Chapter 320 - Reaping the Rewards of Others’ Labour (2/2)

”The rest is up to you,” Lu Tianzi's voice sounded out in her head once more.

Nanlan Qianxue was speechless.

The rest was up to her?

What's left for her to do anyway?

All she had to do was channel her liquid Slaughter Essence through the green vortex, and everything else would take care of itself!

Lu Tianzi really is amazing…

That was the only conclusion that Nanlan Qianxue came to.

After lending Nanlan Qianxue a hand, Lu Tianzi returned his focus to his own inner world.

Right now, his true origin core was hungrily devouring the stream of energy from the sphere of darkness, growing rapidly in size.

Double…

Triple…

Quadruple…

The energy gained from this sacrificial ritual was far too terrifying!

Lu Tianzi could only imagine just how much crazier it would have been if he had not altered the formation, allowing the sacrificial ritual to reach Bog Town as well.

By the time the last bit of Slaughter Essence energy from the sphere of darkness entered Lu Tianzi's inner world, his true origin core had already reached its limit.

Lu Tianzi wrapped his Origin Force around his true origin core, forming a thick layer around it.

And then… compress!

His true origin core immediately collapsed upon itself, unable to withstand the immense pressure of his Origin Force.

It was an extremely violent process, and a surge of pain coursed through Lu Tianzi's body, almost as though one of his internal organs had been crushed.

But the single-winged Lu Tianzi did not even flinch.

Along with the beastial bloodline transformation, his physical prowess had gone up as well, and so did his endurance towards the feeling of pain.

In Lu Tianzi's inner world, his collapsed true origin core quickly reformed itself within a cloud of Origin Force, returning to the shape of a small sphere of condensed Slaughter Essence that it had been from the start.

Only that this time, it was far more compact, and contained Slaughter Essence far denser than before.

A suppressed shockwave of energy spread out in all directions with him as the epicentre, sweeping the dust and pebbles off the ground.

Lu Tianzi closed his eyes and took in a deep breath, relishing in the intoxication of power surging through his body.

Second Cycle Origin Core realm… attained!

This time, he had really been in the right place at the right time, allowing him to reap the rewards of others' labour!

He gently opened his eyes and cancelled his beastial bloodline transformation, his physical appearance gradually reverting to the norm.

And then the pain set in.

His body was still not able to withstand the strain from his beastial bloodline transformation. The sound of his heartbeat throbbed loudly in his ears, and every smallest movement caused his whole body to hurt.

Thankfully, there was no longer any immediately threat in the surroundings, and he could take his time to recover.

Lu Tianzi turned his attention back towards Nanlan Qianxue.

Right now, Nanlan Qianxue had already entered the final stages of her impurities refinement process.

This was not to say that she had almost refined all the impurities in her inner world, but at least those that could be detected easily.

Unfortunately, Lu Tianzi's comprehensions into the Law of Origin were still considered shallow.

Since he did not know Nanlan Qianxue as well as he knew himself, the green vortex within Nanlan Qianxue's inner world was unable to pick out every last bit of impurities like what he had done for himself.

In fact, even Lu Tianzi had to spend a couple of months slowly refining the last bits of impurities in his inner world.

But this much was already more than enough.

After all, refinement of impurities was a process that usually took years to complete!

For many martial artists, they might even spend decades stuck at the Peak Essence Condensation realm simply because of this reason.

On the other hand, Nanlan Qianxue only took a few hours to do so, all thanks to the help of Lu Tianzi and the sacrificial altar.

When the last bit of Slaughter Essence energy from the sphere of darkness entered Nanlan Qianxue's inner world, the green vortex formed from Lu Tianzi's Origin Force had already vanished.

After all, the next step was something that Lu Tianzi could not help her with.

Nanlan Qianxue slowly drew in the liquid Slaughter Essence in her inner world, forming it into the shape of a ball.

She then gathered the last remaining bits of Slaughter Essence energy from the sphere of darkness, smashing it repeatedly against this ball of liquid Slaughter Essence.

This process brought about an excruciating level of pain, but Nanlan Qianxue gritted her teeth and pressed on.

She was already obtaining all the benefits without doing a thing. If she were to fail at breaking through despite all that, just how pathetic would that be?

She would rather die than to experience such humiliation!

Lu Tianzi let out a gentle smile as he examined Nanlan Qianxue's current state.

There was no doubt in Lu Tianzi's mind by now.

Nanlan Qianxue's talent was not small by any measure. With such beneficial conditions laid out for her, there was no way that she would not be able to break through successfully.

And he was right.

Just as the first ray of the sun descended upon the land, Nanlan Qianxue finally managed to form her own origin core.