Chapter 1309: Cultivation (1/2)

Every breakthrough in Nie Tian’s bloodline was accompanied by a strengthening of his body.

As long as he had a steady flow of flesh power, even if he didn’t cast Heavenly Wood Heal now, his flesh power would slowly strengthen his internal organs, along with the other parts of his body.

Once his body was fully refined, the flesh power that continued to flow into him would naturally fuse into the green aura to prepare his bloodline for its advance to the ninth grade.

Every time he made a breakthrough in his bloodline, the first thing that happened would be the awakening of new bloodline talents. After that, he would condense Blood Essence with flesh power. Once the amount of his Blood Essence reached the limit, he would move on to body refinement. Eventually, after body refinement was finished, flesh power accumulation began for the next bloodline upgrade.

This was the pattern.

However, things seemed different this time.

“Blood Condensing!”

After activating his domain, he floated over the vegetated illusory land in the vast starry river of the Domain of Forbidden Heaven.

The Godspirit Tree and the seventy-two tree branches worked together to channel pure wood power from the starry river.

Upon entering his domain, wisps of wood power morphed into emerald green streaks.

Then, they were absorbed by Nie Tian like water being absorbed by a sponge.

At the same time, wisps of flesh power also fused into his body.

“Hmm!”

Flesh power from numerous high-grade spirit beast and outsider corpses morphed into crimson lightning wisps that ran through his veins.

His blood seemed to be ignited, as it instantly started seething!

Veins in every part of his body started emanating blood-colored light.

All of a sudden, he experienced pain beyond description!

SHEW!

At this moment, channeled by the Godspirit Tree and the seventy-two tree branches, wisps of wood power poured into his veins to mix with his seething blood.

FIZZ! FIZZ! FIZZ!

His blood seemed to condense into thick crimson lightning bolts that flashed through his veins, exploding with even richer and purer flesh power.

The pain worsened ten times over.

With the soul awareness he had sent to his every vein, Nie Tian kept a close watch on the changes in his blood.

He noticed that his blood sputtered unceasingly with fragmentary lightning sparks as it ran through his veins, as if every drop of his blood was being purged and smelted.

Together, the wood power and flesh power seemed to be infusing his blood with a brand new life force, nourishing his body and allowing his ruptured flesh and cracked bones to heal even faster.

As new blood ran through every part of his body, it seemed to be reforging his body and further improving the resilience and self-healing ability of his meridians and bones.

After seeing this, Nie Tian continued to channel flesh power from outsider and spirit beast corpses and wood power from his domain, and fuse them into his blood, while bearing excruciating pain.

He immersed himself in the fifth phase of Heavenly Wood Heal.

WHOOSH!

A curvaceous figure enveloped in a black aura flashed into view in the teleportation portal on a nearby meteor.

Stepping out of the dark aura, Dong Li looked at Nie Tian, who was floating in the distant starry river with hundreds of enormous corpses scattered around him.

Some had already been sucked dry, while others were having their flesh power drained by Nie Tian using Life Drain.

Some of the drained corpses were reduced to ashes as soon as any wind blew past. However, some of the corpses remained solid even after being drained of their flesh power, and could endure for a while in the harsh environment of the starry river.

After observing for a moment, Dong Li cast a number of newly-obtained rings of holding towards Nie Tian without saying a word.

Each and every one of them contained a few dozen spirit beast and outsider corpses, which Dong Li had traded for using the rare ore mined from the Domain of Heaven’s Boundaries, the Domain of Heaven Python, and the Domain of the Falling Stars.

Since outsiders raided the human domains from time to time, battles broke out against them fairly frequently, yielding a large amount of dead outsiders.

Meanwhile, many human realms were populated by high-grade spirit beasts, which were targets cultivators would kill as part of their trials.

Thanks to Zhao Shanling’s efforts, the inter-domain teleportation portal in the Realm of Maelstrom now connected to many other domains.

Furthermore, word of what had happened at the Realm of Fragmentary Star had spread far and wide.

Many now believed that Nie Tian had a divine ability to help Saint domain experts enter the God domain.