Chapter 390 (2/2)

The cave collapsed, burying Long Chen within . But Long Chen wasn’t even paying attention to that, as all his focus was on the changes occurring within his hand .

Back when he had condensed the FengFu Star, everything had occured too quickly, and he hadn’t even understood what was going on before his FengFu Star had condensed .

But this time, he wanted the Alioth Star to form slower so that he had enough time to examine what was going on .

“Yes, as I thought . To condense the first star required my body’s core energy, while to condense the second star requires the first star’s a.s.sistance . ”

Long Chen was closely examining the entire process . That small kernel was like a seed that was receiving nourishment as it absorbed the energy coming from the FengFu Star .

The Alioth Pill’s medicinal energy was slowly being absorbed by that seed as well . When that seed reached the size of a sesame seed, Long Chen felt a mental connection form to it .

With a thought, he tried to control that little thing . He smiled when he found it really was completely under his control .

That let Long Chen finally relax . He had experienced far too many b.u.mps on the road . No matter what he did, he always ran into multiple difficulties .

The fact that he had finally condensed the Alioth Star without any surprises or danger made him feel relieved from a great burden . Originally, he had been ready to face all kinds of various difficulties he had a.s.sumed would pop up .

Although the Alioth Star was only the size of a sesame seed, Long Chen was able to control it, and even increase the rate at which it grew .

However, what was a bit out of his expectations was that the growth of the Alioth Star didn’t just depend on the nourishment of the Alioth Pills, but it also required the energy coming from the FengFu Star .

That energy was pa.s.sively flowing from the FengFu Star, and Long Chen didn’t need to actively draw it out . The only thing he needed to do was increase the Alioth Star’s absorption rate .

But Long Chen felt a slight chill when he saw that even after absorbing all the Alioth Pill’s medicinal energy, his Alioth Star had only grown ever so slightly .

He had no choice but to consume the rest of the Alioth Pills . When he consumed the ninth one and finished absorbing all its energy, he found that the Alioth Star had still only grown slightly, just barely reaching the size of a small pea .

Long Chen began to sweat . Although he had felt that the few Qilin Fruits he had found would not be enough for him to fully condense the Alioth Star, he had still felt some hope when he had seen that he was able to refine three-ring high grade pills .

But now all nine of them were gone, and Long Chen felt an icy chill . According to this speed, the Alioth Pill’s condens.e.m.e.nt would be even more difficult than the FengFu Star’s .

To condense the FengFu Star, Long Chen had used up probably almost a thousand FengFu Pills .

He only had twenty-four Qilin Fruits on hand, and of those, only nine of them were fully matured . The rest were temporarily not mature enough to be used in pill refining .

Furthermore, Qilin Fruits matured extremely slowly . Furthermore, new ones would only grow once the old ones matured . From the flowering process to the time where the fruit was matured, a single Qilin Fruit would require a hundred years of sunlight and constant absorption of heaven and earth’s spiritual qi .

That fiery excitement in Long Chen’s heart immediately extinguished .

Long Chen suddenly stood up, and his aura exploded out in order to release his frustration . A terrifying wave of qi shot out .

The mountain exploded, the ground sunk, and a powerful qi wave crushed the surrounding rocks and trees into smithereens . That terrifying power even stunned Long Chen .

“What the… my strength?”

Long Chen was filled with disbelief . Everything within several miles had been turned to dust . The ground had also sunk several hundred meters .

His jaw dropped . He was both delighted and shocked . Looking at the center of his right hand, that frustration was swept away .

“HAHAHA!”

Long Chen raised his head up the sky and roared, his aura exploding out without the slightest reservation . It was as if an angry sea was trying to wash away heaven and earth, causing the sky’s clouds to shake .

Long Chen hadn’t realized before, but now he found that it wasn’t just his FengFu Star rapidly circulating when he released his aura . That small pea-sized Alioth Star was also quickly circulating, and a powerful energy was constantly pouring into his body . That energy was not at all inferior to the complete FengFu Star .

“Amazing, absolutely amazing!” Long Chen crazily laughed . He felt as if he might start crying from joy . He had barely condensed an embryonic form of the Alioth Star, but it was already on the same level as the FengFu Star . Just what level of awesomeness was that?!

His frustration was swept away, and he was so excited he wanted to dance . He could no longer stay in this place since just his aura had destroyed it . He found another hidden place where he refined the rest of the matured Qilin Fruits into Alioth Pills .

He nourished the Alioth Star with those Alioth Pills, and ten days later, all his Alioth Pills were gone . As for the Alioth Star, it had grown to the size of a longan, and there was even some mist revolving around it, looking like a true star .

Furthermore, Long Chen noticed that as his Alioth Star condensed, his physical body once more advanced to a new level, his strength explosively growing . That filled him with confidence . Even if he ran into a Yin Luo who had already advanced to Bone Forging, he would have no fear of him .

After thinking about it, Long Chen spent the next five days to refine almost a thousand Three Connecting Flower Tendon Pills for himself . With his new gains, his pill refining speed had reached a practically abnormal level .

These medicinal pills should be enough for him for the next while . He couldn’t waste the rest of his time . Long Chen opened his map and quickly found his next target: the Abyss of Fiends .