A few days passed,
Somewhere in the central plains,
The void gap appeared, and Shen Yi and Zi Yan's figures emerged outside from the other side.
"Why are we in the desert? Are you sure the map is correct?"
Zi Yan's brow furrowed, and she asked, looking at the endless stretching desert in all directions, as if they were standing in the middle of a never-ending desert region.
"I purposefully chose this place; it's in the middle of a desert region… this place will mask the special aura of treasure I am going to exchange next."
Shen Yi replied calmly, looking at her. He landed on a sand dune and added,
"We will stay here for a while; I have to break through the Semi Saint realm and complete my nine transformations before visiting your Ancient Void Dragon Clan."
Zi Yan was startled and then nodded. After that, she glanced around, feeling the hot temperature of the desert; the high temperature even affected her dragon physique, and she asked hesitatingly,
"This place is extremely hot… Are you sure we won't be fried here?"
Shen Yi shook his head and replied, "I know how to deal with it."
After speaking, he threw a small capsule; immediately it enlarged, and a capsule-shaped white dome appeared in front of them. It started reflecting the sunlight away toward the surroundings.
"Amazing, how did you do that?" Zi Yan's pupils widened in shock, and then she hurriedly walked toward the wall and passed through it using her space abilities.
Shen Yi also followed her inside; instantly he felt a huge temperature difference from outside. The inside was extremely cool and humid.
"This is the special house I got; in practicality, it's extremely precious compared to earth or even heaven-rank treasures."
He explained, and then he appeared beside the bed and sat down cross-legged, while Zi Yan jumped and lay down on it, waving her limbs with a happy expression on her face.
Shen Yi glanced at her with a smile and then shook his head and activated his unlimited exchange talent.
'List the three suitable ninth treasures that I need at this stage.'
After giving the final streamlined command, three treasures appeared in front of him.
…
[Temporal Thunder Hourglass]
(An ancient hourglass filled with glowing lightning sand.
Each grain is a spark of lightning condensed from a moment of time itself.
Grants the Temporal Lightning Attribute: lightning strikes can accelerate or slow down the victim's time flow, making enemies decay faster or move like they're in slow motion.)
[Origin: Swallowed Star]
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[Nine-Thunder Fruits]
(Grows once every nine thousand years on trees struck by nine heavenly tribulation bolts.
Nature: Each fruit contains the power and energy of nine lightning tribulations.
[Origin: Dragon Marked War God]
…
[Mysterious Lightning Marrow]
(Marrow produced from the low-level thunder dragon spine contains the power of a young dragon. It can help reshape bloodline and physique.)
[Origin: Honghuang]
…
"Perfect, with these three treasures not only can I complete all the nine transformations… I can even condense my saint physique before reaching the saint realm."
Shen Yi muttered with a smile on his face and then his chose to exchange, immediately the three drops of blood essence belong to Zhu Kun disappeared from his world ring,
"First I will use the Nine Thunder Fruits, then the mysterious lightning marrow and finally the temporal Thunder as it is the most dangerous one among them a lightning based on time, I wonder if my primordial art will be able to devour this time based lightning treasure."
His expression became solemn looking at the box, an hourglass with bursting golden white sand, and a vial with flickering silver-blue marrow liquid inside.
As he observed the hourglass, he saw sand particles bursting and displacing as if they were alive, and he couldn't track their movements. Also, with each burst, the surrounding sand particles were freezing, and more tiny sand particles were growing back from that energy.
"This really looks very dangerous; it looks like pure time and lightning energy are trapped in the shape of sand particles."
Shen Yi muttered thoughtfully; at the same time, Zi Yan sat up beside him and glared at the direction of the box greedily.
"It's not for you,"
He reminded himself and then put away the three items in his storage ring, then he stood up and walked outside the capsule house, leaving behind disappointed Zi Yan.
Outside he appeared in an open area above another dune and sat down cross-legged in the void calmly.
After that he released the box containing nine Thunder Fruits.
Just as he opened it, nine small fist-sized peach-shaped fruits were lying inside; there were tiny spores on their whole surface zipping with dense lightning.
Shen Yi noticed the dou qi gathering toward it from the surroundings and absorbed by the fruit through the pores.
"The nine transformations are the stage after the top nine star dou venerate the realm; the dou qi must be compressed at each turn to the limit in order to make space for more dou qi in the dantian and meridians. Such a process of compression and absorption must be done nine times. During these nine transformations, one is known as the semi-saint, and the final tenth transformation is the transition from semi-saint to saint realm."
He muttered thoughtfully, recalling the Xiao Yan in the story; he used the nine-turn golden bodhi pill in order to pass these nine transformations.
'This fruit isn't edible.' Shen Yi thought to himself as he grabbed the fruit and put it in between both of his palms, then he started running the primordial art.
As his low heaven rank primordial art started absorbing the dense lightning tribulation energy from the fruit, its route slowly changed and optimized. At the same time, a strange force was produced in his dantian and all meridians, which affected and compressed the dou qi as if it were in pressurized confinement.
The first fruit melted into pure essence and flooded his meridians as his Dou Qi compressed rapidly, thunderous waves pounding every channel.
The whole bone structure in his body groaned and trembled, but he remained stable in the void. Then he took out the second fruit and the third fruit without wasting time.
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