Chapter 1507: Attaining Spirit Transformation (Part Three)

One’s own power, no matter how strong, has its limits. But the various powers of heaven and earth are truly endless.

When Li Yan’s gaze shifted to the golden Nascent Soul, he saw that it had now grown to a height of two and a half inches.

Moreover, the silver glints flickering within the golden light on its surface had become significantly brighter, and the light itself had grown thicker.

This was a phenomenon resulting from the fusion with the Undead Nether Phoenix’s essence blood. After observing the silver glints for a long time, Li Yan was quite moved.

‘During the Nascent Soul Realm, this essence blood went from initially fusing with my bloodline to integrating into my Nascent Soul. After this breakthrough, even the thickness of these silver glints has increased.’

‘Could it be that my own bloodline has already completely accepted the Undead Nether Phoenix as its own? As I grow stronger, will it begin to self-generate from this essence blood as its root?’

‘If so, does that mean that as my physical body continues to strengthen, I will also develop the kind of self-improving divine abilities that the Undead Nether Phoenix possesses?’

‘However, it hasn’t happened yet. But if I can really generate more of the Undead Nether Phoenix’s essence blood, the speed of my ‘Phoenix Soars to the Heavens’ will become even faster!’

Seeing the changes in his Nascent Soul, Li Yan’s mind raced with possibilities, each more moving than the last.

He could, of course, sense that his physical body had grown much stronger after advancing to the Spirit Transformation Realm.

According to the normal progression, even if he didn’t practice body refining arts and didn’t have the aid of the Undead Nether Phoenix’s essence blood, his physical body would still strengthen with just a dharma cultivation breakthrough.

However, Li Yan had been walking the path of dual dharma-body cultivation all along. Therefore, he didn’t know how much a pure dharma cultivator’s physical strength would increase with each breakthrough.

This made it impossible for him to currently determine which aspect had contributed more to the advancement of his physical strength, and how much the Undead Nether Phoenix’s essence blood had enhanced it.

This time, Li Yan’s Qiongqi Purgatory Art had not broken through; it was still at the sixth layer.

However, right after the Heavenly Tribulation, he had immediately circulated the Qiongqi Purgatory Art and discovered that the usually solid bottleneck had actually loosened.

Li Yan had a feeling that he would only need to cultivate for a short period of time—perhaps just a few years—before the Qiongqi Purgatory Art could break through to the seventh layer.

Li Yan planned to test his physical strength and the speed of his “Phoenix Soars to the Heavens” after he had stabilized his realm.

In a cheerful mood, Li Yan’s divine sense once again moved to his chest and abdomen. A scan revealed that the thirty-two faint cyan threads there had now become thirty-three.

However, the thirty-two original cyan threads had become a deeper shade of cyan and had grown thicker.

Only the newly appeared cyan thread was very fine and had a pale, ethereal cyan color, as if it could disappear at any moment.

Li Yan naturally understood what all of this represented.

It meant that at his current realm, it was basically very difficult for his Fragmented Poison Body to advance further and separate out more potent poisons.

In the future, after each realm breakthrough, it would likely only increase the potency of the toxins already within his body.

If his guess was correct, after the enhancement of those thirty-two toxins, they should now pose a mortal threat even to Void Refining Realm cultivators.

As for the ethereal cyan thread, because it was a newly born toxin, it appeared very weak without any tempering.

But after just a few years and some refinement, the new toxin would become powerful. After all, his cultivation realm was already very high, and his physical body was changing in sync, so it wouldn’t take too long.

Seeing this new toxin, and then thinking about the current state of his Qiongqi Purgatory Art, Li Yan sighed helplessly. He was running out of time.

Many things could not be cultivated immediately and had to be postponed. He was already cultivating too many things, each requiring a huge amount of time.

Just the cultivation and advancement of these arts already had Li Yan running around trying to patch things up. For instance, the current state of his Qiongqi Purgatory Art definitely couldn’t remain at the Nascent Soul Realm level.

It was precisely for this reason that Li Yan had never gone to cultivate the so-called hundred arts of cultivation. If he did, he might get stuck at a certain realm and just wait for his death.

Testing this new fragmented poison would also have to be put off for later.

Soon, his divine sense arrived at his Sea of Consciousness.

Within the Sea of Consciousness, the colors of the world were richer and more vivid. In some places, illusory spirit plants had even appeared, growing sparsely on the land below.

The space of the Sea of Consciousness had expanded again, which also meant that the strength of Li Yan’s divine sense had increased once more.

But because he was in the Earth-True Domain, Li Yan was naturally unable to test the strength and range of his divine sense.

An ethereal figure of himself appeared directly in the sky of his Sea of Consciousness. Under the infusion of his spiritual power, lines of small golden characters floated up on the surface of the sea.

First, the section revealing the True Scripture of Gui Water appeared. There, the corresponding cultivation methods for the Spirit Transformation Realm emerged.

This time, it was also a bit different from before. The complete cultivation methods for the initial, mid, and late stages all appeared at once.

Afterward, he looked through the rest of the contents. There were no other changes, which meant that those cultivation methods were sufficient to support all his needs in the Spirit Transformation Realm.

This also included the two arts, “Five Elements Disarray Mantle” and “Quaking Cosmos.”

None of this was outside Li Yan’s expectations. For any sect, its true core cultivation methods and arts were actually not that numerous.

Rather, it required the cultivator to continuously enhance the power of the arts through arduous cultivation. Right now, Li Yan had not even finished cultivating the arts in the True Scripture of Gui Water.

However, after this breakthrough, Li Yan knew that “Quaking Cosmos,” an art almost akin to instantaneous movement, would definitely become faster and cover a greater distance.

But without personally testing it, Li Yan couldn’t get the specific details of its current state.

‘All of this can only be tested one by one after my realm is stabilized. And there’s that ‘Tidefall’ art, which I still haven’t been able to cultivate to the Great Ascension stage.’

‘I wonder if my new comprehension of the laws of heaven and earth will have any effect on the future cultivation of this art?’

Li Yan had always held the “Tidefall” art in high regard. It was an art focused on concealment, emphasizing the use of all things in heaven and earth.

Now that he had a better understanding of the rules of the five elements of heaven and earth, he felt that it would help this art borrow from the surrounding environment and integrate the power of heaven and earth, thus allowing it to break through to the Great Ascension stage.

After clarifying the situation within his body, Li Yan calmed his thoughts for a moment, then took out the medicinal pill Great Master Lan had given him, swallowed it, and closed his eyes…

The medicinal pills provided by a Void Refining Realm grandmaster were something Li Yan had nothing comparable to in his current inventory.

Although many people in the Soul-Suppression Palace had witnessed Li Yan’s Heavenly Tribulation, amidst the ongoing great war, it did not attract too much attention from cultivators.

Thus, the great war between the two sides continued, with attacks and defenses, and casualties increasing daily.

Time passed in a flash. The situation in the entire Earth-True Domain had changed drastically. The nine major powers had been attacking for a long time without success. The stalemate between the two sides made them even more anxious.

This situation of being an arrow on the bowstring, ready to be fired but unable to deliver a fatal blow, left them in a constant state of alarm and unease.

They worried that at any moment, the Body Integration Realm cultivators of the Soul-Suppression Palace would suddenly appear before them. If that happened, their seemingly massive army would instantly be reduced to a group of clay chickens and pottery dogs.

But the foundation of the Soul-Suppression Palace was too ancient. They had painstakingly managed the entire Earth-True Domain for too long and had too many resources at their disposal.

Just the endless layers of formations and restrictions in the periphery had become an omnipresent obstacle for the nine major powers.

This meant that later on, for every bit of distance the nine major powers advanced, they had to pay a considerable price, but they were also constantly draining the lives of the Soul-Suppression Palace’s disciples.