Chapter 58: Cultivation Surges

  One meter!

  Ten meters!

  One hundred meters!

  Jiang Cheng, who was overflowing with the massive amount of spiritual energy emanating from the Black Pillar, slowly sank into the bottomless Hun River like a giant boulder weighing ten thousand catties.

  However, something surprising also happened at this moment.

  The massive terrifying spiritual power that overflowed from the Black Tower Pillar, at the moment it dispersed into Jiang Cheng's body, made him feel extremely painful.

  His meridians were swollen to the extreme, giving Jiang Cheng a feeling that his meridians would explode at any moment.

  In order to save himself or perhaps due to a sudden enlightenment, Jiang Cheng's mind stirred and he actively urged the War Soul Pearl to absorb the massive amount of spiritual energy that was about to burst his meridians.

  This absorption was like opening a floodgate on the dam, allowing the massive amount of spiritual energy that had been about to burst the riverbank to suddenly have an outlet.

  The massive spiritual energy that couldn't be refused by Jiang Cheng surged into his dantian's Linghai through the power of the Warsoul Bead, and the spiritual energy inside Jiang Cheng's Linghai expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye.

  The towering black pillar was still constantly leaking a vast amount of spiritual energy, and Jiang Cheng mechanically urged the War Soul Pearl to absorb this vast amount of spiritual energy.

  That massive spiritual energy in Jiang Cheng's body circulated and returned to the Spiritual Ocean, Jiang Cheng's cultivation became stronger by a fraction.

  In the seventh heaven of the sevenfold blessedness.

  The seventh stage of the later period of the Realm of Blessings.

  Eightfold Auspicious Realm

  Jiang Cheng's cultivation was advancing at a speed that surprised him greatly.

  At the same time as the surprise, Jiang Cheng had a thread of worry - so far, Jiang Cheng still didn't understand what exactly happened between the Black Tower Pillar and the Totem Pole of the Ancestral Spirits of the Ge Mountain Sect.

  Why would such a massive amount of spiritual energy leak out from within the Black Tower Pillar?

  Where did this vast spiritual power come from?

  Jiang Cheng worried that the Black Tower would destroy the Totem Pole of the Gusu Clan's ancestors. If so, Jiang Cheng would really have no face to see his grandfather again.

  But now, Jiang Cheng, whose spiritual energy is overflowing and uncontrollable, can only passively urge the War Soul Pearl to crazily enhance his cultivation.

  At this moment, Jiang Cheng had only one thought in mind - could he become even faster.

  The growing desire was like a sapling, had already taken root and sprouted in Jiang Cheng's heart, growing into a towering tree.

  What Jiang Cheng didn't know was that after the cocoon of light around him shattered, the bloodstains and residual blood from his previous intense battles slowly dissolved into the river water under its flushing, dispersing into the river.

  It's a fact that in the depths of Hun River, especially in its deeper parts, there live countless ferocious beasts and monsters. Otherwise, such a vast river as Hun would not be so rarely visited by humans.

  It's the Ge Shan tribe that has lived by the Hun River for years, and they only dare to act in the shallow waters by the riverbank, catching small fish and shrimp. None of them have ever dared to enter the center of the Hun River like Jiang Cheng does now, and none of them have ever returned.

  Now, the blood water that Jiang Cheng splashed out all over his body was like a gathering signal for a monster living in the depths of the Hun River. The nearby monsters who caught wind of this bloody smell came to sniff it out, numbering in the hundreds and thousands.

  But these bloodthirsty beasts, the moment they moved, their huge eyes simultaneously revealed an expression of extreme astonishment.

  The next moment, with Jiang as the center, the aquatic monsters in the surrounding waters that smelled the bloody smell turned around and fled in all directions.

  Ling Wei!

  Fearsome as if having an actual spiritual aura!

  It was the spiritual fluctuations emitted by Jiang Cheng's body, or the spiritual fluctuations emitted after the black tower pillar absorbed the ancestral totem pillar of the Ge Shan Department. The more terrifying the spiritual fluctuations became.

  That terrifying aura was even more frightening than the one he had initially released.

  Moreover, this terrifying spiritual power is still growing continuously, and as a result, more and more aquatic demons are being shocked by this terrifying spiritual power.

  The aquatic monsters at the bottom of this Hun River water area where Jiang Cheng was located were like a pot exploding, scattering and fleeing wildly. As for ordinary aquatic creatures, they directly rolled their eyes white and died from fright.

  All of this, Jiang Cheng did not know.

  However, Jiang Cheng did not know that as the spiritual energy spread further and further around him, in a certain icy cave deep within the Hunjiang River, a dragon with an ice-cold body and fish-like scales stirred slightly from its slumber.

  "Hmm... what a powerful spiritual energy fluctuation...... If I swallow it, it will definitely be a great tonic......" The dragon's eyes, as big as fists, slowly opened, and the long whiskers under its chin trembled slightly. The Ice Dragon let out a low hum.

  As soon as the words "great tonic" came out, the shadow of the ice dragon instantly turned into a blue torrent and burst out of the water cave.

  Wherever his body passed, the flowing water froze instantly, and a blue torrent turned into a strip of dark blue ice that suddenly appeared in the depths of the Hun River.

  However, in the depths of the turbulent river, the water pressure is extremely high and the flow rate is extremely fast. This ice band appeared for a short time and then disappeared without a trace.

  At the same time, Jiang Cheng, who was overjoyed by his rapid improvement in cultivation, reached a bottleneck when his cultivation reached the ninth peak of the Cheng En Realm.

  Jiuyou Peak of Cheng'en Boundary is an extremely important threshold for Soul Warriors - that is, Soul Devouring!

  There are two meanings of this devouring spirit.

  One way is to use one's own strong will to drive one's battle soul, devour and merge a battle spirit, strengthen and upgrade one's battle soul, so that one's battle soul can contain even greater power.

  Because the spiritual sea of a soul warrior is mainly opened up by the power of the fighting spirit, and the fighting spirit of a soul warrior and its spiritual sea are like conjoined fruits. The spiritual sea can expand infinitely, but the power that the fighting spirit can withstand is limited.

  At this time, the soul warrior needs to strengthen and enhance his own battle soul.

  Secondly, it is to absorb the true spiritual energy and resonate with the primordial energy of heaven and earth, so as to absorb the primordial energy of heaven and earth to increase one's cultivation.

  According to Grandpa's words, the spiritual energy cultivated by a martial artist in the state of Jian En Jing (tempering body) is essentially the Yuan Qi produced from the refinement of the essence and blood within the body.

  Doesn't even have its own spiritual power attribute.

  This is also one of the reasons why Song Yue's innate wood-based hair growth ability is extremely rare, and it is almost impossible to appear under normal circumstances.

  While devouring the soul realm, it relies on one's own willpower and war soul to swallow a powerful war spirit, using the war spirit's power attributes to evolve one's own spiritual power attributes, achieving true spiritual power, thereby being able to summon the same attribute of heavenly and earthly spiritual power.

  This is Soul Reaper!

  This Devouring Spirit Realm looks simple, but it's actually extremely difficult. Just like the patriarch of the Ge Mountain Sect, Ge Xiong, who has been trapped in the Ninth Summit of the Cheng En Realm for six or seven years and still hasn't entered the Devouring Spirit Realm.

  It's not just that the elixirs with war spirits are hard to find, but even if you swallow a war spirit, it also has many requirements.

  Swallowing a battle spirit that is much weaker than one's own war soul is useless, and even if the swallowed battle spirit is roughly equal in strength to one's own war soul, it may not necessarily be able to break through the bottleneck.

  Only by devouring a war spirit much stronger than one's own can one possibly break through the bottleneck and reach the Devouring Spirit Realm.

  Moreover, each time a Soul Devouring occurs, it will consume a certain amount of the War Soul's original power. If the first three attempts at devouring the War Spirit are unsuccessful or do not result in a breakthrough, then the opportunity for future breakthroughs will become increasingly smaller.

  Keshan Department's tribal leader, Kexiong, was unable to advance his cultivation beyond the 9th level of Chengen Realm for so many years because he had failed to absorb the war spirits in previous attempts.

  According to Grandpa's words, there are some rare treasures and spiritual medicines in this world that can greatly increase the success rate of a Soul Warrior's soul devouring. However, such treasures are usually very difficult for ordinary people to obtain.

  And so, even though a vast amount of spiritual energy continued to overflow from the base of the Black Tower Pillar, Jiang Cheng's cultivation was stuck at the Ninth Peak of the Ascension Realm, unable to advance even an inch.

  However, this is not the main problem. The main problem is that the bottom of the Black Tower Pillar is still frantically overflowing with a vast amount of spiritual energy. That vast spiritual energy was forcibly poured into Jiang Cheng's body, causing his meridians to swell and bulge.

  That extremely swollen feeling made Jiang Cheng involuntarily smile wryly: "Will I become the world's first soul warrior to be exploded by spiritual power?"

  "Hiss! Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!"

  Suddenly, a sound similar to water flowing and freezing inch by inch entered Jiang Cheng's ears, and the sound grew faster and louder.

  As the rustling sound grew louder, Jiang Cheng felt a chill run down his spine, freezing his heart and making his soul tremble with fear.

  If it weren't for the massive amount of spiritual energy permeating his body, Jiang Cheng estimated that he would have been frozen to death by this cold air.

  However, Jiang Cheng was completely immobile and could only roll his eyes extremely hard to look back at the top of his head. Jiang Cheng could feel that the terrifying chill came from the back of his head.

  In an instant, Jiang Cheng suddenly saw that behind him, a blue icy ribbon was spreading towards him. A dragon-headed fish-bodied terrifying monster with its huge mouth open wide enough to swallow him whole, charged at him!

  PS: Because I need to attend the annual meeting, and Pig Three is in Gansu, which is very far away, so I will set off tonight, so after tomorrow, updates may be unstable, please forgive me, brothers!

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