Chapter 311: Seventh Rank Water-Light Phase

Li Luo thrashed about in the water, the icy lake water making him shiver, and he felt a little wronged—he had only been telling the truth. When he fought Wang Wang Hejiu and Duze Duze Beixuan, although their phase force did indeed possess a trace of spirituality, making them somewhat trickier than other opponents, his dual-phase force was simply too overbearing. It didn't care about any so-called spirituality—with absolute power crushing all tricks, one charge and it was over, so he hadn't felt anything at all.

"Dual-phase force is indeed overbearing, but your mastery of it is equally crude, and the burst of your dual-phase force is extremely brief. Wang Wang Hejiu and Duze Duze Beixuan weren't much stronger than you, so they couldn't withstand your dual-phase force. But as you go on and face increasingly powerful opponents, they may well have means to counter your dual-phase force."

"And when that time comes, phase force imbued with spirituality will hold the advantage in combat, and then turn into the winning edge." Instructor Xi Chan said lightly from the shore.

Li Luo nodded obediently. After all, he understood that Instructor Xi Chan was speaking the truth—his dual-phase force was certainly overbearing, but its consumption was enormous and its duration extremely short; it could only serve as a sudden burst.

"Your first phase has already accumulated enough evolutionary power, yet it falls just one step short of evolving to Seventh Rank. It should still be because that trace of spirituality has yet to be born."

Instructor Xi Chan pondered and said: "This is slightly abnormal, because generally speaking, once one reaches this step, the spirituality should have already been born."

"So one can only say that the difficulty for your first phase to birth spirituality is relatively high. The reason for this might be because of your dual phases..."

When Li Luo heard this, his heart stirred slightly. Instructor Xi Chan only knew he possessed a dual-phase palace, but she didn't know that his phases also had primary and secondary attributes.

Water as the primary, Light as the secondary.

And although these two phase attributes had already merged and were quite harmonious, this was only in the past. If, as the phase force births a trace of spirituality, the two would inevitably develop some friction—or rather, the more powerful water phase would instinctively suppress the light phase to some degree. The two formed an extremely subtle opposition, which was why the birth of spirituality became even more difficult.

In the end, this was caused by his phase attributes possessing both primary and secondary properties.

If he wanted to resolve this situation, he would need to make the weaker light secondary phase stronger—at the very least strong enough to withstand the instinctive suppression from the water phase. If this state could be maintained until the birth of spirituality, then everything after that would be easy.

A flash of excitement surfaced in Li Luo's eyes. He looked up at Xi Chan and said: "Instructor, I know what to do."

Instructor Xi Chan glanced at Li Luo and said nothing more. She extended her bare jade feet and stepped onto the lake surface, immediately water currents rose up, wrapping her figure. When the water currents fell, her figure had already vanished.

Li Luo, meanwhile, circulated his water phase force and sat cross-legged directly on the lake surface.

He pondered slightly. The light phase was the secondary phase, inherently weaker than the primary water phase. Normally, when absorbing the world's energy and refining it into phase force, the water phase absorbed more, while the light phase was the weakest.

To temporarily change this situation, one had to start from the absorption step.

Li Luo raised his palm, and as his water phase force circulated, the surrounding lake water rose, forming palm-sized water mirrors around him.

As the mirror surfaces tilted, they immediately refracted beams of sunlight onto Li Luo.

Then Li Luo felt that the surrounding light energy had also become denser at this moment.

Li Luo immediately activated the "Twelve Brocade" energy-guiding technique he cultivated. However, this time when absorbing the world's energy, he deliberately suppressed the water phase's absorption speed, thereby causing the two streams of energy entering his body to reach a certain balance.

Although cultivating this way normally would result in poor absorption, Li Luo now had to make this choice in order to solve the problem of spirituality's birth.

Water energy and light energy surged into his body simultaneously. Under the guidance of the "Twelve Brocade," they gradually transformed into two kinds of merged phase force. Slightly different from before, in this stream of phase force, the water phase force was suppressed to roughly the same level as the light phase force.

This stream of "Water-Light Phase Force" circulated through his meridians, flowing along.

Finally, it surged into the first phase palace, flowing directly into that Water-Light phase seed.

And at the very instant this stream of phase force flowed in, Li Luo felt the first phase palace seemed to emit a faint tremor, and ripples faintly appeared on the surface of the phase force seed.

The phase force underwent some extremely subtle change.

This change brought a surge of joy to Li Luo's heart. Sure enough, his thinking had been correct—the reason this first phase had been unable to evolve to Seventh Rank for so long was because the primary and secondary phases were suppressing each other. It felt as though they were competing to be the first to birth spirituality, and clearly the light secondary phase couldn't outcompete the water phase. So if this situation continued, it should be the water phase that birthed spirituality first, and only then would it be the light phase's turn.

But if that were the case, Li Luo's evolution would be delayed by some time, and right now, what Li Luo clearly lacked most was time.

Tomorrow was the invitation gathering. If he still couldn't produce a Seventh Rank Water-Light Phase, then even though this Xiyang House possessed a four-star formula, it probably still wouldn't be able to make a stunning impression.

With these thoughts flashing through his mind, Li Luo steadied his spirit and continued, following this method, to constantly absorb and refine the world's energy.

Inside his body, streams of water energy and light energy at equal levels were refined, and finally poured into the Water-Light seed within the phase palace.

The ripples on the surface of the Water-Light seed also began to bloom more and more frequently.

This state continued for roughly an hour or so.

At a certain moment, Li Luo's heart suddenly stirred, because he seemed to hear that the Water-Light seed within the first phase palace emit a humming sound.

Within it was as if filled with a sense of elation.

At this instant, the phase force stored within the phase force seed seemed to suddenly become active and nimble.

Li Luo opened his eyes. In his perception, the phase force within his body hadn't grown by much, but for some reason, when he wielded the phase force, it felt much more responsive and capable.

He extended a finger, and water phase force gathered at his fingertip, gradually forming a small water shuttle.

Within the water shuttle, light points seemed to rise, quite dazzling.

Li Luo flicked his finger, and with a hum, the water shuttle shot out abruptly. Its speed was astonishing—it even carved a water trail across the lake surface.

Li Luo gazed at this water shuttle, whose speed and force were several degrees stronger than before, and finally a smile appeared on his face.

After painstakingly feeding it for over half a year, during which he fed it astronomical amounts of heavenly gold at the ten-million level, carefully nurturing it in every way, he had finally fed this Water-Light Phase of his to Seventh Rank.

Really...

It's even harder than raising a son!