“I… I’ve converted Spiritual Energy into Innate Qi?”

Su Changkong looked at the wisp of Innate Qi in his hand, equally shocked and astounded.

Originally, Su Changkong wanted to see if he could compress Spiritual Energy into a solid object like a Spirit Stone for storage, but when he tried to alter the structure of Spiritual Energy through the Guiding Technique, an unexpected change occurred, transforming the Spiritual Energy into Innate Qi, which was undoubtedly thrilling!

Innate Qi only arises in scenic mountain and forest regions and needs a long period of incubation before a wisp of Innate Qi can be born.

Yet Su Changkong was able to compress and convert Spiritual Energy into Innate Qi through the Guiding Technique!

“Indeed… Innate Qi is Spiritual Energy, it’s a peculiar type derived from nature’s spiritual energy through incubation!”

Su Changkong’s eyes lit up, Innate Qi was rare, even though he had killed many Demon Monsters and Innate Martial Artists over the years, he had only extracted dozens of wisps of Innate Qi from them using the Turtle Breath Technique.

While not a small amount, to achieve a qualitative breakthrough in the Turtle Breath Technique was undoubtedly a drop in the bucket. Su Changkong’s Turtle Breath Technique needed at least hundreds to nearly a thousand wisps of Innate Qi to undergo metamorphosis. In other words, he had to kill nearly a thousand Innate Martial Artists!

And Su Changkong himself would not go on a mindless slaughter for a breakthrough, unless someone provoked him.

However, the breakthrough to the 10th tier of the Guiding Technique revealed its marvelous aspect, enabling him to actively gather nature’s spiritual energy, refine it and transform it into Innate Qi, which was a path to a breakthrough for his Turtle Breath Technique!

If the Turtle Breath Technique were to advance to the 11th realm, it would surely undergo a transformation, just like his Five Animal Frolics, reaching the stage where it could nurture the embryonic form of Divine Skills.

Martial Artists who can cultivate a martial art to the point of nurturing Divine Skills are already few and far between, their combat power far surpassing commonplace Five-Qi Grandmasters, worthy of the title Pseudo-Divine Skill Grandmaster!

And to master two martial arts at Pseudo-Divine Skill level? That would undoubtedly be a supreme enhancement!

“Although the 10th realm Guiding Technique can convert Spiritual Energy into Innate Qi, this efficiency is a bit slow… it took half a month to condense a single wisp of Innate Qi!”

But soon, Su Changkong frowned, realizing it’s not so simple.

While the Guiding Technique could transform nature’s spiritual energy into Innate Qi, Su Changkong estimated that this single wisp of Innate Qi had taken him half a month, which was already an incredible rate!

You should know that in the Spirit Taoist Sect’s Zhongling Mountain, originally it would take 100 years to produce four or five wisps of Innate Qi, whereas Su Changkong could condense two wisps in a month, which equaled 24 wisps of Innate Qi per year, essentially creating over 20 Innate Martial Artists a year!

How exaggerated is that?

“A thousand wisps of Innate Qi… If I focus entirely on condensing Innate Qi, it would still take me forty to fifty years to reach this goal…” Su Changkong’s mouth twitched slightly.

Forty to fifty years was far too long! After all, Su Changkong was not even thirty years old yet!

“I need to find a way to increase the efficiency of condensing Innate Qi… Since it’s converted and condensed from Spiritual Energy, as long as there is a sufficient supply of Spiritual Energy, the speed at which I refine Innate Qi should increase!”

And soon Su Changkong thought of the key, as long as there is enough Spiritual Energy, the speed at which he condenses Innate Qi will certainly be faster.

Su Changkong flipped his hand, taking out a glowing Spirit Talisman from the Bag of Book Fragrance tied to his waist, which was indeed a Spirit Sealing Talism.

Previously, the Xie Kui attacked four Warrior Sects, using the Spirit Sealing Talisman to take away their Spirit Veins. Xie Kui used one, one was returned by Su Changkong to Zhongling Mountain, leaving two, which amounted to two Spirit Veins.

“Extract Spiritual Energy directly from the Spirit Vein and condense it into Innate Qi to see!”

Since a large amount of nature’s spiritual energy is needed to transform into Innate Qi, Su Changkong simply decided to draw nature’s spiritual energy directly from the Spirit Vein to condense Innate Qi!

As he thought, so he acted, holding the Spirit Sealing Talism in hand, using the Spirit Vein within to condense Innate Qi.

“Boom!”

From within the Spirit Sealing Talism, a vast amount of nature’s spiritual energy was drawn out by Su Changkong, converging in front of him and continuously compressing from an invisible state to a gaseous state, then to a liquid state and a solid state. Once it reached its peak, its structure began to change, and it reverted back to a gaseous state!

But this time it was a visible, coalesced, and lustrous white Innate Qi!

One wisp, two wisps, three wisps…

Just as Su Changkong had surmised, condensing Innate Qi required a vast amount of nature’s spiritual energy, and directly drawing from the Spirit Vein saved Su Changkong a great deal of time and effort.

As time passed, the Spirit Sealing Talism in Su Changkong’s hand dimmed and slowly fragmented, the entire Spirit Vein within it vanished, replaced by wisps of Innate Qi!

“A total of 30 wisps…”

One Spirit Vein condensed into Innate Qi yielded a total of 30 wisps!

“This… Directly drawing Spiritual Energy from the Spirit Vein and converting it into Innate Qi is indeed a method, but it is akin to draining the pond to get the fish, which would weaken or even annihilate a Spirit Vein. In the future, it would be unable to produce Innate Qi for a long time, or even produce much Spiritual Energy.”

And Su Changkong’s heart also clenched, this 10th-tier Guiding Technique was truly marvelous, if he drew Spiritual Energy from the Spirit Vein, he could quickly obtain a large amount of Innate Qi, but it would result in the Spirit Vein’s depletion and demise.

It’s like a fruit tree that bears fruit every year, yet Su Changkong would be uprooting the entire tree.

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