151: Chapter 151 Arc Seed Upgrade

Xiao Yuchen did not return to Great Xia, but instead came to a volcano in the Wa Country, where he prepared to Breakthrough to the Nascent Soul Stage.

With his plan set, Xiao Yuchen first meditated for a while; Spiritual Qi, accompanied by fire-attribute energy, was drawn into his body by the Energy Absorption Technique, and his state quickly recovered to its Peak.

After adjusting his state, Xiao Yuchen took out a superb nascent infant pill and tossed it into his mouth.

The Medicinal Pill melted the moment it entered his mouth, transforming into pure Spiritual Qi that flowed into Xiao Yuchen's limbs and bones. About an hour later, the sky was once again covered in dark clouds, and Xiao Yuchen knew he was about to undergo the Lightning Tribulation of the Nascent Soul Stage.

However, this time, Xiao Yuchen would not be as flustered as he was during his first Golden Core Lightning Tribulation. Now, not only had he experienced an Awakening of the lightning Spiritual Root and could use the Energy Absorption Technique to absorb lightning, but he also possessed the Immortal Artifact lightning locking tower. With these two life-saving means, crossing the Nascent Soul Lightning Tribulation should pose no difficulty.

Just as Xiao Yuchen was thinking about this, a bolt of lightning, resembling a silver Dragon, crashed onto his body.

Xiao Yuchen hurriedly circulated the Energy Absorption Technique, thoroughly absorbing the lightning power.

After the first bolt of lightning was absorbed, Xiao Yuchen felt that the Arc Seed within his body seemed to have grown slightly larger.

Noticing this change, Xiao Yuchen felt a surge of joy. If he could absorb the entire Lightning Tribulation, the Arc Seed within his body would surely grow to the second stage, and at that time, his strength would greatly increase once more.

However, even with the Energy Absorption Technique running frantically, as the lightning increased, Xiao Yuchen simply couldn't absorb it in time, and the burden on his body grew heavier and heavier.

Just as Xiao Yuchen was considering using the lightning locking tower to absorb the lightning, the System's voice rang out again.

"Ding! Detected that the host possesses a large amount of lightning power within their body. Would the host like to evolve the Energy Absorption Technique?"

Hearing the System's voice, Xiao Yuchen was visibly stunned; he hadn't expected that the Energy Absorption Technique could actually evolve.

The current Energy Absorption Technique was already very powerful; if it evolved further, it would certainly be even more Heaven-Defying, so Xiao Yuchen evolved the Energy Absorption Technique without hesitation.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully evolving the Energy Absorption Technique into the Great Desolation Spirit Swallowing Technique. Spiritual Qi absorption speed increased tenfold, elemental power absorption speed increased fivefold (cooldown time is one month)."

As soon as the System's voice faded, Xiao Yuchen felt that the speed of lightning absorption was much faster than before, though it was a pity that the elemental absorption speed only increased fivefold.

However, Xiao Yuchen was already very satisfied. Cultivating by absorbing Spiritual Qi was equivalent to using a tenfold cultivation speed experience card, and cultivating by absorbing elemental power was equivalent to using a fivefold cultivation speed experience card. Crucially, this effect was permanent.

Furthermore, as his strength improved, the speed at which he absorbed energy from heaven and earth would continue to increase, which greatly accelerated the speed of his advancement.

The key was the prompt about the one-month cooldown, which meant that his Cultivation Technique could be upgraded again after a month, provided, of course, that he met the conditions for upgrading.

"Great Desolation Spirit Swallowing Technique; this name certainly sounds much better than Energy Absorption Technique."

Xiao Yuchen didn't have time to ponder this; just as he had finished absorbing the lightning power within his body, twenty-four bolts of heavenly lightning descended from the sky again.

Xiao Yuchen once again withstood twelve bolts of heavenly lightning, while the remaining twelve were taken into the lightning locking tower.

Seeing Xiao Yuchen take them on easily, the Heavenly Dao seemed to be enraged and sent down forty-eight more bolts of lightning. Xiao Yuchen felt a bit nervous; he didn't know exactly how many bolts of lightning his lightning locking tower could absorb.

He had miscalculated once again. He should have upgraded the lightning locking tower to the level of a low-grade Divine Artifact before crossing the Lightning Tribulation; that way, the quantity of heavenly lightning stored would have increased exponentially.

Fortunately, the lightning locking tower did not disappoint him in the end. It had absorbed over eighty bolts of heavenly lightning and still hadn't reached its limit. Xiao Yuchen estimated that this Immortal Artifact lightning locking tower could probably absorb one hundred bolts of heavenly lightning.

After the Heavenly Tribulation, the dark clouds quickly receded, and the sky once again became clear and sunny, as if everything that had just happened were an illusion.

At the same time, a beam of five-colored light descended. Under the illumination of this light, Xiao Yuchen's Dantian underwent another change. When he had previously broken through to the Great Perfection of the Golden Core Stage, Xiao Yuchen's Golden Core had already shattered and taken on the shape of an infant.

However, one infant quickly took shape, and that wasn't the end of it; a second one quickly formed, followed by a third... until the ninth.

"What is going on? Isn't there only one Nascent Soul? Why are there nine Nascent Souls inside my Dantian?"

Just as Xiao Yuchen was shocked by the changes in his Dantian, the first Nascent Soul that had formed actually swallowed the fire seed beside it in one gulp.

"Hey, don't!"

Xiao Yuchen wanted to stop it, but he couldn't do anything at all. While Xiao Yuchen was still wondering why this was happening, the second Nascent Soul imitated its big brother's method and swallowed the Arc Seed that had just grown a bit larger.

Xiao Yuchen was even more panicked; he didn't know if this change was good or bad. Fortunately, he seemed to still be able to absorb fire-attribute energy and lightning power.

Is my Nascent Soul choosing Spiritual Roots on its own? If I awaken nine types of Spiritual Roots in the future, wouldn't my Nascent Souls all have their own Spiritual Roots? What would the final result be?

Besides my main body, could I create eight Clones? If that were truly the case, I would definitely be unprecedented and unparalleled.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully breaking through to the Early Stage of the Nascent Soul Stage. Rewards: Water Spirit Stone, three superb energy-replenishing pills, top-tier Beast Taming Technique, and one millennial ganoderma."

Hearing the rewards gifted by the System, Xiao Yuchen was stunned at first, and then immediately overjoyed.

Sure enough, after a Breakthrough across Ranks, he had once again obtained an elemental Spirit Stone. With this Water Spirit Stone, Xiao Yuchen could awaken a water-attribute Spiritual Root.

Besides that, Xiao Yuchen had actually obtained a millennial ganoderma. This millennial ganoderma was one of the main ingredients for refining the muscle-regenerating and bone-melting pill; he had finally found the first main ingredient.

While happy, Xiao Yuchen also checked the description of the energy-replenishing pill. This energy-replenishing pill could help a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator increase by one small Rank, and because it was superb, it guaranteed a one hundred percent Breakthrough.

As for this Beast Taming Technique, it was a Cultivation Technique used to control Spirit Beasts. Of course, controlling animals on Earth shouldn't be a problem either, it was just that this Cultivation Technique was somewhat useless for Xiao Yuchen at the moment.

However, this was a skill after all, so Xiao Yuchen claimed it directly and, with the System's help, learned the Beast Taming Technique.

It turned out that this Beast Taming Technique controlled Spirit Beasts by forming a Soul contract, and it could even form a Soul contract with those animals on Earth that had not yet gained intelligence.

After forming a Soul contract, one could communicate freely with them; this was also possible even with animals that had not gained intelligence.

Having successfully broken through to the Early Stage of the Nascent Soul Stage, Xiao Yuchen had no intention of stopping. Instead, he picked up the lightning locking tower, released over a dozen bolts of heavenly lightning, and then circulated the Great Desolation Spirit Swallowing Technique to absorb them.

Just like that, after absorbing over seventy bolts of heavenly lightning, the Arc Seed within the second Nascent Soul finally upgraded.

At the moment of the upgrade, the Aura around Xiao Yuchen increased once again, directly breaking through the Early Stage of the Nascent Soul Stage to reach the Middle Stage of the Nascent Soul Stage; however, it still didn't stop, finally breaking through to the Late Stage of the Nascent Soul Stage.

"Ding! Congratulations to the host for consecutively breaking through two Ranks. Rewards: three superb youth-preserving pills, the Level 6 Formation diagram for the Seven Kill Formation, and the Martial Skill Spirit Illusion Step have been placed in your System Inventory. Please check, host."