Chapter 51

Chapter 51 Tenth Level of Qi Condensation

Ever since the Phoenix Cry Lantern Festival, the knowledge of Long Chen and Huang Chang’s peak battle had spread in every direction . Long Chen’s fame had spread not only spread throughout the capital, but even throughout the entire empire . There was practically not a single person that didn’t know his name .

This was especially true of the younger generation . They viewed Long Chen as an idol . Whenever his name was brought up they would be worshipful and envious .

Of course, in any world there did not lack geniuses . And of course, geniuses didn’t all have to be on the martial path .

You could also gain fame in other specialties . Now just over ten days had passed since Long Chen’s battle . However in just these few short days there had been a genius who had used Long Chen to make a wild profit of millions of gold coins .

That person was originally just a master painter . Although such a person wouldn’t be in a state of poverty, such a profession could not be considered high level . The income was rather meager .

But after that person had seen Long Chen’s battle, he had immediately returned home and spent three days and three nights without pausing to draw over ten refined drawing .

The person in those drawings was precisely Long Chen . Originally Long Chen was handsome enough and had an easy-going confidence . Following that master painter’s backgrounds and lighting exaggerations, he had been transformed to practically look like a divinity .

The scenes of his pill battle and subsequent fight had been especially exaggerated by him to appear extremely vivid and exciting .

After he drew those he went directly to the largest printing workshop . After that, an extremely impressive drawing of Long Chen became available in the capital, and those young men and women went crazy for them .

Thousands of drawings were immediately sold out . Some who hadn’t managed to snatch one had already begun to stalk the printing workshop . The entire staff of hundreds of people worked incessantly, but that crowd of people waiting only grew larger .

The printer workshop actually had to hire more people as time went on, and only after a full seven days passed did they just manage to satisfy most of the demand .

But if that had been all then that master painter would have only counted as an average businessman . He had a brilliant plan, and after that first painting had been sold off he added another .

This one was even more refined than the first . What it pictured was even more impressive, and it was printed on an extremely expensive animal hide paper . That meant it could survive for hundreds of years without fading . It had been advertised popularly as being a limited edition collector’s item .

Of course this limited edition collector’s drawing was at a considerable price . But countless youngsters came to buy them, and the sales were positively shocking .

But what no one expected was that after this limited collector’s painting had sold enough, a graphic novel called the Phoenix Cry Divine Battle silently appeared on the marketplace .

That novel was a record of that day’s scenes which contained the third princess’s confession, Bai Xiachi’s pill battle, Huang Chang infuriating Long Chen, and Long Chen’s bloody battle with Huang Chang . That entire story had been expressed through pictures perfectly .

From the pictures to the graphic novel, that painter and the workshop basically emptied the pockets of all those originally not-so-rich youngsters .

Over just a short ten-plus days they had profited at least millions of gold coins . That originally poor painter immediately became a celebrity within the capital . Other than Long Chen, he was probably the most famous person in the capital .

Long Chen was not aware of this matter along with countless other things that had occurred in the capital . The current Long Chen had already broken through to the ninth Heavenstage of Qi Condensation a couple days ago .

It went without saying that his great speed at breaking through was absolutely related to that life and death battle he had had with Huang Chang .

Only by experiencing life and death trials and facing that pressure could you make your Dao-heart more steady and firm . Only then would your cultivation speed increase without causing your cultivation base to become unsteady .

Currently Yao Chen was pushing his nine cyclones to the max in order to absorb heaven and earth’s spiritual qi into his FengFu Star . As long as his FengFu Star became maxed out on energy, he would be able to draw out Blood Qi and enter the Blood Condensation realm .

The so-called Blood Condensation realm was so named due to the intention of condensing the Blood Qi . Blood was one of the important parts of the body . Only by reaching the Blood Condensation realm could you count as a true martial artist .

You condensed blood by circulating real Qi to purify your blood . All the various foods that people often ate caused impurities to form within the body . Therefore the blood needed to be refined and condensed in order to expel those impurities, letting your strength become greater .

But before entering the Blood Condensation realm you had to reach the peak of the ninth Heavenstage of Qi Condensation . Only by compressing the spiritual qi in your body to a certain level could your qi transform the blood, giving birth to something commonly known as Blood Qi .

Once Qi and blood combined, the energy that was released was inconceivable . At the same time, it was the most important foundational level for cultivators .

BOOM!

Currently Long Chen’s FengFu Star was starting to surge, a sign that he was about to enter the Blood Condensation realm . Long Chen couldn’t help rejoicing, but he hastily stabilized his emotions and slowly circulated his cyclones, steadily absorbing energy .

This was an extremely critical moment . There could be no mistakes . The slightest error would cause a backlash that would injure him, and it was very likely that some of those nine cyclones he had managed to form would break apart, causing his realm to fall .

BOOM BOOM BOOM!

His FengFu Star repeatedly boomed . His spiritual qi was continuously compressed . Having reached this critical moment, Long Chen didn’t dare be the slightest bit careless . All his attention was completely focused .

But what Long Chen had not imagined was that these explosive sounds continued for six whole hours, yet nothing changed within his body .

“What’s going on?”

He was completely astonished by this . This situation was completely different from what was recorded in the literature .

It was definitely not supposed to be this difficult . Within the Battle Skill Pavilion he had paged through several records regarding cultivation . When most people tried attacking the Blood Condensation realm there was usually a single p