Urban Super Medical Saint

Chapter 213 213 [First update, asking for monthly votes]

The car carried Zhang Huowang to a coffee shop in the city center.

The two entered the coffee shop together, but they did not leave at the same time. Li Bisheng left first. Zhang Huowang was still sitting by the window, his pudgy face changing from sunny to cloudy intermittently, his eyes looking out the window, but without focus.

After a while, Zhang Huowang's chubby face gradually darkened, and his gaze towards the window became increasingly fierce.

His expression appeared sinister and frightening, startling the servers passing by him so much that they dared not give him another glance.

"Damn it, Liu Jiayao, you dismissed me from my position for that pretty boy; if you are unkind, you cannot blame me for being unrighteous!" After a while, Zhang Huowang's face twisted into a vicious smile, he muttered through clenched teeth, and then abruptly stood up and left the coffee shop.

Liu Jiayao was unaware of Zhang Huowang and Li Bisheng's meeting, and so was Ge Dongxu even more so.

Since returning from the weekend, aside from continuing with his studies and cultivation, in the last couple of days, he had started to be busy with crafting Jade Talismans again.

This time, the Spirit Gathering Formation he was engraving was called the Seven Stars Spirit Gathering Formation, which is a level higher than the Taiyin Spirit Gathering Formation.

Seven Stars refers to the Big Dipper that we are familiar with—Tian Shu, Tian Xuan, Tian Ji, Tian Quan, Yu Heng, Kai Yang, and Yao Guang.

Like the sun, the essence they radiate is extremely yang and forceful. However, due to the great distance from Earth, after traveling through vast space, by the time it reaches Earth, it becomes like the essence of the moon—gentle in force and balanced in Yin and Yang, suitable for Cultivators to directly absorb into their bodies. Explore more at My Virtual Library Empire

But because they are so distant, even though their essence becomes mild, it is also extremely sparse. Only by using a Spirit Gathering Formation to gather it can it truly be absorbed and refined by Cultivators in large amounts.

Holding the Ice Type Jadeite, Ge Dongxu closed his eyes to concentrate, his fingers lightly tracing on the jade, threads of True Qi entering from his fingertips into the jade, outlining ancient and mysterious lines imbued with the Laws of Heaven and Earth within it.

Soon, Ge Dongxu's forehead was covered with sweat, and before long, the Ice Type Jadeite began to crack, and in a blink of an eye turned into fragments smaller than rice grains.

"Phew!" Ge Dongxu exhaled deeply, his face showing a frustrated and wry smile.

He had thought that now, being at the Sixth Layer of Qi Cultivation, whether in terms of his control over True Qi or the thickness of his True Qi, he was much stronger than before and should be able to successfully engrave the Seven Stars Spirit Gathering Formation. Ge Dongxu had not expected the Seven Stars Spirit Gathering Formation to be so difficult to engrave, that it would start to collapse halfway through.

"It seems with my current Realm, it is absolutely impossible to successfully craft the Seven Stars Spirit Gathering Formation!" Ge Dongxu was sitting cross-legged in the cultivation room, at a complete loss.

Although the success rate of crafting the Taiyin Spirit Gathering Formation Talisman was very low in the past, it would only fail at the final juncture. But now, starting to collapse halfway indicates that with his current realm, it is impossible to craft the Seven Stars Spirit Gathering Formation.

Normally this would not be an issue, but the problem is that the Taiyin Spirit Gathering Formation was already operating at full capacity in absorbing Spirit Energy, which was no longer enough to satisfy his current realm.

"Should I start concocting and refining pills prematurely to enhance my cultivation power through medicinal means?" Ge Dongxu pinched the bridge of his nose as he pondered with difficulty.

Ge Hong is a legendary figure in Alchemy, and the legacy he passed down naturally includes the miraculous path of Alchemy.

However, Elixirs are external forces. Currently, Ge Dongxu is still in the Qi Refinement, also known as the Foundation Establishment stage, which is about laying a solid foundation. The more solid the foundation, the higher the accomplishments in the future. If he relies on Elixirs too early, while they can rapidly enhance his Cultivation Power, it would be akin to forcing the shoots to grow faster; in the later stages, he would encounter obstacles due to an unstable foundation.

If Ge Dongxu did not know about the Spirit Gathering Array, or if he were not some cultivation prodigy, then let it be. After all, with limited future cultivation, it would naturally be a good thing to quickly improve one's cultivation. But now, having nearly advanced one realm in less than a year, and even having hopes of reaching the legendary Dragon Tiger Realm, Ge Dongxu naturally set higher standards for himself and was unwilling to use elixirs prematurely. He had decided that if he were to take them, it would only be after reaching the Eighth Layer Realm.

The kidneys store the Innate Essence and are the foundation of the Innate. Upon cultivating to the Eighth Layer, True Qi enters the kidneys, forming an endless and nourishing air cyclone, gradually transitioning from Acquired to Innate, transcending the ordinary and achieving the foundation of cultivation.

At this point, the cultivator is like a child that has grown up and is now capable of consuming nourishing substances.

"The path of cultivation is inherently difficult. How can I allow myself to waver and seek shortcuts at the first sign of difficulty!" Soon, the hesitation in Ge Dongxu's eyes gave way to determination, and he began to focus on solving the Spirit Gathering Array issue with all his mind and heart.

But even after thinking for a long time, he still had no clue. After all, the gap between his current realm and the Seven Stars Spirit Gathering Formation was vast, and he couldn't simply overcome it through effort alone.

Finally, with his head aching from all the thinking and still no solution in sight, Ge Dongxu left the training room and entered the study, aiming to switch his thoughts and give his mind a rest.

Back in the study, Ge Dongxu picked up a chemistry textbook and began to read.

By senior year, nearly all students bury themselves in piles of practice papers, waging a war against a sea of questions. But Ge Dongxu always opposed that approach.

Aside from completing the papers given by his teachers, he never wasted a minute on other practice papers. Whenever he had time, he would choose to read textbooks and understand the fundamental principles; he even picked up college chemistry textbooks to read. He believed that as long as one thoroughly understood the content of the books and grasped the essentials of chemical changes, no matter how the exam questions varied, they would always remain derivative of the same core concepts.

As he casually flipped through the table of contents, looking for anything that might still require his contemplation, Ge Dongxu's gaze suddenly got caught on the section about solubility.

Then he slapped his forehead hard, muttering to himself, "I'm really dumb. Since I thought of the spiritual energy gathered by the seven Taiyin Spirit Gathering Formation Talismans reaching saturation like a solution's concentration, why did I only think about buying better jade to carve higher-level Spirit Gathering Formations, rather than continuing to carve the Taiyin Spirit Gathering Formation on better jade? Factors affecting solubility include temperature, solute, solvent and so on. By switching to better jade, I naturally changed one of the conditions; therefore, surely the saturation level of the spiritual energy gathered by the Taiyin Spirit Gathering Formation would change too."

After smacking his forehead, Ge Dongxu hurriedly took out a piece of Ice Type Jadeite to carve the Taiyin Spirit Gathering Formation.

To his surprise, he managed to successfully carve the Taiyin Spirit Gathering Formation in one go.

Looking at the Taiyin Spirit Gathering Formation Talisman Jade in his hand, Ge Dongxu was momentarily stunned.

In the past, he would have had to waste many pieces of jade before he could successfully carve a Taiyin Spirit Gathering Formation. He had not expected to succeed in one attempt today.

However, Ge Dongxu soon came to terms with it—he was now at the Sixth Layer of Qi Cultivation. Each layer's breakthrough brought a surge in cultivation power, and the Ice Type Jadeite he was using now was a grade higher than ice glutinous jade, offering less interference as True Qi flowed through it. Moreover, over the years, he had persistently practiced carving the Taiyin Spirit Gathering Formation. With all these factors converging, it seemed not so strange that he succeeded in one attempt.

After coming to terms with his success, Ge Dongxu immediately activated the formation and carefully felt the spiritual energy gathered by the Taiyin Spirit Gathering Formation, finding the effect indeed better than before.

"Ha ha, just as I thought!" Seeing the results matched his expectations, Ge Dongxu could not help but laugh proudly, his self-confidence soaring within him.

He believed that with Ge Hong's legacy and modern scientific knowledge, even if nature's spiritual energy was scarce, he could still reach the heights of his predecessors.

Because while his predecessors might have had richer nature's spiritual energy, they could not have possibly accessed modern scientific knowledge.

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