Riluo City (Blue Phoenix Book 1) (66 page)

The meal was finished with a feeling of impatience from Hui Yue’s side. He smiled and chatted with everyone yet his biggest wish was to rush back to the inn to hear more about the Divine Flower.

Could it be a flower which had reach Deity from cultivation? A specific type of flower who could cultivate much stronger than any other cultivator? No matter how much Hui Yue thought, he couldn’t get any closer to an answer, and Lan Feng was completely quiet within the dantian cave. The only thing which betrayed his presence were the feelings of joy and excitement which flooded Hui Yue’s soul.

To make a Saint ranked divine beast show such attention towards it, it definitely was an immense treasure. If the Deng family knew about this, it was obvious that they would not have gifted it to anyone, not even an esteemed expert.

Slowly the sky turned dark outside, and the moon rose above the Deng family compound allowing for Hui Yue to say his goodbyes and slowly slip back to his inn.

The day had been filled with rewards for Hui Yue. Firstly, the Divine Flower which he still did not know enough about, and secondly was the knowledge about Deng Wu’s background.

Seated in the inn, Hui Yue looked at the jade box within his hands and waited patiently for Lan Feng to start speaking.

‘Last time I saw a Divine Flower was in the Dungeons of the Divine,’ Lan Feng sighed his remembrances of the past leaving Hui Yue at a loss. What was the Dungeons of the Divine?

‘Do you remember what I told you about medicinal plants?’ Lan Feng asked first, and a satisfied harrumph could be heard when he felt the knowledge reemerge within Hui Yue’s mind.

‘Those plants are born from seeds which have been left by their ancestors, much like humans are born from other humans, but there are some flowers that are born from nothing.’ Lan Feng paused slightly. ‘These flowers are born from seeds created by the essence between the heavens and the earth.’

‘In areas where there is abundant essence, this essence will gather into a seed which it will nourish until it sprouts and turns into a flower. The petals are made from Qi, the drops are refined Spiritual Energy. The blazing sun is Wu Wei. A flower like this one will never die as long as it is in an area with essence from the heavens and earth, instead it will be nourished into a great treasure.’

‘But what does it do?’ Hui Yue asked curiously while he looked at the flower with newly found astonishment.

‘You eat it.’ Lan Feng said directly. ‘You eat it and absorb the energies within. In the middle of this flower, currently submerged in the shining energy known as Wu Wei, is the seed from which it sprouted. We need you to absorb this seed and place it in your Qi swirl. If it is there it will attract the essence from the heavens and earth, allowing your cultivation technique to refine Qi even faster than it already does.’

Hearing this Hui Yue could not help but gape in astonishment. This was indeed an immense treasure, yet he could not help but wonder why no one within the Deng family had tried to eat it before.

‘It is obvious,’ Lan Feng said with a sigh as he felt the confusion. ‘Do you remember how I previously told you that if you eat a beast core it will do you no good, absorbing all the Qi you have spent your time refining?’

Hui Yue nodded. He had heard this many years ago, but it was one thing which he had not forgotten. Eating a beast core was one thing which Hui Yue would never do.

‘This is a great treasure, but it could be like the beast core. Once eaten it would have taken the cultivation base of the cultivator who ate it, yet since there was only one flower, they cannot test it on lower ranked family members as the flower will be wasted by then. Even such an immense treasure has pros and cons when it comes to figuring out what it can do.’

A thoughtful expression appeared on Hui Yue’s face. Had he not been told to eat the flower, then he would never had thought of it especially not after knowing what happens when one eats a beast core. Most medicinal plants are refined so one would expect that this was one which should be refined as well.

Yet after hearing that it was a flower which was created from Qi, Spiritual Energy, and Wu Wei, Hui Yue understood that it was unable to be refined like other medicinal plants, but still he would not have thought of eating it much like he was now.

‘So what are you waiting for?’ Lan Feng said with an excited voice, clearly impatient to see his friend eat the flower. A goofy smile appeared on Hui Yue’s lips, and he allowed for his consciousness to form a mental projection of himself as he moved within the dantian cave towards Lan Feng. Lan Feng was holding one drop of spiritual energy within his hands; the drop which was needed to open the jade case in which the flower was being held.

Slowly, Hui Yue allowed for this one drop of Spiritual Energy to travel through his meridians and slowly exit his hand dripping down on the ribbon which was used to close the case. A click could be heard as the ribbon untied itself, and the case slowly opened which allowed for the heavy energy to start wafting out.

Hui Yue’s heartbeat became erratic as the heavy energy filled his room, and he picked up the flower with shaking hands. He noticed how the energy which was being emitted from the flower instantly rushed in through his meridians cleansing them on the way before arriving in the dantian cave where it was picked up by the Hui Yue copy which was created by the cultivation technique.

Astonishment filled Hui Yue’s eyes, and he slowly lifted the flower to take one final look at the beautiful flower before he slowly placed it within his mouth.

Energy exploded within Hui Yue’s mouth quickly flowing through blood vessels, meridians, muscles, and bones; it flowed throughout his entire body. Hui Yue felt how whereever the energy touched the body got purified, and after few seconds sweat began to appear all over his body, quickly followed by a black steam which was all the impurities that were being removed by the Divine Flower.

The petals which were created by Qi, slowly disintegrated within Hui Yue’s mouth and throat splitting into threads of pure Qi.

Looking at this, Hui Yue finally got serious as his mental projection slowly welcomed all the new Qi strands. He picked up some of his own refined Qi threads and merged them together only to heave a big sigh of relief.

Having different purities of Qi would cause an imbalance within the Qi Cave, and usually ended in seriously injuring the cultivator, not to mention causing the martial skills to become unstable, yet looking at these Qi threads they were a perfect match to Hui Yue’s own threads.

Having spent so much time on cultivating these threads finally paid off, and Hui Yue allowed for the Qi threads which kept floating in from the flower to fill up the Qi swirl within his Qi cave.

Thread after thread joined the Qi spiral and allowed for it to grow to an immense size. Strength filled the young boy and astonishment filled his eyes as he felt the strength of his entire body shaking.

He was breaking through into the fourth star of the Disciple rank!

Chapter 51 – A True Treasure

Breaking into the fourth star of the Disciple rank was not the end of the benefits given by the Divine Flower. Thread after thread still gently flowed into the immense Qi swirl and allowed for it to grow bigger and bigger. Soon he had reached the peak of the fourth star, and as the final petal started disintegrating into Qi threads, Hui Yue entered the threshold of a five-star Disciple ranked expert.

As the final petal had vanished, Hui Yue felt how his Qi swirl had gained immense strength shooting him from a three-star Disciple to the peak of a fifth star.

However, the Qi was only the petals of this Divine Flower, other energies were also bustling and rushing through his young body.

Each petal was dripping with drops of spiritual energy, and this was as much spiritual energy as that of a whole star at the Duke rank. This spiritual energy rushed through the entire body of Hui Yue, removing impurities on its way, yet it had one definite goal and it rushed toward the soul of Lan Feng.

Happiness was evident on the face of the blue Phoenix as he greedily absorbed the big drops of spiritual energy. His white feathers started shining with a lustre much like the one which had been seen on the drops of liquid, and happiness was evident within Hui Yue as he felt the increase in strength from their fused soul.

A strange premonition filled Hui Yue as he was analysing the strange feeling the flower gave him, and astonishment appeared when he realised that this feeling was from the fused soul between him and Lan Feng. If he were to pull on the string which attached them to each other, then he would be able to withdraw the spiritual energy which Lan Feng had absorbed.

The fused souls truly allowed for the other to borrow strength. Relief flushed through Hui Yue’s face as he knew that he no longer needed to retreat in fear of the black cloaked men who currently resided within the City Lord’s mansion. He would be able to burn them to a crisp on his own.

Although the spiritual energy and the Qi had been absorbed by Hui Yue and Lan Feng, a golden energy which far exceeded the others in power kept circling around his meridians. It kept cleansing his body allowing for the steam to increase in size, and the sweat slowly turned into grim, dirty, water that was being forced out of the pores.

Eventually, just as the spiritual energy and the Qi had been fully absorbed, a flashing light appeared from this golden sun which was rushing through the body, and it made its way to the dantian cave where it hovered on top of the Qi swirl.

The brilliant radiance from the small Wu Wei sun caused the Qi swirl to spin around absorbing every single ray of light, which caused the threads to swell in size and split in two allowing for further enhancement of Hui Yue’s strength.

Suddenly the sun cracked as though it was an egg, and within the golden shell was a small item which looked like a pearl.

This pearl slowly descended from the cracked shell before it entered the Qi swirl where it hovered just above the human copy which Hui Yue’s cultivation method had created. Here it steadied itself and started swirling around, much like the Qi spiral itself.

Hui Yue felt a sudden suction force coming from within his body, and the new found feeling of essence rushing into his body shocked Hui Yue as he saw how this newly absorbed essence gathered around the pearl, after which it was sucked into Hui Yue’s copy and slowly but surely refined into pure Qi.

The golden shell slowly turned into streaks of light. Hui Yue had expected these lights to float to Lan Feng, as Hui Yue had not unlocked his upper dantian yet. Though this did not happen, instead the streaks of light travelled once more through Hui Yue’s body before a sharp pain appeared between Hui Yue’s eyes, as though something was forcing its way through a closed gate.

The pain grew more and more intense before Hui Yue eventually felt as though someone was repeatedly stabbing his head, and he passed out.

It was in the middle of the night before Hui Yue finally came about, the pain had completely subsided. Hui Yue instantly felt between his eyes, but nothing could be felt with his fingers.

Instead, Hui Yue moved his consciousness there to observe, but nothing looked different from before, everything was as it had been.

Furrowing his brows, Hui Yue moved to a lotus position after which he created a mental projection, then he moved towards Lan Feng wishing to hear what had happened.

‘There you are, sleepy head,’ Lan Feng said, happiness clear within his eternal voice. Seeing the phoenix this happy, Hui Yue could not help but allow for a smile to appear on his own lips.

Although it had ended with pain, Hui Yue had gained quite a lot from absorbing the Divine Flower. He could feel how his body was absorbing essence at a speed which he had never experienced before, and every time he looked at the swirling pearl within his Qi spiral, excitement grew within his heart.

Having this pearl almost halved the amount of time needed for refining as the Hui Yue copy was seated, constantly refining and no longer absorbing.

‘What happened with the golden light?’ Hui Yue asked curiously, as he seated himself next to the happy Lan Feng.

‘It forced its way into your upper dantian,’ Lan Feng said in a matter of fact kind of way, shocking Hui Yue.

‘But my upper dantian is not unlocked!’ Hui Yue exclaimed surprised. This was the first time he ever heard anything about it being possible to store energy within a closed dantian.

‘You collapsed because it hasn’t yet been opened,’ Lan Feng said with a sigh. ‘Everyone is born with the three dantians, yet the majority are unable to ever unlock their full potential.’

Lan Feng gave Hui Yue a long look, and a smile appeared on his face, ‘This is not the first energy which have been deposited into your upper dantian,’ he snickered, but although Hui Yue was curious, he could feel that Lan Feng had no intention of describing it in detail so instead he chuckled; he slightly shook his head while enjoying the sight of the swirling Qi spiral swirling around the Divine Flower seed and the cultivation technique copy.

To see how his hard work had evolved into a constantly revolving machine was an incredibly pleasing feeling.

‘You mentioned the Dungeons of the Divine,’ Hui Yue said curiously. ‘What are they?’

The name sounded so outstanding that Hui Yue wished to know more about them, yet it was nothing he had found previously when he went through book after book in the library.

‘Ah,’ Lan Feng had a nostalgic expression on his face. ‘You’ll know later,’ he said dismissively. ‘I’ll take you there when you manage to unlock the middle dantian. Although we can’t go too far in, we can always run around at the outskirts, and it should be greatly beneficial.’

Hearing this Hui Ye rose an eyebrow and a smirk appeared on his face. Their goal was so far in the future that Hui Yue needed smaller goals along the way, which he could aim towards, and his current goal had changed from defeating Wang Ju Long to reaching the middle dantian as soon as possible.

Hui Yue did not look down on Wang Ju Long since he had found out that she was a girl, but he had realised that although she was hard working, it was not possible for her to keep up with Hui Yue as she was limited her cultivation method.

Suddenly a thought slammed into Hui Yue. ‘Lan Feng,’ Hui Yue said breathlessly, the sly grin on his face growing much bigger. ‘You told me that the reason I can’t give the twins, and everyone else a new cultivation technique is because their Qi purity is too low,’ he continued, and Lan Feng nodded his head, trying to hear what Hui Yue was referring to.

‘Wang Ju Long has some very pure Qi, is there any method which would fit her?’ Having asked the question, Hui Yue could not help but feel some excitement within himself. Although he no longer felt the same kind of rivalry as he had before, he still wished for Wang Ju Long to grow stronger as she had been the first person within this world to allow for Hui Yue to realise the reality of his own abilities.

‘It should be possible,’ Lan Feng said smilingly. ‘You are finally accepting a women of this world?’ He continued, but before Hui Yue had the chance of answering, Lan Feng started speaking again. ‘Wang Ju Long is not bad.’ A dreamy look appeared on the perverted bird’s face, ‘her body is still quite small, but one day she will grow into quite the beauty. You should definitely give her a positive impression of you now and then harvest those feelings later.’

Hui Yue tried to stop the blabbering parrot, but he just kept on talking, ‘I still think you should consider that twin as well. She is quite the beauty already. I know your friend is quite keen on her, and since his family gave us this Divine Flower you can always chose to share her with him.’

‘Enough!’ Hui Yue said while laughing, ‘I’m not going to help her for the sake of courting her I just want her to continue being strong so that I have someone who can train with me in the future.’

Hearing this caused Lan Feng to grumble slightly, but he said no more. Instead he closed his eyes.

‘I know a cultivation technique.’ Lan Feng said as his eyes were closed. ‘We’ll give her one of the twelve zodiacs. The horse, it should work out well.’

Hui Yue felt great gratitude towards Lan Feng for helping his friends this way with no serious questions asked, and he quickly picked an empty memory stone from within his storage stone, and withdrew the cultivation technique which he then imprinted into the low grade memory stone.

The rest of the night was spent cultivating as Hui Yue wished to stabilize his Qi cave which still was swirling rapidly.

The following morning Hui Yue paid his bill before he rushed towards the Wang family compound. Although Hui Yue had never been there before he found that it was an incredibly easy to find place, yet as soon as he got there he noticed that the guards were anything but friendly towards Wang Ju Long’s school mate.

“I just need to pass a gift to my classmate!” Hui Yue said exasperated, as he looked at the guards who kept telling him to walk away.