Chapter 237 - 237 Breaking through to the Spirit realm (1/2)

Little Black nodded his head, as he watched Shun Long walking towards his usual seat, before he sat down cross-legged and closed his eyes.

After clearing his head, Shun Long summoned the 'Heaven swallowing vine', before he took out more than 10.000 middle-grade spirit stones.

The vine then started to rapidly swallow the middle-grade spirit stones that Shun Long fed to it, before it turned them into pure qi that filled the air around him.

Shun Long circulated the 'Monarch's Hourglass', as 81 bright balls of qi appeared above his head.

Shun Long then started absorbing the pure qi that the 'Heaven swallowing vine' extracted from the middle-grade spirit stones, replenishing the enormous amounts of qi that he had expended on top of the golden stairs earlier.

Once the 81 balls of qi were once again brought back to peak condition, Shun Long focused his mind as he tried to compress the 81 balls of qi down to one, in order to successfully breakthrough to the Spirit realm.

Shun Long already knew that this breakthrough would be different than the last.

Unlike the breakthrough to the Heaven grade, to breakthrough to the Spirit realm, this time, aside from compressing the balls of qi into one, he also had to condense all of his spiritual strength together, creating his spirit sense.

Only then could Shun Long truly enter the early rank 1 in the Spirit realm.

Having his own spirit sense would also drastically help Shun Long in his alchemy as well, along with many other things in the future.

After all, the difference between touching something with spiritual strength and touching it with spirit sense was simply incomparable.

Touching a medicinal herb with spiritual strength gave you a feeling as if you were touching it with your own 2 hands, but touching it with spirit sense was more than that.

It gave you a feeling of examining the medicinal herb at the same time that you were touching it.

In a cauldron that had its lid closed during the final steps of alchemy, or when a formation master engraved runes on the inside of a weapon, spirit sense would allow the 2 of them to see what was happening inside, instead of just getting a rough feeling of the situation through their spiritual strength.

Endless amounts of qi were extracted from the middle-grade spirit stones, as they were converted into pure qi from the 'Heaven swallowing vine', before they filled the air around Shun Long and Little Black.

Absorbing the pure qi in the air around him, Shun Long then started to compress the 81 balls of qi in the 'Monarch's Hourglass', while at the same time, a stinging pain had filled his head as he compressed his spiritual strength, before it transformed into spirit sense.

3 hours soon passed, and 27 balls of qi, much brighter than before, were now left inside the 'Monarch's Hourglass'.

Droplets of sweat had formed on Shun Long's forehead, but gritting his teeth he continued compressing the qi balls.

6 hours later, a pair of blindingly bright balls of qi had appeared above Shun Long's head, inside the 'Monarch's Hourglass'.

The 2 balls of qi were so bright, that they actually resembled 2 miniature suns.

Shun Long's 81 balls of qi had been now compressed in these 2 balls.

At the same time, inside his spiritual space, his spiritual strength had also been compressed into small wisps of green light.

Although compressing his spiritual strength was extremely painful to Shun Long, who had much more spiritual strength than almost any other Heaven grade cultivator so the process was even lengthier to him, Shun Long could only grit his teeth and continue with the process.

He knew that this was the only way that he could successfully complete his breakthrough and step into the Spirit realm.

FInally, 4 hours later, a blindingly bright ball of qi hovered above Shun Long's head inside the 'Monarch's Hourglass'.