Chapter 1066: Spiritual Core Condensing (1/2)

Nie Tian walked out of his cultivation room and into the open area in the depths of the mountain valley, where he focused on channeling power from spirit jades and all sorts of spiritual materials.

Under the night sky, his whole body glowed as he attracted power from the starry river like a magnet.

Illusory shapes of the orange flame spark, the Nine Stars Flower, and the Godspirit Tree sapling rose from the top of his head.

They were the condensation of the stimulated auras of the three wondrous items.

Even though they were illusory, they managed to channel three types of power from the starry river and guide them into Nie Tian’s spiritual sea.

At the same time, Nie Tian used the Qi Refining Incantation to channel power into his dantian region from spirit jades and spiritual materials of different attributes.

Spiritual auras that were rich and pure filled his spiritual sea like multicolored mists.

Nie Tian examined himself with his soul awareness, and saw with great clarity that all four of his spiritual cores were undergoing changes.

When his flame power core, wood power core, star power core, and pure spiritual power core had first formed, they had refined and condensed spiritual auras in his spiritual sea into liquid.

At this moment, as the liquid spiritual power further refined, solid pieces gradually formed at the hearts of his four spiritual cores.

A crimson crystal that was the size of a grain of rice formed at the heart of the flame power core; a piece of wood of the same size appeared at the heart of the wood power core; a tiny piece of silver metal formed at the very center of the star power core.

“Liquid power further condenses into solid. This must mean that the spiritual cores can hold more power now!”

Enlightened, Nie Tian continued to observe, and discovered that the solidified parts only took up a small portion of the spiritual cores.

The power that was farther from the center was still liquid.

The changes in his spiritual sea thrilled him greatly.

Now, as he observed his dantian region, his spiritual sea looked like a misty sea of spiritual Qi at first glance, but upon closer look, four spiritual cores floated in the middle of the spiritual Qi, with solidified power at their hearts and liquidized power filling the rest of them.

This was how his spiritual sea looked now.

As for the spark of Divine Flame, the Nine Stars Flower, and the Godspirit Tree sapling, they floated around in the liquidized power, channeling power from the starry river and growing at a fast rate.

As he absorbed more spiritual power, flame power, wood power, and star power, the tiny pieces of solid power at the hearts of his spiritual cores grew slowly.

Soon afterwards, his true soul underwent changes as well.

As wisp after wisp of soul power fused into his true soul, his originally blurry true soul grew clearer and clearer.

They seemed to add ‘skin’ to his true soul, and made it look identical to his true form.

The ‘skin’ was the result of further refined soul power. It rid his true soul of its sense of illusion and gave it a sense of reality, as if it vested his true soul with flesh and blood.

He didn’t need anyone to tell him about the fundamental differences between the Soul realm and the Profound realm. His own observation and enlightenment was enough.

The solid part only took up about a fifth of each spiritual core.

However, tiny as they were, they contained more power than the liquid parts.

He also came to realize that his cultivation after entering the Soul realm would center on turning the remaining liquid parts of his spiritual cores solid.

WHOOSH!

His true soul, which seemed to have gained sharpened edges, suddenly rose from the top of his head and floated there.

However, as he separated his true soul from his fleshly body this time, he no longer felt so weak and fragile that a puff of air would scatter it.

From the look of it, his true soul could move around without the protection and nourishment of his fleshly body now, and wouldn’t die as easily in the outside world as before.

“From now on, my true soul will be able to leave my fleshly body to move around in regular realms. This means that even if my fleshly body perishes, as long as my true soul is well preserved, given the right opportunity, I can still be reincarnated.

“However, compared to a Void domain true soul, my true soul still has many limitations.”

In order for Soul realm cultivators to be reborn after their deaths, their true soul had to be completely intact.

For Void, Saint, and God domain experts, even if their true souls suffered heavy blows and split into many strands when they died, as long as they could secure one strand of their true soul, they would preserve their chance at reincarnation.

Lu Jiefeng from the Five Elements Sect had suffered from serious soul attacks in the Domain of Nether Heaven, and his true soul had almost been destroyed.

However, he had managed to secure a wisp of his true soul, which had preserved his chance at being reincarnated, regaining his memories from his previous life, and recovering his peak power.

“It seems that the true souls of Soul realm cultivators still can’t travel in the starry river without protection. This means that even after entering the Soul realm, I would die beyond salvation if my fleshly body perished in the starry river.”

WHOOSH!

Like a bolt of lightning, his true soul suddenly shot into the distance.