Chapter 673: Nascent Soul Spatial Domain [End of Month, Requesting Monthly Tickets!]

Wangyue Island, within the cultivation cave.

Qin Ming held the "Void Spirit Stone" in his hand, hesitating.

"This fourth-rank superior Void Spirit Stone can help you rapidly comprehend Void Arts, enabling your Nascent Soul to truly master teleportation. With good fortune, you might even gain additional Void secrets."

"Of course, besides this option, you may also blend it into your core magic treasure, the Wood Emperor Nail, instantly elevating it to fourth-rank inferior spiritual treasure status."

"After infusing it, your set of Wood Emperor Nails will likely gain astonishing power—speed and stealth so great even Nascent Soul True Persons cannot evade them."

"How you use this stone is entirely your choice."

From within the Blood Pagoda magic treasure, Qingyang the Old Devil gave Qin Ming advice.

Qin Ming naturally knew this Void Spirit Stone was priceless, and only his fortune had granted him such a piece.

As a fourth-rank superior heavenly treasure, he might never encounter another in a thousand years.

This single stone could serve only one purpose: either refine and enhance his core magic treasure, or cultivate Nascent Soul Arts.

"Sigh! Indeed, one cannot have both bear's paws and shark's fins!"

Qin Ming sighed inwardly, lamenting that Han Ya's gift was too small to satisfy both desires. After a moment's thought, he made his decision—he would use it to comprehend Void Arts.

After a Nascent Soul cultivator breaks through, they cannot immediately use the Nascent Soul teleportation art.

It takes decades, even centuries, of deepening comprehension of the Void before one gradually masters its power and applies the Void art.

But with this Spirit Stone, everything changed drastically.

According to Qingyang the Old Devil, with the Void Spirit Stone's aid, a Nascent Soul cultivator could drastically shorten the comprehension process.

Quickly, it might take only months; slowly, merely a few years.

Moreover, depending on individual fortune, destiny, and innate talent, one might even extract additional Void arts from the stone.

For Void Arts delve into the domain of space—only those of extraordinary brilliance can master them.

Cultivating Void Arts is only possible after forming the Nascent Soul, for only then can the Nascent Soul endure fire without burning and water without drowning, thus withstanding the Void's force and consumption.

If a lower-level cultivator forcibly attempts it, they cannot comprehend it, and even if they gain partial insight, they risk violent backlash from the Void's force—minor injuries, or death.

Thus, cultivating Void Arts with special resources—such as spiritual objects, magic treasures, or secret transmission methods infused with Void power—yields double results at half the effort, accelerating progress immensely.

Yet such resources are invariably among the rarest and most elusive in the cultivation world.

No amount of spirit stones can buy them.

"At the Nascent Soul stage, most resources cannot be easily acquired with spirit stones alone; most are exchanged directly between Nascent Soul cultivators."

Qin Ming took a deep breath and immediately activated the secret technique Qingyang the Old Devil had taught him, beginning to draw the source power from the Void Spirit Stone.

In an instant.

Thin streams of strange, formless, intangible energy emerged from the floating Void Spirit Stone before Qin Ming, continuously flooding into his purple palace and spiritual platform.

The two Nascent Souls within Qin Ming, upon sensing this strange energy, joyfully began devouring and consuming it.

As the white and black Nascent Souls finished absorbing all the energy from the stone,

the Void Spirit Stone in Qin Ming's hand instantly turned to gray dust, scattering on the ground.

In the depths of the cosmos.

Qin Ming's mind suddenly filled with sudden insights, and as time passed, his affinity for Void power steadily strengthened.

…

Time passed slowly; three months later.

Within the cave.

Qin Ming was fully immersed in comprehending Void power.

Above his head, his Nascent Soul and Demon Soul played and wrestled.

*Snap! The two Nascent Souls vanished in a bizarre manner, then reappeared anywhere within the cave.

*Wum~ Wum~* Waves like ripples flowed unpredictably around Qin Ming.

Suddenly! A five-li spatial domain formed centered on Qin Ming himself.

He opened his pitch-black eyes, deep as abysses, as if ready to swallow all before him.

Qin Ming clearly sensed that within this five-li spatial domain, it was as if a self-contained world existed, entirely under his control.

Even the spiritual energy of heaven and earth could be commanded and transformed at his will.

"Nascent Soul Spatial Domain!"

After absorbing the Void Spirit Stone, Qin Ming not only mastered the Nascent Soul cultivator's great art—the Nascent Soul Teleportation—but also gained an additional new Void art.

That was the Nascent Soul Spatial Domain.

To master such Void power, even the most gifted Nascent Soul True Persons, bearing Daoist lineage, require at least Nascent Soul mid-stage and centuries of cultivation to comprehend and control the Nascent Soul Spatial Domain.

Though Qin Ming's current Nascent Soul Spatial Domain spans only five li, as his cultivation deepens, its range will expand further.

"I never expected such a pleasant surprise!" Qin Ming's expression glowed with excitement.

"Han Ya, you truly are my benefactor!"

"Next time I meet him, I must thank him properly again!"

He immediately summoned the Devouring Rat and ordered it: "Use your strongest attack—strike me."

The Devouring Rat lounged lazily, assuming Qin Ming wanted it to till the soil again.

But upon hearing Qin Ming's words, it froze in shock: "Master, did I hear right? Attack you?" The Devouring Rat even doubted whether its master had suffered qi deviation and lost his mind.

"Correct. Give it your all. No holding back." Qin Ming spoke with utmost seriousness.

Seeing Qin Ming so serious, the Devouring Rat reluctantly pulled out its black steel fork magic treasure.

"He~tui~"

It spat on its tiny hands, then raised the black steel fork. "Master, I'm coming! Don't blame me if I hurt you—I'm a third-rank peak great demon, nearly equal to a human Nascent Soul!"

"Mm. Come."

"Master, are you sure you don't want some safety measures?" the Devouring Rat asked uneasily, watching Qin Ming seated motionless on the reed mat.

Qin Ming's forehead darkened: "."

"Hurry up. No more nonsense."

Hearing this, the Devouring Rat roared with bravado: "Then I'm coming! Eat this, you big fool!"

*Boom! The Devouring Rat's demonic power surged violently, pouring immense force into its black steel fork.

The space trembled violently.

The black steel fork erupted in a blinding black arcane light, transforming into a pitch-black blade that slashed toward Qin Ming!

Its momentum was so vast it could rival the demon realm—the Devouring Rat had unleashed every ounce of strength, knowing Qin Ming's request must have special intent.

It dared not hold back—the black blade tore through the Void, arriving instantly!

A single strike, as if slicing open the Void itself—this was the Devouring Rat's current power!

Any ordinary Foundation Establishment peak cultivator facing this sky-splitting blow would meet only death.

Yet—

The next scene left the Devouring Rat stunned.

As the crescent-shaped black blade neared Qin Ming,

"Space warps!"

Suddenly,

the space one foot before Qin Ming twisted abruptly into a vortex.

It deflected the Devouring Rat's full-power strike!

*Boom! With a thunderous crash, the black blade carved a massive hole into the rocks behind Qin Ming.

Qin Ming remained unharmed.

Most astonishingly, throughout the entire process, Qin Ming had not moved a muscle—still seated on the reed mat.

As if with a single thought, the Devouring Rat's attack had been redirected.

Even magical arts could be perfectly avoided!

The Devouring Rat's eyes widened in disbelief, exclaiming: "Nascent Soul experts are terrifying indeed!!!"

Yet in an instant,

Qin Ming on the opposite side gave it a strange smile.

The expression made the Devouring Rat's tail bristle.

The next moment,

Qin Ming reached forward and tore open a fissure in the space before him.

Then he vanished into it.

As if disappearing into thin air! The Devouring Rat's heart tightened; it immediately prepared to extend its demonic sense to search.

But a chill ran down its back—its fur stood on end!

Before it could react, Qin Ming's figure suddenly appeared behind it, reaching out a large hand and snatching it up.

The Devouring Rat, held in Qin Ming's grasp, made no struggle, only stared in awe: "Master, what art is this? It's too powerful—I couldn't react at all."

"But… next time, can you not appear suddenly behind me? I'm scared."

Qin Ming: "."

He had gained a new Void art and was in high spirits, but hearing the Devouring Rat's words, he suddenly felt something… off. "This is my newly mastered Nascent Soul Spatial Domain. Within its range, I can freely manipulate heavenly and earthly spiritual energy to suppress opponents."

"I have also mastered two Nascent Soul secret arts: Space Warping and Void Transit."

"But these two arts can only be used within the Nascent Soul Spatial Domain—similar to your bloodline art, yet far stronger, hehehe."

Qin Ming used his own spiritual pet as a test subject for his new arts.

After personally testing it, he could now feel the power of this Void Technique.

Once the Nascent Soul domain was activated, combined with the suppression effect of the Blood Pagoda magic treasure.

From now on, even if Qin Ming faced opponents of the same realm, or even Nascent Soul mid-stage True Persons, he could render their entire cultivation base ineffective, unable to unleash even half a percent.

It formed a dimensional suppression!

The Blood Pagoda magic treasure already possessed the ability to suppress a cultivator's cultivation base and magic power.

Added to the Nascent Soul domain, Qin Ming was now virtually invincible among Nascent Soul early-stage cultivators.

His sense of security surged once more.

(End of Chapter)