Chapter 249: Some Rejoice While Others Gloom (1/2)

Deep in the night, in a remote corner of the Void Illusion Mountain Range.

Nie Tian was sitting cross-legged, using the secret magic he had learned from the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation to channel star power from the heavens into the vortex of star power in his spiritual sea, and condense that power into stardew.

Meanwhile, a Heaven Eye hung high in the sky, scanning the vicinity for signs of movement, in case spirit beasts or Qi warriors entered the area.

As numerous streams of star power began to continuously penetrate the green light shield and converge on him, he had a feeling that it seemed that he didn’t need to focus solely on the spell to continue the process. Therefore, he spared some attention to study the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

As soon as he sent a wisp of his psychic awareness into one of the hexagrams on his chest, he saw a large number of ancient symbols lined up in perfect order.

“Huh?!” With a single glance, he noticed that the record about the method to channel star power from the heavens was no longer there.

At that moment, he suddenly received a flash of enlightenment; whenever he fully grasped a magic or spell from the Fragmentary Star Incantation, the part that recorded the magic or spell would disappear.

Then, it occurred to him that Hua Mu used to tell him that by the time he had refined those two fragmentary star marks, he wouldn’t have anything to fear, and would be able to openly return to his home.

He hadn’t truly understood what he had meant, but now he did.

By the time he had mastered every spell and magic in the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation, evey magical symbol in the hexagram that carried the mysteries of the incantation would disappear.

That would be when he had truly merged the incantation with himself.

With these thoughts in mind, he commanded his psychic awareness to move on to the following spell.

He soon realized that aside from the starlight channeling spell, there were three other spells recorded in the first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

They were Starstrike, Starshift, and Starfall.

Starstrike was a powerful attacking spell. Starshift was a spell that would allow him to teleport from one position to another, while Starfall was a spell he could use to change the course of shooting stars from outer space and redirect them to bombard his enemies.

The power source of all three of them resided in the stardew in the vortex of star power.

He only used his psychic awareness to briefly scan the three spells and learn their unique traits, but didn’t actually learn how to cast them.

“What’s in the middle part?” With that thought in Nie Tian’s mind, a wisp of his psychic awareness flew into the other fragmentary star mark on his chest to learn what mysterious magics were recorded in it.

As he did, he already had a feeling that his psychic power was quickly running low.

That was when he realized that by only using his psychic power to briefly examine the ancient symbols and learn what spells were recorded in the Fragmentary Star Incantation, he had consumed a large proportion of his psychic power.

However, he was determined to check what magical spells were written in the middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation.

WHOOSH! WHOOSH!

It was at that very moment that the seven stars in his soul suddenly began to shine brightly.

Numerous wisps of soul power floated out from within the stars and joined his psychic power before they entered the hexagram together.

Nie Tian immediately came to a realization, “It’s forcing me to use my soul power! I’m forced to summon power from the fragmentary stars to read the middle part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation!”

Then, he only briefly scanned the spells that were recorded in the hexagram before retracting the mixture of his psychic power and soul power.

The significant consumption of psychic power made him feel depleted and muddle-headed.

Because of that, the efficiency of his channeling of the starlight from the heavens was also undermined. The speed at which he refined star power into stardew declined substantially.

However, thanks to the brief scan, he had already learned what spells were recorded in the middle part of the incantation.

They were all spells regarding cultivating soul power and using soul power to attack, defend, or communicate with spirits in spiritual souls.

As a matter of fact, his eyes had been caught by one of the spells: Starchain. However, just as he was about to learn what it was about, he was struck by a sudden rush of exhaustion, and felt that even his pure soul power wasn’t capable of giving him more time.

“The first part of the Fragmentary Star Incantation is about channeling star power into the spiritual sea, forming a vortex of star power, condensing stardew, and using star power to cast spells.