Chapter 130: Reopening

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation      Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

He only used four hours to practice [Finger Projection] to the point where he could use it.

When he felt that it was about time, he stopped.

He really wanted to know what effect it would have if he used this finger technique to control the yin fire bead.

The yin fire bead between Li Ming’s fingers turned into a white light and entered a big tree in front of Li Ming that had a girth that would span the arms of seven to eight people.

The milky-white flame spread towards the tree at an unbelievable speed. In the blink of an eye, it wrapped the tree tightly, not letting go of the leaves.

The originally lush tree lost all its vitality at this moment. As it was burned by the milky-white flames, the green leaves turned pale.

Soon, the entire tree turned pale white without a hint of green. The pale tree emitted a suffocating cold aura, and snowflakes floated around it.

The snow-white leaves began to shatter inch by inch as if they had been blown clean by the wind.

A gust of wind blew, causing snow to fall. Pieces of white snow fell from the trees and drifted with the wind.

A lush tree shattered before Li Ming’s eyes, turning into a white powder that scattered with the wind.

Li Ming was dumbfounded.

He absent-mindedly returned to his courtyard. The power of this yin fire bead was genuinely shocking. If it hit him, Li Ming believed that even golden core cultivators might be unable to withstand it.

However, since it was a life-saving trump card, the more powerful it was, the better!

From then on, he wholeheartedly refined yin fire beads. With the help of the Three-Revolutions Fire Formation, the refinement of the yin fire bead was very successful. This yin fire bead was utterly different from the ones he had refined before. It was completely white and flawless.

However, every time Li Ming refined a pill, he had to sit cross-legged and regulate his breathing. This treasure truly lived up to its name. The consumption of spiritual energy and divine sense was shocking.

Li Ming looked at the 20 yin fire beads in his hand, full of confidence.

From time to time, he would imagine just how terrifying it would be if he threw out all twenty of them at once.

With a decent stock of yin fire beads, Li Ming cared much less about the Yin Thorn now. Strangely enough, the tablet spirit seemed to have forgotten that it still lacked a lot of yin fiends and did not urge him to venture further into the sword cave.

However, before he could adequately experience the joy of refining the yin fire bead, he immediately became unhappy.

Damn it!

His cultivation actually stopped increasing!

What was going on? This sudden attack made him feel like lightning struck him, and his mind went blank. After carving the demonic matrix, the speed at which his cultivation increased had already slowed down a lot. However, he was not worried because he knew his cultivation was still increasing.

However, if his cultivation completely stopped increasing…

He simply did not even dare to think about the consequences!

Ever since the tablet spirit had reminded him, Li Ming had become very careful with the spiritual energy in his body. This also made him extremely sensitive to the changes in the spiritual energy in his body. He could sense even the slightest changes in them.

Currently, he was still in the foundation establishment realm, and his strength was advancing by leaps and bounds. He would spend a long time every day practicing the Soul-Refining Art. He wanted to make up for his shortcomings through his own efforts. As long as he could increase the strength of his spiritual energy, that would be enough.

Previously, while the demonic matrix did cause his spiritual energy to slow down in terms of its growth, his cultivation was still steadily increasing. However, after five days had passed, his spiritual energy actually did not increase at all. This was something he had never experienced before!

Li Ming was extremely anxious!

If his spiritual energy could no longer grow, then his cultivation would remain at the foundation establishment realm forever! The unprecedented panic made him rush into his sea of consciousness.

The tablet spirit sat cross-legged with its eyes closed. No matter how Li Ming shouted, it remained motionless like a statue. The tablet spirit was currently meditating, and it was not appropriate for him to ask the sect master and martial uncle for guidance.

He would not take any chances and simply assume that Second Uncle and the others, who were famous figures among demon hunters, would not be able to recognize demonic patterns on his body.

If his cultivation remained at the foundation establishment realm…

Then what of his dream? How could he find the person who had changed his appearance and erased his memories?

Li Ming collapsed to the ground as if all his strength had been sucked out. Ever since he found out that his appearance had been altered and his memories erased, he had been reminding himself to find the reason for that dream.

However, this belief that had kept him going was completely shattered at this moment. He was at a loss.

Late at night, he lay on the roof, the sound tablet ringing in his ears. He held his head with both hands and stared at the sky in a daze.

His thoughts began to drift. When was the last time he laid down like this? Ever since he made up his mind to find the answer to this question, he had never had the chance to sit on the roof and listen to the sound tablet again. Various cultivation techniques and chants kept appearing in his mind, constantly reminding himself to work harder…

The sky was filled with stars.

The exhausted Li Ming was like a child. He curled up into a ball and fell asleep as the sound tablet played.

He was not dreaming.

On the second day, the sun shone on the earth. It was very warm.

When Li Ming opened his eyes, he felt refreshed. The depression from yesterday was swept away. He couldn’t help but want to laugh when he thought of his pitiful look yesterday.

It did not matter if his cultivation was stagnant. As long as he cultivated diligently, he would definitely be able to find the key to the problem. After a night of rest, he was full of energy and full of fighting spirit.

Even if he could no increase his spiritual energy, he still had his divine sense, array formations, spirit plants, pill refinement, weapon refinement, and other things!

He looked at the spiritual energy in his body again. There were still no changes in it, but he did not become as depressed as last night. Instead, he was able to remain extremely calm. He woke up from his meditation and thought about it carefully. He wanted to focus on the next step.

Not long after, he decided on his main direction: Formations!

Formations became even more important when his cultivation had stagnated. Formations were an unavoidable problem if one wanted to break through the bottleneck.

Formations were also very useful in refining pills and weapons. No matter which path one took, they could not be without spirit crystals. Li Ming was also faced with an unavoidable problem, which was how to earn spirit crystals.

Different from spiritual energy, his divine sense did not stagnate. It was just that he had a treasure mountain but did not know how to use it.

He only had only two techniques related to divine sense, one was the divine sense spike, and the other was the yin thorn. The divine sense spike was not very effective, but the yin thorn was very effective. However, Li Ming gave up on both.

The Yin Thorn had a high requirement for the purity and density of yin qi. Li Ming could only use yin beads in this regard, but yin beads were too conspicuous and would easily attract attention. However, when it came to life-or-death encounters, the Yin Thorn was not as useful as the yin fire bead as their power was simply incomparable..