Chapter 1066: Spiritual Core Condensing (2/2)

Seconds later, his true soul was already fifty kilometers from his fleshly body.

That was when the connection between his true soul and his fleshly body became unstable and hard to maintain.

Fifty kilometers seemed to be his true soul’s limit. If it went any further, it would most likely lose connection with his fleshly body.

Separated from his fleshly body by fifty kilometers, his true soul unleashed its soul awareness, and sensed the soul auras in its surroundings.

He instantly discovered a brilliant use of separating his true soul from his fleshly body. “By separating my true soul from my body, I can greatly increase my detection range! If I keep my true soul within my body, I can only scan a ten kilometer radius around me with my soul awareness.”

However, it would still be a risky thing to do. If there were powerful enemies in his surroundings, they might be able to detect and eliminate his true soul.

This was the reason why even though many powerful experts had this wondrous ability, they normally wouldn’t use it, unless they were certain that there weren’t any enemies that could threaten their true soul in the vicinity.

Back in the day, Wu Ji had secretly kept an eye on Nie Tian when he had entered a spiritual mine close to the Cloudsoaring Sect. His true soul was what he had used. The reason he had dared to do so was because he knew that there hadn’t been a single person that was stronger than him in that area. No one had even been able to detect the movement of his true soul.

This was also why elder Yan Zhan, who was at the late Saint domain, had dared to scan the Realm of Split Void with his true soul.

Furthermore, souls and spirits traveled at a much faster speed than fleshly bodies.

Therefore, it was much more efficient to scan heaven and earth with true souls.

This was why Yan Zhan had been able to get a full grasp of the situation in the Realm of Split Void within a very short time.

However, most Void and Saint domain experts wouldn’t release their true souls while traveling in the starry river. For one thing, the impurities in the starry river would harm their true souls. For another, they were afraid that they would encounter powerful enemies.

Without a power supply from the fleshly body, the true soul would have to rely on its own power, and was therefore unable to cast many exquisite spells and incantations.

There might be a chance at survival if what it encountered was the true soul of a weaker enemy, but it would be disastrous if it encountered a master of lightning incantations.

“The solid parts only take up about a fifth of my spiritual cores now. That’s something I can work on.”

With this thought, Nie Tian took out more spirit jades and materials that contained flame power, wood power, and star power, and used their power to further the solidification of his spiritual cores.

During this time, most of the flame power, wood power, and star power that was channeled from the starry river was consumed by the Nine Stars Flower, the flame spark, and the Godspirit Tree sapling themselves.

Only a very small portion was used to condense his spiritual cores further.

Time flew.

Seven days passed, and Nie Tian’s breakthrough was still not finished.

Jing Feiyang, Yue Yanxi, and Jiang Feng stood guard for him right outside the deep mountain valley.

Even though Hou Chulan and the others kept their distance from the valley, they paid close attention to the auras that kept streaming down from the starry river by relying on their keen soul perception.

Ruan Qingliu, who was at the late Saint domain, took a glance at Wei Botao and said, “Part of the flame power and wood power that has been channeled from the starry river isn’t pure enough, and is thus discarded. As it disperses into heaven and earth, the flame power and wood power in his surroundings is becoming richer and richer. The Heaven Nourished grade flame and wood treasures inside of Nie Tian are rather picky.

“However, even the power they don’t care to absorb is of great help to your realm.

“The trees and plants will benefit from the increasingly rich wood power in the air, and the flame power will help enhance the intensity of the earthflame in the bellies of the nearby mountains.”

Hou Chulan nodded. “It’s not his breakthrough, but those two Heaven Nourished grade treasures that are causing the wood power and flame power in this area to grow richer and richer. Only the star power channeled here by the Nine Stars Flower can’t seem to last in this realm.

She sensed the changes with rapt attention, and said in a soft voice, “From the look of it, he’ll be able to finish his breakthrough in a few days.”

Wei Botao smiled wryly. “All I hope is that his breakthrough is not hurting the foundation of the Realm of Martial Spirit. I don’t dare to hope that we’ll benefit from it.”

Everyone continued waiting.

On this day, as Nie Tian was still gathering power to expand the solid parts in his spiritual cores, one of Hou Chulan’s subordinates rushed to her with great urgency.

“Divine Daughter!” The man exclaimed. “We just received word that the third Son of the Stars of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace was betrayed by one of his subordinates and died in his own domain!”

Hou Chulan’s expression flickered drastically. “Mou Luo died?! Like me, Mou Luo was also at the late Void domain. His subordinates are even stronger than Sikong Cuo’s. I can’t believe he actually died!”

The man couldn’t mask his astonishment as he said, “He’s dead! It can’t be false! He died at the hands of two ninth grade grand patriarchs. Not even a wisp of his soul escaped. The man who betrayed him seems to be a middle Saint domain subordinate who had joined his force a long time ago.”

“This is indeed a hard time for us,” Ruan Qingliu said, her face extremely grim.“It’s been many years since the last time a Son of the Stars of the Ancient Fragmentary Star Palace was killed by outsiders. And it’s different this time. Mou Luo was betrayed by his own subordinate, which is simply shocking.”

With these words, he shot a glance at Wei Botao.

Wei Botao instantly buried his face and said, “Divine Daughter, it was Gan Xi who betrayed you. I’ve been nothing but loyal to you! I’d never betray you!”

“Great changes are at hand,” Hou Chulan muttered to herself, as if she didn’t even hear him.

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