Chapter 600

The crafting process of the Third Phase was uneventful, as there was little danger involved; the "Small Void Divine Wheel" was profoundly mysterious, and Li Luo's sole role was to supply Qi to sustain its operation—it would naturally refine and fuse the two materials within it through a specific mechanism.

Thus, after several hours of crafting, just as Li Luo felt his Qi beginning to wane, brilliant radiance suddenly burst forth from the Small Void Divine Wheel before him, like a sky full of starlight.

From deep within that starlight came an unusual sound, as if the heartbeat of some embryonic life.

This postnatal phase was extraordinarily mysterious; no other method could forge it—only the so-called "Small Void Divine Forging Art" could melt out the spiritual essence from differing phase natures and achieve perfect fusion.

In the past, Li Luo had not realized how powerful the "Small Void Divine Forging Art" was, but now, with his strength and experience grown, he could feel just how extraordinary and rare this Mi Fa truly was.

I wonder where Father and Mother obtained this Te Shu Mi Fa?

This art was perfectly suited to his primordial empty phase and his Primordial Three Phase Palaces.

Li Luo stared fixedly at the swirling mysterious light, his breathing growing heavier without notice.

Under his gaze, the mysterious light on the Small Void Divine Wheel began to recede, until every strand was drawn back and focused into a single point at the wheel's center—a tiny speck no larger than a thumb.

The speck was exceedingly faint, like a candle flickering in the wind, ready to be snuffed out at any moment.

Li Luo's heart quickened as he watched the faint speck; he knew this was the Third Postnatal Phase he needed—now, this phase was incredibly fragile, and even the slightest disturbance could extinguish it; if the speck vanished, the entire crafting process would fail.

Yet, regarding how to strengthen this newborn, infant-like "Dragon-Thunder Phase," Li Tai Zhu Xuan and Dan Tai Lan had already left Li Luo their experience.

So Li Luo did not panic—he immediately bit his tongue, spitting out a drop of essence-blood infused with his own Qi, which rapidly compressed and condensed into a blood pearl the size of a thumb.

The moment the blood pearl left his body, his complexion visibly paled.

The blood pearl floated straight toward the faint speck at the center of the Small Void Divine Wheel; upon contact, fine threads of blood spread out and merged into it.

The faint speck began to brighten rapidly.

Faintly, within it, sounds of dragon roars and thunder rumbles emerged.

At that moment, Li Luo felt a mysterious connection form between himself and the "Dragon-Thunder Phase."

A smile appeared on Li Luo's face—he knew that at this stage, the crafting of the "Dragon-Thunder Phase" had succeeded; yet unlike when he first forged the "Wood-Earth Phase," this phase still required continuous nourishment with his own essence-blood for some time, until it grew stronger, before it could be implanted into his internal Phase Palace.

But this was not urgent, for Li Luo had not yet broken through to the Earth Demon General Rank—he dared not risk inserting the Third Phase prematurely, lest any side effects arise that his current Phase Master realm might not withstand.

Thinking thus, Li Luo carefully retrieved the "Small Void Divine Wheel" and stored it within his Spatial Sphere.

Two months remained until the Mansion Sacrifice, yet he had much to accomplish.

First and foremost was breaking through to the Earth Demon General Rank—a massive leap in power, for the Qi of the Earth Demon General Rank far surpassed that of the Phase Master realm; Li Luo had personally felt this during his clash with Senior Ao Bai, who was merely a False General, not yet a true Earth Demon General, yet even so, Li Luo had needed to join forces with Jing Tai Xu, Lu Ming, and Sun Da Sheng—the four top students of the First Star Academy—to finally subdue him.

Had Senior Ao Bai been a true Earth Demon General, with a fully formed Demon Palace, Li Luo and the other three likely would not have been his match.

Yet breaking through to the Earth Demon General Rank was no easy feat; strictly speaking, since he had first opened his postnatal phases, only nearly a year had passed. Achieving such astonishing progress in so short a time was remarkable—even if it was aided by the momentum of the "Holy Cup War," during which the academy had generously distributed training resources rarely made available in past years, this pace of advancement was still astonishing.

Especially if Li Luo truly broke through by year's end in the First Star Academy, this marvel would be magnified greatly—he might even shatter the record held since the founding of the Sacred Mystic Star Academy, becoming the first student to reach the Earth Demon General Rank before advancing to the Second Star Academy.

And this achievement, even Jiang Jiang Qinge herself had never accomplished.

According to Instructor Xi Chan, the reason she had not achieved it was that she had suppressed her cultivation speed with a certain Mi Fa, aiming to accumulate immense power and then erupt in a single explosive leap.

But regardless, if Li Luo truly broke through to the Earth Demon General Rank within two months, he would become the first student in the history of the Sacred Mystic Star Academy to do so.

Li Luo estimated that his current chance of breaking through to the Earth Demon General Rank was only thirty percent; if he waited six months, his success rate would rise to eighty percent—but clearly, he could not wait that long.