Chapter 790: Certain Death (1)
While the difficulty was extremely high, the increase after successfully breaking through was also worlds apart.
If he could seize the opportunity when breaking through, he could also have two opportunities to be reborn.
Last time, when Jiang Li broke through to the Soul Formation realm, his preparations were not bad.
He directly fused his Dao Body with Chi You’s muscles and replaced his foundation with the Nine Nether roots.
There were also Heaven-rank Dragon Transformation Pill, Nüwa Stone, Heart of Chaos, and other top-notch treasures.
Under such a huge investment, he successfully obtained the direct bloodline of the Dragon Palace, the Connate Human Race, the Seven-Colored Dao Body, and the Undying Body.
He went from an ordinary genius after the Cultivationless Age to having a top foundation in ancient times.
This time, he naturally could not let it go.
Apart from the Great Ultimate Stone disc and the two eyeballs, the Dragon King’s horns that retained vitality, the front teeth of the Great God Pangu, and the Earth Spirit Pearl that sealed a portion of the dragon vein power, etc.
They would become a part of him under the dual power of Chaos and Nüwa.
In the flesh cocoon, Jiang Li had already melted his physical body again.
The three treasures of essence, qi, and spirit mixed together with the Connate Five Elements in the power of Chaos, causing the condensation of the three flowers above to stop for a time.
However, as the Great Ultimate Stone disc spun, two spiritual lights, one blue and one red, suddenly appeared.
Jiang Li started to reconstruct his body with the two new eyeballs as the starting point.
Bit by bit, spiritual light floated up, and the three flowers above slowly began to condense.
One had to know that the accumulation of the current Human Emperor’s successor was far from what ordinary Soul Formation cultivators could compare to.
The three treasures in his body were at the top of the world in both quantity and quality.
Even at the level of the three divine pillars, a top-notch Earth Immortal who had already condensed the five qi in his chest was only comparable to him in these three aspects.
As such, in theory, every petal condensed from the three flowers above him required the expenditure of a leader of the three divine pillars.
How vast was the energy?
In the entire cultivation world of the Eastern Region, the number of spirit stones mined in a year was barely enough.
Coupled with the fact that he was transforming into the weight of an Earth Immortal to mold his Dao Body, the materials he invested in such as the Eye of the Drought Demon that had fused with the anti-cultivation rule, the blood-colored gaze formed by the will of heaven and earth, and the descendant branch of the Connate Spiritual Root…
In each of them, each was a peerless treasure that could support a Great Dao alone.
The process of fusing them required a terrifying amount of energy.
In front of ordinary cultivators, such exaggerated accumulation and foundation might not be good fortune. Instead, there were more troublesome and obstructions.
This was because ordinary cultivators could not accumulate enough endless energy for such a breakthrough even if they cultivated for tens of thousands of years.
However, to Jiang Li, as long as he had some patience, he could still do it.
In the beginning, even with his many statuses, he needed at least three days to condense a petal.
Compared to the situation when ordinary Earth Immortals condensed the three flowers, this was already extremely fast.
However, just based on the 81 petals of the three divine pillars, Jiang Li would have to spend 243 days.
Moreover, it was clearly impossible for his three flowers to only have 81 petals. If this continued, wouldn’t it take him several years to break through?
It was a long time that he could not accept.
On the other side, Jiang Ziya had already formed the Chaos Immortal Embryo. The other reincarnations of Immortals and Buddhas were also searching for the immortal qi in the world, hoping to become immortals again.
If he wasted too much time here, it might be too late when he came out of seclusion.
Fortunately, Jiang Li had foresight.
From the beginning, he chose to use the Merit Lotus Flowers as the core to condense the three flowers.
As the petals of the three flowers above increased, Jiang Li discovered that the power of virtuous merit he could control had also grown proportionately.
In any case, his Merit Golden Lotuses would not dissipate. The power of virtuous merit was endless.
Jiang Li simply began to seize his power of virtuous merit and convert it into his cultivation of essence, qi, and spirit.
As the number of petals above his head increased, the conversion speed became faster and faster.
The first petal needed three days to form.
It only took 34 hours to condense the second petal.
It was a virtuous cycle.
After the 18 petals formed a circle, it only took less than four hours for the essence, qi, and spirit to condense a new petal.
When there were already 36 petals above his head, the duration had already decreased to less than two hours.
In less than two hours, he could increase his cultivation by a leader of the three divine pillars.
What an astonishing speed.
However, even so, this speed was still increasing and was far from the limit.
Slowly, the seven-story and seven-sided pagoda began to tremble.
It was not because of anything else, but because of the vast amount of spiritual qi gathered.
Outside the pagoda, countless natural energies were swarming over.
Under this bottomless hole was a place with extremely rich spiritual qi. Otherwise, it would be impossible for it to be the first to produce immortal qi.
Such a large amount of spiritual qi was guided by Jiang Li’s merit to gather. It first turned into spiritual fog, then into a spiritual liquid that flowed in the air with a rustling sound.
This spiritual qi forcefully squeezed through the pagoda and surged into the first level. In the future, it would all pour into the huge flesh cocoon that was bathing in the Sun Golden Flames.