Chapter 971: Mission (1/2)

The Vast Heaven Pavilion contained two types of power.

One was star power that poured through its ceiling, and the other was pure spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth.

While Nie Tian focused solely on refining his spiritual power core, he didn’t even need to use any of his spirit stones.

He simply spread his hands to gather spiritual power with the method he had learned from that magical land he had been to.

WHOOSH!

Vast spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth poured into his palms from all directions, forming spiritual energy balls.

Then, Nie Tian channeled the spiritual energy into his spiritual sea in his dantian region, to refine his spiritual power core over and over.

“The spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in Fragmentary Star City is richer than that in the magical land where those titans are buried. The Vast Heaven Pavilion, however, gathers spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth from the whole city, which makes the spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth here even richer. If people were to practice nothing but pure spiritual power here, it wouldn’t matter if they didn’t have any spirit stones or spirit jades with them.

“Come to think of it, when I first broke through into the Worldly realm, my spiritual cores came to form, along with my true soul. My pure spiritual power core was indeed the first to take form. After that were my flame power, wood power, and star power cores...”

The more he thought about it, the wiser he felt Mo Heng’s advice was.

He thought he should have discovered and practiced cultivation by this law long ago, refining his pure spiritual power core first.

The reason why he had deviated from the right path was because he had gained that Nine Stars Flower, those leaves from a Godspirit Tree, and that flame spark.

However, Mo Heng had showed up and set him straight. Things had indeed worked out after he put him on the right path again.

Two weeks passed.

With the help of the copious amount of spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth in the Vast Heaven Pavilion, Nie Tian finally refined his pure spiritual power core to its limit.

Liquidized spiritual power could be seen flowing within the semi-transparent sphere like streams.

At that time, no matter how hard he tried to channel more spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth into his pure spiritual power core, there would be no change at all.

That was when he realized that he didn’t need to spend any time or energy on his spiritual core anymore.

On this day, Zhu Yun came over, and returned the Star Behemoth bone to him.

Zhu Yun looked rather exhausted and withered, her pale-gray hair messy, as if she hadn’t cleaned herself up for a long time.

“I talked to Wei Lai just now. Fifty thousand contribution points have been added to your Star Medallion for letting us examine this Star Behemoth bone.” With these words, Zhu Yun sighed. “But after trying every method I could think of, I still couldn’t carve it with any spell formations.

“It seems that I don’t have what it takes to forge this thing into a weapon for you.

“Every time I carved a spell formation onto it, the Star Behemoth’s Bloodline Crystal Chains would wipe it out immediately. This thing is an integral whole, which can be viewed as a part of a living Star Behemoth. Even if I were able to carve it with spell formations, that might break its original balance.”

Zhu Yun seemed rather frustrated.

“Sorry for putting you through all the trouble,” Nie Tian said gratefully.

Zhu Yun nodded and left.

Nie Tian, however, didn’t feel particularly disappointed, since he would be able to use it in battle as long as he had enough flesh power.

This thing was still going to be his most destructive weapon.

He had a feeling that as his bloodline upgraded, and his understanding of his unique bloodline grew deeper and deeper, he would eventually solve all of the mysteries of this thing.

After this, he continued to practice cultivation wholeheartedly in the Vast Heaven Pavilion.

Time flew. Half a year passed before he knew it. With the help of the Nine Stars Flower, the flame spark, and the leaves of the Godspirit Tree, he had finally refined his star power, flame power, and wood power to the limit as well.

It would take a regular cultivator several years to finish this process, but the three Earth Cultivated grade treasures greatly reduced the time required for him.

At this moment, the refinement of his spiritual sea had reached the point where he was ready for his next breakthrough. However, the refinement of his true soul was miles behind.

In order to make a breakthrough in cultivation, he would have to strengthen both his spiritual sea and sea of awareness. If the refinement of his true soul lagged behind, he still wouldn’t be able to reach his next breakthrough.

The reason why he had been able to make consecutive breakthroughs before was because he had a stockpiled a large number of soul crystals.