Ou Yangming kept a straight face as he walked on the main road, but his sea of consciousness was already turned upside down.
The giant head, which was formed using the Devouring attribute as its base, was floating in his sea of consciousness. It seemed like its anxiousness could be sensed from its restless movements… If it really had moods.
In actuality, Ou Yangming could sense that it was the giant head’s instinctive reaction; it was expressing its strong interest in the white ore that had just been obtained by the young fellow.
When Ou Yangming was looking around in Peng Yanbing’s treasure room, he was not interested in the white ore at first because he could not recognize it. Nonetheless, when he accidentally brushed past it, the giant head in his sea of consciousness let out a soundless roar.
Ou Yangming immediately understood what it meant—it had a desire that could not be suppressed for the ore.
Needless to say, given Ou Yangming’s controlling ability at the moment, he could simply suppress the giant head’s desire by force if he wanted to. Nevertheless, he was finding ways to increase its power, so why would he oppress it on purpose?
Therefore, he instantly agreed to Peng Yanbing’s exchange request and asked to take 3 types of medicine and 3 kinds of ores.
Peng Yanbing was not a fool, hence he could naturally guess that Ou Yangming was really after the white ore. Even so, the Tool Spirit Equipment was far more valuable than those things. Even though the Tool Spirit was unhatched, he was willing to pay any price for it.
Ever since Ou Yangming obtained the white ore, the giant head in his sea of consciousness became more restless. It kept sending a strong signal to the young fellow to express its desire to devour the ore’s energy.
Ou Yangming comforted it while he hastened back to his residence.
Big Yellow, Multi-armed King Kong, and the others were about to approach him when they saw him shaking his head and entering his training room. Upon seeing this, the 3 spirit beasts looked at each other and spread out to vaguely surround the room.
Although they knew it was unlikely for anyone to attack Ou Yangming in the Beast King Sect, as long as they were around, they would definitely protect him.
Once Ou Yangming entered the room, he composed himself and asked the giant head in his sea of consciousness to hold its horses.
It was also a controlling technique. No matter how powerful his Military Fire and the giant head were, he must have total control over them without letting them turn from passive to active.
After a brief moment, the giant head settled down. It still yearned for the white ore very much, but it slowly calmed down due to Ou Yangming’s control.
Ou Yangming smiled and retrieved the nameless white ore from his interspatial bag.
When the young fellow held the ore in his hand, he could not help but shudder because he sensed an extreme chillness from it. It was as though he was not holding an ore but a block of 10,000-year-old cold ice.
Ou Yangming’s body had no interest in the ore, but the giant head in his sea of consciousness was incredibly delighted.
The giant head became extremely covetous again, but since it was being suppressed by Ou Yangming’s mental conception, it dared not act unrestrained anymore. Instead, it was careful and even tried to fawn over the young fellow.
Ou Yangming was slightly stunned. He did not know to be happy or worried.
‘Did this head give birth to something like a spirit too?’
Ou Yangming shook his head and cast the weird thought aside. He curbed his thought and released the head’s power.
The giant head’s power was forceful. Under Ou Yangming’s control, only a hint of its power was released, but the power entered the white ore without any hesitation.
As soon as the 2 powers came into contact with each other, Ou Yangming was suddenly moved.
He was surprised to find that the gruesome chillness inside the ore did not cause any trouble to the giant head’s devouring power. Instead, the devouring power was activated, and it kept drawing the ore’s unique energy.
As the ore’s energy continued to be devoured into the giant head, a wonderful yet unbelievable change occurred.
Hints of pure mental power were released from the giant head. The power was so pure that it was certainly nothing like Ou Yangming had ever seen before. Even after he cultivated meticulously, the mental power that he developed did not seem to be as pure.
Ou Yangming’s eyes lit up. He had been getting along with the giant head for some time, thus he was familiar with this.
This was a feedback behavior from the giant head. No matter how enormous the energy that was absorbed, it would first satisfy Ou Yangming’s needs. After all, it existed inside his sea of consciousness, so it would disappear if he were to die.
Moreover, the upper limit of its power was that of Ou Yangming.
It seemed like the giant head itself was a bottomless hole, where the amount of energy that it could store was beyond Ou Yangming’s imagination. Despite that, whenever it released its power, it would be restrained by the young fellow’s body.
This applied to Ou Yangming’s Heavenly Phoenix Fire too.
Hence, each time the giant head could absorb plenty of powers, it would feedback some of them to Ou Yangming according to a fixed ratio. Only when his body could not take them anymore, it would send the remaining powers into its throat.
As for where the powers would end up, it was not what Ou Yangming could imagine.
Ou Yangming closed his eyes and quietly sensed the power. He assimilated it into his body bit by bit, causing his mental power to grow slowly.
Having said that, a human would always have a cultivation limit. Once one reached one’s limit, the effect of one’s cultivation would become insignificant if one continued. In fact, it might harm one’s body instead.
After an hour, Ou Yangming exhaled deeply and ended his spiritual cultivation.
However, the warm and pure mental power released by the giant head was still gushing out without an end.
Ou Yangming was astounded, and he wondered how much energy was contained inside the ore. Under his control, the giant head was not going all out to draw the ore’s energy, but the energy did not seem to have reduced at all even after such a long time.
Of course, the giant head was also very mysterious. Given that it could absorb the ice-cold energy and convert it into warm and pure mental power suitable for Ou Yangming’s cultivation, it had a profound and unpredictable trick.
Ou Yangming furrowed his eyebrows. He was somewhat unwilling to let this go on.
This was because he could sense that the giant head would surely be drawing the energy for a long time. Was he going to sit and watch the energy being wasted just like that?
The energy did not cost him anything, but his heart still ached.
Struck with a thought, Ou Yangming reached out his hand and gently touched one of the Long Feather Bands on his wrist.
Lil’ Red had refined 2 Long Feather Bands for Ou Yangming.
He had let the big lazy turtle occupy one of them so that the lazy fellow would nurture spiritual flowers and herbs for him, as well as provide him with immortal liquids.
The big lazy turtle was lazy, but it knew to complete the tasks assigned to it by Ou Yangming. Whether it was the immortal liquid or the concentrated immortal liquid, the young fellow was always satisfied with them.
As for the other Long Feather Band, a gigantic stone the size of a small mountain was stored inside.
According to Lil’ Red, it was the Phoenixes’ treasure. A senior phoenix’s life savings was contained inside, so it was considered a priceless treasure.
Apart from Lil’ Red, nobody knew that the item was in Ou Yangming’s possession.
Ou Yangming initially thought that Lil’ Red would tell Feng Xiang about it because Feng Xiang was a real phoenix powerhouse that was formidable enough to crush a realm.
Who knew, Feng Xiang knew nothing about it. It was evident that Lil’ Red had kept this a secret.
Ou Yangming did not understand why Lil’ Red would do that, but it was great that he could keep a phoenix’s remains by his side.
That said, it would not be easy for him to open up the treasure. According to Lil’ Red’s estimation… Mm, it could not estimate at all because it could not find out the treasure’s limit even when it exerted all its force.
While staring at the Long Feather Band, Ou Yangming gave an order through his mind.
“Woosh…”
His remarkable Military Fire in his sea of consciousness scorched.
Being burned by the Military Fire, abundant pure mental power was drawn to it right away, causing the flame to burn more violently. At the same time, Ou Yangming also released his mental power and guided the fire into the Long Feather Band.
Ordinary interspatial bags might not be able to withstand being burned by the Military Fire for a long time. Even if Ou Yangming controlled his fire on purpose, he would not be able to carry on for too long.
Nonetheless, the Long Feather Band was Lil’ Red’s masterpiece as it was refined from its feather.
Ou Yangming did not know if the band could withstand Feng Xiang’s fire, but it was unaffected by his Military Fire.
With that, the young fellow’s Military Fire entered the space inside the Long Feather Band and was guided toward the mountainous treasure.
Back when Ou Yangming and Lil’ Red joined hands and gave their all, they took several days to satisfy a rock’s demand for the Phoenixes’ powers. In that case, anyone would feel hopeless against the monstrous rock.
Ou Yangming naturally did not hope that he would succeed in one go. He leisurely transferred the white ore’s energy, which was converted twice by the giant head and his Military Fire, into the treasure.
