Published: March 3, 2025
Chapter 267: Poison-Expelling Spiritual Item (Two-in-One Chapter)
The range of Liu Yu's spiritual consciousness had increased from seven and a half miles to nine miles, a significant rise of a mile and a half. This growth was quite considerable.
Ordinary cultivators who reached the peak of the late stage of foundation establishment usually had a range of ten miles. Without any special opportunities, it would be difficult to continue breaking through.
Yet Liu Yu, having just advanced to the mid foundation establishment stage, already possessed a range of nine miles—close to the limit of an ordinary cultivator's foundation establishment realm.
“If I had this level of spiritual consciousness when I was in Moonlit City, my consciousness mark wouldn’t have been discovered by the cultivator of the Zhou Clan, and I wouldn’t have missed the Purple Heart Barrier Breaking Elixir,” Liu Yu thought with some regret as he felt the explosive growth of his spiritual consciousness after the breakthrough.
At that time, the spiritual consciousness mark left behind using the art of spirit preservation would be detected mainly because his own spiritual consciousness wasn’t strong enough. With his current level of consciousness, even an ordinary peak foundation establishment cultivator would find it hard to discover such a mark.
His spiritual consciousness had limited the effectiveness of the art of spirit preservation; now that it had greatly strengthened, he could better exploit its profound aspects.
The accompanying spiritual consciousness attack spell, Shock Spirit Stab, would also see substantial improvement in power.
Before the enhancement, the Shock Spirit Stab had very limited effects on late stage foundation establishment cultivators. Now, however, a single Shock Spirit Stab could leave them dazed for a moment or even longer.
In a duel of magic at the foundation establishment level, a moment of time could allow for many actions.
Against cultivators whose spiritual consciousness was clearly inferior to his own, the effects of the Shock Spirit Stab would be even more significant. With this technique, he could maintain an overwhelming advantage, potentially even harming the opponent's spiritual consciousness with a single strike.
The Shock Spirit Stab had become an important trump card for Liu Yu when facing other cultivators.
However, he needed to be cautious. As the realm of his opponents improved, the chances of them possessing magical artifacts that could defend against spiritual consciousness attacks also increased. It was possible he could encounter that at any time.
Additionally, the total amount of magical power he possessed had increased by nearly half compared to before the breakthrough, and the restrictions on his cultivation had been lifted, allowing for further growth.
As a result, Liu Yu could use magical and spiritual artifacts for a longer time, giving him more operational space.
With his powerful spiritual consciousness, along with magical power deeper and purer than that of typical mid foundation establishment cultivators, and several superior spiritual artifacts, Liu Yu felt no fear even if he faced late stage foundation establishment cultivators without employing talisman treasures.
The rise in his realm brought comprehensive growth.
However, due to the cultivation techniques he employed, he had already surpassed other cultivators of the same rank in terms of magical power and spiritual consciousness. He had spent significantly more elixirs and spiritual stones than other cultivators, but it was worth it in the end.
After feeling the changes from reaching the mid foundation establishment stage for a while, Liu Yu sat cross-legged again to consolidate his cultivation.
This time, he didn’t take any elixirs; instead, he absorbed spiritual stones and the spiritual energy from the heavens and earth to solidify his newly achieved realm.
Taking one elixir a day was the most reasonable approach. Exceeding this limit would cause the accumulation of Dan Poison to speed up significantly, which would not be worth the cost.