Chapter 149: Soul Transformation!

"What do you think? Stunned, aren't you?"

Nanfeng Zhirou glanced at the dumbfounded Su Yishan, looking very pleased, as if it were she herself who had broken through.

Su Yishan was indeed stunned.

The primal force Ye Yuan absorbed was several times that of others!

Shouldn't such a massive amount of primal force have burst his dantian?

Was Ye Yuan a freak, with a dantian several times larger than others?

What a joke!

That wasn't a genius; that was a freak! Judging by Ye Yuan's appearance, he didn't seem to have a dantian several times larger than others!

But how on earth did he manage it?

"Hey, do you want to guess how many drops of liquid essence Ye Yuan condensed? I bet it's seven drops, or even eight!"

Upon hearing this, Su Yishan jumped like a cat with its tail stepped on: "Eight drops? How is that possible? Not to mention our Qin State, even in the entire Youyun Sect region, the highest record now is only six drops! No matter how monstrous Ye Yuan is, seven drops is the limit. How could it be eight?"

"Why can't it be? You said he couldn't directly break through to the Liquid Essence realm, but now he has. And you saw the primal force storm just now; it was several times larger than when we broke through! With such a terrifying primal force storm, condensing eight drops of liquid essence isn't strange, is it?"

"Maybe... maybe he wasted a lot of primal force? That must be it!"

"Idiot! You still refuse to accept reality!" Nanfeng Zhirou couldn't be bothered with him anymore.

The ultimate number is nine. A martial artist at the first level of the Liquid Essence realm can condense at most nine drops of liquid essence!

The process of a martial artist cultivating primal force is also a process of strengthening the entire body through primal force.

During cultivation, the meridians, physical body, dantian, and even the soul are strengthened.

However, the strengthening effect on the soul is too weak to be easily noticed.

But with each breakthrough to a major realm, the body's strengthening undergoes a qualitative leap, and the soul also transitions from quantitative to qualitative change, undergoing a transformation!

Nevertheless, even after a martial artist breaks through to the Liquid Essence realm, the dantian is greatly strengthened, but it can only withstand at most nine drops of liquid essence.

Any more, and the dantian would only burst.

Each of these nine drops of liquid essence contains extremely vast primal force, each drop almost equal to the total primal force reserve of the Primal Force realm. One can imagine how powerful nine drops of liquid essence are.

However, achieving nine drops of liquid essence when breaking through to the Liquid Essence realm can only be described in four words—harder than reaching the heavens!

The vast majority of Liquid Essence realm martial artists condense between one and three drops; some genius martial artists can condense four drops or more.

Both Nanfeng Zhirou and Su Yishan condensed four drops of liquid essence!

But beyond four drops, the difficulty skyrockets!

Because the more liquid essence condensed, the more primal force is needed, and the martial artist's dantian simply cannot withstand such terrifying primal force.

The reason Long Tang could dominate the crowd at the third level of Liquid Essence was that he had condensed five drops of liquid essence!

With each breakthrough in the Liquid Essence realm, due to the dantian's limitation, one can only condense the same number of drops as when first entering the Liquid Essence realm.

That is, Long Tang at the third level of Liquid Essence already had fifteen drops of liquid essence, while other students at the fourth level of Liquid Essence only had sixteen drops.

Such a slight gap was negligible for a genius like Long Tang, so he could firmly hold the first place on the martial arts rankings!

In other words, the number of liquid essence drops condensed when breaking through to the Liquid Essence realm determines the height a martial artist can reach in the future!

Imagine, a martial artist with nine drops of liquid essence at the ninth level of Liquid Essence would have eighty-one drops, while a martial artist with one drop would only have nine drops.

Such a gap simply cannot be compensated by other aspects!

Of course, the vast majority of martial artists have fewer than three drops, so the gap among them is not too pronounced.

But martial artists with fewer than three drops, unless they encounter some heaven-defying fortune, will likely stop at the Liquid Essence realm for life. Breaking through to the Crystal Condensation realm is extremely difficult.

To break through to the Crystal Condensation realm, one must have at least four drops of liquid essence. But even so, not everyone can break through to the Crystal Condensation realm.

The more liquid essence, the greater the chance of condensing crystals.

Martial artists with seven drops or more are almost guaranteed to advance to the Crystal Condensation realm.

However, in the entire Youyun Sect region, there are only two martial artists who condensed six drops of liquid essence at the first level of Liquid Essence!

One of them is the current sect leader of Youyun Sect, Yan Wuzong!

From this, one can see the difficulty of condensing six drops of liquid essence.

As for seven drops or more, those are legends...

At least in the Youyun Sect region, no one has ever heard of anyone condensing seven drops of liquid essence!

That is why Su Yishan was so astonished.

Even if he didn't believe Ye Yuan could condense eight drops of liquid essence, he couldn't refute the fact that Ye Yuan had condensed seven drops! Because the primal force Ye Yuan absorbed just now was far more than what he had absorbed back then!

It far exceeded the amount of primal force needed for six drops of liquid essence.

In other words, Ye Yuan had already surpassed everyone in the Youyun Sect region!

This fact left Su Yishan dejected, jealous, and also terrified.

Indeed, Ye Yuan's monstrousness had completely exceeded his understanding.

Seven drops of liquid essence! That meant Ye Yuan could easily cultivate to the Crystal Condensation realm no matter how he trained!

Moreover, Ye Yuan was already so terrifying at the ninth level of Primal Force, and now he had condensed seven drops of liquid essence at once. How much would his strength skyrocket?

If he knew that Ye Yuan had condensed not seven drops of liquid essence, but nine drops—something he dared not even imagine—what would he think?

In fact, not only Su Yishan dared not think about it, but Nanfeng Zhirou also dared not.

She mentioned eight drops of liquid essence just to tease Su Yishan. Actually, she herself didn't really believe Ye Yuan could condense eight drops.

Because... that would be too inhuman!

"Nine drops of liquid essence? I didn't expect this breakthrough to be so perfect, far better than my previous life!" Ye Yuan himself was quite emotional.

In his previous life, Ye Yuan had only condensed seven drops of liquid essence. Among the top forces in the Divine Realm, seven drops were not particularly impressive.

True geniuses all condensed nine drops of liquid essence!

Nine drops of liquid essence were legendary in the lower realm, but in the Divine Realm, there were some who could achieve it.

Of course, that was also because Ye Yuan was not interested in martial arts; otherwise, with his monstrous talent, nine drops of liquid essence would not have been so remarkable.

And this time, under the dual effects of the Chongling Pill and the Lingzhe Jiuyang Divine Art, he finally achieved the perfect nine drops of liquid essence.

Just then, Ye Yuan suddenly felt his soul tremble, and a splitting headache struck him.

"Hiss... it hurts so much! Is it starting?"

Condensing liquid essence and breaking through to the Liquid Essence realm was only half done; the other half was the baptism of the soul!

This was the first true transformation of a martial artist's soul, and it was of utmost importance!