#159 - Chapter 159: Fifth Floor

Ten minutes later, the Chu Princess departed. You retrieved the Dao Bone Flower from the jade box. The Dao Bone Flower was entirely crystal clear, filled with spiritual energy, and multicolored, as if emitting light of various attributes. It looked incredibly mysterious. Holding it in your hand, you were filled with emotion. Now, the Fourth Prince had nowhere to cry. This peerless treasure was in your possession.

The Dao Bone Flower is a spiritual object even more advanced than True Dragon Blood and Golden Flower. Although all three improve one's cultivation realm, the Dao Bone Flower possesses an heaven-defying ability that the Golden Flower and True Dragon Blood cannot match: after consuming the Dao Bone Flower, one can randomly generate a Dao Bone.

What is a Dao Bone? Simply put, human cultivation is divided into metal, wood, water, fire, earth, wind, cloud, and lightning spiritual roots. Spiritual roots are further divided into low-grade, mid-grade, high-grade, and top-grade. Lin Changqing previously had a mid-grade wood spiritual root. The higher the grade of the spiritual root, the faster the cultivation speed. The highest quality spiritual root is the top-grade spiritual root, but in fact, there is a designation above the top-grade spiritual root called Dao Bone.

For example, above the top-grade fire spiritual root is called the Heavenly Fire Dao Bone. The Heavenly Fire Dao Bone not only has a faster cultivation speed than the fire spiritual root, but also possesses greater power over the fire element. The Dao Bone above the top-grade wood spiritual root is called the Heavenly Wood Dao Bone. Top-grade... In general, the Dao Bone Flower is a heaven-defying spiritual treasure that can directly change a person's cultivation talent, turning them into the most exceptional genius in the world.

Lin Changqing even felt that, apart from the Bronze Horse and the Bronze Tree, the Dao Bone Flower could rank among the top three treasures in the entire ancient city. No wonder the Fourth Prince felt heartache even sending it to the Chu Princess; after all, this treasure is indeed precious.

Of course, now it belonged to Lin Changqing.

"I wonder what attribute of Dao Bone I will possess after swallowing it," Lin Changqing muttered, swallowing the Dao Bone with anticipation. Previously, he had a mid-grade wood attribute spiritual root.

He hoped to obtain a wood attribute Dao Bone, as that would be more compatible with his existing spiritual root.

The moment you swallowed the Dao Bone Flower, you felt a surge of immense spiritual power filling your dantian. The Yin-Yang Nascent Soul within your dantian began to absorb the spiritual power ravenously. Two quarters of an hour later, your Yin-Yang Nascent Soul began to swell. You knew that your cultivation was improving.

An hour later, the spiritual power released by the Dao Bone Flower in your dantian was completely absorbed by the Yin-Yang Nascent Soul. At this moment, the Yin-Yang Nascent Soul had expanded by one or two circles compared to before, changing from the age of about seven to about ten. This signified that your cultivation had reached the fifth level of the Nascent Soul realm!

In just one day, you broke through another level. A day ago, you were still at the third level of the Nascent Soul realm, but now you are already at the fifth level! You marveled at the speed of this cultivation improvement. Now, you had the confidence to defy and defeat opponents at the ninth level of the Nascent Soul realm!

If you were to face the Four Generals of the Immortal Palace again, you were confident that you could crush them with a single finger.

You silently savored the increased spiritual power for a while, and then continued to sit in meditation, because you knew that the effect of the Dao Bone Flower was not yet complete. After all, it had only simply released spiritual power to improve your cultivation. Next was the most important part: changing your bone talent and granting you a Dao Bone.

Sure enough, a quarter of an hour later, you suddenly felt a numbness throughout your body. It seemed that the Dao Bone Flower within your body was generating a destructive force. At this moment, if you were to internally examine your dantian, you would discover that the Dao Bone Flower was releasing a black destructive elemental power. As soon as these black elements appeared, they wreaked havoc on your dantian, even causing blood to flow from the corners of your mouth.

But instead of being alarmed, you were delighted, because you knew that the Dao Flower was helping you reshape your bone structure.

While the black power was destroying your dantian, you also felt a vitality emerging from the destruction. There was a faint vitality within your damaged dantian. You could feel that after being destroyed by the black elements, your dantian would become even stronger than before.

After two incense sticks of time, the black elements released by the Dao Bone Flower became more and more numerous, gradually surging past your dantian and permeating your internal organs. Your internal organs were being destroyed by the black elements and began to bleed profusely. From the outside, you were now covered in blood. The destructive power released by the Dao Bone Flower caused your body to bleed heavily. You endured unimaginable pain, but you persevered, because you could clearly feel, similar to your dantian before, that your internal organs were also nurturing vitality in the midst of destruction. You even felt that your blood and qi power had increased by the power of one dragon compared to before.

"Persevere! If you want to obtain great opportunities and a great future, you must endure great suffering. Everything in the world comes at an equal price," Lin Changqing said with his eyes closed. He gritted his teeth and endured the destruction of his body by the black elements released by the Dao Bone Flower.

You knew that if you could overcome this obstacle, you would receive unimaginable benefits.

After another hour, the blood on your body stopped flowing, and the black elements within your body disappeared. The destructive power of the Dao Bone Flower seemed to have been completely released. You internally examined your dantian and discovered that the Dao Bone Flower had transformed into a mysterious symbol lying horizontally in your dantian. This symbol seemed to represent the Yin-Yang Five Elements and possessed a mysterious and unpredictable power of the Great Dao. Gradually, the symbol transformed from the Dao Bone Flower began to release a multicolored mist of spiritual energy. After one incense stick of time, this mist permeated the entire room from your body.

This mist seemed to have a hallucinogenic effect. You inhaled it through your nose and felt dazed. You seemed to have fallen into a hallucination. You heard the faint murmurs of ancient gods around you. You looked up and saw five ten-thousand-foot giants standing before you. On the left was a golden giant in golden armor holding a sword, on the right was a green giant with a tree symbol on his helmet, in the middle was a giant surrounded by flames, and there were two others, one a black giant entwined with water snakes, and the other an earthy yellow earth giant...

You vaguely felt that the Dao Bone Flower was about to randomly select a Dao Bone. Each giant represented a Dao Bone of a different attribute.

After one incense stick of time, the flame giant among the five giants began to slowly move towards you. His body emitted a fiery power that floated towards you. As you absorbed the flames, you felt warm all over.

"Is it the Heavenly Fire Dao Bone?" Seeing the flame giant walking towards you, you thought to yourself. What you wanted most was a wood attribute Dao Bone, because you had a wood attribute spiritual root.

However, this was random, and there was no way to choose. The Heavenly Fire Dao Bone wasn't bad either, you thought. But the next second, something astonishing happened. The flame giant stopped, and the green giant representing the wood attribute began to slowly walk towards you.

The green giant of the wood attribute carried a force of great natural vitality. Behind him were vast forests, blooming flowers, and a World Tree that reached the origin of all the heavens and realms.

"Is it because I'm lucky? The green giant is walking towards me. This means I'm about to obtain a wood attribute Dao Bone!" Lin Changqing rejoiced, and he couldn't wait to start absorbing the power emitted by the green giant.