24: Chapter 24 Obtaining the Enlightenment Fruit and Comprehending Supernatural Powers

"Crack!"

With a sudden exertion of force in Bai Yunzhou's hand, he snapped the neck of the Qin Family Disciple before him.

After confirming that the other party had breathed his last, he looted the Storage Pouch from his body and quickly departed.

"This is already the third wave of Qin Family Disciples I've encountered since leaving the Immortal Cave. It seems I must get the wuling fruit and leave as soon as possible."

With that thought, he took a map Jade Slip out of his storage ring.

This was a map he purchased from a shop specializing in selling maps after leaving the restaurant in Tiandao City.

On it were detailed topographical descriptions of various regions in the Baiduan Mountain Range.

Based on the surrounding environment and cross-referencing the coordinates on the map, Bai Yunzhou confirmed his current location.

"I've already reached Dragon's Mouth. The wuling fruit should be located not far ahead."

Stowing the map away, he continued to swiftly thread through the forest, during which he also encountered two other teams of Qin Family Disciples searching for him.

However, he successfully dodged them both without any direct conflict occurring.

Not long after, he arrived at another cave.

He briefly sized up the environment of the cave.

At the top of the cave was a huge skylight.

Sunlight poured into the cave precisely through this skylight, barely illuminating the surroundings.

And that wuling fruit tree was growing right beneath this skylight.

With a single glance, Bai Yunzhou immediately saw a jade-green fruit hanging on the tree.

"It really is the wuling fruit!"

Suppressing the joy in his heart, he did not step forward immediately.

Instead, after looking around the surroundings once more and confirming there was no danger, he stepped forward to pluck it.

The very instant he plucked the wuling fruit into his hand, a notification floated up before his eyes.

[You have obtained one wuling fruit, successfully plundered Sun Yu's Opportunity, triggered a four-thousand-fold critical hit, and obtained one Enlightenment Fruit!]

As the notification faded, the fruit in his hand underwent a change in a split second.

The originally unremarkable jade-green fruit now became somewhat translucent, resembling jelly.

At the same time, there was a faint halo around the fruit.

Inside the cave, a burst of fragrance instantly permeated the air.

Merely smelling this aura made Bai Yunzhou's mind clear up instantly, and many of his past puzzles regarding cultivation suddenly became clear.

"I didn't expect that this time a critical hit would directly yield an Enlightenment Fruit!"

Bai Yunzhou's eyes were filled with astonishment.

Compared to the wuling fruit, this Enlightenment Fruit was even scarcer, and its effects were far better.

After consuming it, a Cultivator would temporarily receive an astonishing boost in Comprehension Ability.

Beyond that, after the effects of the Enlightenment Fruit wore off, the Cultivator's Comprehension Ability would also receive a certain permanent enhancement.

This would be immensely beneficial for the Cultivator's future practice of Cultivation Techniques and Divine Abilities.

This held true for Cultivators of any Realm.

Because of this, even if placed in the Ancient Era, this Enlightenment Fruit possessed quite a prestigious reputation on the Spiritual Fruit Rankings.

"With this Enlightenment Fruit, my future cultivation speed will definitely increase by a huge margin!"

"If I can obtain enough ten-thousand-year spiritual milk afterwards, breaking through to Mid Foundation Establishment within three months will be effortless!"

At this moment, his eyes were filled with joy.

After all, in this way, the threat of the Blood Demon Seal within his body would lessen by a few more points.

However, after calming his emotions, he started getting a headache again.

This Enlightenment Fruit belonged to special spiritual fruits. If he wanted to take it away, he had to Seal it using a Seal method to ensure that its spiritual essence would not be lost before placing it into the Storage Pouch.

Otherwise, once he left Baiduan Mountain, this Enlightenment Fruit would inevitably turn into a useless fruit due to the loss of its spiritual essence.

Although he knew some details about this Enlightenment Fruit, he didn't know the Seal method for this spiritual fruit at all.

But if he consumed the spiritual fruit directly here, there was no guarantee that people from the Qin Family wouldn't track him down.

Given the environment of this cave, if he were cornered here by the Qin Family people, it would inevitably be difficult for him to escape.

But letting him give up this Enlightenment Fruit just like that was obviously impossible.

After all, this was the key to whether he could break through to Mid Foundation Establishment within three months.

After hesitating for a moment, he made up his mind.

He quickly took out several Formation flags from the Storage Pouch, inserting them around the cave to conceal both the entrance and the skylight.

"It is fortunate that among the Qin Family Disciples I killed previously, one of them was a Formation Master, otherwise this time would have been truly troublesome."

After everything was properly dealt with, he cleared out a clean patch of open ground below the skylight and sat cross-legged.

Without the slightest hesitation, he swallowed the Enlightenment Fruit in his hand straight into his stomach.

In a split second, the Enlightenment Fruit transformed into wisps of pure energy, beginning to surge into his Sea of Consciousness.

This caused his Sea of Consciousness to become increasingly clear compared to before.

At this moment, his Sea of Consciousness instantly transformed from an ordinary computer into a supercomputer.

Information that originally would have taken tens of thousands of years to process could now be completed in just a few breaths.

He tried recalling the contents of the "Great River Sword Art" in his mind, and unexpectedly comprehended it to Major Achievement in a single flash.

The various sword moves and application techniques within it were frantically rehearsed in his Sea of Consciousness.

Along with this, his Physical Body even underwent some slight changes.

It was as if he had truly cultivated for a long time to make his Physical Body better adapted to this set of sword arts.

Subsequently, the Great River Sword Art directly reached Perfection!

Bai Yunzhou was dumbfounded.

Obviously, he hadn't expected that this Enlightenment Fruit would possess such might.

"As expected of a spiritual fruit famous on the Spiritual Fruit Rankings!"

He quickly calmed his emotions.

He prepared to begin cultivating that Divine Ability taught to him by his Revered Master.

Normally speaking, when a Cultivator Cultivates a Divine Ability, even those with considerable talent would rely solely on themselves and need at least several years or even decades of time just to attain initial mastery.

But with Bai Yunzhou's current Comprehension Ability, no matter how difficult the Divine Ability was to Cultivate, he had the confidence to comprehend it within an extremely short period of time.

Thinking of this, he began to rapidly recall the content of the "Dao as a Seed" Divine Ability.

"The divine is the plow, the spiritual is the fire.

Blood makes the soil, bones make the furrows.

Ten thousand apertures transform into fields, accommodating the spiritual within the minute..."

Soon, his Divine Sense permeated every part of his body, down to the tiniest corner.

Skin, flesh, tendons, bones, five viscera...

He began following the first-layer cultivation method of "Dao as a Seed", using his Divine Sense as a guide and spiritual power as fire to refine his body.

In a split second, he felt as if he were being roasted over a raging fire, and a burning sensation assaulted him from all over his body, stimulating his Sea of Consciousness.

Very quickly, this burning sensation transformed into an even more intense pain, as if every single cell on his body was being torn apart and then reassembled, over and over again.

Such pain caused his expression to change drastically and distort.

Yet he still gritted his teeth and endured it.

He knew that during this process, if there was even the slightest mistake, his Physical Body would suffer irreversible injuries.

Because of this, ordinary Cultivators had to proceed step by step and take things slowly when comprehending Divine Abilities.

But right now, under the enhancement of the Enlightenment Fruit, Bai Yunzhou could compress this process to the extreme.

However, this also caused the pain of the entire evolutionary process to be compressed to the extreme.

Soon, fresh blood began to ooze all over his body—from his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears!

Even from every tiny pore on his skin.

One could imagine the pain he was enduring at this moment.

But right now, he didn't dare to stop at all.

Only by persisting could he prevent all his previous efforts from going to waste.

Just like that, he didn't know how long he had persisted before this kind of pain gradually began to subside.

And as this pain weakened, the surrounding Spiritual Qi began to frantically surge into his body, filling into every single piece of his refined flesh and blood.

It was as if every piece of his flesh and blood was a tiny Dantian at this moment.

In fact, it was indeed so!

After the first-layer cultivation of "Dao as a Seed", his entire body and every piece of flesh and blood possessed the ability to store Spiritual Qi.

At the same time.

Nourished by this Spiritual Qi, his body began to gradually radiate new vitality.

But wondering how much longer this process would continue, he quickly noticed something was wrong.

This was merely an ordinary place with thin Spiritual Qi, which was completely insufficient to support him in completing his entire transformation.

Fortunately, his reaction was swift. He hurriedly placed all of his Storage Pouches in front of him, took out all the Spirit Stones from them, and began to frantically absorb the Spiritual Qi within them.

Finally, with the assistance of these Spirit Stones, his transformation began to continue.

However, this process did not last for long before the voices of other Cultivators came from outside the cave.

Although faint, with Bai Yunzhou's current strength, he heard them clearly.

"It's the fluctuating aura of my Qin Family's Formation!"

"It must be that scoundrel who killed our Qin Family Disciples hiding here. Quickly notify the Elder to come and reinforce us!"