Chapter 586 - 340: Breakthrough
If the world were a human body, this Spirit Juice would be like cancer cells, accidentally born within it and capable of infinite replication.
This is why the Demon Fiends who contain this Spirit Juice cannot truly die, but are instead trapped in a cycle of reincarnation.
Unless someone who could truly kill them appeared, or the world itself was destroyed.
From what Huan said, Yang An knew that the Seal on the Earth Demon Cliff was not natural; it had been artificially put in place.
’Then did the one who deliberately placed the Seal on the Earth Demon Cliff also know this? Did they intentionally trap the Spirit Juice here to prevent it from spreading to the outside world?’
Gazing at the black sphere of compressed Spirit Juice in his hand, Yang An found himself lost in thought.
Shaking off his thoughts, with the Spirit Juice now collected, Yang An took it and vanished from Huan’s sight.
He didn’t know if Huan could monitor the entire Earth Demon Cliff, but he knew he shouldn’t attempt his breakthrough in front of him. It was always better to be cautious.
Yang An had originally planned to enter the Earth Spirit Stele to absorb the Spirit Juice. The flow of time in the Xian Origin Land within the stele was different from the outside world, which might have bought him some extra time.
However, he remembered that Huan was once a member of the Earth Immortal Dao Sect and would likely recognize the Earth Spirit Stele. Reluctantly, he had to abandon the idea.
He found a cavern within the Earth Demon Cliff. The Demon Fiends he had just killed had already revived, so Yang An specifically instructed them to let no living creature near the area. He then entered the cavern and sealed off the surroundings with the Great Brightness Buddha Golden Zen Spell.
Purification!
The Spirit Juice looked no different after Purification. As Mana flowed from Yang An’s hand and touched the Spirit Juice, two streams of black smoke instantly billowed from the black sphere, surging into his body through his mouth and nose.
An ordinary person only has one acupoint, but Yang An also possessed the Mora Buddha’s Acupoint. This allowed him to absorb the Spirit Juice with incredible, ferocious speed.
In just an instant, the Mana within Yang An’s body began to fluctuate violently.
Spirit Juice and Mana shared the same origin, both being products of Spiritual Turbidity. As such, there was no discomfort in absorbing it.
The Mana in Yang An’s body surged, not even needing to be refined. It flowed directly into his acupoints, fusing and accumulating in ever-greater amounts.
If the efficiency of Yang An’s usual method of absorbing and refining Mana was like a cargo vehicle, it would be a hand-pushed cart; progress was incredibly slow.
But now, absorbing the Spirit Juice was like shipping by air freight.
It was like taking already refined Mana and transferring it directly into his body, completely bypassing the refinement process.
This was the first time he had ever experienced his Cultivation Level increasing at such a breakneck pace, no different from having a master directly pour their power into him.
Even that kind of direct infusion would involve some loss, but absorbing the Spirit Juice was almost perfectly efficient. In fact, the Spirit Juice itself seemed eager to enter Yang An’s body.
Time ticked by, second by second.
Yang An’s absorption rate grew faster and faster.
The black mist formed by the Spirit Juice swirled like two small tornadoes, rapidly entering Yang An’s body. He had started at roughly twenty percent completion of the Middle Stage of Zombie God, but now his progress shot up by ten percent every ten breaths.
He was completely immersed in absorbing the Spirit Juice, utterly oblivious to the outside world.
No wonder so many Sects sent their disciples to train in the Earth Demon Cliff. For a Cultivator, something like Spirit Juice was akin to drinking poison to quench a thirst; once you had a taste, it was incredibly easy to become addicted and impossible to give up.
Forty percent... Sixty percent... Eighty percent... One hundred percent!
Finally, Yang An’s Cultivation Level stalled at the peak of the Middle Stage of Zombie God, just a single step away from the Late Stage.
But to break through to the Late Stage of Zombie God, he now faced a new problem: the Dao of Destiny Technique!
Because he cultivated *Mystic Path Decoded*, he needed to fuse with a new Dao of Destiny Technique every time he broke through a Small Realm. Yang An was already prepared for this.
After fusing with the Light-category Forbidden Artifact Fragment, he now had the ability to easily create a new Light-category Technique of his own.
What kind of Technique he created would depend entirely on his imagination and the limits of his own abilities. Yang An already had an idea in mind.
And when fusing a Technique he had created himself into a Dao of Destiny Technique, the process would take almost no time at all. He already understood it so thoroughly that there were no issues with obscurity or proficiency.
In the past, fusing a Technique created by someone else into a Dao of Destiny Technique would take at least a month.
For Techniques obtained in the Ascension Cave, or those directly implanted into his memory by others, this time would be significantly reduced.
Examples included the Extreme Day Divine Aspect, the Sacrificial Dao Yin Thunder, and the Great Brightness Buddha Golden Zen Spell.
The first two were obtained from the Ascension Cave, while the last was stripped from another person by Miao Ye and gifted to him.
So... now it was time to fuse with a new Dao of Destiny Technique.
As for what new Technique to fuse, a look of anticipation spread across Yang An’s face.
In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, with virtually no obstacles, Yang An easily reached a level that would take others years to attain, smoothly advancing from the Middle Stage of Zombie God to the Late Stage.
For other people, breakthroughs in their Cultivation Technique and Cultivation Level grew more difficult the further they progressed. Each breakthrough also risked plunging them into the backlash and tribulations associated with their technique.