Chapter 696: Spiritual Core Forms, True Soul Appears! (1/2)

Time passed bit by bit...

Sitting on the ancient altar that was surrounded by eight flame dragon skeletons, Nie Tian picked up spirit jades from time to time to absorb their copious spiritual power.

The merging of the two vortexes of spiritual power caused splitting pain in his head and the transformation of his psychic power.

His psychic power quietly gathered and became a cluster of white mist, along with his memories and knowledge of all sorts of power and incantations.

This cluster of white mist kept releasing his unique soul aura.

Violent soul fluctuations burned his mind like boiling lava, making him dizzy.

Like steel, wisps of psychic power were being hammered a thousand times over before being refined into soul power.

The transformation of his psychic power was also causing changes to his memories, which were mixing and brooding in the cluster of white mist.

As tiny dark spots exploded from time to time within the cluster of white mist, images flashed across Nie Tian’s eyes.

It started with his childhood memories in Black Cloud City in the Realm of Flame Heaven.

Brawls between him and the other Nie Clan children, his experience in the Green Illusion dimension, learning from Wu Ji, the fierce battles during the Heaven Gate trial...

Scenes of his lifelong memories continued to appear and vanish before his eyes like a slideshow.

The cluster of white mist expanded and shrank from time to time. In one moment, it would grow long and assume Nie Tian’s figure, but in the next moment, it would shatter and shrink back into a cluster of mist.

As that happened, his vortexes of spiritual power continued to merge with one another.

CRACK!

Another spirit jade was drained of spiritual power and cracked.

Without saying a word or opening his eyes, he picked up a new one.

He had long since known that his psychic power would transform into soul power and a true soul would form when he advanced to the Worldly realm.

However, he hadn’t been aware that such changes would take place in his spiritual sea.

Now, he knew that as he broke through into the Worldly realm, his nine vortexes of spiritual power would become one.

His master, Wu Ji, had never told him anything about what changes would happen to him when he made breakthroughs in his cultivation.

Wu Ji had done that so that he would get to examine and study the changes himself.

Wu Ji had only told him that breakthroughs would take place when he was ready, and that he didn’t need to learn much about them beforehand.

Meanwhile, it had never occurred to Hua Mu, Zhen Huilan, or the other seniors to tell him about the changes that would happen during his breakthroughs, because they had all assumed that Wu Ji had told him about them in detail already.

After all, Fang Hui, Chang Sen, and every other expert from the Realm of Flame Heaven praised Wu Ji as the best mentor one could ever want.

Wu Ji’s method turned out to be brilliant.

Every time Nie Tian tried to make a breakthrough, he didn’t know what changes would occur. Because of this, he would act with great caution and pay close attention to every subtle change that took place during his breakthrough.

He had to observe closely and try to fathom the changes in order not to get into trouble.

As one spirit jade after another was reduced to ordinary stones and piled up beside him, his nine vortexes of spiritual power finally finished merging and became one.

However, he still experienced stabbing pain in his head as changes continued to take place in his mind.

More and more psychic power was turned into soul power as the cluster of white mist fluctuated.

Gradually, Nie Tian started to have a feeling that the cluster of white mist had become the vessel of his soul.

The wisps of soul power within it were like his soul’s meridians and flesh.

As one spirit jade after another was consumed, his mind gradually drifted away, reliving his previous experiences and enlightenments.

Eventually, the extended breakthrough process came to an end.

As the huge waves in his spiritual sea calmed, his nine vortexes of spiritual power had already merged into one.