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Jiang Yi brought along more than 120 celestial stones. He had already planned to swiftly refine the celestial stones here. This way, Zhuge Qingyun, the Demon Empress, and the other Vajra Realm martial experts wouldn’t be able to discover it.
Jiang Yi refined the celestial stones very quickly. In the past, he would need five days to refine one stone; but now, he only required three days to refine one. After refining three stones later, he still felt it was very slow.
Buzz!
A jade box appeared in his hand after the Fire Spirit Pearl flashed. He opened the box, and inside it was a spirit herb that looked like a small green dragon. This was the Dragon Sun Herb that the Witch God asked him to refine, but he didn’t have the time to do so.
It was a must to sharpen the ax before chopping the wood!
The reason why the refinement of the celestial stone was slow because his physical body was weak and his meridians weren’t strong enough. He didn’t dare to let the energy in the celestial stones to quickly rushed into his dantian. The refining of this Dragon Sun Herb might take two weeks, but once his meridians were stronger, the refining speed of the celestial stones would definitely double.
Using the black essence force to wrap around the Dragon Sun Herb, traces of energy slowly entered Jiang Yi’s body. This energy was rather unique: it made Jiang Yi’s body felt hot as though it was burning. It was strange that the Fire Spirit Pearl didn’t transfer any energy to protect the owner.
Ss, ss…
As the energy that entered slowly increased, Jiang Yi felt warmer. As though his entire body was being stewed slowly. The feeling was unbearable, but he couldn’t do anything but endure it.
He knew clearly that this energy would slowly develop his body, like how steel got tougher and stronger during the forging process. However… this feeling was truly a torment, and Jiang Yi felt as though he couldn’t catch his breath. The Dragon Sun Herb’s energy would continue to enter his body, but he couldn’t stop. Otherwise, this precious spirit herb would be wasted.
“Calm heart, empty the thoughts!”
Fortunately, Jiang Yi’s willpower wasn’t bad. He expelled all the distracting thoughts and forced himself to forget the pain and everything else… while he increased the pace of refining the Dragon Sun Herb.
Apart from eating rations, drinking clean water, and consuming energy elixirs, he had been refining the Dragon Sun Herb during these two weeks. When at the final phase, he was already numb to the pain and couldn’t feel anything. When the final trace of energy entered his body, he couldn’t withstand anymore and immediately fainted.
This sleep of his lasted for two full days. When he woke up, he noticed that his body had a repulsive smell; and it was coated in a black oily substance. When he casually moved around, he felt as though his body had limitless strength. He used a single leg to jump off, only to realize that he could jump three meters without any use of essence force!
Buzz!
A token flashed in his hands, which helped him to teleport into the sea on the second floor. He dove into the sea and cleansed the impurities on his body.
Swish! Swish!
There were plenty of sea demons in the sea. Because all of them were low-tiered, they didn’t have any spirit wisdom. When they saw a human, they naturally rushed at it. With a flash of Jiang Yi’s thoughts, countless lightning struck down, shattering all the sea demons within the ten-mile radius.
After taking a good wash, he noticed that his skin had become white with a luster. It was no wonder why humans would want to cultivate and become martial experts. Putting aside the fame and status—the stronger the body, the longer the lifespan. Just the strength and lifespan was enough to attract countless humans to plunge onto the path of martial dao.
Jiang Yi’s body flashed and teleported into the forest on the third floor. He caught a few of the small demonic beasts and had a barbeque. He then went back to the top floor to continue refining the celestial stones.
After his body became stronger, the refining speed of the celestial stones naturally became faster. Initially, Jiang Yi had to use three days to refine one celestial stone. Right now, he only required one day to refine one celestial stone. This speed was when Jiang Yi remained cautious. His meridians had grown much stronger, and the massive amount of energy from the celestial stone didn’t put that much pressure on his meridians anymore.
Five days later, Jiang Yi refined three more pieces of celestial stone. He used his inner vision to look at the second star sphere and noticed that it was at the halfway point. He couldn’t help but be secretly surprised. The second star sphere required more than two folds the amount of essence force than what the first star sphere required. It looked like he still had to refine three or four more pieces.
If the second star sphere required ten celestial stones, how much stones did the third star sphere require? Jiang Yi couldn’t imagine, but he instinctively felt that it would definitely require more essence force during the later stages.
Jiang Yi continued to refine the celestial stones. After the third day, the second star sphere was finally filled with essence force. Jiang Yi had been very expectant for the transformation of the second star sphere.
Just as Jiang Yi expected, the second star sphere began to swell non-stop. When it swelled up to the limits, all the star spheres brightened up; and the essence force from all the seven star spheres surged towards the second star sphere. The first star sphere remained still.
At the same moment, the wind and clouds above the Witch God forbidden ground started to stir up. Heaven and earth essence force rushed and gathered at this place. One of the stars in the nine heavens lit up while one divine ray of light shot down. It pierced through the nine heavens, ignoring the restrictions of the Universal Palace and buried into Jiang Yi’s body.
After the star sphere transformed, the heaven-and-earth anomaly appeared again.
Jiang Yi was still unaware of this as his entire consciousness was concentrated on the star sphere transformation in his dantian. He had no awareness of the power of the Nine Heaven Stars quietly entering his body and into the second star sphere, helping it to transform.
He was totally unaware, but there was a huge sensation in the outside world.
In the history of the continent—whenever there was a heaven-and-earth anomaly, it was when someone broke through to the Heaven Monarch Realm.
How difficult was it to break through to the Heaven Monarch Realm?
All the recent heaven-and-earth anomalies had everyone suspecting. In the past, everyone assumed that it was the Demon Empress. However, this time, the heaven-and-earth anomaly appeared in the Netherworld Forest. The Demon Empress was always in Mt. Thirty Thousand. Hence, it was either a demon king evolving into a demon thearch or someone in the Netherworld Forest breaking through to the Heaven Monarch Realm.
It was harder for a demon king to break through to the demon thearch than to break through from the Vajra Realm to the Heaven Monarch Realm. The Netherworld Forest had two demon kings, but many of the experts in the continent knew that those two demon kings weren’t so formidable, and they weren’t at the stage where they could evolve into a demon thearch. Without several centuries and uncanny luck, it was impossible for them to break through.
That meant that this was a mystery. Grandma Silver Flower of the Heaven Mystics Kingdom would never be able to break through in this lifetime. Who could be cultivating in the Netherworld Forest?
A name suddenly came to mind!
The matter of Jiang Yi obtaining the Witch God’s inheritance was information that the various factions knew about. The Yazi Beast was too prominent, and once they did some check, they would know that the Yazi Beast was the spirit beast that the Witch God had tamed.
The majority of the people thought back and recalled the previous heaven-and-earth anomaly happened when Jiang Yi was in Mt. Thirty Thousand. The first time it happened was at Mt. Fire Cloud. Afterward, didn’t Jiang Yi intercept and slaughter the Divine Martial Kingdom’s army in Soul Break Valley?
Once this assumption was out, many of the martial experts were shocked. After they related it back to Jiang Yi’s meteoric rise in strength, everyone felt a cold breeze on their backs. It was feeling that caused them to tremble even though it wasn’t cold.
The Azure Dragon Empire and the four vassal kingdoms immediately sent information to the scouts that were hiding in Summer Rain City. They had to find out by all possible means if the Jiang Yi within the city was a fake or was he real.
If it was a fake Jiang Yi, then this situation was going to be serious!
If he was to continue growing stronger like this—before the end of the three-year promise, his strength would be heaven-defying. By then, the four kingdoms and the Azure Dragon Empire would be single-handedly wiped out by him.
That kid still ended up refining the celestial stones. He is ruining his own future…
The Demon Empress, Zhuge Qingyun, and Shui Youlan quickly realized it. They all let out indistinct sighs and had expressions of pity. This was the moment they witnessed the birth of an expert and also the fall of a generational prodigy
