Chapter 56: Miraculous elixirs!

Tssss!

Approaching the unconscious Duan Li, the sword spoke out with a horrified voice, "Damn it! Even his cells are burning up! There must be an elixir somewhere within these piles of treasures!"

The sword bolted off quickly around the room, scanning for elixirs that could help recover Duan Li's body.

After all, the insides of Duan Li's body right now could be considered to be half-cooked due to the intense heat from repeatedly cycling his spiritual Qi to an extreme level!

Furthermore, he had also absorbed a large amounts of oxygen to help catalyze the full-burst mode. As a result, remnants of burnt carbon particles polluted all over his body!

"Arrff! Arrff!" the cub called out to the sword as it found a bottle of clear liquid among the piles of treasure.

"That's a grade five elixir! Hahaha! You are not so useless after all even coming from an inferior dog species! To express my gratitude, I'll call you little dog from now on!" exclaimed the sword happily as it conjured a spectral hand to grab at the bottle of elixir.

Rushing towards Duan Li, the sword poured the contents of the elixir inside Duan Li's mouth.

"Let's hope that this elixir would be enough..." it said feeling quite worried.

Elixir was a potion that could heal numerous injuries be it internal or external. The method to concoct an elixir varies in difficulties, and the end product were ranked between grade 1 until 9 according to its potency.

A grade five elixir could heal heavy injuries in a matter of a few breaths. But this also depended on the realm of the cultivator. The higher their realm, the higher the grade of elixir they would need to consume.

This was because with increasing realm, a cultivator's body would have a much more higher resistance against any damages. Inevitably, this resistance also seemed to affect the effectiveness of elixirs!

"Cough! Cough!" Duan Li opened his eyelids slowly as he could feel a surging warmth within his body repairing his damaged cells.

"Young master! Please refrain from moving and let the elixir settles the remaining damage inside your body first!" said the sword as it exhaled in relief.

"We.. won.. right?" asked Duan Li with a weak voice.

"Yes young master, you did it! However, you have suffered grievous internal injuries and thankfully, we have a grade five elixir around... Otherwise, with such injury, young master would probably not make it..." replied the sword with a worried tone.

Duan Li chuckled as he continued to laid down and closed his eyes.

Shiinggg!

His All-Seeing eye ability activated as he observed his body condition.

"Hmm.. my internal body is indeed quite messed up.. But the elixir is surprisingly able to repair them at a visible rate! How miraculous!" exclaimed Duan Li to himself as he saw the roasted cells were being shaved anew. Even his meridians and pathways were resurged back with some spiritual Qi.

"I must learn how to concoct an elixir later on when I return to the academy! Only then at times of pinch I would become more confident to gamble with my life.." thought Duan Li inwardly.

After a few more breaths, Duan Li's injuries have now fully recovered. However, his spiritual Qi reserves were only at the bare minimum level right now and that was also thanks to the elixir.

Otherwise, with no spiritual Qi to absorb and resuscitate his empty dantians, meridians and pathways, they would crumble down and stagnate. At that point, even with an elixir, there was no guarentee that he would be able to cultivate anymore!

Thinking about this made Duan Li shuddered. Thus, he turned towards the both of them, "I want you two to find as many lifesaving elixirs within this room as much as you guys can before I store these treasures in my spatial ring!"

"Okay young master! Leave it to the both of us! Let's go little dog!" replied the sword as it gestured towards the cub. The latter then hopped aboard it's body as they flew around the piles of treasures searching for more elixirs.

Looking at this sight, Duan Li was a little bit surprised. "Since when did the both of them become so close? Furthermore, little dog?" Duan Li chuckled at the sight of them flying around together.

Shaking his head, Duan Li sat down cross-legged to contemplate. "It seems that even the path to fortunes are guarded. The final route might have an even stronger boss!"

I need to prepare myself!

Duan Li then took out the manual book that the Guardian gave him.

'One Step To Reach'

His eyebrows couldn't help but to twitch by itself looking at that bold name in capital letters on the cover of the manual book. Nevertheless, Duan Li began to flip through them to study it intently while waiting for them to uncover some elixirs for him.

Flip!

...

After roughly about an hour, Duan Li had managed to internalize the movement skill art inside the manual book.

"Thankfully, my comprehension and analytical senses have been tremendously upgraded after my encounter with the first mysterious pearl. Otherwise, with a skill art made specifically for the first shackle, I wouldn't be able to understand them in such a short period of time!" Duan Li nodded, feeling satisfied.

His previous memories had also helped him to understand the manual a lot better, since there were terms that only those on such a realm would know of.

Standing up, Duan Li focused his gaze onto the distance as he activated the movement skill art. His figure flickered slightly before abruptly vanishing.

Whooshh!

Tap!

With a single breath, he was able to travel the distance seemingly without any movements at all!

"Not too bad! I've modified it a little bit to reduce the spiritual Qi consumption, but as a result, the range are reduced quite considerably. But this will make do for me in this realm for the time being!"

Burning up the manual book with a surge of his spiritual Qi as was told by the Guardian into ashes, Duan Li took out another book and began to study it.

'Nine Swordplays Thunder Strike!'

Flip!

...

After about less than an hour, Duan Li finally finished studying the book. His brows creased together as he cupped his chin.

"It seems that its getting easier for me to understand the contents inside of a manual book... I could even skip a few pages as some of them revolves around the same basic that I had already internalized before.."

In his conjecture, as long as he accumulates knowledge through reading manual books, the time to learn its contents would drastically be reduced!

Perhaps one day, he could even learn a skill art by just looking at the cover?

Duan Li chuckled to himself and shook his head to dispel such thoughts. After all, such things would only happen in the world of fantasies.

It's not as if his world was a fantasy right?

"So far, I've already learned six skill arts in total; Nine Fists Shattering Meteor, Nine Palm Slapping Oceans, Nine Swordplays Thunder Strike, One Step To Reach and the two variations of my One Finger Starlight Slash -- Qi beams and Full-Burst mode!"

With a lot of skill arsenal at his disposal, he could fight both bare-handed and with a sword at hand. Coupled with a movement skill art and his ultimate skill variations, if he were to deploy all of them at the same time, all hell would definitely break loose!

Shortly after, the sword came back with a few bottles of elixirs at tow. The cub was sitting adorably above it with it's tongue sticking out.

"Young master! We have combed the whole chamber and managed to uncover five elixirs in total! Three were of the grade four elixirs, one grade five and another one at grade six! Grade six elixirs are so potent that it could even grow a new limb if used on a cultivator at the lower realms!" said the sword with excitement.

"Is that so? Good job then! The both of you worked so well together though, when did you two get so close?" asked Duan Li with a grin.

"Huh? I am close with this little dog? No way! I am far higher in status than a mere cub!" the sword complained, feeling a little bit displeased.

Duan Li laughed out as he shook his head. With a thought and a single sweep of his right hand, the whole piles of treasures inside the room were quickly swallowed by the spatial ring.

Huala!

The previously grand appearance of the secret chambers that were filled with numerous treasures to the brim were now bare naked without a single gold coin left on the floor.

"The Guardian shouldn't mind me taking all these treasures right?" thought Duan Li. Turning his head towards the sword, he asked out, "By the way, where is the core of the Earthly golem?"

"Here it is Young master!" the sword handed over the monster core to Duan Li using his spectral hand.

Seeing the size of the monster core, Duan Li's eyes widened.

This! Isn't it way too big?

The monster core of the Earthly golem was like a small boulder! No wonder Duan Li hadn't realized it. Even the colour was almost similar to the debrises around him.

Cultivate!

Shiinggg!

Driving his consciousness inside his dantian, the Earth attribute monster core were now in the process of merging together with the core from the Earthly golem. They rotated around each other as they combined.

Woonggg!

The resulting merge brought out bright flash of light as a new egg-like shape monster core appeared. This thing was quite big in Duan Li's opinion.

Suddenly, just as he was about to retract his consciousness, a sound attracted his attention.

Crack!

Hmm?

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