Chapter 6: Slaying the Winged Tiger, Physique Transformation
"Pfft!"
Time flew by, and half a month passed in a hurry.
Gu Qing now had disheveled hair and his once luxurious clothes were tattered and torn, but his aura was terrifyingly powerful, with vigorous and boundless blood and qi, like a living volcano.
A great halberd surrounded by blood energy, with flashing crescent cold light, decapitated a five-meter-tall wild boar with a single strike.
Gu Qing took out the Golden Gourd and stored the wild boar family of twelve inside.
"Two peak first-level, ten early first-level, plus the several hundred stored before, should be enough to break through to the Divine Sea Realm if all are refined!"
In this half month, Gu Qing had hunted several hundred first-level demonic beasts.
Being able to hunt so many demonic beasts was thanks to the Primal Chaos Qi Halberd, which perfectly unleashed his strength.
Killing and harvesting was as easy as cutting vegetables.
His realm had already broken through to the peak of Qi Condensation Realm Ninth Layer ten days ago.
The breakthrough speed could be described as rocket-like.
Additionally, the energy refined from demonic beasts contained a vigorous life force, simply the best treasure for nourishing the physique.
The effect was countless times better than precious medicines.
It also had the divine effects of extending lifespan and strengthening the life source.
After consuming large amounts of demonic beast liquid, Gu Qing's realm broke through while his own strength also reached one million catties of divine power.
Furthermore, Gu Qing had also obtained many cultivation techniques, martial skills, wonderful spirit pills, and spirit weapons from the system.
If all were sold, they would probably fetch several million low-grade spirit stones.
Gu Qing planned to sell them all, as exchanging for spirit stones was more cost-effective.
"Human!"
A loud roar echoed for ten miles, causing Gu Qing's mind to buzz. He immediately put away the Golden Gourd and turned to look.
He saw a colorful winged fierce tiger, incredibly massive, flapping its wings that covered the sky, with rolling fierce aura and overwhelming might.
"Peak second-level demonic beast."
Gu Qing's face turned solemn as he tightened his grip on the Fangtian Halberd, instinctively wanting to flee.
The winged colorful fierce tiger before him was simply too ferocious.
Its fierce aura showed it had killed countless living beings.
An ordinary person who saw it would absolutely be scared to death on the spot.
Even Body Tempering Realm and Qi Condensation Realm cultivators would be severely injured or die if the fierce aura invaded their bodies.
Additionally, second-level demonic beasts were equivalent to human Divine Sea Realm cultivators.
Demonic beasts were originally stronger than humans, let alone a king of beasts.
Moreover, there was an essential difference between Qi Condensation Realm and Divine Sea Realm.
True qi transforms into true yuan, and it naturally carries a momentum that alone could suppress Qi Condensation Realm cultivators, not to mention large-range attack martial skills.
This was simply impossible to fight.
There was no such thing as killing across realms.
"You foolish human, how dare you enter this king's territory to hunt demonic beasts."
"This king will refine your soul into a fierce ghost and torture it day and night to vent this king's anger."
The Winged Tiger's pupils were blood-red, flashing with killing intent, and it was furious.
It had just taken a nap and woke up wanting to find some demonic beasts for a meal, but came up empty repeatedly.
The demonic beasts in its territory were almost all hunted by Gu Qing.
What would it eat when it got hungry?
The Winged Tiger grew angrier the more it thought, and immediately opened its huge bloody mouth, intending to swallow Gu Qing in one bite.
"What an opportunity."
Gu Qing, who had originally planned to use the Spatial Divine Patterns to escape, saw the Winged Tiger's arrogance and his eyes immediately lit up.
This was truly delivering oneself to death.
Boom!
A great momentum suddenly suppressed down, and Gu Qing felt as if he was carrying a great mountain, making it somewhat difficult to breathe.
An ordinary Qi Condensation Realm cultivator would probably have been pressed down by this momentum.
But Gu Qing only felt pressure and did not lose his ability to resist.
Seeing the Winged Tiger getting closer, Gu Qing seized the moment and exploded with full power, striking the Winged Tiger's forehead with his halberd.
Bang~!
The Winged Tiger's head instantly exploded like a watermelon.
The Winged Tiger that dominated one area probably would never have thought it would die so carelessly.
After all, in its eyes, Gu Qing was as weak as an ant. Even if it stood still and let Gu Qing attack, he couldn't harm a single hair of it.
Who would have thought that Gu Qing possessed one million catties of divine power.
Moreover, with the enhancement of spirit weapons and martial skills, the force striking the Winged Tiger exceeded one million catties.
"What a windfall! Thank you for nature's gift!"
After succeeding with one strike, Gu Qing excitedly laughed out loud and quickly stored the Winged Tiger in the Golden Gourd.
[Congratulations to the host for killing an enemy across realms, specially rewarded with top-grade spirit weapon Tiger Soul Halberd, Earth-rank top-grade martial skill, Tiger Soul Halberd Technique!]
"Hiss~"
"Are the rewards for killing across realms this generous? Then why don't my previous kills count?"
Gu Qing's eyes lit up as he hurriedly asked.
[Only crossing a major realm counts, minor realms don't count, at most the rewards will be slightly more generous.]
"How do they not count? Minor realms are still realms."
[All interpretation rights belong to this system. Please, host, be down-to-earth and not try to exploit loopholes for unearned gains."
"..."
Gu Qing directly closed the system without explanation.
He cleaned up the blood splattered on the ground and then went to the riverside to bathe.
"Eh, gold?"
Gu Qing casually picked up a golden lump the size of a human head, crushed it, and confirmed that it was indeed gold of very high purity.
He immediately circulated his eyesight and scanned the river, spotting many gold chunks of varying sizes.
"This must be a super gold mine, what a pity!"
Gu Qing's eyes revealed a trace of nostalgia. Gold was already useless to him now. If he had encountered this golden river on Earth, how wonderful that would have been.
He would not even be greedy, just picking up a lump of dog-head gold the size of a human head would have been enough. That way, he would not have needed to toil endlessly for a few thousand in meager fees.
Shaking his head, he cast off memories of his previous life and stopped before a waterfall.
After surveying the surroundings and finding no trace of demonic beasts, he immediately activated his movement technique, rushed into the waterfall, and opened up a stone cave inside.
After sealing the cave entrance, Gu Qing took out the Golden Gourd and drank a mouthful, without rushing to break through to the Divine Sea Realm.
Gu Qing had once read a historical record.
A cultivator's dantian was divided into six types.
They were the Spirit Spring, Spirit Pool, Spirit Lake, Spirit Sea, Star Sea, and Boundless Sea.
The Spring was the Spirit Spring dantian, with the smallest size nine feet square, and the largest three zhang.
The Pool dantian measured at least nine zhang, and at most thirty-six zhang.
The Lake dantian spanned at least seventy-two zhang, up to one hundred and eight zhang.
The Spirit Sea dantian was like a vast ocean.
The Star Sea was boundless, immeasurable.
The Boundless Sea was vast beyond measure, without boundary or limit.
The larger the dantian, the greater the future potential.
Those who opened up the Spirit Sea dantian were heaven's chosen prodigies.
Those who opened up the Star Sea were peerless prodigies of the ages, with the qualifications to become immortals and founders.
As for the Boundless Sea… the historical texts had no record.
To open a higher-grade dantian, aside from talent and profound cultivation methods, one also needed to unblock more meridians.
Besides the nine main meridians, the human body also had one hundred and eight branch meridians and three hundred and sixty subsidiary meridians.
However, the branch meridians were extremely fragile and could not withstand the rush of spiritual energy.
Only with special precious medicines to nourish them could there be a possibility of opening them.
The subsidiary meridians, on the other hand, were separated and blocked. Unblocking even one was extraordinarily difficult.
Yet for Gu Qing, these were no obstacles.
He possessed the primal qi of yin and yang. Unblocking the meridians was only a matter of time and resources.
Three days quickly passed, and Gu Qing had unblocked all meridians.
After five days, his meridians were filled with true qi, and he opened his dantian in one stroke.
Boom!
A Dao resonance as if from ancient times exploded in Gu Qing's mind.
The nine main meridians, one hundred and eight branch meridians, and three hundred and sixty subsidiary meridians all linked together into a great circulation. His entire being became like a cosmic black hole, autonomously devouring the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Gu Qing's body was rapidly transforming and evolving.
Within, his Dao bones erupted with peerless divine radiance, surging with a mysterious power that drew spiritual energy from dimensional space.
Above the clear skies of the Demonic Beast Mountain Range, the scene changed in an instant. Countless stars shimmered, pouring down endless stellar brilliance.
…
"Star Divine Body? Heaven blesses my Star Temple! Quickly, bring this person back to the Star Temple. I shall take him as my disciple."
In the depths of the cosmic void, a vast palace surrounded by countless stars stood. Divine rainbows filled the skies, sacred mountains floated, and waterfalls like heavenly galaxies cascaded down.
A peerless goddess whose face could not be discerned bathed in auspicious starlight, surrounded by stars, like the mother of all constellations.
"By your command!"
…
"Hm, a Star Divine Body? In the Northern Region, but I wonder which type of Star Divine Body it is. A pity it cannot be contested against the Star Temple."
"How do you know without trying? What if our people find him first?"
"Impossible. The Star Temple has treasures that can sense Star Divine Bodies. By the time our people arrive, he will have already been taken."
"That's true… what a pity!"
Ancient monsters who had been in seclusion for countless years sighed once before falling silent again.
Though there were countless physiques in the world, divine bodies were exceedingly rare.
Every birth of a divine body was enough to trigger struggles among the great powers of the Primordial World.
After all, divine bodies were supremely gifted. Even an ordinary divine body carried the potential for the King Realm.
As for the divine body Gu Qing awakened, the phenomenon was too great. At the very least, it was a supreme divine body, with potential for the Divine Fire Realm.
Once he matured, he would add an immense foundation to his sect.