Chapter 211: Good Faith (1/2)

It wasn’t very long before Nie Tian realized that he had lost more than half of his psychic power, and thus retracted the wisp of his psychic awareness from the hexagram.

However, during this period of learning and contemplation, he had mastered the basics and could practice the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

Then, he once again focused his attention on channeling the falling starlight into the vortex of starlight in his spiritual sea.

The rotation of the vortex of starlight wasn’t regular at all; sometimes it sped up and sometimes it slowed down. Sometimes, it even reversed and rotated in the other direction.

The fragments of the starlight seemed to be refined in their own mysterious way. In any case, it grew purer and purer. Once in awhile, a drop of liquidized starlight would form at the bottom of the vortex of starlight.

The way the vortex of starlight worked was completely different from the other vortexes in his spiritual sea. When he practiced the Qi Refining Incantation, the spiritual energy he brought in would go through rounds of refinement and then flow to the far edge of his spiritual sea, and gradually build up towards the center.

Cultivation at the Lesser Heaven stage was about continuously refining spiritual energy and filling the spiritual sea with the misty, refined spiritual energy.

However, the starlight Nie Tian had channeled into his vortex of starlight via the Fragmentary Star Incantation turned into liquid stardew after refinement.

The stardew seemed fundamentally different from the misty spiritual power, as within it seemed to lay more mysteries and secrets.

As time went by, more and more drops of stardew were formed at the bottom of the vortex of starlight and soon gathered into a small pool of stardew.

Time passed quickly. Soon the curtain of night began to rise, and daybreak was at hand.

By first light of the day, Nie Tian could still channel a trivial amount of starlight into his vortex of starlight, but the efficiency had been greatly reduced.

By the time the sun was high in the sky, the starlight he could receive was next to none.

Only then did he finally awake from his cultivation and stop his contemplation of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

He examined himself with his soul and found that he had recovered most of his spiritual power.

It seemed that the shallow stardew pool in his vortex of starlight could also be used as a source of power at any time now.

It was just that he had consumed most of his psychic power just to go through very little of the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation. He only learned how to create the stardew, but not how to use it.

Furthermore, the learning and contemplation had consumed a significant amount of his psychic power.

An Shiyi, who was sitting next to him, was the first one to notice his awaking. She immediately stopped her cultivation and turned to look at him with a charming smile on her face. “You’re finally awake!”

In her hands were a few spirit stones. Apparently, she was in the middle of recuperation herself.

After hearing her words, Jiang Lingzhu also opened her eyes. She looked at Nie Tian with her still-misted eyes before looking up and saying, “Wow, it’s already morning.”

Unlike An Shiyi, Jiang Lingzhu hadn’t been recovering with spirit stones. Rather, she had actually fallen asleep during her cultivation.

Ever since she had returned from the Heaven Gate trial, she hadn’t had much time to rest; the intense demon Qi and fierce outsiders had done a number on her.

She could only restore a clear mind via a deep slumber.

“Yeah, I’m glad that you guys are alright.” With a smile, Nie Tian glanced around and saw that Hong Can, Feng Luo, Li Fan, and other survivors of the Heaven Gate trial were gathered around Li Jing, explaining to her the things that had taken place in the Heaven Gate, while she silently sat in the middle.

Yu Tong was sitting right beside her master, Shen Xiu, but she seemed to be paying attention to Nie Tian the whole time.

The moment Nie Tian woke up, she noticed it and instantly shot a glance at him with a complicated expression on her face.

The Blood sect disciples with low cultivation bases could be seen around the sect, clearing up the battlefield.

Dilapidated walls and scattered rocks could be seen at every corner of the Blood sect, underneath some of which dead bodies of low-tier outsider and Blood sect disciples could be seen.

The cleaners’ faces were all ghastly as they bore the pain while doing the work. Some even burst into tears as they did.

However, most of the Greater Heaven stage experts had no expressions on their faces as they seemed to be rather used to fellow sect members dying.

All those who gathered around Li Jing looked quite indifferent. Apparently, they weren’t shaken by the loss their sect had suffered.

After glancing around, Nie Tian looked over his shoulder and saw the Bone Blood Demon lying on the ground. Even though he could still sense a strong aura rising from it, there was no longer any sign of life fluctuations.

He then realized that the Bone Blood Demon had used up the life power he had infused into its heart while he was recuperating.

If he wanted to awaken it again, he would have to apply the same method.

With these thoughts, he silently took out a few chunks of spirit beast meat from his bracelet of holding and started munching.

The spirit beast meat contained rich life power, and by consuming it, he would be able to rapidly recover the life power he had lost by dripping his blood onto the Bone Blood Demon’s heart.

“Li Fan, you may now go and talk to Nie Tian,” Li Jing blurted. “And after that, you’re welcome to stay in the Blood sect or take Jiang Lingzhu and leave.”