I Have a Compass for Opportunity

"Where should I hide it?" Liou Yuan looked around his cave dwelling, first focusing on the rusty and worn-out pill furnace at the entrance.

Then he shook his head, finding it unsuitable, and looked toward his bluestone bed.

"This’ll do."

Liou Yuan, who had now cultivated the Five Mansions Star Gazing Breathing Skill to the late stage of the Four Mansions, and with the aid of blood energy, possessed physical strength of several thousand pounds, easily lifted the bluestone bed.

Then he used the Canglan Sword to carve out a niche just big enough to accommodate the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone beneath the bluestone bed, hiding it there.

The bluestone bed perfectly concealed the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone.

However, Liou Yuan, gazing at the bluestone bed, still felt uneasy and muttered, "A Foundation Establishment Great Cultivator’s divine sense can penetrate this stone bed. It’s not safe. I need to set up a small illusion array that can isolate divine sense to be secure."

"Moreover, the array of this cave dwelling should be strengthened. The Mountain Guard Array outside the cave is only for the Qi Cultivation Realm. It’s okay to block cultivators at the Qi Cultivation Seventh or Eighth Layer, but it won’t hold against those at the Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer."

Now possessing Han Zhenzi’s array inheritance, Liou Yuan no longer thought highly of the built-in array of the cave dwelling.

He had already figured out how to improve his cave’s array.

Of course, in the short term, there would be no problem.

Liou Yuan decided to modify the array after breaking through to the Qi Cultivation Eighth Layer.

After cleaning up the mud and rubble on the floor, Liou Yuan sat directly on the bluestone bed.

He had possessed the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone for so long, yet had not used it for cultivation.

Today, he would test the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone’s auxiliary effect on cultivation.

He lay back, and as the Five Mansions Star Gazing Breathing Skill operated, the sound of spiritual power rolling arose within him.

At this moment, under the guidance of the cultivation technique, the three star acupoints on his body rapidly began to absorb the spiritual qi drifting within the cave, converging towards his body.

The two Five-Star Star Acupoints nearly devoured the spiritual qi in the cave, once again forming spiritual qi vortices around Liou Yuan.

Today’s cultivation differed from last night’s.

Liou Yuan paid special attention while meticulously refining spiritual power to observe how the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone affected his cultivation.

In the process of converting spiritual qi into spiritual power within the meridians, he quickly noticed something unusual.

Normally, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Power would have to circulate in Liou Yuan’s meridians for five great cycles before being refined into spiritual power and stored in his Five Mansions.

Moreover, that Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was usually a colorless milky white.

Today, when refining that spiritual qi, Liou Yuan saw unusual colors in his meridians.

The spiritual qi that entered Liou Yuan’s body now had a faint blue tint.

Not only did the color change, but as it flowed through Liou Yuan’s meridians, there was a chilling sensation, which was the cold energy of the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone.

Clearly, the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone was already at work.

The spiritual qi that usually needed five great cycles to refine could now, with one circulation in Liou Yuan’s meridians, be purified to an extraordinary degree in just four great cycles.

It only required two more small cycles to condense into spiritual power.

Ten small cycles make up one great cycle.

This saved Liou Yuan about one-fifth of his time.

"So that’s how it is!" Seeing the changes in the cultivation process, Liou Yuan’s eyes were filled with sudden realization.

He vaguely understood the reason the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone sped up his cultivation.

It was simply that it directly saved the cultivator’s time in refining Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, allowing the cultivator to focus wholeheartedly on absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

The star acupoints are the entry points for absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi, and the quality of the star acupoints determines how much spiritual power a cultivator can absorb into their body within a certain time.

The star acupoints themselves have the function of refining Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi; the qi passing through the star acupoints would already be refined once, and the higher the quality of the star acupoints, the higher the efficiency of refining Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

But that kind of improvement has its limits.

Liou Yuan’s two Five-Star Star Acupoints already absorbed qi faster than he could refine it.

After taking the legendary Spirit Pill Vascular Formation and Meridian Opening Elixir, which reshaped his body and meridians, he could barely keep up with the absorption.

He still felt a bit behind in keeping up with the absorption speed of the two Five-Star Star Acupoints.

The appearance of the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone resolved Liou Yuan’s dilemma, allowing him to simplify the process of refining spiritual qi directly, saving him time from another angle.

"With the assistance of the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone, my speed can increase by another fifth."

Assessing the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone’s boost to his cultivation speed, Liou Yuan felt immensely pleased.

However, the spiritual qi influenced by the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone, even after being refined, still carried a faint blue luster.

Causing Liou Yuan’s spiritual power to become considerably more yin and cold, taking on the attributes of the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone.

Undoubtedly, using this kind of spiritual power to perform Yin-based magic would have a slight increase in effect.

For instance, Treading Flowing Waves and the Green Tide Pure Water Sword would have a chilling characteristic due to the change in spiritual power, affecting opponents in battle.

However, using magic from the Fire Acupoint and Wood Acupoint would undoubtedly cause very bad consequences.

The dichotomy of Yin and Yang would certainly cause issues.

That’s also why only Yin-based star acupoints and cultivators practicing Yin cultivation skills can use the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone.

"With the help of the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone, it won’t take twenty days. In half a month, I can leave closed-door training!" Contemplating the enhancement in his cultivation speed from the Profound Yin Cold Marrow Stone, Liou Yuan roughly estimated the time he’d break through to the Qi Cultivation Eighth Layer.

Then he cleared his mind of distractions and devoted himself to cultivating in the cave.

On the third day of Liou Yuan’s closed-door training, the Jade Scroll of Thousand Mile Ear transmitted news about Liou Zhen, which Fang Yu had found out.