Chapter 324: Contemplating the Profundity of Two Types of Essence (2/2)

It wasn’t very long before he discovered that whenever he tempered his body with his flesh power, the process would follow the strange pattern of breaking down before repairing.

By nature, flesh power was more violent and fierce. It would usually rip Nie Tian’s muscle fibers, bones, and meridians apart before healing them.

The healed muscle fibers, bones, and meridians would turn out to be even tougher and more resilient, and thus his refined body would be able to contain richer and purer flesh power.

The breaking down process was usually very quick. However, the repairing process was usually rather slow.

That wasn’t the case with wood power.

The destructive power of wood power was no match for that of flesh power. However, wood power possessed a healing ability far stronger than that of the flesh power when his flesh, bones, and meridians needed repairing. Perhaps this was the main difference between the two types of power.

No matter whether it was the human race, an outsider race, or spirit beasts, they shared the same process of body refinement, which was destruction before construction.

When they had both flesh power and wood power inside of them, flesh power would be mainly in charge of tearing their meridians, muscle fibers, and bones, and that would be where its duty ended. The extra flesh power would be deposited in their blood.

Afterwards, wood power would take charge as it gradually healed the destroyed parts and made them strong again.

Since the two types of power had unique features and a clear division of work, when he tempered his body with both of them, the efficiency would increase severalfold.

Only then did he come to realize how fast his wounds had healed when he had drawn on wood power instead of flesh power.

Flesh power resided in his flesh, bones, and blood. In a battle, it could immediately burst forth and form powerful strikes as soon as it was summoned.

However, since wood power originated from plants and vegetation, it couldn’t reside in his flesh, bones, and blood for a long period of time. Therefore, it would only circulate within him and rapidly heal his wounds when he was injured.

After contemplating for a few days straight, Nie Tian finally achieved a fairly deep understanding of the two types of power.

After that, he also discovered that even though he could channel his wood power to help with the refinement of his body, he wasn’t able to channel his flesh power into his spiritual sea and use it to replenish the wood essence within his vortex of wood power.

That was when he came to realize that since he was a fleshy creature, he could only strengthen his flesh power with wood power, and not the other way around.

Upon such enlightenment, Nie Tian immediately began consuming spirit beast meat and using both his flesh power and wood power to temper his outstandingly tough fleshy body.

Soon, two weeks passed…

During this period of time, neither did Nie Tian witness anymore meteors fall from the sky, nor did he come across Ning Yang again.

Early in the morning…

After consuming some more spirit beast meat, Nie Tian attempted to circulate the newly-generated flesh power within him, along with his wood power.

At that very moment, he suddenly had a feeling that his physical strength had also come to a bottleneck, and his body had been refined to the point where it could no longer be strengthened by the two types of power.

However, in the next moment, a loud snapping sound rang out through his mind as Nie Tian was struck by a wonderful feeling, as if he had just broken away from the shackles that had been holding him down for a long time.

Afterwards, huge waves were immediately created in his dantian’s spiritual sea, and his vortexes of spiritual power, flame power, wood power, and star power all started to rotate madly.

“I’ve finally shattered the barrier in my path of cultivation!”

Joy filling his eyes, Nie Tian didn’t hesitate in the least before taking out the spirit jades he had prepared for such occasions and jumping into an enormous crater, where he began to focus solely on breaking through into the next cultivation stage.

Only at that moment did he realize that he had ignored a very important factor to the breakthrough in his cultivation: refinement of his physical body.

Due to his uniqueness, not only did he need to refine and contemplate the profundities of spiritual power, flame power, wood power, and star power, but he also needed to temper his physical body consistently.

Only when the refinement of his body and spiritual sea both reached their limits would he be able to shatter the barrier in his cultivation and naturally enter the next stage.