"Seal!"
As the fire and ice springs constantly churned, facing the two Dragon Kings' remnant souls that were aggressively attacking, a streak of grey light flashed in Electrolux's eyes, and a word full of indifference was spat out.
The next second, no matter how the spring water surged, the two Dragon Kings' remnant souls were frozen in place. Two magic arrays even derived out of thin air, piercing through the "bodies" of the two remnant souls, transforming into rings of light that looped around their necks, with golden patterns spreading across the remnant souls' entire bodies. As they flickered, no matter how they struggled, they still couldn't break free.
Electrolux pointed a finger, and the rings on the two Dragon Kings' remnant souls extended two chains, connecting to Chen Junting's body; even if the two remnant souls roared, it was to no avail.
After doing all this, he then looked at Chen Junting and said, "With the help of these two Dragon Kings' remnant souls, I have connected the energy of the entire Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to your body. As long as you need it next, you can continuously draw from it."
"Teacher, thank you."
Before Electrolux could respond, Chen Junting, who was already prepared, assumed a cross-legged posture, allowing his body to float and sink in the spring water while his mind sank into his body.
Looking within, Chen Junting first focused on his lower dantian.
It was a desolate expanse; only the circulating soul power dripped down from the middle dantian, accumulating there, but then flowing to his limbs and bones.
His first step next was to open the storage of Essence!
"Necromancy, Drawing Death Aura!"
A sharp shout rang out in his mind, and streams of grey airflow carrying death aura spread all over Chen Junting's body. However, this didn't linger too much on his body; under Electrolux's gaze, it sank into the spot three inches below his navel, which was the location of the lower dantian.
Boom—
Chen Junting's abdomen burst with light, as if it had directly exploded at this moment. But in reality, it was the death aura, drawn and stirred up by necromancy, emerging from the lower dantian, forming rolling thick smoke that corroded his physique and reduced his lifespan.
It formed a sea of death, surging there, completely swallowing the soul power that had accumulated and flowed through it, and continuously flowed toward his limbs and bones, intending to spread the death aura throughout his body via the meridians.
But under Chen Junting's control, how could his body, which had already taken half a step toward the god-level, be so easily eroded by death aura?
This drawn death aura had only swallowed a quarter of Chen Junting's body when it triggered the instinctive resistance of his body. His blood essence erupted like a volcano, and the life energy inherently possessed by his body also gushed forth like a spring, bursting with endless vitality, allowing his decayed flesh, which had been eroded by the death aura, to quickly recover under the nourishment of life.
However, this was still not enough!
"As expected, the death aura has triggered the body's instinctive counterattack."
At this time, Electrolux, using his connection with Chen Junting, caught a glimpse of his current progress. Such smooth progress, developing exactly as expected, also made this knowledgeable old man breathe a sigh of relief, even if it was just a tiny one.
After all, this was only the initial danger.
But fortunately, there was a good start.
Now, the lower dantian, where death aura constantly churned, underwent another change. The death aura that was eroding elsewhere was forced to retreat step by step by the life energy contained within the body itself, and the blood essence flowing like mercury columns continuously impacted, wearing away the decay.
Even at this moment, the life energy and the power of blood essence pursued relentlessly, directly "fighting into" the lower dantian that had turned into a sea of death.
Compared to this dead and still sea of death, the life energy and the power of blood essence that had just entered here were like an insignificant drop of clear water in a vat of ink; they barely showed their crystal-clear, crimson jade-like appearance when they first fell, but they indeed stood in opposition to that massive amount of death aura.
Perhaps it was like finding the enemy's headquarters; with Chen Junting fanning the flames, apart from the life energy and blood essence power needed to maintain the rest of his body, the other "dormant" life energy and blood essence power within Chen Junting's body completely erupted at this moment. Even though it was targeting the inside of his own body, it still stirred up the spring water outside so that it couldn't rest in peace.
Such a commotion was clearly perceived even by the Snow Empress and the others.
When the vast majority of the life energy and blood essence power within his body continuously poured into his lower dantian, causing the sea of death formed by the death aura to suffer repeated defeats in the face of the ocean of life and the ocean of blood essence, gradually changing from being clearly distinct to a general trend, and even completely turning into a crimson ocean and an emerald ocean intertwining in the lower dantian at that moment...
"Separate!"
Inside his own body, Chen Junting's consciousness was the master of everything! With just a thought, the power of life and the power of blood essence, which had originally intertwined to repel the death aura in the lower dantian, began to slowly separate, like Yin and Yang filling the space between them.
"Condense!"
The calmed lower dantian suddenly burst with brilliant light, erupting with tsunami-like sounds. The power of blood essence and the power of life surged, one crimson red and one emerald green, bursting forth with radiant brilliance.
Under the continuous impact, it was as if two completely different world-shattering tsunamis were intertwined, making the lower dantian, now almost filled with these two forces, incomparably intense, and even more remarkably eye-catching.
Yet, right under this violent commotion, a gathering vortex appeared above the ocean of blood essence and the ocean of life respectively, causing the power of life and the power of blood essence to converge toward them separately.
After an unknown period of time…
Suddenly, the two vortexes actually violently collided at this very moment! The two oceans surged directly toward the center, stirring up a massive tsunami, and a crystal shaped like a soul core appeared in the center of this tsunami!
The two colors, emerald green and crimson red, appeared distinctly separate on this crystal, but for some reason, it also gave people the feeling of being completely unified.
The next second, the crystal fell straight down toward the ocean below.
Then... Boom—
The crystal violently exploded, but what this brought was the intertwining of the two oceans once again. However, this intertwining was no longer part emerald green and part crimson red, but a complete fusion, transforming into a golden color. Like ten thousand rays of divine light, as gorgeous as a rainbow, the golden waves were surging, and lightning and thunder were roaring. A brand-new crystal stood out from within at this moment, also golden.
Chen Junting gazed at it intently and spoke a single sentence.
"This is the Essence Core!"
The moment the Essence Core appeared, it was as if the lower dantian was trembling, and what followed was the resonance of the middle dantian. In the middle dantian, which had already transformed into a Qi Sea, Chen Junting's exclusive soul power had long been full. The sole soul core, which was the fusion of two soul cores into one, was spinning in the Qi Sea, actively drawing in the external heaven and earth origin energy to infuse itself, liquefying the entire middle dantian into a sea, and there were even what looked like icebergs, which were actually solidified soul power, floating on it.
The soul core in the middle dantian at this moment could be called a soul core, but it could also be described by another term, and that was the "Qi Core".
When both Essence and Qi were present, Spirit should also be born. And this was the next step Chen Junting had to take.
But what he was about to do was extremely dangerous. Even the hurdle of drawing death aura into his body only had one or two percent of the risk compared to this.
Because the upper dantian, as the root of one's nature and the place to store the Spirit, naturally required the soul to return to its place and the true spirit to reside within. But the Spiritual Sea was the place that nurtured the true spirit and housed the soul; it was the most crucial place.
The two seemed close, but they were actually not one entity.
What he had to do was to make the two merge into one!
It was precisely this seemingly fantastic idea that horrified the four great soul spirits and Elder E. This was also why, before entering the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, he had asked the four great soul spirits bound to him to leave the Spiritual Sea. This way, even if something really happened to him, the souls of the four great soul spirits wouldn't be annihilated because of it, and they would naturally still have the possibility of surviving.
"Draw the Divine Soul into the Body!"
With a thought from Chen Junting, the rings and chains connecting the remnant souls of the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings instantly burst with golden light. Under Electrolux's watchful and ready gaze, the divine soul power of the two Dragon Kings' remnant souls was directly detained and brought into the Spiritual Sea.
Because making the Spiritual Sea fuse with the upper dantian in its complete state was almost impossible for him at this stage, he had to adopt other means, making the Spiritual Sea shattered first so it could better merge with the upper dantian as one.
To this end, he borrowed the power of the two Dragon Kings' remnant souls.
Almost the instant the divine soul power of the two Dragon Kings' remnant souls entered the Spiritual Sea, Chen Junting used his Heavenly Eye to freeze his own soul and protect his true spirit. With the interference and protection of the power of destiny, no matter how these two divine soul powers acted, they couldn't possibly harm Chen Junting's roots.
In addition, the Heavenly Eye also enveloped the Spiritual Sea, and the power of time and space even froze everything outside the Spiritual Sea.
This way, even if Chen Junting was severely injured due to the shattering of his Spiritual Sea, as long as the fragments of the Spiritual Sea merged with the upper dantian without missing a single piece, his spiritual realm would not decline at all, and his strength would not be damaged.
Rumble—
Less than a breath after the divine soul power entered, the two god-level forces of ice and fire completely erupted within Chen Junting's Spiritual Sea. Under Chen Junting's strategy of non-resistance, his face instantly became incomparably pale!
Yet even so, Chen Junting still remained motionless.
He let the two god-level forces continuously destroy until they reached a critical point, and ice and fire completely erupted!
At the same time, Crack—
A sound representing rupture rang out!
The Spiritual Sea had shattered!
The seawater representing Chen Junting's spiritual power instantly poured back, surging toward the shattered places as if it was going to drain out of his body. But the moment it flowed out from the cracks, it was entirely enveloped and paused by the power of destiny from the enveloping Heavenly Eye, and the power of time and space he had comprehended.
But the shattering of the Spiritual Sea was a certain-death outcome for any powerful soul master. The originally stabilized middle and lower dantians, due to the influence of the Spiritual Sea, caused his Essence and Qi to continuously drain as well. Therefore, even though Chen Junting's soul and true spirit were already protected by the power of destiny, his current state was like a candle in the wind, which could be extinguished at any time.
Seeing this scene, Electrolux was ready to intervene at any moment.
On the other hand, Chen Junting himself, even though the shattering of the Spiritual Sea brought unprecedented pain, his consciousness was like the most rational entity, using the Gold of Life to maintain his vitality, but he didn't try to mend the shattered Spiritual Sea, letting it break into pieces.
It was like a large hole constantly leaking water, but he only poured water into the small holes, and wouldn't even try to patch up that large hole.
Until a certain moment, Chen Junting had a sudden spark of inspiration.
He knew it was time!
Accompanied by his consciousness, the divine soul power of the two Dragon Kings' remnant souls was directly expelled by Electrolux's means from Chen Junting's already dilapidated, fragmented Spiritual Sea.
Immediately after, came the most crucial next step!
"Descend!"
A furious shout of spiritual return echoed in his mind!
The fragments of the Spiritual Sea and the spiritual power, originally frozen under the envelopment of the power of destiny and the power of time and space, seemed to be drawn by something, and began to continuously fall toward the position of the upper dantian!
Under the massive amount of spiritual power, the remaining soul power in the upper dantian seemed to be oppressed, retreating back into the middle dantian, leaving this "spacious" position entirely for the Spiritual Sea. But obviously, the upper dantian was not large enough originally.
However, next, as the shattered Spiritual Sea forcibly fell into it, the upper dantian began to continuously expand. But this simple overlapping of the two was not what Chen Junting wanted.
So, "Merge!"
The artificial Three-Eyed Golden Lion skull released a dazzling brilliance, and the invisible power of destiny seemed to be ignited at this moment, transforming into a rose-gold flame. From tiny sparks, it continuously spread in the upper dantian, burning this place while also refining the fragments of the Spiritual Sea and the massive amount of spiritual power seawater.
However, the pain brought by the burning of this power of destiny was no less than the shattering of the Spiritual Sea earlier, and perhaps even worse! Because this time, Chen Junting's soul and true spirit, which were entwined in the power of destiny and the Heavenly Eye, all joined in.
As time passed minute by minute, the two thoroughly fused into one. At the same time, a crystal similar to the Essence Core, which could also be called the "Spirit Core", slowly rose.
Now, the upper dantian was the Spiritual Sea, and the Spiritual Sea was also the upper dantian. It was the place to store the Spirit, and also the root of one's nature.
When the three crystal cores were completely finished, the upper, middle, and lower dantians almost immediately began to operate actively on their own. Chen Junting's entire Essence, Qi, and Spirit were perfectly connected at this moment. His aura also rapidly climbed, and his cultivation directly broke through the final barrier between level ninety-eight and level ninety-nine!
In an instant, Hum—
The Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well seemed to be overturned!
An arrogant and soaring aura rushed straight into the clouds!
The Snow Empress and the others, who clearly felt this, had their worries instantly swept away, replaced by intense joy! Because the breakthrough in cultivation meant that Chen Junting had successfully done it!
"Great!"
"Boss is mighty!!!"
"..."
And at this moment at the bottom of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Electrolux, who had re-sealed the two Dragon Kings' remnant souls, looked at Chen Junting who was still in his secluded cultivation state, and also felt happy for him.
"You have already walked out a path that belongs to you..."
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