Chapter 517: White Barbarian Girl (1/2)

Chapter 517: White Barbarian Girl

Qin Lie crouched low in the snow.

Streaks of lightning, claps of thunder, flashes of frost, and rays of earthy light continuously surged from his body, an element-ridden chaos.

Nobody in the group could take their eyes off of him.

At this moment, it became clear that the three different spirit energies in Qin Lie’s body had begun clashing with one another.

Qin Lie’s brow furrowed deeply as if he had entered a meditative state, making everyone around him grow increasingly worried.

Within Qin Lie’s spirit sea, his nine natal palaces resembled dazzling suns as they shot countless rays of light, fiercely clashing with one another.

The intense fluctuations of energy made the surface of his spirit sea roil, as if it could burst at any second.

“What should I do…?” Qin Lie murmured, his mind racing.

“Qin Lie! Try returning to your former state!” Xue Moyan suddenly chimed in. “The discord between the three types of spirit energies inside of you started because of the sudden change in your frost natal palaces and ongoing increase of your power of frost. Maybe you can restore balance to your nine natal palaces by dispersing the frost energy, and by extension, the power of frost in your spirit sea!

“What a good idea!” Du Xiangyang cried.

Xue Moyan’s suggestion sent Qin Lie’s thoughts into overdrive.

Taking a deep breath, he withdrew his wisp of soul consciousness from his spirit sea and immediately stopped circulating any spirit arts. He also stopped analyzing the diagram of the absolute frost concept.

He also stopped using soul crystals and the Demon Sealing Tombstone to replenish his soul energy and blood, attempting to enter the state of Thoughtless Tranquility.

His mind consciousness began to wander as his head became devoid of thought. His breathing gradually slowed, and he soon stopped thinking about the chaotic situation in his spirit sea…

“Eh?” A look of disbelief surfaced on Luo Chen’s icy face as he shook his head slowly, his brow furrowed.

As far as he could tell, Qin Lie seemed to have abruptly disappeared from reality. His body no longer showed any signs of life or gave off any soul fluctuations.

Qin Lie looked as if he had turned into a block of ice and become one with the Forbidden Land of Ice.

This was the same for everyone else.

“The chaotic fluctuations within his spirit sea are slowly calming down. He seems to have found a way after all…” Xie Jingxuan said quietly.

Everyone narrowed their eyes, attentively gazing at Qin Lie. They realized that the lights of lightning, frost, and earth that had been wildly discharging from Qin Lie’s body had actually begun to retreat back within him.

Turbulent waves of energy no longer radiated from Qin Lie.

The tension gradually faded from everyone’s bodies as they scattered around Qin Lie and sat down, taking out spirit stones to start their own recovery.

An hour later, Qin Lie opened his eyes. A cloud of icy mist emerged from his mouth as he exhaled. His mind had finally settled down for the time being.

Qin Lie took another look at his spirit sea and discovered that his frost, thunder, and earth natal palaces had long since stopped clashing and returned to a state of calm.

Three natal palaces filled with frost energy, which looked like crystalline spheres of ice, continuously radiated a glacial sheen. It seemed as if the spaces inside of them were still expanding in order to contain even more frost energy.

As for the thunder and earth natal palaces… no obvious abnormalities could be seen.

“In the Manifestation Realm, one opens a total of nine natal palaces. Once those nine are completely established, will they remain like that forever or can they continue to expand?”

Qin Lie directed this question to Du Xiangyang, who had already finished recovering by then.

“According to my knowledge, once the nine natal palaces are established, they’ll expand every time you break through to the next realm. Once from the Netherpassage Realm to the Fulfillment Realm, then another time from the Fulfillment Realm to the Fragmentation Realm. Your natal palaces change with each great breakthrough.”

Du Xiangyang thought to himself for a moment, then continued to explain. “However, cultivation during the Netherpassage and Fulfillment Realms is primarily focused on tempering and developing the soul. They don’t really focus on the natal palaces. When a breakthrough happens, though, the natal palaces will benefit just the same.”

“So… you’re saying that natal palaces only expand to contain more power when one breaks through a higher realm?” Qin Lie asked, rubbing his chin.

“I believe so.” Du Xiangyang nodded.

“You don’t really need to worry about your natal palaces,” Xue Moyan added. “You’ll be destroying them once you reach the Fragmentation Realm anyway.”

“I’ll be… destroying them?” Qin Lie asked with a blank stare.

“Of course,” Xue Moyan said, looking at Qin Lie in surprise. Her expression lasted for moment, then she continued, “The Fragmentation Realm is where a martial practitioner fails in order to succeed. Not only is that the realm where you destroy your nine natal palaces one by one, you also fragment your True Soul. This is done so you can fuse your natal palaces into one and can also reform your True Soul.”

“That’s right,” Du Xiangyang agreed.

Qin Lie suddenly went still.