. I’m unable to teach you about the understanding and concepts of all things in heaven and earth. How could I be considered a good teacher?” “I can guide you, and you need to help me collect the fragments. We help each other and serve as guides for one another.” The Subdue Evil Sword Spirit, perhaps once an Upper Gate Immortal, was always humble and composed, never presumptuous or aloof, and spoke in a gentle, polite manner. Influenced by it, An Jing’s originally somewhat impatient heart also gradually calmed down. Without haste, he slowly accumulated Taibai Fiend Qi, allowing many meridians in his body to be influenced by its immersion and adapt to the flow of Fiend Qi, becoming increasingly thick and sturdy. Time flew quickly, and a day passed in a flash. This was the halfway point of An Jing’s second day in the Tianyuan Realm, with just over a day and a half left of this journey across worlds. At this moment, An Jing was maintaining his composed and unhurried mindset, guiding the internal Spirit Qi to condense prohibitions. This step was particularly difficult, because for prohibitions to operate smoothly, not only did the Complete Circuit of Qi need to flow unimpeded, but it also had to pass through all the key nodes of the prohibitions without stagnation—essentially adding an extra segment to the already challenging Complete Circuit, demanding both endurance and a higher threshold for Essence Qi from the cultivator. But it was on this particular noon that the Spirit Qi in the Spirit Vein of the Black Market surged slightly due to some unknown reason, and An Jing keenly seized this opportunity. In a flash, the Spirit Qi coursing ceaselessly through his meridians accelerated in circulation, rushing toward his limbs and bones, completing a Complete Circuit before returning again to the Forbidden Seed in his dantian, thus cycling endlessly without beginning or end. Sёarch* The ηovelFire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality. With each surge of Spirit Qi, and Essence Qi harmonizing within, each cycle centered around the Forbidden Seed would give rise to strands of prohibitive talismanic inscriptions that merged into his entire body, and after cycling the Complete Circuit three hundred and sixty times, a thread of Spirit Qi and Essence Qi, now purified to the utmost, surged into the Forbidden Seed as if heaven and earth were uniting. At that moment, An Jing felt an immense emptiness inside him, his body like a vessel yet void of even a drop of dew, and yet it seemed to contain the vastness of the celestial spirit, clear inside and out, like glaze. In his dantian, however, the Qi of heaven and earth and the essence of the human body were merging, metamorphosing within the Forbidden Seed. It seemed to last an eternity, and yet it seemed brief. As An Jing slowly opened his eyes, a bright clarity flickered, and strands of ‘Taibai Fiend Qi’ completely under his control flowed slowly from the Forbidden Seed, transforming into various Golden Dao Runes and merging with An Jing’s Innate Essence Qi, permanently branding themselves into the most fundamental parts of his body. Hum! At that instant, An Jing felt as if there was a surge of brightness before his eyes, and his body and vision appeared to stretch endlessly upward, yet his true self stood firmly in place, as immovable as a boulder of gold and iron. The saliva in his mouth suddenly appeared, and as it trickled down his throat, An Jing felt light and refreshed, his thoughts sharp. When his teeth clacked together, they actually emitted a sound akin to the clashing of metal. As the Spirit Qi circulated through his Complete Circuit, sharp and straight moon-white Spiritual Patterns appeared on his body, sturdy and pure white. Slowly standing up, as he moved his muscles and bones, An Jing could even vaguely hear a clear and resonant ringing, as if swords were crossing. The First Prohibition condensed and emerged! The Taibai Luminous Godly Ban, being an ultimate technique of the ancient Sects, had its unique aspects. In the Spirit Awakening Qi Refinement stage, there were eighteen prohibitions, without distinction. With the First Prohibition came Qi Refining Skills, and upon completion, one would reach the Peak of Qi Refining. However, the existence of realms still held significance. After condensing every nine prohibitions, they must be integrated into one’s own Grand Circulation. If one fails, there can be no further progress. If successful, it could transform into a Minor Divine Power. And once all one hundred and eight prohibitions of the whole Taibai Luminous Godly Ban are condensed, one can form the Twelve Palaces Minor Divine Power of the Complete Circuit. Once twelve Minor Divine Powers are condensed, they return to the origin and can transform into a Great Divine Power. If there aren’t enough mineral resources like Xuan Iron Essence to provide the Gold Fiend Qi for this cultivation method, one must seek a colossal ore vein stretching over a thousand miles. At the moment of the Sun and Supreme Yin transitioning, which is dawn and dusk, one must harmonize essence with Qi and extract the power of the Metal and Stone Earth Vein, yielding at most two strands of Qi a day, with sixty strands completing one Complete Circuit, and one hundred and eight Complete Circuits leading to Minor Achievement. “This Minor Achievement doesn’t refer to the minor completion of the whole cultivation method, but the attainment of a Minor Divine Power. Even a cultivator with decent talent, without sufficient resources and your physique, would need nearly a decade in a Spirit Land to accomplish this.” “But with ample resources, it’s a whole different story. For instance, this piece of jade steel is created by using the Earth’s Core to stoke a hundred metals, refining and consolidating them. Even just half of it, completely absorbing the contained Gold Fiend Qi, could replace more than a year’s extraction of Metal and Stone Qi from an ore vein and the condensation of the First Prohibition.” Listening to the Sword Spirit’s detailed explanation, An Jing’s body only showed the Spiritual Patterns for a short few breaths. This phenomenon would only reappear when he fully activated his Spiritual Power in the future. But even as the Spiritual Patterns faded away, his entire demeanor had changed, emanating faint sharpness and clarity.