Chapter 595: Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi!

Within the extremely blinding sphere of light was a fist-sized phantom of a mysterious gas.

The gas was of two colors: black and yellow.

Black, the color of the heavens, was a deep blue nearly approaching black.

Yellow, the color of the earth, was an earthy yellow like the ground.

The gases of the two colors intertwined, forming a gas cluster like the harmony of Yin and Yang, circulating endlessly. Even as a phantom, it emitted waves of a mysterious aura.

The gas cluster was the size of an adult's fist. When his Divine Sense permeated it, it felt like the primordial desolation at the dawn of heaven and earth, gradually evolving all things in the world.

"This is the power that only appears at the birth of a world—Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi!"

"I didn't expect such a treasure to be placed in the Merit Hall. Then again, while it's precious, the conditions for refining it are extremely harsh, so it's not surprising to see it here."

Information regarding this cluster of Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi appeared in Li Xuanfeng's Divine Sense.

Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi is a special power that only appears at the birth of a world, making it extremely rare and precious.

Once, this Universe had more than just the Canglan Realm; there were other supreme planes, and these planes would produce a large amount of Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi at their birth.

This precious energy is a non-renewable top-tier resource; once used, it's gone. After long ages, it has been almost entirely consumed.

Legend has it that most of it was used by Great Emperors to forge Imperial Weapons. This cluster in the Merit Hall is likely the last bit remaining in the entire Canglan Realm.

This substance has a powerful auxiliary effect on Body Refining, Artifact Refining, formation setting, and even cultivating top-tier Holy Medicines.

However, the level of Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi is very high. Saints, Saint Kings, Great Saints, and even Quasi-Emperors cannot refine it; they wouldn't be able to use it even if they had it.

Holy Medicines capable of absorbing Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi are also extremely few. At least in the current Canglan Realm, such Holy Medicines no longer exist.

Simply put, as precious as Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi is, almost no one can put it to practical use.

Even for Body Refining, it has extremely high requirements for one's Physique. Or rather, only those with specific Physiques can use Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi for Body Refining.

Li Xuanfeng knew of two.

The first is Ye Qingqing's Xuanhuang Indestructible Body.

The second is the Chaos Physique.

The Chaos Physique is the strongest primordial body, transcending and encompassing everything. Energy that only other specific Physiques can refine can also be refined by the Chaos Physique.

Thus, Li Xuanfeng could naturally use the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi to temper his Physical Body. Only energy of such a high level could allow his powerful Physical Body, already baptized by the Chaos Lightning Tribulation, to undergo another transformation.

"It's truly rare that this thing has sat in the Merit Hall for ten thousand years without being redeemed."

Li Xuanfeng muttered to himself.

This cluster of Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi was placed in the Merit Hall nearly ten thousand years ago by the previous Domain Lord of the Southern Underworld Region before he perished.

There were three main reasons why it hadn't been redeemed after so much time.

First, the required battle merit was too high; exchanging for this cluster of Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi required thirty billion battle merit!

Normally, one would get ten trillion battle merit for slaying a First-level Quasi-God King alone, showing how difficult it is to gather thirty billion. Even for Lian Yuezhou, gathering this much would be extremely difficult, let alone other Quasi-Emperors.

Below the level of Quasi-Emperor, there was no point even considering it.

Second, although Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi is extremely precious, there are very few people who can use it or are qualified to use it.

Third, the quantity of this cluster of Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi hadn't reached the point where it was a must-have.

Even for a Supreme Expert like Lian Yuezhou, spending thirty billion battle merit to exchange for this cluster of Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi wasn't worth it; she couldn't use it for Body Refining or for cultivating Holy Medicines.

Integrating it into one's quasi-emperor weapon would require Artifact Refining skills second only to a Great Emperor!

Furthermore, even if this cluster of Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi were successfully fused, it wouldn't cause a qualitative change in a Supreme Expert's weapon because the quantity was insufficient.

Of course, the most critical point was that it was very difficult for Supreme Experts to accumulate thirty billion battle merit.

The Supreme Experts guarded the Boundary Pass, facing off against the alien race's Ninth-Level Peak Quasi-God Kings from afar. They couldn't easily enter the fray to deal with other aliens, making it naturally difficult to accumulate battle merit quickly.

Among the Supreme Experts, only Lian Yuezhou, who possessed multiple secondary bodies, held a significant advantage in accumulating battle merit.

However, she couldn't use a System like Li Xuanfeng to seek fortune and avoid disaster, moving to the next Void Battlefield immediately after conquering one. Often, her secondary bodies needed to guard important battlefields for long periods, so accumulating battle merit was certainly not as easy for her as it was for Li Xuanfeng.

If they really could accumulate tens of billions of battle merit, Supreme Experts would have better options and naturally wouldn't choose this cluster of Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi. Thus, nearly ten thousand years had passed without anyone redeeming it.

"For Body Refining resources, I'll tentatively settle on this. The remaining battle merit will be used to exchange for a quasi-emperor weapon."

Li Xuanfeng silently made his decision.

Originally, he planned to accumulate enough battle merit to exchange for the most powerful quasi-emperor weapon in the Merit Hall, then use the System to trigger a rebate, hoping to obtain a genuine Imperial Weapon.

However, from his conversations with Ye Qingqing over the past two years, he learned that while Imperial Weapons and quasi-emperor weapons seemed only one word apart, their grades were as different as clouds and mud.

Even the gap between the top-tier quasi-emperor weapons used by the nine Supreme Experts and a true Imperial Weapon was far beyond what terms like a hundredfold or a thousandfold could describe.

Even a single fragment of an Imperial Weapon could easily shatter any quasi-emperor weapon!

Therefore, it was impossible for Li Xuanfeng to exchange for a top-tier quasi-emperor weapon and then use the System's hundredfold rebate to obtain an Imperial Weapon.

The only way was to find an opportunity to get an Imperial Weapon fragment and then use the System's rebate; only then might it be possible to obtain a complete Imperial Weapon!

His Divine Sense continued to sweep over the spheres of light one by one.

There were still many treasures that could strengthen one's Physique, and their quality wasn't low, but they were useless to the current Li Xuanfeng. Even with the System's hundredfold rebate, their value wouldn't be as high as the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi.

"Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi should be the top Body Refining resource in the Canglan Realm today."

After sweeping through many blinding spheres of light, Li Xuanfeng had yet to find a Body Refining resource more precious than the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi.

"Hmm?"

Just as Li Xuanfeng was about to look for a suitable quasi-emperor weapon, his Divine Sense paused.

He discovered a special sphere of light.

This sphere of light was very blinding, but it was empty inside, with only a lingering invisible Divine Thought.

"A single Body Refining opportunity?"

"From the Black Tortoise Tribe of the North Sea, requiring a Cultivator with stunning talent in the Dao of Body Refining, and costing forty billion battle merit?"

Li Xuanfeng silently read the information within.

This resource was not a physical item; instead, it required battle merit to exchange for a Body Refining opportunity.

To obtain this opportunity, two prerequisites had to be met: first, possessing top-tier Body Refining talent in the Canglan Realm and having strength no weaker than the Quasi-Emperor Fifth Heaven; second, forty billion battle merit.

The location for the Body Refining was in the North Sea region of the Endless Sea, at the Black Tortoise Tribe's most famous Forbidden Land—the Land of Return to the Ruins.

Legend has it that this place was once the Dao Arena of a certain Great Emperor. The legacy left behind by the Great Emperor provides top-tier Body Refining effects, and the number of Quasi-Emperors who can withstand such tempering is very few.

"Very good, this will be the target for my next exchange!"

Li Xuanfeng said with satisfaction.

He had been worried about what to use for Body Refining once the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Qi was exhausted; now it seemed a new opportunity had presented itself.