Chapter 688 - 324 The Key to the Immortal King Realm
After spending some tender time with Liu Ningshuang and the other three, Lu Yi headed to the cultivation room to begin collecting his task rewards.
He had completed a considerable number of tasks to kill Jiuyou Demons at the Zhen’an Battlefield, each of which awarded star marrow in varying quantities. Lu Yi collected all of them, totaling millions of star marrow—resources that would probably require mining several star systems to acquire.
Fortunately, Lu Yi’s Interspatial Ring, the Green Ring, was an Immortal Artifact without spatial limitations; otherwise, he might not have been able to store so much star marrow.
Beyond star marrow, there were also various rewards for leveling up Immortal Techniques and Immortal Scriptures, improvements in Laws, as well as for Array Tao, Alchemy Dao, and other Tao Understandings.
Additionally, there were also some rewards in Immortal Artifacts, Immortal Scriptures, and Immortal Techniques.
For Lu Yi, Immortal Scriptures served merely as references that could help him integrate and comprehend his own Tao Yin Yang Immortal Scripture.
However, this was merely the icing on the cake since Lu Yi had already acquired numerous Immortal Scriptures from the Yu Family, not missing the few he had just received.
As for Immortal Techniques, it was much the same story; however, for killing the leading Jiuyou Demon, he was rewarded with a Golden Immortal Skill, which was something Lu Yi could use at his current stage.
This Golden Immortal Skill was named Profound Sun Storm, a skill of the Fire Tao that upon cultivation, could unleash a storm of flames with the explosive might of a star, extraordinarily powerful.
Lu Yi immediately set out to learn this Golden Immortal Skill.
For the current Lu Yi, what he lacked was exactly this kind of large-scale offensive Immortal Technique, and since his comprehension of Fire Law had also reached its limit, cultivating the Profound Sun Storm to perfection would allow him to maximize its power.
Beyond that, what astonished Lu Yi was that killing the leading Jiuyou Demon actually rewarded him with five strands of Taoist Energy!
Taoist Energy was extremely precious, and in all his years of cultivation and completing various tasks, Lu Yi had only been awarded such a thing when breaking through great realms.
Lu Yi had never expected for a regular task to reward Taoist Energy!
This was totally beyond his expectations.
Given the preciousness of Taoist Energy, Lu Yi was momentarily hesitant, unsure of how to handle it.
After all, he certainly didn’t need it himself; having absorbed the Tao Treasure, a strand of Taoist Energy didn’t hold much significance for him.
But for other cultivators, this strand of Taoist Energy was extremely crucial.
One should know, an Immortal Venerable breaking through to Immortal King required Tao comprehension, and this strand of Taoist Energy could be the key to their breakthrough. Absorbing this strand could, perhaps, allow an Immortal Venerable to genuinely comprehend the Tao and step into the gateway of becoming an Immortal King!
It could be said that each strand of Taoist Energy carried the potential to create an Immortal King.
Of course, if one strand was not enough, several more might suffice.
Lu Yi guessed that five strands of Taoist Energy should at least guarantee that an Immortal Venerable could be elevated to Immortal King Level.
If other cultivators knew that Lu Yi possessed such a precious resource, even Immortal Venerables would likely go insane with desire.
If given to the Yu Family Ancestor, it wouldn’t take long for him to break through to the Immortal King.
Yet, Lu Yi hesitated.
After all, he wasn’t sure if the reward of Taoist Energy was due to luck or something else.
If there were no more rewards of Taoist Energy in the future, Lu Yi would be more inclined to give it to his senior sister and the others.
After all, although the Yu Family Ancestor had been extremely good to him, relatively speaking, his own Taoist couple was definitely more important.
After much deliberation, Lu Yi finally decided to store the Taoist Energy for the time being and plan for its use later.
Lu Yi collected all the task rewards, took stock of them, and then continued his cultivation to digest his recent gains.
With ample resources, there was no need for Lu Yi to venture out.
In the following time, he cultivated continuously at Ling Luo Peak.
Every day was either spent in Dual Cultivation or in the comprehension of various Taos, Laws, or in the studying of Immortal Scriptures and Immortal Techniques.
In his leisure, Lu Yi would drink with former companions, go out for leisure with Liu Ningshuang and the other three women, or visit home to spend time with his father and mother, as a way to relax.
Of course, Lu Yi would still give teachings once every few decades, as a boon to the beings of Tianming Star.
Under Lu Yi’s sustained teachings, the Immortal Spirit Qi of Tianming Star became increasingly dense, and the level of the Immortal Star continued to rise.
After spending more than seventy years, Lu Yi broke through to the True Immortal Third Layer.
The bottleneck from the True Immortal Third Layer to the Fourth Layer was considered the threshold between the early stages and the middle stages of a True Immortal, but for Lu Yi, this bottleneck simply didn’t exist.
It took one hundred and twenty years for Lu Yi to successfully break through to the True Immortal Fourth Layer.
During this time, Liu Ningshuang and the other three ladies had advanced to the perfection of the Heavenly Immortal Realm and had begun seclusion to break through the True Immortal bottleneck, so Lu Yi had less chance for Dual Cultivation and his cultivation pace slowed down somewhat.
However, after a hundred years of closed-door cultivation, Liu Ningshuang and the others successively broke through the bottleneck and became True Immortals.
Though their cultivation speed was somewhat slower compared to Lu Yi’s, due to his continuous resource investment over the years, their pace was a bit faster than that of ordinary geniuses from the Yu Family.
Of course, their innate Immortal Body talents also played no small part.
After their breakthroughs to True Immortal, while their strength may not have seemed significant to Lu Yi, the improvement brought by the Yin Yang Tao Seal Secret Skill was enough to greatly increase Lu Yi’s ultimate combat power.
Having broken through, Donggong Ming Yue was quite proud and clamored to have a duel with Lu Yi.
She ended up pinned down by just one of Lu Yi’s hands on her head, unable to move a muscle, which left her running back to her Cave Mansion feeling frustrated and aggrieved.