Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Jiang Yi passed out for three days and three nights. By applying the best elixirs from the royal family, his broken meridians didn’t constitute a big problem. There wouldn’t be any side effects from them breaking.
Despite this, the crowd was terribly frightened. Jiang Yi was the backbone of everyone. If he fell, the entire world would collapse. Why would he have such a problem in the middle of his cultivation? Could it because of the divine light from the Nine Heavens just now?
No one knew what to do. It was so surreal. These three days and three nights were suffocating for the crowd, especially for Su Ruoxue and Jiang Xiaonu who didn’t have any rest at all.
Therefore, when Jiang Yi woke up, he saw the crowd with bloodshot eyes at his bedside. He quickly said, “Everyone can go back and take a rest. I’m fine. I just overstrained myself. A few days of rest will do.”
Nobody left. Qian Wanguan expressed deep concern. “Boss? Are you really okay? Did that divine light coming from the Nine Heavens hurt you?”
“Nine Heavens’ Divine Light?”
Jiang Yi blinked his eyes in suspicion. He had no idea that the transformation of all three star spheres triggered the forces of the Nine Heaven Stars. After listening to the crowd, an idea struck him. Indeed, a sliver of strange energy helped him condense the star spheres every time the star spheres transformed.
“Please go back. I’m really fine. I need some time to think about some things.”
As Jiang Yi had asked firmly, the crowd had to leave. Only Su Ruoxue remained here. She stared at him with her red eyes and refused to leave. After Jiang Yi glared at her, she pursed her lips and left.
“I’ve refined too many celestial stones, and something finally went wrong!”
Jiang Yi signed deeply. He didn’t think about that strange Nine Heavens’ Divine Light but about the problem of his dantian. Once this yellow essence force came out, it would go out of control and break his meridians. It was equal to having a bomb that might go off any minute. When he was in a fight with enemies, he would be doomed if this essence force suddenly glitched.
“Flesh is the root. Essence force is the source. Soul spirit is the foundation!”
Jiang Yi was reminded of a secret manual in the library collection of the Starfall Island. It was the insights of cultivation left by a Water Moon Observatory senior. He didn’t get it then. Now, he pondered for a while and finally understood why the Demon Empress, Shui Youlan, and Zhuge Qingyun prevented him from refining the celestial stones.
It was true that refining celestial stones could improve one’s essence force to an incredibly high level within a short time. Many superpowers loved to nurture martial experts with celestial stones. For example, if the Azure Dragon Empire royal family and other royal family excavated celestial stones, they would also cultivate martial experts in secret.
In the battle at the Heaven Star City—in which the Demon Empress took part, nearly 10,000 Soul Travel Realm Experts showed up in the Azure Dragon Empire, but they were all secretly cultivated by the royal family with celestial stones. There were at least 1,000 peak-stage Soul Travel Realm Experts, but none of these 1,000 men broke through the Vajra Realm.
Flesh is the root. Essence force is the source. Soul spirit is the foundation!
The human body was wonderful. The man was the spirit of all things. The small body of human could carry enormous energy, open up a mountain, crack stones, move a mountain, and fill up the sea.
Why would demonic beasts turn into human forms after reaching the demon king stage? It was because the human body was the most suitable carrier for cultivation.
Jiang Yi remembered a paragraph left by the Water Moon Observatory senior: the human body was a natural formation. One could circulate the formation, absorb heaven-and-earth essence force, and turn it into one’s essence forces. These essence forces could grow and resonate inside the grand formation in the human body and finally form terrible attacks.
The dao pattern was the ultimate rules of the world. It was the application of the myriad of magical presence in heaven and earth. The essentials of realizations of the dao pattern were… amplifying and strengthening the human body formation.
Flesh, essence force, and soul spirit had always been three bases in the human body formation. Every one of these was indispensable; they coexisted and mixed together. If one went wrong, human body formation would have serious problems!
Now, Jiang Yi’s essence force had gone wrong.
He expanded his essence force rapidly with the help of external forces, but his flesh and soul spirit didn’t increase by the enhancement of essence force. In particular, his flesh was not cleaned and nurtured by the heaven and earth essence force.
In other words—his essence force was no longer consistent with and would no longer mix with his flesh and soul spirit. One of the three bases became especially powerful, leading to the malfunction of the formation. Therefore, Jiang Yi couldn’t control the yellow essence force anymore.
“When you don’t listen to the old man, you’re going to get burned. What should I do now?”
Jiang Yi’s head ached. Previously, he planned to keep on refining celestial stones and transform the rest of the star spheres. In retrospect, he was ridiculous. If he dared to continue refining, perhaps, his whole body would eventually be blown up into millions of pieces.
Therefore, if he couldn’t find any solutions, he would never be able to enhance his essence force realm. His future was indeed ruined.
Of course, that was the future. Jiang Yi couldn’t care so much. His primary concern was the problem at the moment. A slight move of the essence force within the third star sphere would be disastrous. If he didn’t handle it well, it would forever be a thorn and a bomb in his heart, which could get him killed anytime.
“There’s no other way. I have to find some spirit herbs to nourish my body and see the effect.”
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Jiang Yi had no choice but to strengthen his flesh so that his meridians could grow stronger, and he would cope with the fierce essence force from the third star sphere.
Jiang Yi fell into a deep slumber after making sense of the things. After another two days, he recovered a bit and asked Su Ruoxue and Qian Wanguan to search for spirit herbs that strengthened the body. He had a lot of celestial stones with him so he could definitely afford the spirit herbs.
All the spirit herbs for strengthening the body on the market were purchased and transported to the Summer Rain City continuously. With Qian Wanguan behind the scene, many people couldn’t find out the destination of all these spirit herbs.
Jiang Yi began his seclusion again, but this time, he kept refining the spirit herbs. In fact, it was clear to him that relying on the spirit herbs to improve his flesh was not different from using the celestial stones to enhance his essence force.
No extreme would hold strong for long. Anything, when used in excess, would cause adverse effects.
However, what else could he do at the moment? The peculiar star spheres inside his dantian and the unknown cultivation techniques never existed in history and had no precedent. He could only learn through trial and error. He couldn’t ask anyone for help regarding his current situation. Jiang Yi had to take one step at a time.
Within one month, Jiang Yi couldn’t keep track of the number of spirit herbs that he had refined and the high-grade elixirs he had. His flesh improved tremendously within a short time.
To his relief, when his flesh reached the level of the peak-stage Soul Travel Realm, he could finally control the essence force within the third star; and his meridians could withstand the impact of the surge of the essence force.
He destroyed his own future!
Jiang Yi didn’t regret. He was only a little worried—what was his way forward?
The power of the essence force was limited. The mid-grade Dao pattern that he was able to release now was merely comparable to the fourth or fifth stage of the Vajra Realm. If he didn’t find other ways to improve his ability, how could he stand any chance against a bunch of Vajra Realm martial experts, including the Patriarch of the Ling Clan who was at the peak stage of the Vajra Realm?
The dao patterns?
Unless he could comprehend the high-grade dao patterns. Was it possible? Clearly not.
Heaven-Extinguishing Inferno?
In a short time, he could never form any flame that was even stronger than the Nine Heavens’ Dragon Flames! As for the other sorcery, they were even less reliable.
Thinking of the Heaven-Extinguishing Inferno, Jiang Yi’s eyes suddenly brightened. He murmured, “Refining flame? That’s right… I can try to cultivate the art of fire refinement to an advanced level. Isn’t there a kind of extremely powerful Netherworld Ghost Fire at the Soul Seizing Valley of the Saint Spirit Kingdom? If I understand the knack of flame refinement and practice with the Nether World Ghost Fire, maybe… I can set the group of Vajra Realm martial experts on fire.”
