Chapter 202 - 202 Refining the Golden Jade spirit tree (1/2)

Shun Long opened his eyes and looked upwards, where 75 balls of qi were floating above his head inside the 'Monarch's Hourglass'.

The balls of qi that were closer to the entrance of the hourglass, were shining with a golden color that was brighter than the rest, indicating that the qi inside them was evidently purer.

Although Shun Long hadn't reached the peak of rank 9 in Heaven grade, he was still satisfied with the results of his cultivation in the past 2 months.

After thinking for a moment, he then transferred the rank 4 'Golden Jade spirit tree', from the herb garden of the 'Stone of Time' to this place.

By now, Shun Long already had more than 10 fully-matured 'Golden Jade spirit trees' in his herb garden.

Shun Long then turned to look at the tree in front of him that seemed as if it was made from pure gold, before he also took out a dozen more medicinal herbs from the 'Stone of TIme'.

It was finally time for him to refine the 'Spirit nourishing pills'.

Little Black who was also inside the foggy place along with his master now, stared at the golden tree with curiosity in his eyes.

Although he didn't know the use of the tree, the black dragon clearly remembered Shun Long's excitement, when he had seen the 'Golden Jade spirit tree' at the half-fiend village's entrance.

Shun Long however, knew about the use of this tree.

He already knew that in order for a cultivator to breakthrough from the peak of rank 9 in Heaven grade to the Spirit realm, 3 conditions needed to be met.

The first was, that the cultivator's dantian had to acc.u.mulate enough qi until it had reached saturation. Shun Long knew that this was similar to him having 81 balls of qi inside the 'Monarch's Hourglass'.

After all, although the 'Monarch's Hourglass' was different from any other cultivation technique that he had currently seen, Shun Long didn't believe that the process of breaking would be different than most other cultivators, at least during the breakthrough to the Spirit realm.

The second condition, was for the cultivator to enhance their spiritual strength. In order to step into the Spirit realm, cultivators needed to enhance the power of their own spirit first. This was usually accomplished, by either spending countless hours in meditation, or by consuming precious pills that could help in this regard.

However, such pills were extremely scarce in the Night star continent, as both the medicinal herbs that were needed were extremely rare, and the alchemists who could refine such pills were almost all at the gold grade.

As for the third condition, it was for the cultivator to increase their comprehension of their Dao.

Without sufficient insights in their Dao, a cultivator wouldn't be able to break through to the Spirit realm, and would have to spend their life stuck at the peak of rank 9 in the Heaven grade.

As for Shun Long's rank 4 'Spirit enhancing pill', it was precisely such a pill that could help enhance his spiritual strength.

Of course, the reason that Shun Long hadn't started to refine the 'Golden Jade spirit tree' earlier and waited until his cultivation had advanced, was because of the difficulty in the refinement of the tree.

As a rare high-level rank 4 medicinal ingredient, the 'Golden Jade spirit tree' was much harder to refine into medicinal essence than the rank 4 'Sunskirt grass'.

Shun Long estimated, that even now that his cultivation had reached the early rank 9 in Heaven grade, he may still not succeed in the pill refinement.

After taking a deep breath, Shun Long's spiritual strength had reached its peak, as a small flame appeared beneath his cauldron.

The look in his eyes was serious as his qi flame was warming up the cauldron.