Strongest Replication

Qi Heng's jade pendant absorbed the fog around the first three floors and opened the door to the Hidden Dragon Pavilion.    

Chu Zhongtian took the lead and walked to the jade door of the Hidden Dragon Pavilion's first door. When he stood in front of the door, powerful energy swept across his body.    

As the strong energy swept his body, his jade pendant responded and emanated a special energy of its own. This special energy was quickly merging with the energy coming from the door.    

Then, Chu Zhongtian was pulled into the jade door by a strong suction force. Immediately after, spiritual Qi so thick that it was almost like a hard jelly brick rushed toward him.    

The thick spiritual Qi penetrated the gaps in his facial features, pores, and other body parts and entered his meridians. Finally, it entered his dantian. Consequently, his once stable spiritual power was now in disarray.    

At the same time, the thick spiritual Qi sent the Taixuan Heart Sutra into overdrive; suddenly, the breakthrough he had been suppressing began edging closer to Level-5.    

Chu Zhongtian sensed this situation and forcibly stopped the Taixuan Heart Sutra. Then, with every ounce of willpower he had got, he suppressed the breakthrough again.    

According to the insider information he obtained from Chu Tianyun, Chu Zhongtian knew that every floor of the Hidden Dragon Pavilion was different. The spiritual Qi and the special energy density on each floor weren't the same. Higher floors meant thicker, more abundant spiritual Qi and special energy that could increase potential.    

Currently, he was on the first floor, so even this jelly-thick spiritual Qi was notching compared to what was on the floors above. If he were to break through now, he would be filing the goal he had set and wasting a precious opportunity.    

The Hidden Dragon Pavilion opened once every ten years, and it was targeted at Qi Refining Realm cultivators. In other words, Chu Zhongtian would only get one chance in his life to enter the Hidden Dragon Pavilion. No matter what, he couldn't waste it.    

After suppressing the urge to break through, Chu Zhongtian didn't dare to delay any longer. He quickened his pace and soon arrived at the second floor.    

Similarly, powerful energy shot out from the staircase between the first and second floors. After that powerful sensory energy felt his jade pendant, Chu Zhongtian smoothly entered the second floor.    

The second floor's spiritual Qi density was so high that he could see it—he could see the spiritual Qi in the air. This time, he did not waste too much time and directly rushed to the third floor.    

The third floor's spiritual Qi was no longer in a gaseous form—it had turned into fog. Not only could he see the fog formed by the spiritual Qi, but he could even use special tools to collect and condense it into liquid form. Chu Zhongtian was extremely shocked by this.    

For spiritual Qi to turn into a fog, the purity of the spiritual Qi had to reach advanced Level-4 at least. In the Qi Country, stones of that level didn't even exist.    

Let alone advance Level-4 spirit stones, even intermediate Level-7 stones were treated like treasures and were an absolute rarity. No one below peak Level-10 of the Bod Refining Realm could even think about owning one.    

Chu Zhongtian only had three days to cultivate, so every minute and second was extremely precious. He didn't dare delay any longer and immediately found the best place to cultivate. Then, he sat down cross-legged and began cultivating.    

Since levels five and six of the Qi Refining Realm were somewhat interlinked, he could break through them as long as he had enough spiritual Qi and strong meridians and dantian.    

Thanks to the dummy-thick spiritual Qi on the third floor, it didn't take him long to break through the two minor levels. Now, he had both the minor and major circle producing spiritual power for him.    

Now that the circles were working together with the Taixuan Heart Sutra, Chu Zhongtian found that the quality and the speed at which he absorbed spiritual Qi had increased by 24 times.    

For normal cultivators, the increase wouldn't be so exaggerated; usually, they only felt a two to three times increase. And cultivators with outstanding talent could get a four times increase at most. Even a genius like Chu Zhongba with mid Level-8 talent only got a six times increase after becoming a Level-6 Qi Refiner.    

Chu Zhongtian, on the other hand, got the super exaggerated 24 times. This meant that his potential had actually surpassed his talent. Crazy, right?    

After Chu Zhongtian became a Level-6 Qi Refiner, he stooped the Taixuan Heart Sutra and carefully inspected the changes in his body. He compared how different his meridians, dantian, and spiritual power were after the before through with how they were before.    

Finally, he found the two primary reasons behind his 24 times increase.    

The first was that he had made sufficient preparations in the early stages. Not only had his meridians and Dantian reached their limits, but even his spiritual power was also as pure as it could be after he rigorously removed all the impurities he got from the pills.    

The second was the special energy within the Hidden Dragon Pavilion that could increase one's potential. With the help of this special energy, his potential surpassed its limit and attained a new level.    

After Chu Zhongtian compared the changes, he found that he could actually fight a peak Level-8 Qi Refiner now. If he could familiarize himself with his new strength, perhaps he could even fight an early Level-9 Qi Refiner.    

Of course, if he used the force with his cultivation base, he could easily defeat a peak Level-9 Qi Refiner or even an early Level-10 Qi Refiner.    

However, the prerequisite was that his level nine and ten opponents had to be what everyone considered "normal." After all, Liu Yongjun could also fight a level or two above his cultivation, so defeating him just now was near impossible.    

Chu Zhongtian calculated the time and found out that it only took him half a day to break through levels five and six; he still had two and a half days left.    

Since there was still enough time, he decided to pop the Meridian Enhancing Pills, Dantian Cultivating Pills, and Heart Tranquilizing Pills that he had prepared in advance. He planned to continue increasing his potential. Then, he would strive to become a Level-7 Qi Refiner in the remaining time. His current best-case scenario was becoming a peak Level-7 Qi Refiner here.    

Only with that strength could he have the confidence to defeat Liu Yongjun on the 8th of March and thus establish the title of the strongest amongst the young generation in the Qi Country. He could also smoothly become the Chu Family's young patriarch then.    

While Chu Zhongtian was fully focused on his cultivation, he didn't know that a distinguished guest had arrived in the palace not far away from the Hidden Dragon Pavilion.    

To welcome this distinguished guest, the royal family, the three great families' patriarch, and even the patriarchs of all second-rate stood in attendance. If there was a highest standard of welcoming someone, I believe this was it.    

The Zhengtai Hall was an area that the royal family of Qi Country specially used to welcome important guests. Since Qi Country was located in a remote area, the spiritual Qi density here was too low. Consequently, not many distinguished guests would come here, so the Zhengtai Hall hadn't been opened for the past ten years.    

Since the guest's identity was too noble this time, Zhengtai Hall was reopened for the first time in ten years to show respect to their guests.    

The guest who came this time was the princess of the Heavenly Dragon Empire—Dongfang Yun'er; she currently controlled the Qi Country's fate.