Chapter 140: Chapter 101: Star Baptism, 4-Star Gold Acupoint

"No matter what, I still need to take a look and understand the situation before making any plans."

"That Calamity-level Star Evil can’t stay in Qiwen Mountain forever."

Liou Yuan can’t just dismiss the idea of going to Qiwen Mountain based on the words of a fat bird.

"It’s best if the intelligence is inaccurate."

"If the intelligence is true, I’ll have to wait until that Calamity-level Star Evil leaves before going to Qiwen Mountain," Liou Yuan thought.

For now, he wasn’t in a rush to travel.

He began chatting with the fat bird in front of him, exchanging names.

Its name is Bai Ling.

Liou Yuan learned from its mouth that its true form is a spirit beast known as the Ice Glaze Crane.

According to Bai Ling, its ancestors produced Foundation Establishment Great Demons, and it has Foundation Establishment potential, destined to restore its ancestral glory.

"I’ve never seen such a fat crane; it looks more like a big fat chicken." Liou Yuan looked at its round body and secretly smiled to himself.

With a common goal for collecting debts, Bai Ling no longer urged Liou Yuan to leave; instead, it enthusiastically invited him to its lair as a guest.

Seeing no ill intentions and that it hadn’t eaten any humans, Liou Yuan nodded and agreed.

Its so-called lair was actually a nest hidden inside a giant dead tree.

Covered with various feathers from birds and beasts, it appeared incredibly lavish.

Upon entering the lair, Liou Yuan understood why it was so fat.

Inside the nest, it had opened up a ground hole, raising a large group of snake beasts, numbering at least a hundred.

The first thing Bai Ling did was grab a colorful, seemingly poisonous snake and shove it into its mouth, gobbling it up within a few bites.

Unsatisfied, it caught two more snakes to barely satisfy its hunger.

It warmly offered one to Liou Yuan, which made him shudder, shaking his head saying he was vegetarian.

"Why are you following the ways of those bald Buddhists," Bai Ling scoffed with its beak, slandering, "I saw that group of baldies pass by here in earlier years; they only pretend not to eat meat."

"They are no strangers to alcohol and lust."

"It’s all a deception for the world."

"Hey, I’ve heard of such things." Liou Yuan had heard about the rumors surrounding those bald Buddhists; the Buddhist Sect in Jiuli State and Jin Dynasty had a poor reputation.

Bai Ling again tried to persuade Liou Yuan, but he still refused to eat.

It simply ignored Liou Yuan, leaving him with a comment, saying, don’t blame me for being a poor host if you refuse yourself.

Then it nestled into its home and fell into a deep sleep.

Perhaps it felt Liou Yuan’s strength wasn’t a threat to it, so it slept soundly.

Liou Yuan waited a moment, quietly slipped out of Bai Ling’s nest.

He then found another cave on this hill, where he crawled in to cultivate.

This night, he definitely wouldn’t travel; this peak belonged to Bai Ling, so he wasn’t worried about being disturbed.

He planned to take out the Fixed Star Compass and use the reward from this star baptism.

After all, if he went back to Five Extremes Mountain, with so many eyes and ears, he wouldn’t be able to use the star baptism there.

"Last star baptism enhanced my One-Star Water Acupoint, Two-Star Gold Acupoint, to Two-Star Water Acupoint and Three-Star Gold Acupoint."

Liou Yuan placed the Fixed Star Compass on the ground in front of him, rubbing his palms in excitement.

"I wonder if this time there will be as significant an effect as last time."

With the experience of the first star baptism, Liou Yuan, after speaking to himself, his hand instinctively reached the center of the Fixed Star Compass.

At the touch of Liou Yuan’s hand, the brown energy at the center of the Fixed Star Compass instantly transformed into a liquid state, spreading along his fingers into his body.

The familiar sensation like water was felt again as the liquid energy enveloped Liou Yuan’s entire body.

The energy flowed into his Star Acupoints, slowly trickling into his body, into his limbs and bones.

Strangely, this baptism energy only entered through the Gold Acupoint on his chest.

It extended to the Water Acupoint on Liou Yuan’s forehead, where the Water Acupoint, like being frightened, suddenly closed up, rejecting any entry of the star energy.

Liou Yuan sensed the anomaly with the Water Acupoint, not surprised, naturally analyzing why the Water Acupoint reacted this way.

"It must be related to the Five Elements of the Star Evil we annihilated this time."

"This Star Evil revived underground and inhabits in a temple statue’s clay embryo; its element must be Earth."

"The baptism energy from the Fixed Star Compass comes from that Star Evil, naturally having characteristics of Earth."

"Earth restrains Water; no wonder the Water Acupoint is rejecting it."

Understanding the logic, Liou Yuan ignored the closing of the Water Acupoint.

Guiding the baptism energy entering his body, it flowed through his meridians.

A familiar drowsy sensation swept over him; having experienced this before, Liou Yuan let the feeling spread through his body, his consciousness gradually blurring.

As his breathing steadied.

Within this small cave space, only the faint light emitted by the earthen-brown baptism energy covering his body remained.

Liou Yuan didn’t know how long he slept.

He was awakened by the sound of rapid rain in the mountains.

Tap, tap, tap~

Outside it was pouring rain, the raindrops not gentle touches but forceful impacts against leaves, branches.

Leaves on the tree branches were smashed by raindrops, making a "pattering" sound, the foliage in the mountains producing a "rustling" resonance.

To others, the subtle rain sounds brought a sense of serenity.

But to Liou Yuan, with his keen hearing, the sounds seemed a bit annoying.

He frowned and opened his eyes, then sat up, stretching lazily.

Since cultivation replaced sleep, Liou Yuan rarely experienced waking up naturally; now he felt fully energized, even his eyes appeared brighter.

He hadn’t forgotten what he was doing before he fell asleep.

After some light exercise, he quickly calmed his mind, internally inspecting the benefits of this star baptism.

The Gold Acupoint on his chest shone with light several folds brighter than before.

The Spiritual Power flowing within his internal organs was forceful and robust, the count unexpectedly changed, increasing not eleven streams, but reaching sixteen streams.

They flowed through Liou Yuan’s limbs and bones, making sounds similar to brooks babbling.

This was a sound Liou Yuan had never heard before.

"Sixteen streams, added five streams of Spiritual Power!" Liou Yuan, feeling the changes of Spiritual Power inside, showed satisfaction.

Nothing pleased him more than the growth of his strength.

One night of star baptism, gaining five streams of Spiritual Power, was equivalent to almost half a year of painstaking cultivation for Liou Yuan.

Previously unattainable Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer now seemed hopeful.

The Qi Cultivation Sixth Layer roughly requires twenty streams of Spiritual Power, now there are sixteen.

Based on Liou Yuan’s previous cultivation speed, it only required four to five months to achieve.

"Definitely won’t take four to five months now." Liou Yuan spoke with great confidence.

The reason for his certainty was naturally due to the changes in the Gold Acupoint on his chest post star baptism.

The Star Acupoint was emitting a glow of its own, clearly no longer a Three-Star Star Acupoint. Naturally, previous standards couldn’t measure the current cultivation speed.

Liou Yuan wasn’t confident about the exact star level, so he immediately activated the Fixed Star Compass within to check.

[Human Race Liou Yuan]

[Cultivation]: Qi Cultivation Fifth Layer (Not Rated)

[Qualification]: Two-Star Water Acupoint, Four-Star Gold Acupoint

[Talent]: Evil Eyes

[Magic]:

"Yunwu Prefecture" Ding-level Low Grade

"Lion’s Roar Spell" Ding-level Medium Grade (Small Success)

"Talismanic Skill" Wu-level Superb Grade (Small Success)

"Treading Flowing Waves" Ding-level High Grade (Introduction)

"Calming Spell" Ding-level High Grade (Introduction)

"Green Tide Pure Water Sword" Ding-level Superb Grade (Introduction)

[Cultivation Technique]: "Five Mansions Star Gazing Breathing Skill" (Progress: Late Stage of Third Mansion)