Chapter 8 - Planning for the Spiritual Vein (1/2)

Krune started cultivating and soon he could feel the difference, his cultivation speed has improved a lot as expected, with another Spiritual Energy Meridian to share the burden of spiritual energy conversion, his cultivation is now improving at least 50% faster, Krune decided to take this chance to breakthrough to the 7th stage of the Qi Condensation.

The 7th stage of the Qi Condensation is known for it's bottleneck, but it's not without reason, its only at the 7th stage that a cultivator can finally form their Divine Sense, until now Krune has been using his affinity with spiritual energy to feel his surroundings and prevent dangerous situations, but this kind of scanning ability is very limited since he can't really see what is happening ahead nor can it reach too far, it can only help him to feel if there is something alive ahead or not.

But Divine Sense is different, you truly 'see' everything around you, it's a very weird feeling once a cultivator open their Divine Sense, they are used to only see what is ahead of them and then suddenly they now can see everything around.

But there are other races that don't think anything strange about it, wisps are one of them, they don't have eyes to start with, ever since wisps are born they have a complete vision of 360 degrees, so, for them, the Divine Sense will basically improve this ability a lot but other than the distance and the way that they 'see' with the Divine Sense, there isn't too much of a difference to start with.

Another thing worth remember when achieving the 7th stage, is that the boost of power is much higher than when you breakthrough previous or next stages of the Qi Condensation, Divine Sense is the reason behind it, it's not only limited to what you can see but also improves the cultivator's own ability to control spiritual energy like the ability to use skills at a much greater distance than it was before.

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A week later in a hidden burrow sealed by an earth wall, spirit energy started to convene at great speed, inside one could see Krune absorbing all of it like a bottomless hole, a few minutes later he felt like a boom came out of his core and the spiritual energies around finally started to stabilize.

'7th stage of Qi Condensation, it's only been three months since I met Feifei and old man Feng, in three months I went from 3rd stage to where I'm now, this progress is faster than anything I ever thought be able to do.

Let's try out the Divine Sense.'

Krune concentrated and slowly his divine sense started to spread out.

10 meters...

50 meters...

100 meters...

300 meters...

500 meters!

Krune was dumbfounded!

'500 meters, I can see everything in 500 meters! Incredible, I can't believe Divine Sense is so useful like this, with it I won't need to fear anything as long as my opponent cultivation isn't much higher than mine so that it can be concealed from it!'

Krune was ecstatic!

One must know that when other cultivators achieve the 7th stage of Qi Condensation, it can already be considered a miracle if they reach as far as 300 meters, and that's usually the case for races specialized in maters of the soul, other races would usually have a range of 150 to 200 meters, fortunately for Krune, wisps can be considered one of the soul races too, its just that they are far from the top rated ones, of course Krune didn't know such things, the reason he was so happy was simply because now he will be able to avoid danger and prepare attacks much easier than before.

Krune didn't know, the reason his Divine Sense could reach so far as 500 meters is also because of his Energy Meridians, other than the soul, Divine Senses are boosted by the owners own spiritual energy and its purity too.

Wisps are already known to have very clean spiritual energy, so much that they are hunted for use in cultivation, on top of that, his Energy Meridians conversion ability far outmatches normal meridians, not only in speed but in purity as well, all of that put together turned into this unbelievable range coverage.

But Krune happiness didn't last long...

'F*ck! This thing spends spiritual energy like there is no tomorrow!'

That was to be expected, such a good thing like Divine Sense couldn't come that easy, there is no free lunch in this world, after calculating the rate of consumption of spiritual energy, Krune found out that he could maintain his Divine Sense spread out at full range for at most 10 minutes before his energy is over, but, if he reduces the coverage range the consumption also is greatly reduced.

There is another thing that one must pay attention too, once someone uses Divine Sense to scan an area, if someone around the same level of cultivation or higher has a Divine Sense, they will be able to feel the scan and will be put on alert, simply put, Divine Sense is not omnipotent.

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One day later after stabilizing his cultivation, Krune left his seclusion sight and set out to get the spiritual vein, Krune already know where it is, he found it during his travel and hunting, the problem was that this one's owner is a 8th stage Qi Condensention Lizard Dragon.

Lizard Dragons aren't real dragons, but they do indeed have a very feint dragon bloodline which make then stronger than ordinary beast at the same cultivation level.

Krune didn't have confidence of beating this Lizard Dragon before, not because he thought he couldn't win in a one vs one, but because it isn't the only beast guarding the location. Every spiritual vein owner would usually have a few more members of the same race, and this Lizard Dragon wasn't different, together with him there was another ten some Lizard Dragons of lower cultivation level. But now that he made his breakthrough and got his Divine Sense that can see everything 500 meters around him, Krune was confident that he could deal with this group and at the same time gather quite a few Demon Cores.

Few hours later Krune arrived at a mountain range, it wasn't a big one but still covered a 20 some kilometer radius, he approached the lizards nest carefully to not alert anyone, after getting close enough he started to spread his Divine Sense.