Chapter 36 The End of the Calm (2/2)

The cultivators within the building felt their ki forcefully pressing against the skin in the direction of the middle of the vortex, but ultih It was as if their body had becoe compass, whose needle constantly pointed in the direction of the vortex

Outside of the building, a large number of cultivators started to appear above the roofs of the surrounding buildings They had all come close to observe the abnorst them

Some of them seemed fairly worried, while others felt only interest and curiosity for as happening

The two oldin the air None of the observing parties dared to go closer than they were, either for a matter of respect, or for fear

Of course, not all of them feared the two old men The worried ones between the croere those who had sent their children or disciples to study under the oldto start a fight with the twohere?” Asked a ed woman respectfully to the two oldabove one of the surrounding buildings added ”Are our children safe?” Worry couldn't be hidden within his voice

The old alchemist looked at the crowd and answered in a low and serious voice ”We don't know It doesn't seem to be harmful, so keep your distance for now We'll save your children if needs be”

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Within the building, inside one of thewhile unaware of the events, in fact, he didn't see to force his spirit into breaking through to the fourth rank for ht when he believed he was close to succeeding, his consciousness had slowly faded into oblivion

This wasn't the first time Daniel had entered this state The first time had been when he had reached perfection of the body, and perfection of his spirit's connection This state made him lose direct control over his cultivation, and yet it didn't stop it

The last tih this method of cultivation, his body had become much more suited to the presence of spiritual essence To a point where his body and the essence didn't seem to be in contrast at all

In the past few days, he had went back into wondering what kind of change would reaching rank 4 inof his body and spirit But, unable to find an answer, he was always forced to put this question aside

If Daniel had been conscious right now, he would have finally found out the answer he had longed for, for so long

While Daniel sat quietly in cultivation, the , started to invade his body ruthlessly The excessive mana, devoid of control, was rapidly absorbed by the spiritual plane through his perfect connection with his spirit

The roa essences of the spiritual plane, ki and y

His body was being refined, and forced to advance by the i produced by every bit of his body, and yet, his ki couldn't hinder the just as powerful refinement of his spirit

The two types of refinement were so powerful, that if Daniel's body hadn't been pre refined this same way once before, his body would have been destroyed and his spirit dissipated

Martial cultivation strengthened one's body, turning it into a prison for the spirit, while spiritual cultivation used one's weak body as a vessel to connect their powerful spirits to the spiritual plane

In comparison, a martial cultivator's body was like a porcelain vase, while a spiritual cultivator was like a balloon

A vase couldn't contain toohard, it couldn't expand At the same time, a balloon couldn't become as resistant as a vase, as it required to be elastic in order to contain the increasing a to Daniel, was as if both the container and the content couldn't stop the other's refinee, and adapt to the other's change

His spirit becoer, was slowly being refined around the presence of spiritual essence

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It was early in thenear the vortex

The ht essence had joined the water and winds, giving it a bright shi+ne which turned observing the vortex hbourhood for the past few hours, as the many confused cultivators shared their own theories about this strange phenomenon

The only two that kept quiet, were the two oldin the air, while de a non traversable line with their own bodies

Suddenly, the chatting noises lessened, as everyone felt soe within the vortex

Spiritual cultivators were extremely sensitive to mana, so themana lessen, they noticed it immediately

On the contrary, what alerted the martial cultivators, was the behaviour of their internal ki, which, while before it was al to push its way out of their bodies to rush to thedown instead

The chatter stopped abruptly The eyes of every person present on scene was directed towards the part of the building where the vortex seeenerated Specifically, one of the cultivation roo down, until the attraction was too feeble to keep attracting the essences in the surrounding Therefore round like weak rain, the winds ere previously being attracted by the vortex were quietly pushed away by new incoht that see to shi+ne evenly on each part of the city

Under the attentive eyes of the city's experts, the door of the cultivation roo man stepped out quietly