Chapter 196
Since he had made up his mind, he had to take action. If not, everything would just be empty talk and meaningless. Xiao Chen was not a person who made empty talk. He was a man of his word. This was his style.
“Where should I go?
Should I stay in the vast wilderness and train quietly, or should I head out to search for an opportunity to break through? “Xiao Chen frowned and fell into deep thought.
It was good to train in the vast wilderness. There were no interruptions, and he could find strong desolate beasts to train with. He could also swallow and refine desolate beast cores to increase his cultivation level. However, it was more dangerous.
There were also benefits to training outside. He could think of ways to obtain better training resources, such as high-grade Desolate Yuan Pills, high-grade desolate skills, etc. He gave himself a year to break through to the third stage of the Blood Bear Realm. This was a relatively difficult goal. If he stayed in the vast wilderness to train, he might not be able to achieve it.
Although swallowing a desolate beast core could increase his cultivation level quickly, it was extremely difficult. Furthermore, it was harmful to the body. If he swallowed a low-grade desolate beast core, the danger would be reduced, but the effects would not be great. If he swallowed a high-grade desolate beast core, the danger would be too great. He could die at any time.
Xiao Chen had once consumed a grade five Desolate Yuan Pill. He could feel the benefits of the Desolate Yuan Pill. Compared to a Desolate Yuan Pill, an unprocessed desolate beast core was like trash. If a desolate beast core was like a rough bone, then a Desolate Yuan Pill would be like the bone marrow. There was no comparison between the two.
The Desolate Yuan Pill was mild and did not have any side effects. The effects were extremely good. Xiao Chen had consumed a grade five Desolate Yuan Pill before, so he naturally knew the benefits. He did not have to risk his life, but the effects were a few times better than a desolate beast core. How could Xiao Chen not be tempted?
Although the Grade 5 Desolate Yuan Pill was no longer useful to Xiao Chen as he had already consumed it thrice, he could still look for Grade 6 Desolate Yuan Pills or even higher grade Desolate Yuan Pills. If Xiao Chen could get his hands on them, he could easily break through the bottleneck and become a Blood Bear Realm expert. Once he entered the Blood Bear Realm, Xiao Chen’s training would be much easier.
Bottlenecks were a common problem for cultivators. Bottlenecks could cause a martial artist at the peak of the third stage of the White Tiger Realm to stagnate in their cultivation. They might not even be able to cross the chasm between the White Tiger Realm and the Blood Bear Realm for the rest of their lives. This was the horror of bottlenecks.
There were bottlenecks in both realms and realms. The higher the realm, the greater the bottleneck. This was also why there were so many White Tiger Realm martial artists in the Godslayer Tribe. There were only a few thousand Blood Bear Realm martial artists, less than a hundred Purple Elephant Realm powerhouses, and only a handful of Celestial Realm powerhouses. As for the Dragon Elephant Realm powerhouses, Godslayer’s Buried Heaven might be the only one.
Although Xiao Chen was a cultivation genius, he still had a bottleneck. Otherwise, after going through so many life and death battles, he would have broken through to the Blood Bear realm long ago. At this point, it wasn’t something that could be achieved with just one or two life and death battles. It also required luck, and this luck included both internal and external factors.
Internal factors were the most important, including talent, effort, mentality, and so on. It was very complicated. External factors were secondary, but they were also indispensable, such as medicinal pills, cultivation techniques, guidance from famous teachers, luck, and so on.
In short, bottlenecks were a very mysterious state. You might be able to break through the bottleneck in the next moment, or you might be stuck for the rest of your life.
Although Xiao Chen believed that he could break through the bottleneck with his own talent and hard work, he didn’t know how long it would take. He couldn’t wait that long, because he only gave himself a year’s time. After a year, regardless of whether he could reach the third stage of the Blood Bear Realm or not, he had to leave for the Desolate City, which was unknown and far away, to find his only family member, his grandfather.
In fact, there were other reasons why Xiao Chen wanted to go outside to cultivate, and there were at least three of them.
First, it had to do with Xiao Chen’s Demonification God’s Gift. When he learned from his grandfather’s letter that his gift could evolve, his heart palpitated with excitement. If he could find out the conditions for evolution, then he could try to find the conditions for evolution. If he really succeeded, even if it was to evolve to the seventh grade, it would be a very terrifying thing.
Because the seventh grade of the Demonification God’s Gift could raise one’s cultivation by five levels. At that time, as long as his cultivation reached the second stage of the Blood Bear Realm, he would be able to satisfy his grandfather’s request — after releasing the Demonification God’s Gift, his cultivation would be able to reach the first stage of the Celestial Phenomenon Realm. By then, Xiao Chen could naturally go and find his grandfather in advance.
As for evolving the Demonification God’s Gift to the eighth or ninth grade, Xiao Chen didn’t dare to think about it. It was probably not something he could do with his current strength, or else his grandfather would have already told him about the conditions for evolution. Xiao Chen wasn’t an idiot, he could naturally guess it, but he was just holding on to a glimmer of hope.
In the outside world, there would definitely be people who knew about the conditions for evolution of the Demonification God’s Gift. He could secretly search for it, maybe he could really find it.
The second reason was the Desolation Technique that Xiao Chen was cultivating — Tyrant Universe Technique. Although the Tyrant Universe Technique was a sixth grade Desolation Technique, it was an incomplete cultivation technique and was not perfect. It was missing three more pages of the Desolation Technique. It was rumored that if one could obtain the remaining three pages of the Desolation Technique and perfect this powerful cultivation technique, this sixth grade Desolation Technique would be able to evolve into a terrifying ninth grade Desolation Technique.
The ninth grade Desolation Technique had already disappeared from the Wilderness God Continent for thousands of years. Now, the highest grade Desolation Technique that was circulating in the continent was only the eighth grade, and there were pitifully few of them. As for the seventh grade Desolation Technique, there were about thirty of them.
Although the eighth grade Desolation Technique was one grade lower than the ninth grade Desolation Technique, the difference in quality was more than a few times. If the eighth grade Desolation Technique was compared to Earth, then the ninth grade Desolation Technique was Heaven. There was a fundamental difference between the two. A low grade Desolation Technique meant that there were flaws and it was not perfect. It would naturally affect the cultivation speed and quality of the Power of Desolation.
If one disregarded the quality and only focused on the cultivation speed, the cultivation speed of a warrior who practiced the Grade Nine Desolate Secret Art would be at least three to four times faster than the cultivation speed of a warrior who practiced the Grade Eight Desolate Secret Art. This was the difference. There was simply no comparison.
If the cultivation speed was fast, the depleted Power of Desolation could be quickly replenished. This allowed one to squeeze out more time to cultivate the Desolation Technique and do other things. There were naturally many benefits. There was another obvious benefit. The higher the grade of the Desolation Technique, the lower the difficulty of breaking through the bottleneck.
It was precisely because the ninth grade Desolation Technique had so many benefits that Xiao Chen hoped to find the next three pages of the Desolation Technique to perfect his Tyrant Universe Technique. However, he did not know if Xiao Chen would have such good luck in the future to fulfill his wish.
The third reason was that Xiao Chen wanted to find a girl in passing. This girl was not Su Qingyi or Liu Ruyue, but Dongfang Qingwu.
The reason why Xiao Chen wanted to find Dongfang Qingwu was not because he had fallen in love with Dongfang Qingwu, but because he felt guilty towards Dongfang Qingwu.
Dongfang Qingwu was a stunning girl that Xue Wuchang had given to Xiao Chen to curry favor with Xiao Chen. Xiao Chen did not accept her, so Dongfang Qingwu left without saying goodbye. Xiao Chen was worried that Dongfang Qingwu had encountered bad people, so he searched the entire Imperial City for Dongfang Qingwu’s whereabouts. He even asked Sha Pojun to search outside the city, but to no avail.
As for Dongfang Qingwu, Xiao Chen did not like or hate her. He only felt pity for Dongfang Qingwu, who had been betrayed by her own family. Furthermore, Dongfang Qingwu had gone missing because of his negligence.
Xiao Chen felt guilty, so he hoped to find the pure, kind and beautiful girl that he had intimate contact with in a short period of time. Ignoring how he would arrange for Dongfang Qingwu after he found Dongfang Qingwu, he had to at least make sure that Dongfang Qingwu was safe. Only then could Xiao Chen calm down and cultivate. If something really happened to Dongfang Qingwu, Xiao Chen would feel guilty for the rest of his life.