Chapter 163: Essence Spirit Jade

Chapter 163: Essence Spirit Jade

Qin Yun followed Du Gui into a tree hollow and immediately noticed that the Nine Yang essence here was much more concentrated than outside, indeed a very magical tree.

Du Gui said, "You can open a new tree hollow or choose any available one to serve as your residence."

When Qin Yun was outside, he had also seen some tree hollows from the base of the giant tree up to about two to three hundred meters high. Du Gui's tree hollow was located at a height of several dozen meters.

"There are so many empty tree hollows on the giant tree; there’s no need to open another one. I’ll choose one myself." Qin Yun flew out and selected a tree hollow at a height of three hundred meters.

After selecting it, he hung the plaque given by Du Gui at the entrance of the tree hollow to indicate that it was occupied.

Then, he began to tidy up.

The cave he chose had one large and one small hall, along with several spacious rooms. Since it was carved out inside the tree, the walls were polished wooden surfaces with beautiful wood grain patterns.

The cave was quite empty, requiring him to place furniture and other items himself.

Du Gui came to Qin Yun’s cave and saw the emptiness, smiling, "You need some furniture. You can make them yourself. This treasure forest is my territory, and there are many dry logs suitable for making furniture."

"Alright, I’ll clean up first!" Qin Yun nodded and smiled.

Du Gui said, "Stay here for now, don’t wander around. I have to attend a meeting to discuss ghost beasts with other teachers from the Xuan-level Martial Academy."

Qin Yun was well aware of the severity of ghost beasts; the Ghost King he encountered before was extremely powerful.

A short while passed.

Qin Yun finally finished tidying up his cave, making it spotlessly clean.

He stood at the entrance, looking down at the vast green forest below, feeling incredibly refreshed. Then, he gazed at the calm and vast Ten Thousand Stars Lake in the distance, feeling an inexplicable sense of fear.

The Ten Thousand Stars Lake was very calm and vast, giving the impression that something terrifying might be lurking beneath.

The treasure forest was circular, spanning several thousand meters, forming a small forest.

Inside, there were not only many large trees but also various brightly colored flowers. The forest was home to numerous bird species, their clear chirping adding a lively atmosphere to this sparsely populated area.

"Training mental power is highly dependent on the environment, which is why Teacher Du chose to live here."

Qin Yun also found the environment here very pleasant, allowing one to relax.

He used the Fire Cloud Step to run above the garden, searching for dead trees. Soon, he found over ten dead giant trees and returned to the Star Profound Treasure Tree.

Upon returning, Qin Yun started busily making furniture.

Making wooden furniture was a trivial task for him. In less than half an hour, the originally empty cave was filled with exquisite furniture.

Qin Yun sat comfortably in a quiet room, closed his eyes, and sensed the two inner essences in the Heavenly Lion arm.

After the Heavenly Lion arm awakened its Heavenly Lion bloodline, he could feel his two inner essences moving to the arm.

Therefore, when Yue Kai tried to detonate his inner essences, he could quickly transfer both inner essences to his left arm, leaving only two clumps of inner qi in his dantian to explode.

Now that he had successfully entered the Star Profound Martial Academy, he naturally wanted to move the two inner essences back...

He struggled for over an hour, then opened his eyes in surprise, muttering, "Damn, they won’t come back!"

"Well, even if the two inner essences are in my arm, it’s not much different from being in my dantian."

Despite this, he could still control his inner strength smoothly throughout his body.

"It might just be temporary... I’ll figure it out later. Anyway, this isn’t a bad thing; the Heavenly Lion arm is the strongest part of my body." Qin Yun thought for a moment and decided to go with the flow.

He put this matter aside and took out the Essence Spirit Jade given by Huo Zhong, permeating his own spirit into it...

"A strange feeling, the Essence Spirit Jade is truly unique, seemingly making my spirit stronger and allowing me to use it more skillfully!"

Qin Yun was secretly delighted, driving his powerful mental power into his spirit to test the strongest spirit force.

As soon as he merged his mental power with his spirit, he was surprised to find that his spirit could leave his body!

Normally, when releasing spirit force, white threads would emanate from the body, and the spirit force had to remain connected to the body. But now, through the Essence Spirit Jade, his spirit could leave his body and fly out like mental power.

"The spirit force and mental power have perfectly merged together!"

Qin Yun was overjoyed, controlling the spirit force to lift his body, easily making it float.

Previously, when he fought Yue Kai, using mental power to lift his body was very difficult, requiring all his mental power to achieve.

But now, with the Essence Spirit Jade, it was much easier.

"If I can integrate my inner strength into this, wouldn’t the combination be incredibly powerful? I wonder if it will work!" Qin Yun felt excited and immediately tried it.

After some experimentation, he managed to successfully integrate his Vajra inner strength into his spirit force. However, the fusion of the three elements placed a significant burden on his mind, and his inner strength was consumed quickly, making it impossible to sustain for long periods.

"Just a moment, and it has already consumed a lot of my mental power and inner strength!" Qin Yun used his mental and spirit forces to control a nearly thousand-pound Giant Spirit King Hammer to forge bone steel.

He could sit motionless on the ground, controlling the Giant Spirit King Hammer to hover and strike the bone steel with great force. Each hammer blow was strong enough to injure a Sixth Rank Martial Body practitioner!

"In normal times, I can just merge my mental and spirit forces, which is enough to control a light and agile short sword for powerful attacks."

Qin Yun put away the Essence Spirit Jade, knowing that as long as he had the jade, his spirit could leave his body and easily merge with his inner strength and mental power.

After resting for a bit, he started forging spirit weapons in the room.

"Xiao Yanglong, you damn scoundrel, how dare you steal the storage bracelet I gave to Yue Mei and even damage it!"

He cursed under his breath while repairing the damaged storage bracelet.

Before long, he would enter the Bone Refinement Array with Xiao Yuemei. Now that it was repaired, he could return it to her.

Two days passed, and Du Gui had yet to return. Qin Yun had already refined two storage bracelets.

"Xiao Yanglong, you destroyed the storage spirit artifact I gave away. I will make you pay for it, just wait."

Qin Yun now desperately wished to reach the Martial Dao Realm as soon as possible; only then could he confront Xiao Yanglong.

"Brother Yun… Brother Yun…"

Qin Yun had just finished bathing and dressed when he suddenly heard a faint, soft voice calling from outside. He hurriedly ran to the tree hole and looked down, discovering someone below.

Although he was several hundred meters high, his current eyesight allowed him to clearly see that the person below was a young girl.

"It's Little Meilian!" Qin Yun felt a surge of joy and quickly jumped down.

Landing on the ground, he smiled warmly at the pretty yellow-robed girl.

Qi Meilian had two long ponytails hanging behind her waist, her face full of sweet and adorable smiles, and her large, bright eyes gazed intently at Qin Yun's handsome face.

When she noticed Qin Yun looking at her, a faint blush appeared on her cute face.

"Little Meilian, how long have you been here?" Qin Yun asked with a smile.

"Not long, I just got back from training with my teacher. As soon as I heard Brother Yun was here, I rushed over!"

Qi Meilian was originally very happy, but suddenly became sad, lightly biting her lower lip and softly saying, "Brother Yun, I heard your Inner Yuan and martial soul are gone…"

Seeing Qi Meilian on the verge of tears, Qin Yun felt a warm feeling in his heart.

He laughed and said, "Little Meilian, when I lost four of my spirit meridians back then, didn't many people think I was done for? But I still managed to cultivate to the Sixth Level of the Martial Body and enter the Star Profound Martial Academy. Don't worry, your Brother Yun is fine."

"Really?" Qi Meilian's sad face instantly lit up with joy, and she said in a sweet voice, "That's great! I was worried about you being bullied, so I persuaded my teacher to let me come here to be with you. Although I'm not very strong, I'll protect you."

"Foolish girl!" Qin Yun chuckled, wiping away her tears. "Little Meilian, you must focus on your cultivation at the Star Profound Martial Academy, understand? Your teacher should be good to you, right?"

Qi Meilian nodded and smiled playfully, "My teacher is very kind to me, even though she has a sharp tongue. She's strict with others but gentle with me."

Qin Yun felt much more relieved and smiled, "What about the other students? Have they bullied you? If they have, I'll deal with them!"

"Who dares to bully her? I'll beat them senseless before you even get a chance," came a seductive, light laugh, followed by a gentle breeze carrying an intoxicating fragrance.

It was Meng Feiling, wearing a purple dress, descending gracefully from the air like a charming purple butterfly, slowly landing on the ground.

"Junior Brother, we meet again, call me Senior Sister!" Meng Feiling's alluring eyes narrowed as she giggled.

Her fragrant, soft hand reached out, playfully rubbing Qin Yun's handsome face.

"Damn vixen!" Qin Yun cursed inwardly.

Qi Meilian giggled beside him.

After Qin Yun's face was tormented by Meng Feiling for a while, he finally found relief. He truly feared that one day, this vixen might devour him alive.

"Senior Sister, thank you for taking care of Little Meilian!" he said gratefully.

"How big of a deal is it… After all, she entered the Star Profound Martial Academy with me, and she's also your little sister. Naturally, I have to take care of her, especially since she's so cute." Meng Feiling grinned, then gently stroked Qi Meilian's beautiful, adorable face.

Qin Yun took out two storage bracelets and handed them over, smiling, "These are storage bracelets for you both, take them!"

Meng Feiling had known that Qin Yun had given a storage bracelet to Xiao Yuemei and had secretly been jealous for several days.

She smiled seductively and accepted the storage bracelet, "These are quite valuable… Thank you, Master Qin. It seems this little woman can only repay you with herself…"

Qi Meilian didn't dare accept it and hesitantly refused.

Qin Yun grabbed her delicate hand and helped her put it on, smiling, "This isn't much to me. Keep it well and use it wisely!"

"Thank you, Brother Yun!" Qi Meilian dripped blood onto the bracelet, infused her mental energy into it, and upon seeing the storage space inside, her face lit up with excitement, and she smiled happily.