chapter 13 Four Seas Whale Swallowing Technique

The dragon spirit felt the surging spiritual energy within the formation and exclaimed in shock, "Young Master, how is your spirit-gathering formation so overbearing? You're not just gathering spiritual energy, it's more like you're seizing it! Given the scarcity of spiritual energy in the world today, how did you manage to do this?"
Even Ulysses, who considered himself quite knowledgeable, found that the spirit-gathering formations he knew paled in comparison to Andrew Qi's spirit charm formation.
"In this world, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is scarce, but what about beyond this world?" Andrew Qi said with a faint smile, "That's why I call you a foolish dragon spirit, you’re really of limited vision!"
"What lies beyond heaven and earth?" Ulysses asked, puzzled.
"The Sun, moon, stars, and the myriad realms!" Andrew Qi declared, "You should hasten your cultivation of the True Dragon Technique. Once you possess the body of a true dragon, you'll be able to revive the ancient memories of the dragon race — Now, protect me!"
"Rest assured, Young Master!" Accompanied by a deep dragon chant, Ulysses emerged from the Dragon charm of Well Constellation and merged with the spiritual energy in the formation. Instantly, the mist around Ximo Pond swirled like a long dragon.
With the spirit-gathering formation complete, qi cultivation was a natural progression since practitioners inherently breathe and circulate the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Many cultivators chose to practice in well-known mountains and rivers simply because of the abundance of spiritual energy in those places.
But for higher-level cultivation worlds, qi cultivation was a much simpler matter. Not only were there exquisite and efficient methods surpassing the breathing techniques of martial artists, but cultivators could also directly absorb spiritual energy from heaven and earth into their bodies through pills and talismans, hence, doubling their efforts.
With similar spiritual energy of heaven and earth, martial artists could at most utilize thirty percent efficiency, while cultivators could achieve fifty percent.
In Andrew Qi's hands, however, at least seventy percent efficiency could be achieved!
Andrew Qi's spirit-gathering formation could not only seize the spiritual energy from the surrounding heaven and earth but also resonate with the sun, moon, and stars, transforming their power into spiritual force. This was why it was so domineering, otherwise, in today's environment and air quality, even entering the innate stage would prove to be challenging.
Using the spirit charm formation, Andrew Qi felt all the pores in his body slowly opening up. His entire body was like a sponge, seemingly capable of absorbing and releasing spiritual energy, not just through breathing.
However, qi cultivation was not merely about breathing and circulating the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The key was to integrate the spiritual energy into oneself and ultimately form a vortex of qi in the dantian. Once the qi vortex is formed, the cultivator would gain an additional layer of 'strength,' which could be termed as 'internal strength' or 'hidden strength.'
At this moment, Andrew Qi's whale bone talisman came into play. He held the talisman in his palm, infusing his spiritual power into it. Instantly, a soft white light emanated from the talisman, enveloping Andrew Qi completely. Behind him, a huge whale shadow appeared, with a mysterious rune at its center, carrying the mysterious power of dragons!
With the appearance of this gigantic whale shadow, it suddenly performed a 'whale's water absorption technique,' instantly sucking in all the spiritual energy within and around the spirit charm formation for ten miles, truly like a whale swallowing the entire heaven and earth!
Subsequently, the abundant spiritual energy formed a massive vortex, like a giant whirlpool in the ocean, continuously compressing and condensing. Then, it all converged into the mysterious rune, the highly compressed spiritual energy vortex almost becoming liquid. This was like a terrifying ball of spiritual force, which, if exploded, could reduce even Andrew Qi's Demonic Dragon embodiment to ashes.
But Andrew Qi was a master of talismanic arts. How could he be burned by his own fire? He directly pressed the terrifying ball of spiritual force into his dantian, instantly causing a tumultuous upheaval in his dantian, causing him unbearable pain. Andrew Qi let out a low roar, "Dragon charm of Well Constellation! Activate! With the power of the true dragon, achieve the whale's swallowing momentum!"
The Dragon charm of Well Constellation, being a truthful charm and having the dragon spirit of a flood dragon residing within it, naturally could suppress and regulate the power of the whale bone talisman. The dragon's might have appeared, quickly stabilizing the spiritual force vortex in the dantian, but the powerful suction did not decrease even in the slightest—
Andrew Qi's mouth and pores opened, inhaling and exhaling the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, like a whale absorbing water!
This Whaling Four Seas technique was indeed domineering!
"Young Master, your qi cultivation technique is too brutal. I was hoping to draw some vitality from this spirit charm formation, but you swallowed it all in one gulp!" Ulysses started to complain again. He had thought this formation was a Geomancy treasure for cultivation, where he could enhance his practice, but all the benefits had been taken by Andrew Qi.
"No choice, you'll have to settle for leftovers."
"What leftovers? There's not a single breath of spiritual energy left!" Ulysses decided to simply return to the Dragon charm of Well Constellation and sleep.
With the help of the whale bone talisman, Andrew Qi directly condensed a qi vortex in his dantian, simplifying the process and bypassing years of cultivation process.
Once the dantian could gather true qi, one entered the qi cultivation stage, but Andrew Qi did not stop there. He spent some time nurturing the qi vortex until it was completely tamed, swimming leisurely in the dantian like a mischievous little fish.
However, at this moment, four people appeared on the mountainside — the girl with the ponytail and her three companions, who had been staking out the area for three days. The girl then said, "Uncle Chu, we came so early today, I refuse to believe we won't get to see him — Is that fog?"
"No! This is not mere fog!" The elderly man, despite sitting in a wheelchair and being of accomplished internal strength, immediately sensed the intense fluctuations of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, then looked upward.
The girl with the ponytail also sensed something and looked up, only to see the mist swirling around, looking like a long dragon whose head and tail were invisible.
But in the next moment, all the fog was suddenly drawn into a vortex, as if a prehistoric behemoth opened its mouth and completely devoured the fog. The pond and pavilion reappeared, and the skies began to brighten.
However, when the fog completely disappeared, the center of the vortex was not a behemoth, but merely a person's mouth—
The power of one person, as if engulfing mountains and rivers!
How could this be?
Both the elderly man and the girl with the ponytail, having seen countless potentials, had never witnessed anyone absorbing and releasing spiritual energy in such a terrifying manner, like a whale absorbing water!
This was nothing short of monstrous!
Just then, one of the elderly man's disciples, as usual, habitually walked towards the Spring Knowledge Pavilion, not expecting to have already entered the range of the formation. The elderly man wanted to stop him, but it was already too late!
Andrew Qi had just tamed the little whale qi vortex in his dantian and was in a good mood, but suddenly sensed someone intruding into the formation. Almost without thinking, he took out a "Thunderfire talisman" from his body, activated the qi vortex in his dantian, infused true essence into it, and flicked his fingers.
Pop!～
The originally soft peach wood talisman shot out like a bullet.