C41 Role of endosperm

Canfeng quickly moved his body within the forest, like a pitch-black ghost. Behind him, a few Qi Refinement into Spirit cultivators were tightly holding onto their throats, and they slowly fell to the ground. He felt that his master's aura was slowly quieting down, but it didn't cause him to feel any danger.

Humph, his figure flashed, and with a poke of his foot, he struck a Stealth Level 1 cheetah's head, causing him to fly far away. Boom, before the cheetah could even regain its senses, its entire head was blasted by the Qi that Canfeng left in it, into a ball of blood.

After becoming a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi Refinement into Spirit, Canfeng's strength had undergone a tremendous change. In fact, it might not be long before he could successfully break through to the late stage of Qi Refinement into Spirit.

This was all thanks to Hong Ling. Canfeng believed that with his current talent in the way of martial arts which had broken through the ninth stage of the World Barrier, he would be able to travel a great distance ahead of the majority of the people in this world on his future path of cultivation.

However, Canfeng still felt that his own strength was insufficient to catch up to his own Young Master. Even if his cultivation was now an entire realm and four levels higher than Hong Ling's, he didn't think that his future achievements would be able to catch up to his own Young Master.

He had already seen the bloody corpse of the giant python, and other than his shock, he couldn't say anything else.

Although Hong Ling was also injured, Canfeng was still impressed. To be able to kill a second stage Demonic Beast with a cultivation at the middle stage of the Essence Refinement into Qi, with such talent, in the entire Great Chu Empire, how many could do it?

Lian Chengyue brought Hong Ling and continued to fly past the treetops. With her mastery of Essence Refinement into Qi, bringing along a person and running through the forest was not a difficult task, what she was afraid of was the powerful auras that were chasing after her. However, these auras seemed to have met some terrifying existence, and gradually quieted down.

Of course she did not know that Hong Ling's servant Canfeng had already rushed over, but he did not appear, and instead helped to clear up the threat.

Hong Ling had already made the order that he would not be allowed to interfere in any situation other than helping him to clear out the irresistible threat. Naturally, Canfeng followed his master's orders and did not dare to go against it.

She was currently still in a state of shock, and upon seeing the gigantic scar on the youth's chest, she clenched her teeth, tore off her clean skirt, and helped him clean up some of the broken parts of the wound.

Hong Ling frowned in pain, but he did not shout out. At the moment, he was only half asleep, his cultivation had already been used up, and other than the powerful healing ability of his body, he did not have any strength left.

Lian Chengyue was obviously not good at cleaning wounds, and it made Hong Ling frown in pain even when he was unconscious. The girl saw that he was in pain and the strength he exerted immediately lessened, but the youth still looked to be in pain.

She cleaned up the wound and took out the Golden Sore Medicine she brought from home from her spatial ring. She applied it to Hong Ling's wound, but the wound was just too big.

Lian Chengyue's face immediately flushed. She was not good at applying medicine or bandaging, so much so that she had not even touched it before. She could only rely on her senses.

At least it was enough to bandage Hong Ling's wound. Her childishness rose as she tied a butterfly knot on the gauze, a smile plastered all over her face.

Lian Chengyue looked at the rain outside the cave with a helpless expression. She had wanted to take the opportunity while Hong Ling was unconscious to get something to eat.

It was a long sigh of relief. As long as this youth's Authentic Qi was able to recover slowly, it would mean that his own abilities had been slowly restored, and that he would no longer be in any danger.

Bored, she fiddled with the fire and looked at the blushing youth. Finally, she couldn't stand it any longer and fell asleep beside him.

Lian Chengyue was woken up by the sweet smell of the roast meat, and when he woke up, rubbing his eyes drowsily, Hong Ling was already busy with breakfast.

Lian Chengyue stared at him as if he was looking at a monster. Seeing him dressed in white, looking like he was busily running around, he sniffed.

"How did you recover so quickly?" Lian Chengyue couldn't help but ask.

According to her knowledge, even some powerful cultivators would not be able to recover from such heavy injuries within a few days. But Hong Ling had already recovered completely in a short night, how could she not be amazed.

"Of course I have to thank you for that bottle of Gold Sore Medicine. The entire bottle is filled with my wounds, I think it would be difficult even if I don't want to. Oh right, the butterfly knot is also very beautiful!" Hong Ling joked as Lian Chengyue's face instantly flushed red.

"Humph!" It's fine if you don't thank me, but you still dare to laugh at me. She waved her fist, and in an instant, a lotus root arm appeared in the air. Hong Ling could even see the cloud pattern on the outline of her arm.

The youth embarrassedly turned his face away. Without looking at Lian Chengyue who instantly flushed red, he focused on roasting the string of wild pheasants in his hands. The young lady exclaimed and quickly rushed into the cave while covering her chest.

"You're not allowed to come in here. If you dare to move, I'll, I'll, hmph!" She stamped her foot.

Hong Ling was speechless. At this moment, when he heard the rustling sounds of clothes being changed, for some reason, an indescribable restlessness flashed through his heart. However, he quickly suppressed this feeling and concentrated on roasting the wild pheasant in his hands.

Lian Chengyue changed into a new set of long skirt and walked out of the cave with a red face.

"This is mine, it's all yours to repay for saving my life!" She did not care about the heat. She just sat on a rock and slowly dealt with the pheasant in her hand.

Hong Ling was stunned, but seeing Lian Chengyue gobble down the food, he did not continue to be hypocritical. After he finished the remaining food in his hand, the two of them did not speak anymore, and only when the sun was high in the sky did they finally fill their stomachs.

Hong Ling looked at Lian Chengyue who was sitting on top of the mountain and cultivating with his eyes closed, and casually took out a green-black Orb from his spatial ring. He'd noticed something strange when this inner core was smashed into his chest by the giant serpent. This greenish black Orb was extremely useful to his Authentic Qi.

Any inner pellet of a Demonic Beast could accelerate a cultivator's growth. However, with the increase in the purity and intensity of the Authentic Qi, some of the lower quality inner pellets would lose their effect in cultivation.

Aside from being influenced by the cultivator's innate talent, every cultivator's Authentic Qi's strength and purity was also affected by the grade of their cultivation technique.

It wasn't that Hong Ling hadn't tried to absorb a Level 1 Inner Core before, but he found that the Level 1 Inner Core was too complex. Even if he could absorb it all, he would need to further purify it.

Now, this second stage inner pellet was not the same as last time, because second stage Demonic Beast were much stronger than first stage Demonic Beast. Similarly, the inner pellet in their bodies contained many times more pure energy than first stage Demonic Beast.

Hong Ling could completely absorb the energy of this pellet right now, and it did not need to be purified or diluted. His talent, the Jiuzhuan Profound Technique he cultivated, and the bloodline in his body allowed him to completely cross realms to absorb this pellet.

The youth slowly probed into the Authentic Qi's core, pulling out the energy out bit by bit and dragged it into the meridians. Hong Ling continuously circulated his profound arts, refining this sliver of pure energy.

Although he still had a long way to go before he could use this to level up, Hong Ling believed that this Rank Two inner pellet was enough for him to break through to the late stage of Essence Refinement into Qi.

Strands of energy were being pulled by Hong Ling's energy, and gushed into his limbs and bones. He continuously refined this pure energy, and turned it into his own Authentic Qi, his aura slowly rising.

When Lian Chengyue woke up from his cultivation, he saw that Hong Ling was currently absorbing the energy of the Orb unceasingly. Cracks had already appeared on the orb and it was on the verge of collapsing.

"How is he able to cross his cultivation realm and absorb the energy from this inner core?" Lian Chengyue's face was filled with disbelief. In her knowledge, there had never been a person who had been able to absorb the Demonic Beast's Beast Core beyond three levels.

To cultivators, it was very dangerous to absorb inner pellets from Demonic Beast of the same level, not to mention that Hong Ling directly crossed three levels, and even crossed a realm, and directly absorbed Demonic Beast pellets of the early second level.

"Hmm? He's about to break through, how can he be so fast? " Lian Chengyue could sense that Hong Ling's aura had already reached a critical point and was lingering around.

She knew that Hong Ling no longer had to fear this obstacle; he could definitely break through this critical point right now and step into the late stage of the Essence Refinement into Qi.

's body trembled and the inner core of a Rank 2 Demonic Beast immediately shattered, transforming into a wave of extremely pure energy that was absorbed by his limbs and quickly refined by his body.

Hong Ling didn't dare to stop the circulation of his profound art at this moment. He knew that his current realm was extremely unstable, he overestimated this pellet, and thought that it would allow him to completely step into the late stage of the Essence Refinement into Qi.

He did not expect that his body's demand for energy was too high. That pellet was only to help him break through the barrier of the late stage of Essence Refinement into Qi. He still needed to consolidate his cultivation.

Lian Chengyue stared fixedly at the young man whose aura was currently unstable, he did not know what to say. An early Second Order Inner Core was merely enough to allow him to break through the barrier, but it could not consolidate his cultivation, this was simply unheard-of.

Finally, after four whole hours had passed, Hong Ling opened his eyes and slowly stood up.

"So close, my cultivation almost fell back into the middle stage of the Essence Refinement into Qi!"

Hong Ling rubbed his nose, laughed and said, with a thought, a burst of late stage Essence Refinement into Qi cultivation exploded out, causing his robes to flutter.