Chapter 39: Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo
"Despicable, shameless, vixen, brazen…"
Hearing that Chu Yao wanted to enter the Starry Sky Temple as a disciple, Su Qingyue ground her teeth in anger, cursing inwardly.
She was certain Chu Yao was only doing it because of Gu Qing.
As a woman, how could she pursue a man so openly?
Far too lacking in restraint.
Gu Qing glanced at her in surprise but said nothing more.
Whatever Chu Yao's motive, it would only benefit him.
If he needed anything later, it would be convenient to ask her.
Ji Ning spoke leisurely. "Are you certain?"
"I am certain."
Chu Yao nodded in earnest.
In truth, she wished to take Ji Ning as her master.
Although Ji Ning was Zhimeng's follower, her own talent was no less—she bore a supreme divine body.
In only three thousand years she had reached the Venerable Realm, faster than many other supreme divine bodies.
Her battle power was unrivaled; since her debut, aside from losing to Zhimeng, she had never once been defeated.
Within the Starry Sky Temple, Ji Ning was a towering figure of great weight.
But taking a master was not so casual.
One had to consider not only strength but whether their Dao aligned.
Clearly, her path differed entirely from Ji Ning's; becoming Ji Ning's disciple was nearly impossible.
As for Zhimeng, she only dared think of it in her heart.
If it were another upper-grade divine body, there might be a sliver of hope, but hers was a Furnace Body.
Its combat power was weak, it lacked auspicious visions, its growth was arduous, its potential limited—worse than many ordinary divine bodies.
Even so, a divine body was still a divine body. With Gu Qing's help, even if she failed to take a master, joining Zhimeng's lineage as an ordinary disciple would not be a problem.
"Very well."
Ji Ning inclined her head, thinking to herself, "She's chasing him all the way to the Starry Sky Temple. Looks like next year I'll be holding a child…"
With matters settled, Su Qingyue needed to return to bid farewell to Su Wu.
Chu Yao likewise would go back once to sell Gu Qing's treasures.
Gu Qing also returned to seclusion.
His strange flame had yet to be refined; it was stored in the old man's ring.
Seeing the three each busy with their own tasks, Ji Ning only then realized Gu Qing and the others were preparing to return to the Starry Sky Temple.
"So the training ends here? Then my month of rushing day and night was all for nothing?"
Training typically lasted years. Gu Qing had only been in the Northern Domain for a few days, and he was already going back without doing anything. How was she to explain this to Zhimeng?
Ji Ning frowned in thought, then decided to send a message to Zhimeng.
When the reply came, she sighed inwardly that she truly had a life of endless toil.
"He Ni, here is some treasure liquid," Gu Qing transmitted to He Ni.
His cultivation had risen too quickly and needed to settle.
He intended to study the Starry Sky Temple's techniques and secret arts, further perfect the Chaos Undying Sutra, and only then break through.
After all, his talent was peerless through the ages, an innate Dao seed. He could break through whenever he wished—bottlenecks did not exist.
Moreover, He Ni was at a critical moment of condensing a body and urgently needed treasure liquid to rebuild her foundation.
With the golden gourd in hand, there was no shortage of it.
The next batch of beast flesh and spirit herbs from Wanbao Tower would arrive in three months; breaking through then would be just right.
"This boy is truly a man of great fortune…"
Gazing at a vast lake of treasure liquid, He Ni murmured.
She did not need to ask to know where it came from.
Gu Qing had amassed huge quantities of beast flesh and low-grade spirit herbs; body refinement did not require so much.
Thus, the answer presented itself.
Gu Qing had obtained a treasure capable of refining beast flesh and spirit herbs.
"Good—he knows gratitude. A pity he cannot become my successor."
The thought left He Ni with deep regret.
"He Ni, after absorbing all this treasure liquid, what level of body can you rebuild?" Gu Qing asked curiously.
"Sage Realm."
"No way. With so much treasure liquid, and still only Sage Realm?"
"You know nothing. I used it all to rebuild my body's origin, not to raise my realm," He Ni replied irritably.
Before obtaining the treasure liquid, she had confidence in condensing an Innate Dao Body. With it, she could now condense an Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo, on par with a Supreme Divine Body.
"Then do you need a Starfruit?" Gu Qing asked.
"Yes, I need it desperately. Can you get one? Does the Starry Sky Temple have a Star Tree?" He Ni's voice trembled with excitement.
With a Starfruit, not only could she rebuild the Innate Sacred Body Dao Embryo, she could also use secret arts to condense three thousand Starry Acupoint Caves. Such a body, though not as strong as in her previous life, would still carry limitless potential, giving her hope of regaining her past peak.
But Starfruit was a divine medicine. Could Gu Qing really obtain it?
"Of course. I've already taken one before. Everyone knows I am the Zhou Tian Starry Body. Getting another shouldn't be hard." Gu Qing smiled.
He was someone who repaid both kindness and hatred. Since He Ni had given him the Small Thousand Sword Art, if he could help her in return, he would.
"Good, good, this is just in time. You must get me a Starfruit—it's vital for me," He Ni said eagerly. After some thought, she produced a jade slip.
"This is a powerful halberd technique, the Opening Heaven God Halberd. I'll give it to you."
She had long wanted to pass it to Gu Qing, though some unwillingness lingered in her heart, along with the faint hope of taking him as her disciple.
Gu Qing swept it with his divine sense, and joy instantly filled his face.
The Opening Heaven God Halberd contained ten great divine arts, each bearing the might of splitting heaven and earth. How He Ni had acquired it, he couldn't imagine.
Such a technique given so casually was no less valuable than killing a protagonist for his rewards. Clearly, in her past life, He Ni had been a peerless giant of heaven-shaking power.
Thinking this, Gu Qing sealed away the Qiankun Sword and spoke to the system.
"System, isn't there a lottery for killing a child of fortune?"
[Yes. But since you were in seclusion at the time, I turned off automatic notifications.]
"Then draw for me now."
[Congratulations, host, you have obtained Solar God Metal.]
"Not bad."
Gu Qing thought for a moment and decided to fuse it into the Three Thousand Acupoint Caves.
He threw Xiao Yi's Black Vein Immortal Gold and the Solar God Furnace into the golden gourd to refine them.
After that, he opened the old man's ring and refined the Icefire Heart.
The Icefire Heart was eerie, its color an icy blue, radiating both extreme cold and blazing heat—ice and fire interwoven, defying all laws of nature.
It was worth noting that the Icefire Heart ranked very high among the Three Thousand Different Fires.
Xiao Yi had even used strange fire to refine it three times, raising it to the level of burning a Refining Spirit Realm cultivator to death.
If not for Xiao Yi constantly draining its essence to condense his Fire God Body, the Icefire Heart would likely have reached the level of burning even a King Realm expert.
After refining it, Gu Qing directed the Icefire Heart to devour a strand of Solar Divine Flame.
Once absorbed, the Icefire Heart's power multiplied several times.
In his hands, it could already burn to death someone at the Void Dao Realm. It was a fine trump card.
Gu Qing then began to comprehend the Opening Heaven God Halberd technique, specifically its divine art, Shattering the Eight Desolations.
It combined the power of strength and space, overbearing without equal, able to crush heaven and earth.
Three days later, Su Qingyue departed from Moonwatch Sacred Land.
The entire sect gathered to see her off. She walked step by step, turning back often, eyes brimming with tears.
This departure, who knew when she would return?
"Go. Train well."
Su Wu's face was stern, his tone solemn.
Though he had countless words in his heart, when they reached his lips he swallowed them back, forcing out only this sentence.
"I understand. I will never fail father's hopes."
Su Qingyue bit her lips, silently wishing time could slow.
When she became strong, she would find heavenly treasures for her father, so he could break through to King Realm, even Venerable Realm…
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