Grinding EXP From a Demon Hunting Ship

Jade Dew Island.

In the immortal’s cave.

Fourth-tier Spiritual Qi gathered, and Luminous Pearls glowed brilliantly, lending the air of an immortal’s sanctuary.

At the heart of the immortal’s cave, Su Ye sat cross-legged, tuning his mind, body, and spirit to their absolute peak.

He let out a long breath.

’Let’s begin.’

Su Ye took a deep breath, his mind growing tranquil as he began to Embrace the Origin and Guard the One.

The Taiyin Moonlight Profound Chapter began to circulate, drawing in Spiritual Qi. His cultivation base, which had long since hit a wall with no room for further growth, now surged forward. As the Spiritual Qi entered his body, it began to assault the cultivation bottleneck!

WHOOSH.

A tide of Magical Power crashed through his Dantian Qi Sea.

CRACK.

A faint sound, like porcelain shattering, suddenly echoed.

Within Su Ye’s Dantian Qi Sea, his accumulated Magical Power broke through a barrier and began to expand rapidly!

Late-stage Golden Core! The bottleneck was shattered!

BOOM!

A torrent of Magical Power raged through his Qi Sea like a tidal wave.

Cracks began to spiderweb across the walls of his Dantian, a sign that it was being pushed to its absolute limit.

Late-stage cultivators could be considered great cultivators of their realm!

Even an ordinary cultivator’s Magical Power would skyrocket upon reaching this step.

To say nothing of Su Ye, who possessed the Nine-Method Golden Core. With his incredibly profound foundation, the surge in his Magical Power was simply staggering!

In a mere instant, the total volume of his Magical Power swelled by severalfold, like a fusion reaction.

While such a massive increase in Magical Power was cause for celebration, the pressure it placed on his Dantian Qi Sea was immense. The slightest misstep could spell disaster.

Heh.

Su Ye’s expression was calm and unhurried.

With a mere thought, his Nine-Method Golden Core—perfect, whole, and centrally located within his Dantian Qi Sea—began to rise!

HUMMM.

Three spiritual lights flickered atop the Golden Core.

One was pitch-black, another a deep blue, and the third was a mix of black and white.

The three spiritual lights each corresponded to a specific Law.

As the spiritual lights intertwined, backed by the power of these Laws, the Nine-Method Golden Core became like an anchor in the storm, settling in the center and instantly suppressing the rampaging Magical Power.

’It’s done.’

Su Ye’s mind settled with certainty.

He had broken through the realm’s bottleneck and suppressed the explosive surge of Magical Power.

Having reached this point in his advancement to the Late-stage Golden Core, the breakthrough was considered a success!

As he began to sort through his new reserves of Magical Power, Su Ye had a flash of insight. ’So this is why you need forty percent comprehension of a Law to advance to the Late-stage Golden Core...’

If a cultivator’s comprehension of a Law was insufficient, they wouldn’t be able to command their Golden Core to suppress the explosive surge of Magical Power that came with advancing to the late stage.

In that case, they would fail at the final step. Not only would the breakthrough fail, causing their cultivation to regress to the mid-stage, but their Dantian Qi Sea would also be damaged by the backlash.

In severe cases, it could even damage their very foundation.

This risk, however, wasn’t present when advancing to the mid-stage.

’So, even among the Nine Sects of the Inner Sea, reaching the Late-stage Golden Core is a major hurdle.’

Cultivators attempting this advancement often had to use various methods to confirm their comprehension of a Law had met the required standard.

They also had to prepare life-saving Spirit Pills and Spirit Medicines. Those with the resources would even ask their masters or elders to watch over them and provide protection.

Only with such preparations would they dare to challenge the bottleneck and attempt the breakthrough to the late stage.

Su Ye, however, had none of these protections.

But he didn’t need them.

The data on his panel was far more precise than any of those methods.

It allowed Su Ye to gauge his comprehension progress with perfect accuracy, leaving no room for error.

Furthermore, the Personhood Harmony with the Ghostly Flood Dragon made breaking through the bottleneck feel almost effortless—a natural and inevitable success.

’So this is what it’s like to use a cheat, huh?’

’Nice!’

Su Ye mused to himself, a smile touching the corners of his lips.

...

’The late stage is achieved.’

’Now it’s time to advance my body and soul.’

A glint in his eye, Su Ye looked before him as two jade boxes floated into the air.

During a cultivator’s advancement, the body undergoes drastic changes and the shackles of many laws loosen. It is the most opportune time to temper the body or nourish the soul, yielding twice the results for half the effort!

Su Ye glanced to his left.

CLICK.

The jade box clicked open, revealing a narrow slit.

In an instant, an incredibly dense aura of blood seeped out, washing over him like a veritable mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

The sacred, immortal atmosphere of the cave vanished instantly, replaced by the pungent, bloody stench of an Asura Purgatory!

THUMP.

THUMP, THUMP, THUMP.

A deep, powerful heartbeat suddenly echoed through the cave.

The heartbeat was bizarre. As it throbbed, Su Ye was shocked to feel his own heart accelerate, its frequency threatening to synchronize with the otherworldly pulse.

Su Ye’s eyes widened in alarm. ’What a vicious fiend!’

Inside the jade box was, of course, the heart of the Dragon Demon.

’Even after the Dragon Demon’s death, its heart still possesses so much vitality and Evil Qi?’

’Excellent!’

Instead of being alarmed, Su Ye was delighted.

The more active the heart, the greater the benefits he would receive from refining it. This meant the chances of his physical body advancing to the fifth tier were even higher!

’According to my previous calculations... even with the Dragon Demon’s heart, my chances of advancing my physical body to the fifth tier were thirty percent at most.’

’But now... I’d estimate it’s closer to fifty percent?’

A flicker of anticipation ignited within Su Ye.

CLICK.

Just then, the jade box flew wide open, and the heart leaped out.

Freed from the box’s suppression, the heart rapidly expanded, filling nearly half the immortal’s cave.

Of course.

It wasn’t that the corpse had come back to life.

Rather, the jade box had a size-altering Array inscribed within it, which had simply compressed the heart’s volume.

Tsk, tsk.

Su Ye looked up, a look of wonder on his face.

This Dragon Demon truly lived up to its name as a peerless fiend. Its heart alone was large enough to fill a spacious living room; one could only imagine how terrifying its full body must have been!

But aside from his awe, Su Ye wasn’t particularly surprised.

After all, in his past life on Earth, a blue whale’s heart weighed half a ton and was as large as a small car.