Chapter 325: Refining the Mark (1/2)

A few days passed…

After consuming 13 spirit jades, Nie Tian eventually entered the middle Heaven stage in the forbidden region to the east of Ash City.

As he did, a brand new vortex of spiritual power came to shape within his spiritual sea.

Advancing to a new cultivation stage meant many changes.

First of all, he would be able to allow more energy into his five vortexes of spiritual power, and he would be able to further expand and refine his spiritual sea.

Then, he would be able to further his cultivation of flame power, wood power, and star power.

That aside, he would also be able to continue to temper his physical body now that his cultivation had entered a new stage.

Thanks to the breakthrough in his cultivation, not only were his various types of spiritual power greatly enhanced, but the rotation of the vortexes within his spiritual sea also sped up significantly.

After entering the middle Heaven stage, Nie Tian didn’t rush into other things, but instead took a few more days to steady his cultivation base and resume a calm state of mind.

Afterwards, he went on to condense stardew, one drop after another, using large amounts of Star Stones, and add them to the lake of stardew in his spiritual sea.

Soon, a week passed…

On this night, Nie Tian was still condensing stardew when he suddenly caught sight of a streak of glorious light soaring through the starlit sky.

The streak of light seemed so close to him that it was as if it were right above his head.

Without the slightest delay, he focused his attention as he gazed up at the dashing streak of light. Simultaneously, following the profound methods stipulated by Starfall, he summoned his psychic power and star power and had them resonate with each other.

The streak of light seemed extremely thin, and the meteor in its head seemed quite small as well.

As he cast the mysterious technique and focused his psychic awareness on the streak of light this time, he finally captured the path it was moving in!

As a profound connection was established between him and the streak of light, star power rushed out of his spiritual sea like a devastating flood rushing out of an opened floodgate.

At the same time, both his star power and the wisp of his psychic awareness he had used to lock onto the streak of light ran low at an amazing speed.

Even though it was only a small meteor and he was only attempting to use Starfall to slightly bend its path, the consumption seemed to be getting out of hand.

Furthermore, as his vortex of star power spun at a speed several times faster than usual, Nie Tian started to experience a splitting pain in his mind.

With all of his strength, he stabilized his mind and attempted to slightly alter the falling star’s path.

SHEW!

To his surprise, he succeeded this time, as the falling star deviated slightly from its original track towards the direction he attempted to channel it.

However, in such a short time, he had consumed more than half of his psychic power and star power.

BOOM!

The streak of light plummeted to the earth in a location more than five kilometers from where he was standing, but he could only sense a slight tremor from the ground under his feet.

This meant the meteor must be very small in size. Otherwise, considering how close he was to the crash site, the land and mountains around him should have been shaking violently and unceasingly.

Nie Tian let out a long sigh as he tried to calm himself. That was when he suddenly realized that he was covered in sweat and felt somewhat dizzy.

After a few deep breaths, the dizziness went away. Yet, his heart was still racing.

As a wisp of Nie Tian’s psychic awareness flew into the first fragmentary star mark on his chest, he saw with great clarity that the ancient magical symbols that had recorded Starfall and its profound mysteries were gradually disappearing.

“Starfall!” A shudder ran through his body as he immediately realized that, at this point, he had finally mastered all of the three magics recorded in the first fragmentary star mark!

Also at that moment, he came to understand why his previous attempts had failed.

It hadn’t been because he didn’t have a deep understanding of Starfall, or that he didn’t focus his attention, or that he didn’t try hard enough.

Rather, his repeated failures had been because the amount of star power within him wasn’t enough to allow him to cast such a consuming magic!