A day had passed since Feng Li was determined to have broken meridians and hence was unable to cultivate. This information had spread across the city at this time. It was like someone was deliberately spreading this news so as to create turmoil in the city and tarnish the Feng family reputation.
"The heavens have not left us the Li family, to think that he was termed as a genius that appears only once in a million years, huh, just a trash genius at that. I was so scared when I saw that he had a god level talent, but who could have known that he could not cultivate despite his level of talent." The Li family patriarch said slowly with a smile on his face.
"The inter-clan gathering is due a month from now, and the Feng family genius is now a trash, we will sweep their genius and show them that very soon the Li family is going to overthrow the Feng family and become the hegemon of Emerald city." One of the Li family elders said with a cold smile on his face.
"That Feng Li was definitely the hope of the Feng family, I can't wait to see the expression of those old bones of the Feng family during the inter-clan gathering." The Li family patriarch said this and all the elder joined to laugh at this.
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At this time inside the Feng family, in a beautiful courtyard a youth clad in a red-robe was sitting cross-legged while his eyes closed. At this time, purple lights were being emitted from his body as his aura kept on rising steadily.
BOOM!
A large booming sound was heard from his body as the purple light started coagulating together and formed a large spear above his head. The sword formed from the purple light was radiating a cold aura embedded with a piercing sharpness.
"Mid fourth level soul transformation realm finally." The boy finally opened his eyes as a purple light flashed past his eyes.
"With my current level of strength, I should be able to snatch the first spot in the inter-clan gathering a month from now. Feng Li, oh Feng Li, who could have thought that you would eventually be a trash who could not cultivate?" The boy was smiling with a sneer on his face.
The youth was the same youth who was sitting next to the Feng family's grand elder. He is the son of the current grand elder. His name was Feng Bu.
"Since Feng Li cannot cultivate, the position of patriarch will only belong to me soon." After saying this, the youth turned around and left at a very high speed.
...….
Inside Feng Li's courtyard
At this time, Feng Li was still lying on the floor as he was shrouded by dense milky fog that obscured one from seeing what was happening to Feng Li. This scene continued for another two hours before all the dense fog disappeared, and a silhouette of a boy lying on the floor slowly became visible again.
A few minutes later, Feng Li slowly opened his eyes. He looked so tired and worked out. He sat down on his bed and closed his eyes with nervousness vivid on his face. He quickly moved his consciousness directly to examine his meridians. At this time Feng Li was shocked beyond imagination.
His previous dark green meridians were now sparkling and golden in colour, releasing an ancient aura, while golden veins connected his dantian to his meridians, which were three times thicker than normal. Feng Li was dazed as he was speechless. A phrase came into his mouth as he slow said, "Immortal meridians!"
In the records that Feng Li saw when he was in the family library was noted that during the legendary era, there existed immortals whose meridians were golden sparkling in colour, and so was their bloodline. Feng Li gave no importance to those records as he thought that they were only legends, but now everything was making sense.
His previously damaged meridians were now connected and not just any other connection, but all his meridians were now the immortal meridians. Feng Li was really happy at this moment as he could now cultivate.
"Doesn't this mean that I can cultivate both body and Qi simultaneously, how strong will I be when I start cultivating Qi and considering the fact that I now cultivate the strongest physique under heaven?" Feng spoke as anticipation was written all over his face.
Feng Li still kept on checking his body to see if there was any effect brought by the blood. Soon he came to a stop as at this time he could see a golden ball next to his dantian, which was connected with a thick vein to his dantian. The golden ball was emitting a strong and holy aura that could make anyone weak enough to kneel and worship it. This was precisely immortal Shen Xi's blood.
He could feel a direct connection between him and the blood. It was as though the blood belonged to him and only him at this time; with a thought, the blood was activated. Golden scales started to cover all over his body as a strong holy aura was being released from him, his hair turned golden, and his eyes were emitting a golden radiance. Looking at his body, Feng Li was so surprised because he could feel that he was like a war god overlooking the world. Soon, Feng Li's mind went blank as everything in his surroundings changed. The only thing he could see was darkness.
Feng Li was standing on a large platform he could feel a very strong pressure locked onto his body. In front of this mighty, Feng Li could not breathe or move his body even the slightest. The most surprising thing was that he couldn't see anyone, but the pressure was still wreaking havoc on his body.
Feng Li stood at this place as he closed his eyes and activated his divine physique, which came into being as a strong ancient aura flowed out of his body. The Pressure eased a little, but soon it was like it felt challenged, and it grew stronger. Feng Li smiled a little and activated the immortal blood, and all his body was covered by golden scales, and his hair turned golden as it danced on the air despite there being no wind at all. At this time, a loud chuckle was hard, and all the pressure disappeared like it was never there at all.
"Worth is Shen Xi's successor, my choice was always correct." The voice slowly said.
"Senior, what do you mean by your choice was never wrong." Feng Li carefully asked the voice.
"Do you think that anyone could have this gift given to you?" the voice asked again as if agitated.
"Forgive this junior's impoliteness." Feng Li honestly spoke.
"I know you are curious as to what my identity is, I am not immortal Shen Xi. I'm just a spirit of an artifact. You are too weak to know many things. In the past, I belonged to that brat Shen Xi, but since he selected you as his successor then I now belong to you. I am the spirit of the nine-floor heavenly pagoda. This is a treasure belonging to the seven supreme treasures, and it is ranked fifth. With this artifact, you can achieve greatness. Although it is ranked fifth, many of the immortals could give up the other ranked above it to get their hands on it."
"Senior, I don't understand that." Feng Li asked in confusion.
"The nine floor Heavenly pagoda is a treasure above treasures, right now you are standing in the first floor of this treasure. In here, the spiritual energy is comparable to that one of the ancient era and do you know what is great about this treasure?" asked the voice loudly with some hints of proudness.
"Enlighten me, senior." Feng Li responded curiously.
"Well, on the first level, three days in here is a day in the outside world." The voice proudly said.
"What!" Feng li was stupefied at this time… "Doesn't that mean that a month inside was the same as 90 days outside? How heaven-defying was that, and the fact was that this treasure was now his." Feng Li was trembling with excitement.
"You can enter and leave as you please. At least I found someone to talk to after a very long period. And also, this space can only be your secret to keep. Work hard and improve your cultivation to the mortal transcending realm to open the next floor. Hahahaha, the voice was laughing loudly.
"With a thought, Feng Li found himself sitting on his bed with a smile on his face. Feng Li suddenly vanished and appeared again, but this time he was still standing on the platform, and the surroundings were no longer dark. The space was endless as it was filled with mountains and rivers flowing. But what made him gasp was the strong Qi flowing in the space. It was so dense that Feng Li felt like in heaven itself.
"Don't just admire the Qi in here, this heaven now belongs to you. You can cultivate here as you please from now on." Feng Li heard the voice again but he did not respond as he sat down.
Sitting down, Feng Li released his soul power, which appeared above his head. A large and dense heaven appeared on his head as it started rotating while pulling in a large amount of Qi into Feng Li like madness.
"Heavenly soul power, this kid… even that brat Shen Xi did not possess the heavenly soul power." The voice slowly said, but Feng Li did not hear.
Apart from one becoming a divine spiritist, on can also resort to use the soul power to absorb Qi and even in battles it could provide one with a considerable amount of strength.
Feng stayed in the Nine-Floor heavenly pagoda for one day before coming out. When he came out is was already noon. He observed his dantian only to see that all the Qi he had absorbed was already devoured by the divine beasts lying around his dantian and nothing was left.
"If this continues I don't know how long it would take for me step into the first level of the soul transformation realm."