Chapter 164 – The next level of intoxicated hell


    Later that night.


    Long Yu was sitting in his bamboo hut, located inside the bamboo grove restricted area, and was ready to absorb the various immortality pills that the Elders had bestowed upon him.


    Presently, all the sects of the Tang kingdom, apart from Qiansi Sect, had their hopes rested on Zhentian Sect and the Zhentian sect Elders had invested all their resources in Long Yu!


    During the seven sectspetition, if he wouldn’t defeat Yu Qianning due to any reason, he would cause great disappointment to Zhentian sect as well as the other sects!


    “Old ck has bestowed upon me a top-grade spiritual level immortality pill, Elder Yu Shengshi has gifted me four spiritual level immortality pills, Elder Li Bufan has rewarded me with a top-grade spiritual level immortality pill…..”


    Long Yu was counting the immortality pills that he had received from the Elders and was quite content in his heart.


    Long Yu couldn’t afford to disappoint Zhentian sect during the uing seven sectspetition. After all, he had always considered them as his family!


    The immortality pills rewarded by the Elders, along with the neidans and immortality pills that he had brought from Hun Yin City and the Demon valley were more than sufficient for Long Yu to break through and enter the Zhenling thirdyer!


    “While stepping up from Zhenling secondyer into Zhenling thirdyer, one doesn’t have to go through a bottleneck. As long as one can meet the need of the xuan qi, he can promote himself to the nextyer. With this increased xuan qi level, one needs to quench his meridians as well as the Zhenling in his Dantian…..”


    Long Yu wondered at the presence of the second nine hidden dragon Zhenling in his Dantian.


    Long Yu refrained from using the powers imparted to him by the nine hidden dragon mark and limited himself to only two techniques of the nine hidden dragon mark – intoxicated hell and the awakening palm samsara. He didn’t dare to release the nine hidden dragon Zhenling as he was well aware of the tyrannical power that it contained.


    Since he could not release the Zhenling but had to quench it in order to get promoted to the nextyer, the process was going to be too painful for him.


    Needless to say, the xuan qi needed to step into Zhenling fourthyer would be far more than the xuan qi needed to step into the thirdyer of Zhenling realm.


    Quenching his Zhentian Sun wouldn’t be an issue for Long Yu.


    But quenching the nine hidden dragon Zhenling, without congealing it, would cause him a lot of trouble, more than he could ever imagine!


    “Fortunately, I do not have toprehend the Lunar domain and the Thunder charm to the spiritual level. Otherwise, promoting me to the nextyer would’ve been even more difficult.”


    Long Yu thought to himself as he began to absorb several immortality pills at once to quench his heavenly arteries as well as his Zhenlings.


    Soon afterward, his heartbeat resonated with his meridians as he started quenching his body as well as his heavenly arteries and was now about to enter the thirdyer of Zhenling realm.


    He could clearly feel that there was just one more hurdle to pass after which he would be able toprehend thews of heaven and earth which could boost his strength to a great extent!


    After clearing this hurdle, he would enter Zhenling 4thyer!


    However, he felt that he needed to focus on his present cultivation right now.


    “Zhentian Sun, condense!”


    Since Long Yu had consumed several immortality pills and neidans at once, this had increased his xuan qi level to a great extent. As he continued quenching his Zhentian Sun Zhenling with this rich xuan qi, he noticed that the Zhenling was now consolidating its form, gradually stepping towards bing an entity.


    As the Zhenling became more and more consolidated, not only its brightness increased but its ability to release Zhentian domain pressure also increased manifold.


    Finally, at the daybreak when Long Yu was done with quenching his Zhentian Sun to the level of Zhenling thirdyer, he prepared himself to start quenching his second Zhenling – the nine hidden dragon Zhenling.


    He had half of the immortality pills and neidans left in his hand; these were going to help him in quenching his second Zhenling.


    If he consumed the immortality pills under ordinary conditions, he would have been able to absorb only thirty percent of the xuan qi released by them. However, because of his nine hidden dragon mark, he could absorb these immortality pills and enhance his cultivation level at a faster rate than any ordinary martial expert.


    Just like the Zhentian Sun, the nine hidden dragon Zhenling would also step towards bing an entity by solidifying its figure. When Long Yu would be able to congeal Zhenling entities, his strength would grow by leaps and bounds!


    “The enhancement of cultivation level and quenching the zhenlings to convert them into Zhenling entities would consume a great amount of xuan qi. Moreover, there is a bottleneck, which I wouldn’t be able to break through with my current strength… I have to resort to other methods to enhance my battle efficiency.”


    As Long Yu recollected the lessons that had been imparted to him by the Eldersst night, his eyes shed fiercely.


    It was just a month’s time that he had for practice before the seven sectspetitionmenced. During this time, he had to grasp as many martial skills as he could andprehend them to perfection. He also had to enhance hisprehension of the Lunar mood and the Thunder charm.


    Meanwhile, various Zhentian elders would alsoe and fight with him in order to simte more practical knowledge of the seven sectspetition, training him in choosing the right attacking technique at the right time during abat.


    So within three days, Long Yu had upgraded his first skill of the nine hidden dragon mark – the intoxicated hell.


    The intoxicated hell technique had originally been at peak level. Using this technique, Long Yu could release a burst of nine hidden dragon qi and hence this technique was very powerful!


    After practicing incessantly for three days, Long Yu had finally managed to upgrade his skill, which meant that this technique was now even more formidable than ever!


    Although there was still a gap of two levels between Long Yu’s currentprehension level of this technique and the perfection level, but being a top grade martial skill, the skill imparted a terrific strength even if someone managed toprehend it at the most basic level.


    At this moment, Long Yuunched his fist and condensed nine hidden dragon qi, summoning the intoxicated hell!


    The intoxicated hell technique condensed the nine hidden dragon qi in such a way that no one could detect it. The nine hidden dragon qi would then seep into the enemy’s body, corroding all his meridians and incapacitating him.


    Long Yu had just enhanced hisprehension of intoxicated hell technique, so he decided to use this new found strength during hisbat with Elder Yu Shengshi. As soon as he released intoxicated hell, the nine hidden dragon qi seeped through Elder Yu Shengshi’s body and started corroding his meridians, making him unable tounch any counterattack.


    If Long Yu hadn’t withdrawn the attack willingly, this technique could have killed Elder Yu Shengshi there and then!


    He had just returned to the sect a few days ago, and within three to five days, his battle efficiency had increased by leaps and bounds and he was on his way to bing a formidable powerhouse of the Zhentian sect.


    It was evident that this wouldn’t have been possible without the special attention and care that he had been receiving from the Elders of the sect.


    After stepping into Zhenling thirdyer and enhancing hisprehension of the intoxicated hell skill, Long Yu’s strength had indeed gone through a drastic change.


    Defeating Long Yu was not an easy task for any of the Elders; even the strongest Elder of the Zhentian sect, Old ck, who had a cultivation level of Zhenling fifthyer, had a tough time fighting with Long Yu.


    Clearly, if Long Yu ever had to face a Zhenling fifthyer powerhouse in abat, it would not be an easy feat for the opponent.


    Long Yu didn’t regard a Zhenling fourthyer powerhouse to be his opponent now as there was no way a Zhenling 4thyer powerhouse could defeat him. Unless the person resorted to some evil techniques, Long Yu’s victory was assured. Moreover, such people were very less in the entire Tang Kingdom.


    “It’s been almost five days since I returned to the Sect, I haven’t visited the Feng n members yet…”


    With this thought, Long Yu immediately opened his eyes, stood up and rushed towards the disciple’s residence of the Zhentian sect.


    He had just made a breakthrough in hisprehension of intoxicated hell technique which had consumed a lot of his energy. Due to this reason, it would have been impossible for him to enhance hisprehension of some other technique for now. He decided to utilize this spare time to visit the Feng n members who had joined the Zhentian sect.


    Taking a break from the closed-door practice, Long Yu felt quite refreshed.


    He had already inquired – most of the members of the Feng n had returned back to Yu Guan city upon Feng Longsong’s return to the Feng n mansion. After all, Feng Longsong was the head of the new Feng n and could provide some security to its members.


    However, three members of the new Feng n had chosen to stay and were now disciples of the Zhentian sect.


    One of them, Feng Yuxin, was now a disciple of Old White and was learning the art of alchemy from him.


    Besides Feng Yuxin, two other members of the new Feng n, named Feng Hao and Feng Xiaofei had also joined the Zhentian sect.


    These two had joined the Zhentian sect to apany Feng Yuxin.


    Long Yu didn’t know much about Feng Yuxin and Feng Hao, but he remembered Feng Xiaofei and was greatly touched by hispassion and righteousness.


    Feng Hao had earlier been at Wudao eighthyer. However, Long Yu had no idea of his present cultivation level.


    As for Feng Xiaofei, Long Yu was certain that he would have be a core disciple by now.


    Long Yu thought to himself – it was not a difficult task for a Wudao eighthyer disciple to be a core disciple of Zhentian sect, and if the boys had really progressed inpliance with his expectations, then he could easily find them in the core disciples’ residential area.


    When Long Yu reached the core disciples’ residential area, he couldn’t find Feng Hao and Feng Xiaofei there!


    But then someone told Long Yu about him.


    “Brother Long Yu, not long ago, Feng Hao and Feng Xiaofei had nned to challenge a core disciple in order to defeat him and be core disciples themselves. But they ended up being provoked by a core disciple named Su Biaoxin.”


    The disciple was a little nervous while talking to Long Yu and continued talking in a low tone: “Although they had already reached Wudao ninthyer, but how could they possibly defeat Su Biaoxin who was a Zhenling realm expert?”


    “You mean to say that after getting provoked by Su Biaoxin, both of them chose to challenge him?”


    Long Yu wrinkled his brows.


    Feng Hao and Feng Xiaofei were quite intelligent boys; they could differentiate between what was right and what was wrong. But if they had really done anything like that, they had been too impulsive.


    “Yes, Brother Long Yu. Therefore, Feng Hao and Feng Xiaofei must be residing at the outer disciples’ residence. They do not reside here…”


    The disciple continued informing Long Yu: “Moreover, before losing to Su Biaoxin, they had made a bet with him and hence were forced to hand over their battle weapons as well as the rewards they had received from the sect during those three months to Su Biaoxin!”


    “This is absurd!”


    Long Yu said coldly.


    Although he had not known Feng Hao and Feng Xiaofei too well, but he was sure that these boys wouldn’t do anything that would stir up some unnecessary trouble.


    While provoking them, Su Biaoxin would definitely have used some evil technique which made them lose their minds!


    Long Yu immediately rushed inside the core disciples’ residence without any hesitation.


    He must clear the matter with Su Biaoxin.


    No matter what had happened earlier, he couldn’t let any of the disciples from the Feng n to suffer any injustice inside Zhentian sect!


    Although Su Biaoxin had been able to provoke Feng Hao and Feng Xiaofie, Long Yu couldn’t be provoked by anyone so easily!