Chapter 599: The Third Phase: Dragon Lei Xiang!

Hoo.

Li Luo sat cross-legged on the bed, his eyes tightly shut. Across the surface of his body, the mysterious purple light formed by the Spirit-Supplementing Balm continuously flowed, strand after strand drilling into his flesh and blood. This was already the fifth time he had used the Spirit-Supplementing Balm. Although his own phase force did not seem to have grown noticeably stronger, the aura rising from his entire body at this moment seemed to carry a kind of mysterious sense of perfection.

Qi and blood boiled, whole and without flaw.

Jiang Jiang Qinge stood beside the bed, watching these subtle changes in Li Luo. On her exquisitely beautiful jade countenance, a look of relief surfaced.

After five consecutive uses of the Spirit-Supplementing Balm, the damage to Li Luo's foundation had finally been perfectly resolved.

She knew that Li Luo was currently in a state of self-adjustment, so she did not disturb him. Instead, she quietly withdrew from the room and shut the door tightly.

Li Luo's adjustment continued for a full two hours.

Two hours later, the mysterious purple light on the surface of his body completely dissipated, merging into his flesh and blood. His eyes opened as well, the gaze appearing somewhat deep, while a joy that was hard to suppress also rose within them.

"The foundation is finally repaired."

Li Luo smiled faintly. The hidden peril previously caused by the second Acquired Phase had finally been made whole today.

Although the repair of his foundation had not directly raised his strength, it made his state of mind seem to grow rounded and smooth. This change seemed to act upon the spirit, giving him even more confidence in facing the upcoming Po Jing.

"But I wonder what kind of price will have to be paid when the third Acquired Phase is filled in?"

Li Luo's thoughts shifted, and a touch of worry arose. Back then, the filling of the first Acquired Phase had violently slashed his lifespan down to five years — a price that could not be called anything but severe. Compared to that price, the foundation damage from the second phase was within acceptable bounds.

At the time, Li Luo's own phase force was thin and unable to bear the price paid when an Acquired Phase was filled in, so it became a shaving of lifespan.

But this was unavoidable. After all, if he could not awaken a phase nature, there was no way to truly enter the cultivation of phase force. Without enough phase force to support the consumption of filling in an Acquired Phase, he could only burn his lifespan to achieve it.

This was a vicious cycle, seemingly very hard to break. At the very least, given Li Luo's previous conditions, it could not be done.

Fortunately, however, the hardest opening had already been cleared. Judging by this pattern, when he filled in the third Acquired Phase, he would already possess the strength of the Earth Fiend General Stage. By then he should have some capacity to cope, and presumably it would not be as brutal as at the very beginning, right?

Li Luo let his thoughts wander for a while, then finally shook his head. Thinking about this was actually meaningless, because no matter what the price, this third phase was something he absolutely had to fill in.

Had he not been striving for so long precisely in anticipation of this day?

"Speaking of that third phase..."

Li Luo's expression shifted slightly. He already had some plans for the configuration of the third phase. This was the perfect time to refine this third phase first, and once he successfully broke through to the Earth Fiend General Stage later, he could fill it in directly.

Thinking thus, Li Luo's palm swept across his spatial orb, and immediately a triangular golden object floated before him, its surface covered in obscure, ancient patterns that interwove with one another, exceedingly mysterious.

This was precisely the Minor Formless Divine Wheel that Li Luo had previously invited Yu Yu Hongxi and Mentor Xi Chan to help refine.

This was the key item for fusing an Acquired Phase.

Next, Li Luo took out two more items from his spatial orb.

One was a silver fruit core, upon which thunder patterns were inscribed. From time to time, Lei Guang flickered and leapt out from it, accompanied by bursts of thunder.

This was precisely the gift Li Luo had obtained from the Thunder Roaring Tree in Thunder Roaring Mountain.

The fruit core was filled with pure thunder energy, a rare treasure of heaven and earth, perfectly suited to serve as the material for the third phase.

Besides the silver fruit core, there was also a Dragon Blood Pearl, crimson in color. As the blood qi flowed within it, it seemed to form the shadow of a giant dragon, and a dragon's roar imbued with tremendous pressure rang out from within from time to time.

The Dragon Blood Pearl — this had been obtained from the Dragon Blood Fire Domain in the Mixed-Level Competition, and it contained the essence blood of a dragon.

This was the configuration Li Luo had envisioned for the third phase.

Dragon phase, Lei Xiang.

With the dragon phase as the main, and Lei Xiang as the supplement.

This is the Dragon Lei Xiang!

"Dragon Lei Xiang — how cool!"

Li Luo grinned. Choosing these two phase natures to pair together was something he had settled on only after deep deliberation and a stroke of serendipity. His previous two phase natures, the Water Light Phase and the Wood Earth Phase, both leaned toward recovery and endurance — considerations for problems such as the lifespan deficit caused by his first awakening of an Acquired Phase. These gentle phase natures, radiating the vitality of life, could slowly permeate his body and prevent him from suffering overly severe aftereffects.

But by the time this third phase arrived, Li Luo had already stepped into the Earth Fiend General Stage. In the cultivation of phase force, he could be considered to have truly entered the hall and begun his studies, with abundant capital. Naturally, his choices were broader.

The Water Light Phase and the Wood Earth Phase excelled at recovery and defense, but they also caused Li Luo's phase force to ultimately still lack a certain offensive edge — this had always been something of a sore spot in Li Luo's heart.

And the dragon race, as the most top-tier existence among the spirit beast races — it was said that a pure-blooded dragon, once it reached adulthood, was an existence comparable to a Marquis-tier powerhouse. Therefore, in this world, the dragon race could absolutely be considered a colossal power.