Cultivation : I'm an Ancient Giant Bear-Chapter 473 - 446: Full of Malice

"Great! Stop working, we’re done for today!"

As Wang Wu jumped off the Heaven and Earth Needle, Qingxue and Zihan did not hurry to leave. The other prisoner laborers also gathered at the Heaven and Earth Needle. Then, as Qingxue activated the Heaven and Earth Needle, a purple light shot into the sky, followed by a blue light descending from high above.

At this moment, Wang Wu vaguely saw a vast area behind him, filled with Heaven and Earth Needles, at least several thousand of them. They formed a network like small neurons, controlling the Great Wilderness Sin Prison Tower.

Indeed, Wang Wu suddenly realized.

Only a powerful organization like the Hidden Origin Association could play this game so masterfully.

In a few short seconds, the anomaly disappeared.

Whether it was an illusion or not, Wang Wu felt the Evil Wind was weakening, albeit very slightly, almost imperceptibly.

"So, when all the Heaven and Earth Needles are built and cover the entire Great Wilderness Sin Prison Tower, it means this Eternal Firm Immortal Artifact is fully repaired and under control, and the Three Calamities will no longer wreak havoc."

"The time left to me is not much. Fully brushing up the Three Calamities might be wishful thinking, but no matter what, I must max out Yin Fire Resistance!"

Wang Wu reluctantly changed his expected goal.

Truly, this task is not easy at all.

If the Three Calamities were easy to brush up, they wouldn’t be called the Three Calamities.

"Everyone, starting today, take a ten-day vacation."

Array Master Zihan loudly announced, then she did not return to the main fort. Instead, she took out a small boat woven with sails of Pale Fire and called out to Qingxue.

"Little sister, want to join me? We only have these two boats here, if you don’t go now, you might miss the chance."

"Thanks, Sister, but I want to prepare more. In ten days, the next Heaven and Earth Needle will start construction. I’m new here, I can’t hold you back."

Qingxue refused, and Array Master Zihan didn’t persuade her further. She glanced at Wang Wu and steered the small boat away.

While Qingxue glanced back at the somewhat dazed Wang Wu and kicked him violently.

"What are you standing there for? Go back!"

"Oh, oh!"

Wang Wu obediently followed, but his heart was clear.

If Qingxue were also on vacation, it would not be good news for him, as Xiong Wang Shou might trouble him!

However, following Qingxue, the opponent, trying any tricks, would have to be cautious.

Thank you, little sister, thank you, Sister Shuang Jun!

Key moments were truly supportive.

Back at the main fort, little sister Qingxue said nothing and meditated in a corner.

Wang Wu, meanwhile, used Spiritual Qi to nurture the Three-Defense Treasure Armor diligently. This Yang Thunder Frenzy had reduced the armor’s durability by more than ten percent, which pained him.

Repairs were possible, but he didn’t dare disturb little sister Qingxue, so he made do for now.

After nurturing, Wang Wu just entered the Three-Defense Treasure Armor, and other prisoner laborers also came to the main fort, each taking off their Three-Defense Treasure Armor for nurturing. Afterward, they didn’t leave but found a spot to sit, some meditating, whispering, and two took out wine and food for themselves.

Xiong Wang Shou, after speaking a few words with a prisoner laborer, came over with him and tapped Wang Wu’s Three-Defense Treasure Armor.

"Brother, I have a friend here who’d like to make a deal with you; please honor us with your presence."

Xiong Wang Shou smiled, while the prisoner looked indifferent, gray eyes fixed on Wang Wu, even within the armor, making him uncomfortable.

"What kind of deal?"

Wang Wu stayed silent for a moment before speaking.

"Brother, give us face, take off the Three-Defense Treasure Armor; we won’t eat you, right? The rules of the Hidden Origin Association are supreme, and besides, little Array Master Qingxue is here, what can we do?"

Xiong Wang Shou spoke, then reached out to take off Wang Wu’s armor.

"Stop! Xiong Wang Shou, don’t go too far! The rules of Jia Yi Sin Prison by Hidden Origin Association do not allow anyone to forcibly remove another’s armor!"

A shout came from Qingxue, her gaze was cold.

At this moment, Xiong Wang Shou paused, the gray-eyed prisoner laborer seemed a bit surprised, perhaps unexpected.

"Haha, just joking, it was my oversight, Little Array Master Qingxue, you’re correct. In fact, we really have no other intentions, just wanted to make a deal with this brother. We made deals before, all went well, of course, absolutely no coercion."

Xiong Wang Shou laughed, about to leave, but the next moment, the gray-eyed prisoner silently moved forward, trying to strip Wang Wu’s armor. This guy was too strong, likely a Taiyi Fifth Tier; Wang Wu had no power to resist.

"Impudent!"

With Qingxue’s firm shout, a water-like array pattern emerged before Wang Wu, but the gray-eyed prisoner’s speed was faster, withdrawing without touching the pattern.

He even eerily smirked at that moment, "Little Array Master Qingxue, listen to an old man’s advice. You’re new to the Craftsmanship Department as an array master, with unsteady foundations, just caught up in the major opportunity of repairing the Sin Prison Tower, and thus you can shine alone. Don’t be impulsive, don’t take things too seriously, what harm in turning a blind eye? Do what you should do, or trouble is easy to find."

"Now that the Heaven and Earth Needle is finished, your task is done, why not leave? We committed serious crimes, each ruthless, even with good hearts, might lose control someday, we’re just lost souls. This guy, even more so, is just a wretched life. Little Array Master, you have a bright future, don’t ruin it!"

"Silence! As prisoner labor, daring to threaten an array master, according to Jia Yi Sin Prison regulations, Article Thirty-nine, you shall suffer Nine Yang Thunder Strikes!"

Unafraid, Qingxue sneered, activating a Jade Talisman, instantly nine Yang Thunder Strikes descended on the gray-eyed prisoner, knocking him down, twitching for quite a while.

But this guy was also a tough nut; he didn’t make a sound, and after a moment, he gave a sly smile, glanced ominously at Wang Wu, then at Qingxue, and went to meditate and heal himself.

The main fortress was silent. After a long while, an old man with red hair spoke leisurely, "The reserve spiritual qi of this main fortress should still have ten billion Dou left, enough to run for ten more days. Everyone, don’t provoke the little array master anymore. Under the three calamities, all beings are equal. Any conflicts can be resolved later."

No one responded to the old man with red hair, but no one else spoke either. Even Xiong Wang Shou obediently sat down, but its eyes were a bit surprised, greatly surprised, because it had not expected that the little array master Qingxue would actually protect a seemingly backgroundless, potential-less, and future-less little bear cub like this. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

This was rather odd.

Because even the prominent Qin Family, when encountering such a situation, wouldn’t want to continue venting their anger.

Of course, that gray-eyed killer wasn’t hired by the Qin Family; he was targeted at Qingxue.

That Wang Zhige was just used to test Qingxue; as they say, attack where the enemy must rescue.

The internal disputes within the Hidden Origin Association were indeed too deep.

Unfortunately, the little array master Qingxue, whether she had taken the wrong medicine or what, was apparently going to be eliminated sooner or later.

The competition among array masters in the Craftsmanship Department was equally thrilling and intense.

The main fortress regained its tranquillity, but Wang Wu’s heart could not calm down. He truly hadn’t expected that Xiong Wang Shou and that gray-eyed one could be so unreasonable. If not for Qingxue’s protection, he wouldn’t have died today, but he would have been worse off than dead.

As long as no one died, the Hidden Origin Association wouldn’t investigate deeply.

After all, this was a prison!

Suppressing the anger in his heart, Wang Wu forced himself to quickly enter a meditative state. He had recently been illuminated by the Yin and Yang Qi, and he could not waste this enormous opportunity.

Yes, even if it was only a three-second exposure, it was still the greatest opportunity Wang Wu had gained in his life, from stepping into the cultivation realm to now.

This was not a substantial gain. When the Yin and Yang Qi illuminated him, it did not cause any changes, but it could illuminate all the parts of his body that were unsuitable and did not conform to the core laws of the universe.

It was like seeing the lesions on an ultrasound, CT, or MRI.

In some ways, this was a million times more potent than Spirit Essence Micro and Spirit Essence Recognition.

The former directly provides you with an entire system, as if allowing you to stand on the shoulders of countless great experts, enabling you to see further and clearer.

The latter is merely a very powerful electron microscope.

Those cultivators who were exposed to Yin and Yang Qi from an early age and developed healthily might not feel much.

But for a black-blind-level competitor like Wang Wu, it was a guiding light.

For example, at this moment, he discovered that the sequence of the two Five Elements Spirit Arrays deployed in his innate and acquired cultivation was actually two steps off. Although this would not cause fatal impact, it was like comparing a flashy, blocky sports car to a streamlined one.

Which one has better cost-efficiency is obvious.

Under normal circumstances, Wang Wu would need at least a hundred Joker-level computation cores and a hundred and eight strands of idle divine thought for crazy calculations to possibly find this sequence error.

This alone could save Wang Wu five hundred billion points of spiritual qi.

But these are still just the tiny gains from the Yin and Yang Qi exposure.

What truly brought Wang Wu substantial gains, a groundbreaking benefit that could even turn the tide and prevent him from falling into the abyss of despair, was realizing that his five spirit pills had been cultivated wrongly.

Although the Five Elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth were familiar to Wang Wu, and their mutual generation and overcoming didn’t seem problematic.

But the issue arose from Wang Wu cultivating innate and acquired simultaneously.

His innate bloodline five demon pills were already biased towards the earth element since the Mang Mountain Ancient Bear could also be called the Ancient Earth Giant Bear.

Ample details actually proved this.

Such as passive concealment, self-healing, the Five Elements Profound Yellow Array, and so on.

So, he actually didn’t need to cultivate the Earth Spirit Pill.

One of either the innate bloodline five demon pills or the Earth Spirit Pill from his acquired cultivation was destined to be wasted.

It might not be apparent now, but when his innate and acquired cultivation fully unified in the future, and he needed to advance to Taiyi True Immortal, if this conflict was discovered in advance, it would be fine. However, if he kept pushing forward stubbornly without realizing it, the loss would be huge.

At best, it would lead to qigong deviation; at worst, his soul would disperse, leading to death.

Of course, one could also choose another solution, like splitting and becoming two entities.

So, one could observe that Xiong Wang Shou’s Acquired Five Spirit Pills conveniently lacked the Earth Spirit Pill.

"Discard the Earth Spirit Pill and rebuild the Wind Spirit Pill!"

Wang Wu decisively made the decision.

With Qingxue’s protection and the cover of the Three-Defense Treasure Armor, he aimed to resolve this within ten days.

Fortunately, this wasn’t truly difficult.

With the Maximal Common Denominator Pill, he even had an abundance of pure Gale Spiritual Qi stored up.

Before this, the Maximal Common Denominator Pill had even automatically condensed a weak Wind Spirit Pill.

He eagerly anticipated it.