Chapter 115

Chapter 115: Core Cloud Godfiend

Meng Chuan looked at his dantian . His dantian and sea of consciousness were similar spaces . They were infinitely small, but also paradoxically infinitely large .

The sea of consciousness was where the Essence Soul resided .

The dantian was where Quintessential Energy and Quintessential Essence gathered . The importance of one’s dantian was in no way inferior to one’s sea of consciousness . In fact, many early-stage Godfiends could not sense their sea of consciousness . The dantian was what they cared most about! Their cultivation would be severed if their dantian was destroyed! Seventy percent of their strength stemmed from Quintessential Essence; thus, they placed great importance on their dantian .

My dantian is much bigger than before . Meng Chuan inspected his dantian with a critical eye .

After nine bolts of heavenly lightning had reforged his body, his dantian had naturally changed . His dantian space was vaster than before . Remnants of heavenly lightning flashed about his dantian . In the center of his dantian space, one could see a white Essence Core . The Essence Core allowed a person to absorb more Quintessential Essence naturally . Even wisps of the heavenly lightning would be absorbed . This caused the Essence Core’s surface to produce tiny amounts of heavenly lightning .

The Essence Core was expanding . Since the dantian space had increased greatly, it could withstand much more Quintessential Essence than before .

I have to condense a Core Cloud . A mortal’s Essence Core cannot withstand so much Quintessential Essence . Meng Chuan knew this very well .

Many outer sect disciples accumulated credit in exchange for a chance to enter the Godfiend Blood Pool . When attempting the Life-and-Death juncture, remoulding their bodies was comparatively less dangerous than when they condensed their Core Cloud . They typically had low or middle-grade Godfiend bodies; thus, the difficulty of transforming their bodies was relatively low . Of course, some still failed, and their bodies collapsed . However, most outer sect disciples failed to condense Core Cloud .

A half-finished Core Cloud collapsing would lead to terrifying forces blasting through their bodies and killing them on the spot .

Meng Chuan’s Core Cloud condensation process was more complicated than ordinary outer sect disciples’ . However, he had already achieved Saber Intent for more than a year .

Time to begin . With a thought, he immediately absorbed the Godfiend Blood Pool’s powers . In his dantian space, the Godfiend Blood Pool’s powers mixed with the heavenly lightning, forming Quintessential Essence . The new Quintessential Essence flashed with lightning . As time passed, the Quintessential Essence within his dantian was being converted . Small amounts of heavenly lightning were drawn out from his dantian space and merged with his Quintessential Essence . In just a short moment, his dantian was filled with rich Quintessential Essence—which contained heavenly lightning . It was like a sea had filled his dantian space .

Boom!

Under the guidance of Saber Intent, his Quintessential Essence transformed into tiny saber beams . Having reached the Saber Intent realm, the condensed saber beams were more corporeal and denser .

It was beyond a mortal’s Quintessential Essence to form such a dense, corporeal saber beam .

The saber beams spun in an orderly manner and gathered at the Essence Core . The Essence Core was transformed by Quintessential Essence around it! The Quintessential Essence constantly merged with the Essence Core, causing the heavenly lightning in the Essence Core to become denser .

Gather! Compress!

Compression increased density . When density reached a threshold, there were two results—One, an explosion! The Godfiend Body would explode into pieces when this happened! Two, control the compressed energy and use it to form a Core Cloud .

The Lightning Devastator Fiend Body was much stronger than low or middle-grade Godfiend bodies . Coupled with Meng Chuan’s robust foundation, the Quintessential Essence in his dantian was ten times denser than someone in the same realm as him . This made it rather difficult for him to condense a Core Cloud .

Though he had long achieved Saber Intent, Meng Chuan was still very careful . The moment the Essence Core was on the verge of exploding, he fully focused himself on his task . He was afraid of making any mistakes .

Suddenly, a voice rang out in his ears . “Meng Chuan, fuse the Power of Essence Soul with your Quintessential Essence . Your control over the Quintessential Essence will increase by over ten-fold . This will give you greater confidence in condensing the Core Cloud . ”

Meng Chuan suddenly came to his senses .

He had been following the Godfiend formula’s methods for condensing a Core Cloud, afraid that he would make mistakes . The formula hadn’t mentioned using the Power of Essence Soul when condensing the Core Cloud . However, it was understandable why . Mortals usually didn’t have Essence Souls .

The Power of Essence Soul gave him greater control over his body and Quintessential Essence . Since his strength increased several-fold, his control over his body and Quintessential Essence would naturally increase .

With a thought, the Power of Essence Soul fused with the saber beams .

Every saber beam was corporeal . It was as though each saber beam was human . The countless saber beams resembled soldiers forming a massive legion and were taking up military formation .

This military formation is too crude . After his control increased over tenfold, Meng Chuan immediately discovered his problem . With a thought, countless saber beams were adjusted slightly . After the saber beams were moved slightly, they became more synchronized! Using Saber Intent to guide the saber beams wasn’t wrong, but he could only control them en masse . With greater control, he could adjust the saber beams individually . The effects from doing so were much better .

Chi! Chi! Chi! Chi!

After the saber beam vortex reached maximum density, there was no explosion like the manual described . Usually, one would utilize the explosion’s power to form a Core Cloud .

Instead, the Essence Core—within the saber beam vortex—shattered with a faint bang . A portion of Quintessential surged out, leaving behind a dot of light that was roughly one-thousandth its original size . This dot of light shone like a brilliant star . It produced an invisible gravitational pull, causing the Quintessential Essence vortex to revolve around it . Thus, a beautiful Core Cloud was formed . All Quintessential Essence was sucked towards the vortex .

The revolving Core Cloud and the dot of light illuminated their surroundings . Quintessential Essence outside his dantian space began to condense and surged towards the vortex—forever to revolve and gather at the core .

Over time, the dot of light would gradually increase in size .

When his Quintessential underwent another qualitative change, he would enter the Indestructible realm . However, he needed to have a sufficiently strong body and saber realm to do so . Otherwise, his body would break down and shatter if he forcefully broke through, causing his death .

Of course, previous generations of Godfiends had long figured out various conditions required for each breakthrough . One had to have sufficient strength to break through their current cultivation realm .

I’ve succeeded . With the Essence Soul’s help, it was much easier to condense a Core Cloud . Meng Chuan sighed in relief .

Meng Chuan checked his body .

His physical strength was immense, his dantian was vast, and his Quintessential Essence was pure! Even his sea of consciousness had become vaster . The Essence Soul inside his sea of consciousness was slowly growing .

The human body is a vessel . The bigger the vessel, the more water it can contain . The stronger my body is, the more Quintessential Essence my dantian can contain . My Essence Soul will also become massive . Meng Chuan came to a realization . His body, Quintessential Essence, and Essence Soul were extremely important . They were closely related to each other .

Meng Chuan—who was sitting in the Godfiend Blood Pool—had gone bald . The heavenly lightning had incinerated his hair .

However, the Godfiend Blood Pool’s power made his hair grow rapidly .

“Hurry up and exit the pool . Don’t waste the Godfiend Blood Pool’s powers for a few strands of hair . ” The Supremacy could not help but shout . At the same time, the blue liquid in the Godfiend Blood Pool rapidly receded . Normally, the Godfiend Blood Pool would be empty . As for where the blue liquid was usually kept? That was confidential! This was a treasure that Archean Mountain would desperately protect .

Meng Chuan immediately jumped out and threw a robe over his body . He wore a look of guilt on his face . His hair had already grown two inches long . He immediately bowed . “I just broke through and accidentally absorbed some of the Godfiend Blood Pool’s powers . ”

“Forget it . ” The Supremacy did not mind . After all, his breakthrough required over ten thousand-fold the Godfiend Blood Pool’s powers than what he had just absorbed for his hair .

Meng Chuan was still rather excited . After all, he had become a Godfiend . He was now in the first Godfiend realm—the Core Cloud realm .

“Thanks to your guidance, I was able to condense a Core Cloud easily,” said Meng Chuan gratefully .

The Supremacy nodded and said, “Meng Chuan, the Power of Essence Soul is extremely important during the later Godfiend realms . For example, breaking through from the Great Solar realm to the Darkstar realm is extremely difficult . The Power of Essence Soul can increase your control over Quintessential Essence by tenfold . It’s the only way you can reach the Darkstar realm . If you don’t have an Essence Soul, even if your saber realm is several-fold higher than that of Darkstar realm experts, you still wouldn’t be able to become a Darkstar Godfiend . In the future, you have to work hard on your Essence Soul . ”

He valued Meng Chuan because of his Essence Soul .

“I understand . ” Meng Chuan nodded .

“Alright . ” The Supremacy’s figure dissipated, and he was gone .

Meng Chuan stood beside the Godfiend Pool . He felt the immense power within him and his extremely pure Quintessential Essence . He couldn’t help but feel excited .