Chapter 1621 - Isolation for One Year (2/2)

But he wasn’t sure if he could still use his Spiritual Power and sharira to control the evil spirit after it grew stronger.

He didn’t dare give all the saint souls to the evil spirit at once. Thus, he took them out one by one and fed the evil spirit while observing.

He would stop as soon as he sensed something amiss.

The days pa.s.sed like this. Soon, one month was over.

During this month, Zhang Ruochen spent very little time feeding the evil spirit. He spent the rest of his time holding the rules emperor weapon and studying the Rules of Saintly Way.

He also cultivated palm and sword techniques. Sometimes, he studied the fist techniques that Luo Xu gave him.

After feeding more than 40 strong saint souls, a shriek came from the skull one day. It instantly pierced Zhang Ruochen’s eardrums and his ears started bleeding.

Zhang Ruochen’s expression changed drastically. He quickly used Holy Qi and Spiritual Power to activate the spiritual strength and Buddhist Qi of the sharira. While purifying the evil Qi from the skull, he worked to repress the spirit.

The evil spirit was countless times meaner than before. Even with the sharira’s help, Zhang Ruochen still took a long time to suppress it again.

It’s now a sixth step Saint King. Without the sharira’s suppression, it could kill me instantly.

No, I can’t feed it anymore before I reach the Saint King Realm.

Zhang Ruochen put the Emperor Yi Bone Staff away. Then he took out the rules emperor weapon, lit a Honghua Vine, and focused entirely on studying the Rules of Saintly Way.

Whoos.h.!.+

Five beams of white light burst from his body. They landed on the ground and transformed into identical shadows.

His saint soul had split into six clones with six Saint Looks.

Right now, five saint souls broke free from the five Saint Looks. Only one still remained in his body.

The rules emperor weapon flew out of his true form’s hands. It hovered in the center of his true form and five saint souls. It spun slowly, s.h.i.+ning with brilliant light. Rules of Saintly Way flowed out like threads of light.

If the six saint souls studied at the same time, Zhang Ruochen could learn six times faster.

Of course, he could only cultivate in this state when in utter isolation and when he didn’t have any disturbances. Otherwise, no matter how strong his saint soul was, his mind would become chaotic if he received any disturbances. The consequences would be unimaginable.

After entering that state, the Mysteries of Truth in him became active. They transformed into specks of light and spread from his true form, filling the time and s.p.a.ce crystal.

Instantly, the consciousness of his true form and five saint souls all became bright and open. His speed of comprehension multiplied.

In this state, time pa.s.sed unknowingly. Zhang Ruochen had already been in isolation for a year.

There had been 30,000 saint stones piled in the time and s.p.a.ce crystal. Without realizing, Zhang Ruochen had absorbed them all. Only powder remained.

Without the saint stones providing Holy Qi, Zhang Ruochen woke up with a start. The specks of light that filled the air rushed into his body like birds returning to their nest.

Zhang Ruochen noticed that his body was covered in dust. “I actually used up 30,000 saint stones,” he murmured to himself. “How long have I cultivated for?”

He put his hands together and the five saint souls flew back into his body.

Next, he closed his eyes again. He spent three days to completely organize the Rules of Saintly Way that the six saint souls had comprehended.

When he opened his eyes again, they gleamed with joy. “There are 2,300 Rules of Saintly Way in the Heaven Pa.s.s River. I should be in the first step Saint King Realm now.”

In the Heaven World, a Saint King could only accurately measure their realm by going to the Nine Steps to the Sky Path.

But according to the experience from seniors, one would typically become a first step Saint King after having more than 1,000 Rules of Saintly Way.

The second step Saint King Realm was around 5,000 rules.

The third step Saint King Realm was around 30,000 rules.

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Of course, this wasn’t definite.

For example, imagine a cultivator who focused on one of the 72 Supreme Saintly Ways. Then, he might be able to take a compete step on the path after cultivating 800 Rules of Saintly Way and become a first step Saint King.

But then imagine a cultivator who focused on one of the 3,000 Major Ways. Even if he had 1,500 rules inside, he might still not be able to take a complete step. He’d still be a half-step Saint King.

The nine steps were actually quite fuzzy. There wasn’t a specific boundary and there weren’t even different so-called “realms.”

But when a cultivator was studying the Rules of Saintly Way, they would meet large and small bottlenecks. They may even be unable to comprehend any rules and stay in place, or their Rules of Saintly Way would suddenly skyrocket. In the end, after summarizing countless generations of cultivators, they created the “nine step realms.”

On the Nine Steps to the Sky Path, each step was a different level of heaven.

Each step would stump a large group of untalented figures.

Only the true talents could forge on bravely and finally reach heaven with nine steps. They would cultivate their undying body and become a Supreme Saint.

It could be said that every bottleneck would frighten a Saint King. They’d fear that they would stay in place from now on and be part of the untalented figures stuck on the path.

But after this year of isolation, Zhang Ruochen didn’t run into any bottlenecks. His cultivation was quite smooth.