Chapter 432: Slight Changes in the Spiritual Sea (1/2)

Chapter 432: Slight Changes in the Spiritual Sea

Even though she couldn’t stop secretly cursing Nie Tian, Dong Li trusted his judgment.

She felt very secure following him, even though she knew that many local Qi warriors were searching in the vicinity.

She believed that Nie Tian would be able to guide them out of this area.

Her strong trust in him came from the repeated failures and losses she had suffered from him, as well as the fact that he had saved her from the Spirit Pearl’s influence when she had almost given in and been devoured by the mountains of corpses and seas of blood

Nie Tian heard her quiet curses, but said nothing.

With the help of his nine Heaven Eyes, he gained a thorough understanding of every local Qi warrior’s location and movements.

Now that the fragmentary stars in his soul had expanded to the size of fists, both the coverage and perception of his Heaven Eyes had risen to a whole new level.

Following Nie Tian’s directions, the two of them effortlessly steered clear of every local Qi warrior in the vicinity.

Two days passed...

Under Nie Tian’s leadership, they marched out of the area roamed by local search teams, and found themselves at the foot of a grayish-yellow mountain peak.

Nie Tian found a suitable spot and sat down on the ground, saying, “We can finally have a rest. Those local Qi warriors are only searching the area around the lake. Now that we’re far enough from the lake, we should be safe for now.”

Dong Li also heaved a sigh of relief.

Over the past two days, she had followed Nie Tian closely as the two of them marched on at a fast pace. Whenever she felt like it, she would secretly curse Nie Tian for not appreciating her kindness.

However, now that they were out of danger, she surprisingly kept quiet, and didn’t start bickering.

Just like Nie Tian, she sought another clean rock and sat down on it, her cold gaze fixed on him.

Nie Tian, however, remained expressionless as he took out a number of spirit stones and started recuperating.

As he practiced the Qi Refining Incantation, the spiritual power within those spirit stones was rapidly drawn away by him.

In the meantime, the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth started converging on him and pouring into his spiritual sea from every direction.

Nie Tian’s eyebrows flickered.

Since he had returned to the Realm of Dark Underworld as soon as he had entered the Greater Heaven stage, he hadn’t had a chance to thoroughly sense the difference between the Greater Heaven stage and the Heaven stage.

Now, he sensed with great clarity that, the moment he started practicing the Qi Refining Incantation, a copious amount of the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth started converging on him.

Even when he stopped practicing it, the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth that had been gathered to this place didn’t dissipate, but rather continued to slowly infuse into his spiritual sea.

Eyes narrowed, he examined himself and everything around him with rapt attention, and he was overcome by a feeling that he had become one with heaven and earth.

Dong Li’s eyes suddenly lit up. “Greater Heaven stage!”

With her eyes fixed on Nie Tian, she asked, “You’ve only been gone for less than two months. How could you have entered the Greater Heaven stage within such a short time?”

The whole way here, she had fought her curiosity and kept all her questions to herself.

Where had Nie Tian been during this period of time? Where was the Spirit Pearl?

At this moment, after being shocked by the fact that Nie Tian had actually advanced into the Greater Heaven stage within such a short time, she could no longer suppress her curiosity.

However, just as she was going to ask, Nie Tian muttered in a low voice, looking overjoyed, “Interesting...”

That was because he realized that his spiritual sea, the seven vortexes of spiritual power, and the vortexes of star power, wood power, and flame power were all very different from before.

Back when he had been at the Heaven stage, all of the vortexes had remained in the same location in his spiritual sea.

However, after advancing to the Greater Heaven stage, the vortexes had started to move in some profound pattern in his spiritual sea as they revolved on their own axes. At first glance, they seemed like tornadoes whooshing across his sea of spiritual power.

As they floated about, they seemed to form mysterious formations from time to time.

Such a change in his spiritual sea allowed him to attract and absorb spiritual energy from his surroundings even when he wasn’t practicing the Qi Refining Incantation.

Right now, the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth seemed to be naturally drawn in by his seven vortexes of spiritual power and infused into his spiritual sea.

He could also sense wisps of faint wood power rising from the nearby dense forest before flying into his vortex of wood power.

Even though it was currently nighttime, the heavens were misty and gray in the Realm of Dark Underworld year-round. No sun, moon, or stars could be seen in the sky.

However, he could still feel starlight invisible to the naked eye penetrating the layers of gray cloud and infusing into his vortex of star power.

The only type of power he couldn’t sense was flame power, since there weren’t any active volcanoes in the vicinity.

Meanwhile, as he started practicing the Qi Refining Incantation devotedly, the speed at which he absorbed energies from his surroundings enhanced severalfold, and so did the speed at which he channeled power from the spirit stones.

After entering the Greater Heaven stage, the efficiency at which he absorbed energy had improved significantly.

Even though he still couldn’t figure out the profound reasons behind this phenomenon, it made him realize his breakthrough into the Greater Heaven stage meant much more than having an additional vortex of spiritual power.