Chapter 1046: Floating in the Starry River (1/2)

The starry river was filled with a mixture of countless auras and energies.

Standing on the Star Boat, Nie Tian voluntarily canceled its protective shield to expose himself to the harmful environment.

He sensed his surroundings with rapt attention, and discovered that small amounts of star power, flame power, and wood power in the starry river were converging on him from all directions, as if they were being channeled by the Nine Stars Flower, the flame spark, and the Godspirit Tree sapling inside of him.

But at the same time, a wide array of other energies and auras that didn’t agree with his cultivation needs infiltrated his body as well.

They included faint Demon qi, Phantasm Qi, various impurities, and hundreds of other types of power that corroded his flesh.

Even though those auras weren’t being channeled, they were gradually infiltrating and corroding his body with the protective shield down.

He needed to activate his bloodline power to refine the unwelcome energies and auras bit by bit.

“After entering the Void domain, cultivators will be able to keep those harmful auras away with their domains and travel freely in the starry river.” Nie Tian pondered. “Since I haven’t built my own domain yet, I haven’t acquired such an ability. However, outsiders will gain the ability to form a ward of flesh aura after they reach certain grades, which will achieve a similar protective effect as a domain.”

“Bloodline talent: Life Strengthening!” As he suddenly activated his bloodline talent, the flesh power that was scattered in every corner of his body was instantly ignited.

His body started to change at a visible speed. Scaly armor that carried silver and gold patterns rapidly spread to cover every inch of his body.

At the same time, his heart started to race, while his muscles and bones expanded considerably.

He looked incredibly large and robust in this Life Strengthening form.

Then, he examined himself again, and discovered that the numerous harmful energies and auras were now being shielded off by the vigorous flesh aura he exuded.

Most of them couldn’t infiltrate through his pores anymore.

Only a small portion of them managed to pass through his sealing flesh aura into his body. However, not only did those energies not harm him, but they even turned out to be slightly helpful for his body refinement and strengthening.

Invigorated by his new discovery, he started floating around in the desolate starry river without his Star Boat, and sensing his changes with rapt attention.

Soon, he realized that even in his Life Strengthening state, the flame spark, the Nine Stars Flower, and the Godspirit Tree sapling in his spiritual sea were still channeling flame power, star power, and wood power from his surroundings, while shielding off the energies that were harmful or didn’t suit his cultivation needs.

It was as if all of the energies that were allowed into his body were carefully screened by his bloodline, and could help strengthen his body.

His eyes shone with the light of excitement.

This meant that even though he hadn’t entered the Void domain yet, he no longer had to rely on the Star Boat or other powerful experts to travel or battle in the starry river.

“This must be another perk of my bloodline advancing to the seventh grade!”

He immediately realized that this wondrous change was brought by his recent bloodline upgrade, and the fact that he had spent a large amount of flesh power to strengthen his body.

From now on, not only would he be able to travel through the starry river, but he would be able to fight enemies and practice cultivation in the starry river as well.

The flame spark, the Nine Stars Flower, and the Godspirit Tree would help him gather the three types of power he needed from the starry river.

After he activated Life Strengthening, his body would automatically shield off the harmful energies and take only the helpful ones in, which was very conducive to his body refinement.

“Now, I’m at the late Profound realm. All of my spiritual cores have been refined to their limit. All that’s left to do is refine my true soul.”

With these thoughts, he communicated with the Spirit Pearl’s soul and demanded pure soul power from it.

Floating in the vast starry river, he started refining his true soul with the pure, refined soul power provided by the Spirit Pearl.

Time flew...

On this day, his true soul was also refined to the point where it was ready for his next breakthrough.

At that moment, he finally felt the existence of his cultivation base barrier, and had a fantastic feeling that he was finally going to leave the Profound realm and enter the Soul realm.

“Entering the Soul realm will be a major leap forward in my cultivation!”

Thrilled, he took out his Star Boat again to wander around in the desolate, silent starry river, focusing on deriving enlightenments.

However, despite his prolonged attempts, he failed to shatter his cultivation base barrier and enter the Soul realm.