My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 371 - 361: The Possibility of Rapidly Breaking Through to the Transcendent Realm

Chapter 371 -361: The Possibility of Rapidly Breaking Through to the Transcendent Realm

Nancy, dressed in pajamas with droopy eyelids, looked like she hadn’t woken up fully.

Tang Yu understood completely.

Nancy’s cultivation involved sleeping. In a high-concentration Source Qi environment, she didn’t need to actively run any Cultivation Skills; the Source Qi would be absorbed into her body automatically, circulate, refine, and become part of her own strength. free𝑤ebnovel.com

In contrast,

he had to cultivate daily, absorb Source Qi, and focus on running his Cultivation Skill carefully and earnestly… yet his efficiency still fell far short of Nancy’s.

She was a follower, like a child who hadn’t grown up. There was no jealousy to speak of, but he couldn’t help but feel an uncontrollable envy.

After Nancy came in, she stared at him for a while, her little nose twitching slightly. Then, following the scent, she moved step by step towards the kitchen, almost as if sleepwalking.

“Smells… so good…”

Tang Yu held his forehead, took Nancy by the hand to bring her back, and pressed her to sit down properly in a chair.

Then he quickly paced back into the kitchen.

“I don’t know how long Crystal Jade Rice needs to be steamed, but given its strong fragrance, it should be done by now, right? As a Source Plant, perhaps even without processing, Crystal Jade Rice can be eaten directly.”

He glanced at Nancy, who seemed ready to pounce again, her desiring gaze fixed on the kitchen as if she was about to start drooling.

After a moment’s thought, he decided not to wait any longer, opened the lid, and a pot of steaming Crystal Jade Rice appeared before his eyes.

After being steamed, the large and plump grains of Crystal Jade Rice had expanded even more. In a pot of several dozen to a hundred grains, the rice looked full to the brim, each grain resembling a small rice ball.

Glossy white, round, and plump, its strong aroma was irresistible…

Just one glance, and it was hard to look away.

Tang Yu served two bowls of Crystal Jade Rice and brought them to the table. He had planned to make some dishes to go with the meal, but at that moment, he lost his appetite for anything else, not wanting to leave the Crystal Jade rice to attend to other matters.

Nancy clumsily used chopsticks to pick up a grain of Crystal Jade Rice and put it in her mouth.

Seeing her squint her eyes in pleasure, Tang Yu couldn’t restrain himself any longer. He picked up a grain of Crystal Jade Rice with his chopsticks, gripping it so hard that it deformed, indenting in the middle but not breaking due to its resilience.

He popped it into his mouth and bit down.

The ultimate flavor burst forth, filling his mouth and assaulting his taste buds. Simultaneously, the Source Power contained within the Crystal Jade Rice also entered through his mouth. Part of it nourished his body, bolstering his physique, while another part remained inside him, seemingly ready to be absorbed directly with just a circulation of his Cultivation Skill.

Crunch, crunch.

One by one, he chewed and swallowed grains of Crystal Jade Rice, his hand never pausing in its movement with the chopsticks, until at last, he brought the bowl to his lips and gulped down the last few plump grains.

This meal was equivalent to lunch. A bowl of Crystal Jade Rice had left him feeling somewhat full.

As a High Tier Awakener, Tang Yu could consume several days’ worth of food in one sitting as reserve energy, stored within his body. The slight sense of fullness was still far from being overstuffed.

He wasn’t making excuses for himself.

He could eat another bowl.

Looking up, he saw that Nancy had already finished the Crystal Jade Rice in her bowl, her eyes eagerly fixed on him. Only after he had finished did she cry out, “More… want more…”

Tang Yu went back to the kitchen and served two more bowls; the pot was now empty, not a single grain left.

Brought to the table, the two said little, swiftly finishing off a full bowl of Crystal Jade Rice in minutes— this was a Source Power-infused rice, which required some time to digest. Ordinary rice, with a large mouthful, could be finished in a single gulp, no problem.

At that moment,

his consciousness sank into his body, and around the Source Power Qi Vortex in his lower abdomen, large masses of Source Qi were drifting— originating from the Crystal Jade Rice he had consumed.

With the rotation of the qi vortex, the Source Qi was gradually integrating into the Source Power Qi Vortex, strengthening the vortex and transforming into his own strength.

Circulating the Cultivation Skill could speed up this process!

From the Tenth Layer of the Awakening Tier upwards, the practice of the Source Condensation Realm was to bolster the vortex, enhance the quality of one’s Source Power, until the Source Power Qi Vortex condensed into liquid and pooled into a Source Power Ocean. That was the mark of reaching the Great Perfection of the Awakening Tier.

The process of striking towards Transcendence was also about forming waves in the Source Power Ocean, with each wave rising higher than the last. Constantly assailing and weakening the bottleneck.

“Two bowls of Crystal Jade Rice in my stomach, I feel like today’s cultivation speed can speed up a lot. If I could eat Crystal Jade Rice for all three meals, perhaps before long, I could climb to the Great Perfection of the Awakening Tier and start challenging Transcendence.”

While pondering, he looked up and saw Nancy eagerly looking at him.

“Delicious… want more…”

Tang Yu glanced at his own bowl, spotlessly clean without a trace of residue left, then at Nancy’s bowl, imagining a pot of fragrant Crystal Jade Rice waiting for him. However, he could only spread his hands helplessly, “No more, not a single grain left.”

He asked, “The Source Power lingering in your body after eating Crystal Jade Rice, does it help your cultivation?”

If it was of no help, he would be reluctant to waste the precious Crystal Jade Rice just to satisfy Nancy’s cravings.

Nancy was dazed for a moment, apparently thinking, then after a while:

“Source Power, absorbed, my strength, should have improved… a little.”

She stretched out her delicate palm, gesturing with her thumb and index finger, pulling them apart a small distance, then seemed to think it was too much and retracted them until her thumb and index fingertip were almost touching, “Not much, just a little.”

But Nancy was a Transcendent, and even a slight improvement in strength was not easy.

Tang Yu looked at the tiny space between Nancy’s fingers, which probably encompassed a universe.

He had to admit, when it came to absorbing Crystal Jade Rice, Nancy was leagues ahead of him.

This was a good thing, as the mainstay of Combat Power, the stronger Nancy became, the safer the Territory would be.

The Source Power contained in Crystal Jade Rice, similar to high purity Source Crystals, was very pure and suitable for direct absorption. It was of a chaotic nature without attribute inclination. Nancy’s digestion of Crystal Jade Rice had allowed for a slight improvement in strength, and Eileen, relying on Crystal Jade Rice, should be able to greatly shorten the time to break through to Transcendence.

Assuming Crystal Jade Rice was available for all three meals.

Thinking of this, and seeing Nancy with her mouth slightly open, like a little dog waiting to be fed, he felt an inevitable wave of helplessness wash over him.

Just a few stalks of Mutated Rice, if consumed voraciously, would be emptied in not more than three days.

The urgent task at hand was to expand the cultivation scale of Crystal Jade Rice.

For this task, he didn’t need to make arrangements; based on the attitude shown that morning at the rice cultivation area, Chen Haiping, the agricultural department official, would understand the importance he placed on the Mutated Rice.

With one week’s salary fined and several people removed from the agriculture department, the remaining ones dared not be careless.

Because of the Crystal Jade Rice, the Mutated Rice was named Crystal Jade Rice.

For several consecutive days, Tang Yu monitored the Crystal Jade Rice closely.

He specially cleared out a third-tier field for planting, and the seeds were sown. He was relieved that although the growth rate of Crystal Jade Rice was far slower than that of ordinary rice, it eventually germinated. Compared to the unplantable Awakening Fruits, its value was incomparably higher.

The only trouble was,

As a Source Plant, Crystal Jade Rice needed to absorb a large amount of Source Qi during its growth.

At first, after batches of seedlings grew, they appeared listless, until he approached the Crystal Jade Rice cultivation area and felt the significantly lowered concentration of Source Qi around. Only then did he realize.

A few Mutated stalks of Crystal Jade Rice did not drain the surrounding Source Qi, but as the number of planted Crystal Jade Rice increased, and they all vied for Source Qi, each stalk failed to receive sufficient Source Qi nourishment…

In the end, Tang Yu established three Source Qi pools in the Crystal Jade Rice cultivation area. Only the continuously emerging Source Qi barely met the growth needs of the Crystal Jade Rice.

However, the dream of planting fields of Crystal Jade Rice far and wide was no longer possible.