Chapter 430: Entering the Greater Heaven Stage (1/2)

Chapter 430: Entering the Greater Heaven Stage

The Flame Dragon Armor and the second fragmentary star mark worked together to build him a great fortune.

When he had been at his wit’s end and could only wait for his imminent death, the Flame Dragon Armor had rushed out, formed a spatial vortex, and brought him to this mysterious heaven and earth.

It had also taken advantage of the dilapidated altar and the eight sets of dragon skeletons surrounding it, and formed an unknown formation of flames.

The Spirit Pearl, which had blindly barged in in an attempt to kill Nie Tian, had immediately been trapped.

The torrential flames smelted every single discarnate soul and Specter it had unleashed and turned them into wisps of pure, cyan-gray soul power.

Then, the wisps of soul power rose from the altar and were channeled into the second fragmentary star mark, where they were refined a second time before being sent into Nie Tian’s soul as wisps of incomparably pure soul power.

As one wisp after another flew into Nie Tian’s soul, the seven darkened fragmentary stars, which had shrunk to the size of grains, began to shine brightly again.

At the same time, Nie Tian could sense with great clarity that the head-splitting pain he had been experiencing was being greatly relieved.

He immediately realized that he had injured his own soul by overly consuming the power within the seven fragmentary stars to ward off the Spirit Pearl’s soul fluctuations.

Right now, his soul and the fragmentary stars in it were gradually healing.

Raging flames were still ravishing the space above the altar. The Spirit Pearl flashed about here and there, but still couldn’t break free from the sea of flames.

The power within the Spirit Pearl, as well as the swarming Specters and discarnate souls it had unleashed, were being purged by the blazing flames. After being refined a second time by the fragmentary star mark floating before Nie Tian’s eyes, they were all turned into wisps of pure soul power that disappeared into Nie Tian’s soul.

As they received this replenishment, not only did the seven fragmentary stars in his soul light up again, but they also began to expand in size.

It wasn’t long before Nie Tian realized that, as the fragmentary stars in his soul absorbed abundant amounts of pure soul power, the spiritual Qi in this mysterious heaven and earth started to quietly converge on him as well.

He was instantly taken over by a strange feeling.

He felt that, thanks to the existence of the Flame Dragon Armor and the fragmentary star mark, his ability to attract and absorb energy from his surroundings had greatly improved.

With this thought in mind, he took out a spirit stone and made an experiment by absorbing its power.

The spiritual power within it poured madly into the spiritual sea in his dantian.

The spirit stone cracked in a split second.

Nie Tian was taken aback.

Immediately afterwards, he took out a number of spiritual materials of fire and wood attributes, as well as some Star Stones.

He spread them out on the ground in front of him. As he placed his hands on some of them and practiced the most basic Qi Refining incantation, the energy within them would be drained within a second.

Soon, they were all reduced to ordinary stones and cracked open.

Just like that, copious amount of flame power, wood power, and star power were channeled into the relevant vortexes and refined at an unprecedentedly high speed.

He examined himself with rapt attention, and discovered that he seemed to have ascended to an incomparably mysterious state, where he had become a bottomless black hole, absorbing all kinds of power at alarming rates.

This was something he had never felt before.

He knew that many factors could have contributed to it.

It could be that the formation of the altar and the eight sets of dragon skeletons were emanating some kind of energy fluctuation; it could be caused by something happening within the second fragmentary star mark; or it could be caused by the unique features of this strange heaven and earth.

Even though he couldn’t figure out what was causing this, he knew that he had better take full advantage of it and try to maximize his gains from it.

Therefore, he took a deep breath and stopped looking at the altar, the Flame Dragon Armor, the Spirit Pearl, and the dragon skeletons.

He took out a large number of Star Stones, spirit stones, and spirit jades, as well as spiritual materials that contained flame power and wood power, and piled them into small hills around him.

Sitting among the pyramids of spiritual materials, he placed his hands on them and practiced the Qi Refining Incantation silently. Then, his whole body seemed to turn into a giant magnet that started madly absorbing power of various attributes from those spiritual materials.

Plain spiritual power, star power, flame power, and wood power condensed into misty rivers of different colors before pouring into his vortexes of spiritual power.

The various vortexes of spiritual power rotated at alarming rates, improving the speed at which they refined spiritual power severalfold.

A huge turbulence also rose in Nie Tian’s spiritual sea as it continued to refine the spiritual power within it and expand its boundaries.

At the same time, the seven fragmentary stars in his soul kept gathering more soul power and growing larger like glittering gems.

Before long, he sensed that he was reaching the bottleneck, through which he would step into the Greater Heaven stage.

He had just made a minor breakthrough in his cultivation several months ago atop one of the three extremely lofty mountain peaks in the Realm of a Thousand Devastations.