Chapter 109: Spiritual Mechanism

Jiang Jian paid no mind to the idea of snow accumulation.

Instead, he drew his dark robe sleeves together and took the array in hand.

“Array usage instructions.”

“Split the origin, and insert a small portion each time.”

“Activate it.”

Without a sound.

Jiang Jian stirred his spirit, and the frost-white karma fire became a stream of light, slicing through.

A chunk of the black mountain spirit origin was forcibly severed.

Spiritual energy wrapped the small portion of origin.

Delivered to his fingertips.

Jiang Jian placed it into the auxiliary array.

Boom!

The array’s faint light flickered, and its patterns flared instantly!

Thin threads of light spread out, enveloping the small black orb.

Frantically absorbing its origin!

The next instant.

An unimaginably dense spiritual mechanism burst forth from his fingertips!

The vast majority of this spiritual mechanism flowed into Jiang Jian’s meridians!

A small amount leaked into the room.

Instantly thickening the spiritual energy within the room!

“This energy!”

Ji Xue had been resting, crouched in the corner.

At once, his eyes widened.

His gray fur trembled.

Instinctively,

he opened his mouth wide and greedily inhaled the spiritual mechanism.

Meanwhile, Jiang Jian—

deep within his meridians—

an incredible black flow surged instantly into his spiritual circulation!

Vast spiritual mechanism surged like a tide.

Circulating through his meridians, violently slamming against them!

The auxiliary array was never meant to be used this way.

It required a specific incantation to transform it into faint light and place it within the Shenque.

In that case,

all refined spiritual mechanism would be fully contained.

Not a single trace would leak out.

But Jiang Jian refused to allow any technological device inside his Shenque.

Even if the risk were only one in ten thousand.

Jiang Jian would not do it.

So,

Jiang Jian used another method.

Holding the array, he severed the origin.

Directly refining it at the meridian points in his palm.

This method was not only safe.

It also absorbed the vast majority of spiritual mechanism.

Yet, under the violent surge of spiritual mechanism,

there was a possibility

that his meridians could not withstand it and would shatter outright!

Boom!

The spiritual mechanism generated from refining the small portion of mountain spirit origin

had coalesced into a vast black river.

This black river emitted a silent, furious roar.

Rampaging wildly through Jiang Jian’s meridians!

Crack!

Terrifying fissures appeared continuously along the meridian walls.

Spreading at an terrifying speed!

Jiang Jian’s face turned pale; he gently closed his eyes, fully prepared.

This level of rupture was not only entirely foreseeable—

it was precisely how Jiang Jian trained his meridians!

With his spirit perception,

Jiang Jian immediately activated the “Karma Fire”!

Boom!

Frost-white flames erupted!

A blazing white sea surged forward, engulfing the black river, rapidly refining it.

In that instant,

the black river rapidly evaporated,

transforming into pure spiritual energy, directly absorbable.

This spiritual energy was simply too much.

It exploded violently throughout Jiang Jian’s limbs and bones!

Boom!

The spiritual energy within his Shenque, once calmly circulating, surged dramatically!

The speed of its movement increased visibly, racing wildly upward!

As circulation efficiency rose higher,

Jiang Jian’s Shenque spiritual essence underwent an incredible leap!

The mountain spirit origin rapidly dissolved within the auxiliary array,

transforming into black rivers that flowed into Jiang Jian’s meridians.

Under the burn of karma fire,

these black flows gradually diminished.

Blossoming into pure, absorbable spiritual energy.

Compared to before,

when he directly refined the origin with true fire, efficiency had soared!

“Li family’s Array No. 9 has high conversion efficiency.”

Jiang Jian cultivated while manipulating the array in his palm.

“The mountain spirit origin is nearly maximized.”

“Its loss is minimal.”

“Almost negligible.”

As he pondered,

his Shenque spiritual energy erupted again!

Under the burn of karma fire,

the black river grew thinner.

Meanwhile, the pure, colorless spiritual energy steadily swelled.

Jiang Jian’s meridians

had been repeatedly hammered—shattered, then healed, over and over.

Now stronger than ever before!

In the end,

these black rivers slammed violently against the meridian walls,

yet could only leave faint marks.

Not even a single microscopic crack could be formed!

Even those faint marks

vanished instantly under the nurturing of Shenque spiritual energy, smooth as new.

As the strength of the meridians increased.

The speed at which the karmic fire melted the pitch-black riverwater grew ever faster.

Five hours.

Ten hours.

Thirty hours!

Jiang Jian suddenly opened his eyes, and his entire aura surged violently!

Invisible ripples swept outward in all directions!

Boom!

The snow piled on the ground was instantly ripped up by the residual spiritual energy and slammed against the room’s walls!

But.

The cultivation chamber had apparently been reinforced once more.

Array patterns shimmered across its surface, rippling like water.

Yet not a single crack or damage marred it.

“Not enough.”

Thirty hours of frantic cultivation.

More than half of the mountain ghost’s origin had been completely consumed!

Jiang Jian gently turned his palm to inspect the array’s condition.

The array’s energy core still held much left.

Without the slightest hesitation,

Jiang Jian directly activated the karmic fire to sever another chunk from the remaining mountain ghost origin within his shenque!

Hss!

A faint sound echoed from within his shenque.

A black orb of light, interwoven with luminous streams,

left the shenque and sank into the array on his fingertip.

Boom!

Jiang Jian activated the auxiliary array once more.

This chunk of mountain ghost origin was likewise tightly encased by the array, melting furiously!

A vast torrent of pitch-black spiritual energy surged directly into Jiang Jian’s meridians!

“This time,”

“it’s different from last time.”

Jiang Jian’s expression remained calm, his mind steadfast.

After repeated tempering,

the walls of his meridians had grown immensely sturdy, now unbreakable!

Boom!

The pitch-black spiritual energy roared wildly, yet flowed freely through the meridians without obstruction.

It caused no harm whatsoever to the meridians themselves.

Over the past hundred hours,

Jiang Jian’s meridians had long since grown accustomed to this level of impact.

As their strength increased,

even the massive surge of spiritual energy could no longer damage the meridians.

The Flowing Jade shimmered faintly.

At every moment,

it enhanced Jiang Jian’s spiritual affinity.

The Flying Frost Bracelet was even more terrifying.

Its miniature arrays had been pushed to their absolute limits.

This further accelerated Jiang Jian’s cultivation speed!

Meanwhile,

the divine gift in Jiang Jian’s palm—the Qingshuang Sword Array—

was also slowly being refined.

As a Level 3 Rare Divine Gift: Weapon,

the Qingshuang Sword Array, resting on Jiang Jian’s palm, bore the first brunt of the spiritual energy’s purification.

Under the surging, scouring force of the spiritual energy,

Jiang Jian’s mastery over the array diagram gradually improved.

Forty hours.

Seventy hours.

One hundred hours!

The mountain ghost origin had been consumed by more than half.

And Jiang Jian,

his shenque’s spiritual essence and cultivation foundation,

had undergone an unbelievable surge!

One hundred hours of nonstop cultivation.

Even during this time,

Jiang Jian had eaten only a minimal amount of food.

His cultivation had never ceased.

After one hundred hours of unceasing, high-intensity operation,

the energy consumption of Auxiliary Array No. 9 skyrocketed!

The energy core, originally sufficient to last a full month,

now held only a fraction left.

“My shenque’s spiritual essence,”

“has reached a bottleneck.”

Jiang Jian opened his eyes, clearly sensing it:

After reaching a certain threshold in spiritual essence cultivation,

the rate of advancement had suddenly slowed!

Though it still increased,

it was far slower than before the threshold.

“If my guess is correct,”

“this bottleneck—”

“is the barrier at 60% of the Divine Gift Realm.”

Sixty percent of the Divine Gift Realm was a chasm for the vast majority.

“For me, it is not.”

Jiang Jian’s expression remained calm.

With a thought,

another chunk of mountain ghost origin was severed!

(End of Chapter)