Chapter 229: Torture (1/2)

Having sorted through the information about the Realm of Split Void that Li Ye had given him, Nie Tian went on to start cultivating without any delay.

The night passed…

At daybreak, Nie Tian sat in his room, wordless and cross-legged, holding two shattered spirit stones in his hands.

Having cultivated for only half a night, he had consumed two spirit stones.

In order to make another breakthrough in his cultivation base, he would have to spend a long time expanding his spiritual sea again.

During this process, he would need to allow new spiritual energy into his spiritual sea and refine it round after round.

Only when he had accumulated enough refined spiritual energy in his spiritual sea, and he had received the proper enlightenment, would he have a chance to make a breakthrough.

After all, aside from the three vortexes of spiritual power, there was still a vortex of flame power, a vortex of starlight, and vortex of wood power within his spiritual sea.

He would have to channel spiritual power with the relevant attributes to cultivate those three vortexes.

He had a feeling that since he had cultivated spiritual incantations of three different attributes, he would have to refine those vortexes and receive relevant enlightenment with all of them in order to break through into the next stage.

This meant that, for him to make every breakthrough, he would have to spend three times as much time and effort.

Given that there wasn’t the least bit of spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in Shatter City, he could only practice cultivation with his spirit stones. Considering that he had spent two spirit stones after cultivating for half a night, he might need eight spirit stones for one whole day if he cultivated all day long.

However, he only had three hundred spirit stones in his bracelet of holding, which were only enough to get him through a month or so if he cultivated like that.

Furthermore, he only had three months on his identity medallion, and when that time was up, he would be forced to pay the Blood Skulls with spirit stones to extend his stay.

“The spirit stones I have are far from enough.” Nie Tian started to grow worried.

“You’re awake.” Instead of knocking, Li Ye walked straight into Nie Tian’s stone room. After taking a few greenish-black logs out of his ring of holding and placing them on the ground, he turned to Nie Tian and said, smiling, “You’ll start working for me from today on, and I’ll reward you accordingly with spirit stones.”

Nie Tian’s eyes lit up and he asked with an elated tone, “How?”

“It’s very simple.”

Li Ye took out a dagger and demonstrated by cutting one greenish-black log into square slices.

Then he turned to Nie Tian and said, “This is Blackbound Wood, a third level Medium grade spiritual material. It can be used to build spell formations. Slice these logs into squares the way I did and I’ll give you one spirit stone in return.”

“As long as you do it the way I showed you, you should be able to make 150 slices out of these logs. If you can’t make 150 slices out of them, then you must have wasted my materials, and you won’t get paid!”

“One more thing, this dagger is only for you to use. I’ll need it back when you’re finished.”

With these words, Li Ye tossed the dagger to Nie Tian and beckoned for him to work.

The moment Nie Tian grabbed the dagger, he sensed that the dagger was exceptionally heavy and continuously emanated a strong coldness.

He immediately realized that the dagger must be beyond ordinary.

He took a Blackbound Wood log and, assuming a firm grip on the dagger, started cutting the way Li Ye had showed him.

At first, he pressed the dagger down with fifty percent of his strength. The wood only slightly cracked open but didn’t break.

“Wow!”

Surprised, Nie Tian exclaimed softly and started to push harder. Only when he put in all of his strength did he finally slice a piece of wood from the log.

“This Blackbound Wood is very hard, even harder than most rocks.” After cutting one slice off, Nie Tian marveled at its hardness, and then he trimmed the edge according to the example Li Ye had set for him.

He used almost half an hour to finish his first slice under Li Ye’s gaze.

During the whole process, Li Ye simply looked on and didn’t say a thing.

Only when he saw Nie Tian get the first slice done did he say, “You’re quite strong physically for a person at your level.”

“How do you know?” Nie Tian looked up at him.