Chapter 112: Advancing to the Lesser Heaven Stage! (1/2)

At the end of the stone tunnel, Nie Tian and the Flame Dragon Armor were working on their respective tasks. One absorbed the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth, while the other gathered flame energy.

Nie Tian’s spiritual sea was now frantic and disordered. The spiritual energy within it was like a chaotic mist, totally out of control as it flowed about.

He tried his utmost to gain control of the spiritual energy mist and restore calmness to his spiritual sea.

But then he realized that the more effort he expended, the more agitated and violent his spiritual sea became, moving like a ferocious, wild beast.

“Qi Refining stage, Lesser Heaven stage…”.

He forced himself to stop paying attention to his unruly spiritual sea, and instead ponder over the explanations of his master Wu Ji had given him about the Qi Refining stage and Lesser Heaven stage.

According to Wu Ji, once a Qi warrior had advanced from the Qi Refining stage to the Lesser Heaven stage, there would be tremendous changes to their spiritual sea.

However, Wu Ji didn’t say clearly what the changes would be, but instead told him that once he had broken through, he would naturally understand.

Wu Ji also told him that starting from the Lesser Heaven stage, each and every advancement between realms could possibly cause different, miraculous, and unexpected changes to the body, spiritual sea, and even the soul.

He would have to rely on himself to comprehend the profundity of the changes. Only without restrictions drawn from the descriptions of others would he be able to have a true and clear understanding of the differences between one stage and another.

“Changes…” He whispered to himself. He tried his best to retain a calm mind and focus all his attention on the movements of the soul.

When he stopped thinking about the bottleneck and only focused on the changes that had been taking place in his spiritual sea, he suddenly realized that the seemingly unruly movements of the misty spiritual energy were actually not completely chaotic.

He sensed that the spiritual energy that was flowing about randomly actually wished to come together, and take a certain form.

He no longer attempted to calm the rebellious spiritual energy. Instead, he gathered his psychic awareness and tried to use it to accelerate the movement of the spiritual energy.

By letting go and even boosting the seemingly casual movements, he fueled the action within his spiritual sea, making it even more raging and turbulent.

The misty spiritual energy kept stirring and converging violently within his spiritual sea.

Not long after, the huge amount of spiritual energy gradually gathered together and, to his surprise, formed an unstable vortex of spiritual energy within his spiritual sea.

As soon as the vortex had taken its initial shape, the scattered, roaming spiritual energy seemed to have found a vent.

HUFF! HUFF! HUFF!

Thread after thread of misty spiritual energy rushed forth and merged into the vortex of spiritual energy from every direction.

After the misty spiritual energy finished gathering, the spiritual vortex that had just formed, and was still unstable, began to revolve even faster and more furiously.

A gravitational force was suddenly born from the center of the vortex.

In that moment, Nie Tian suddenly felt that the speed at which his spiritual sea was absorbing the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth had suddenly increased by many times!

Before, he needed to continuously channel energy with the Qi Refining Incantation, so as to gradually pull the spiritual energy from the outside into his spiritual sea.

However, now that the vortex of spiritual power was formed within his spiritual sea, everything had changed.

The revolution of the spiritual vortex gave rise to a gravitational force, which, coupled with the Qi Refining Incantation, would allow Nie Tian to absorb the surrounding spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth at a speed several times faster than before.

He experimented by stopping his use of the Qi Refining Incantation. Yet, he found to his surprise that the vortex of spiritual power within his spiritual sea was still revolving.

The downside was that, without his guidance and the effect of the Qi Refining Incantation, the speed of revolution slowed down by several-fold.

But even so, the vortex of spiritual power in his spiritual sea was still slowly taking in the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth.

This made him realize that in the future, even without practicing Qi Refining Incantation, his spiritual sea would still unceasingly absorb the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth because of the existence of the vortex.

No matter if he was eating, sleeping, or fighting, as long as his vortex of spiritual power didn’t stop revolving, he would be able to gather and store up spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth non-stop.

At that moment, having felt the changes himself, he seemed to come to an enlightenment without assistance from others.

“Lesser Heaven stage! Could this be the biggest difference between the Lesser Heaven stage and Qi Refining stage?”

He was convinced that the formation of the vortex of spiritual power within the spiritual sea must be the fundamental difference between the Qi Refining stage and the Lesser Heaven stage.

It could be said that once the vortex of spiritual power was formed in a Qi warrior’s spiritual sea, it would mean that they had stepped into the Lesser Heaven stage from the Qi Refining stage.

“Lesser Heaven! This must be the Lesser Heaven stage!”

After having reached the sudden enlightenment, he used the Qi Refining Incantation to once again guide the energy with his spiritual sea to speed up the revolution of the vortex of spiritual power.

In a flash, he felt that the revolution of the vortex had abruptly accelerated by quite a few times, thereupon increasing the gravitational force coming from the eye of the vortex by a few times.

Also because of this, the rate of him absorbing the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth had suddenly accelerated.

“This is awesome!”

Submerged in ecstasy, he could no longer feel any discomfort. He realized that because of the formation of the vortex of spiritual power, his originally quiet spiritual sea instantly became full of life force.

With the formation of the vortex of spiritual power, his spiritual sea appeared to have been vested with a vigorous life, and the rate at which he absorbed the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth had increased by a number of folds.

In the future, even when he wasn’t practicing cultivation, his spiritual sea would still automatically gather spiritual energy from the surroundings.

“Can this be the biggest difference between the Lesser Heaven stage and Qi Refining stage?

“This… this is the breakthrough I’ve been waiting for?”