The Elixir Spirit Aperture.
In fact, among the nine apertures, the Elixir Spirit Aperture was the easiest to open. After all, the Elixir Spirit Aperture was the elixir field, which had once been the core of the True Qi. The other apertures had never been used, which was why it was so easy.
To open the nine apertures, a sufficient amount of Supreme Elixir was needed to assist the True Qi to open up the apertures, stabilize the apertures, and allow the True Qi to settle in and form a core. Only then could the apertures be truly opened.
At this time, Long Chen was fully prepared for both the True Qi and the Supreme Elixir. Soon, he took out 50 Supreme Elixir from the Great Virtual Realm and took 30. After the Supreme Elixir entered his body, it immediately turned into a crystalline white current that began to sweep through his body. Under Long Chen's control, it gradually merged with all the True Qi in his body.
At this time, Long Chen's True Qi was glowing with a white light. It was crystalline and translucent, like glowing milk. When the True Qi had completely merged with the Supreme Elixir, Long Chen thought for a while and took the remaining 20 Supreme Elixir. Because of the uniqueness of his True Qi, 30 Supreme Elixir alone was not enough to stabilize all of his True Qi.
However, even a total of 50 didn't seem to reach the standard he had expected.
"Luckily, I got the Supreme Elixir from Jiang City. Otherwise, things would have gone south."
Long Chen was speechless. He added the Supreme Elixir bit by bit, and when he had a total of 300 Supreme Elixir, his True Qi seemed to have truly transformed, and he was qualified to open up the Elixir Spirit Aperture.
"For others, 30 Supreme Elixir should be enough for them to reach the first level of the Ascension Heaven State, but I need 300 Supreme Elixir. At this rate, how many Supreme Elixir will I need to reach the ninth level of the Ascension Heaven State?" Long Chen was dumbfounded. He estimated that he would need at least ten million Supreme Elixir Spirit Aperture.
"When I was at the Heavenly River Tier, I never had to worry about the number of Supreme Elixir Spirit Aperture. It always seemed like I had a lot of them. But now that I've come to the Wushu Sage Empire without any money, everything is different. Looks like I'll have to work hard for the Supreme Elixir Spirit Aperture. Otherwise, it'll be useless no matter how strong I am."
Long Chen thought to himself.
At this point, he began to use his true qi, which had completely fused with the spiritual energy of the Heavenly Ascension Pill, to attack the orifice of the Dantian. His true qi flowed through the eighteen Sky Rivers, surging and resplendent as it surged toward his dantian.
There was no doubt that his Quintessential Qi had gone berserk. It was only because of the Heaven Connecting Pill's gentle power that the berserk Quintessential Qi was successfully contained. Long Chen was able to safely control the Quintessential Qi in his 18 Star Veins.
Everything was well prepared. Moreover, Long Chen had reached this level by practicing on his own, instead of refining his blood into qi. Therefore, the practice of the first level of the Reaching Heaven State was much easier than he had imagined.
"Pill Spirit Aperture."
At this moment, the eighteen streams of True Qi had completely rushed into his Dantian. They did not collide, but under Long Chen's control, they quickly revolved. The eighteen streams of True Qi gradually formed a small sparkling white vortex.
Long Chen felt that his Dantian was about to explode.
"Looks like every level of cultivation isn't easy."
He tried his best to endure, trying his best to prevent the huge amount of true qi from hurting his dantian. Time passed slowly as he endured. After a while, a small white pill gradually appeared above the white vortex. It was crystal clear, and it looked like the most beautiful jade.
The pill was only the size of a soybean, but the power contained within it was more than ten thousand times greater than a Divine Core Heavenly Pill. This was the difference between the two realms. From this, one could tell how much stronger Long Chen had become from the Divine Core realm to the Reaching Heaven realm.
"Success!"
Long Chen let out a sigh of relief. The white true qi was still revolving, and there was still a small white pill floating above it. At this moment, Long Chen stopped controlling the true qi, and the true qi immediately returned to his eighteen star veins. However, right now, his dantian, the Pill Spirit Aperture, had become the core of the eighteen star rivers. True qi kept flowing into his dantian from the eighteen star rivers, replenishing the whirlpool in the Pill Spirit Aperture, and then, the true qi would enter another star vein. Like this, all eighteen star veins and the Pill Spirit Aperture were filled with true qi.
Right at this moment, the energy of the Connecting Heaven Pill began to dissipate.
The energy of the Connecting Heaven Pill was mainly used to stabilize the violent true qi. Now that a new cycle had been formed, the energy of the Connecting Heaven Pill was gone. What could be seen was that no matter if it was the true qi in the star rivers, the whirlpool in the Pill Spirit Aperture, or the white pill, the white color was slowly disappearing, and turning back into Long Chen's original faint blood red color.
When Long Chen used the Dragon Soul transformation, the color would immediately turn into a deep blood red color.
After the Connecting Heaven Pill disappeared, the flow of the true qi, the rotation of the whirlpool, and the rotation of the pill had increased by more than ten times. Long Chen immediately felt a tremendous force coming from his body, as if his body was about to explode.
The whistling Essential Qi swept through his body at a high speed.
Long Chen had no choice but to endure it.
Under his patience, a new cycle was slowly forming, and it gradually stabilized. Because of this, Long Chen had truly broken through to the Reaching Heaven realm, and the Pill Spirit Aperture had been completely opened.
Looking inside himself, Long Chen looked at the faint red whirlpool in his Dantian and the pill that contained a tremendous amount of true qi. He smiled with satisfaction.
"That pill should be active. When I'm fighting, the pill will sink into the whirlpool, and then it will explode with a tremendous amount of true qi. When I'm not fighting, the aura of my body will be more obscure, and it will look about the same as that of a martial artist at the first few levels of the Heavenly River Tier. They might have used this method to distinguish whether I've reached the Reaching Heaven realm or not."
Long Chen stood up and carefully examined his body.
"About 70% of the true qi in my body is in that small pill, and the true qi flowing in the 18 star rivers only accounts for 30%. Even so, it's three times stronger than when I was at the ninth level of the Heavenly River Tier. In other words, my true qi is at least 10 times stronger now."
Successfully breaking through to the Reaching Heaven realm had opened a new path of cultivation. Long Chen was very excited. This was a good start, and as long as he continued, it wouldn't be a problem for him to become an outstanding person.
"Just opening the Pill Spirit Aperture is already so powerful. I wonder how powerful I'll be when I open the six spiritual apertures, two earth apertures, and the only Heaven aperture. With my current cultivation speed, it's not difficult. What's difficult now should be the Heavenly Connecting Pills. I've used up 300 Heavenly Connecting Pills on the first level. It seems that these 5,000 Heavenly Connecting Pills can only help me reach the third level of the Heavenly Connecting Pills, or even the second level of the Reaching Heaven realm …"
At this thought, Long Chen was quite depressed.
"Looks like I'll have to spend a lot of effort on the Heavenly Connecting Pills. Without the stability of the Heavenly Connecting Pills, no one can break through the apertures. After all, the apertures are so fragile, and they could be destroyed if I'm not careful."
As Long Chen thought about it, he felt the strength in his body.
"Tsk, you're really easily satisfied. You've only reached the Reaching Heaven realm, and you're already showing such a surprised expression. I really can't help but laugh at you." In the Great Virtual Realm, Kitten had a look of complete disdain.
"At least, you can't beat me," Long Chen said shamelessly.
"What? Brat, I'm warning you, don't underestimate me. If it wasn't for the power that I've accumulated over 10,000 years to resurrect the entire Baiyang Town, I could destroy this so-called god Wushu Sage with a sneeze. Do you believe me?" Kitten said, flustered and exasperated.
"You're really bragging," Long Chen said with a smile.
"…" Kitten was speechless.
At this moment, Long Chen saw that Xiao Lang seemed to be moving. In the Great Virtual Realm, Xiao Lang's body was burning with black flames. It was as if he was being reborn from the fire. His body had undergone a huge transformation. His body, which was originally more than three meters tall, had now shrunk to the extent of two meters tall. However, he had become more solid in every aspect.
When the flames disappeared, a terrifying aura was emitted from Xiao Lang's body. This was the aura that belonged to a Heaven realm demonic beast. However, Xiao Lang's aura was even more blazing and terrifying.
At this moment, Xiao Lang suddenly opened his eyes. In an instant, two golden rays of light pierced through the Great Virtual Realm and shone into the cave outside, illuminating the cave.
"What?"
Long Chen was surprised to find that both of Xiao Lang's eyes had turned completely golden. Within the golden eyes, there was a burning black flame. It was like an eternally burning sun in the sky. For a moment, Long Chen's eyes couldn't bear the burden, so he chose to close them.
When he opened his eyes, the two golden lights had completely disappeared. The Wolf Cub also came out of the Great Void Realm. Long Chen looked at it and saw that the Wolf Cub's eyes were still golden and burning with flames. Even its limbs were burning with flames. The two eyes and the golden sun mark on its forehead formed a triangle. It looked very scary.
"Big Brother, I feel that my strength has increased a lot. Especially, I seem to have mastered a new talent …" Xiao Lang said in a hoarse voice.
"What is it?" Long Chen asked eagerly.
"Do you know that the Raging Inferno Lion has an innate ability to control fire? It can release flames in various ways, and it can even release 200% of its power. This is a rare innate ability."
"What does it matter?" Long Chen asked doubtfully.
"I have mastered this talent now," Xiao Lang said.