Chapter 184: Soul River

【Realm: Nascent Soul Stage 1.5 billion/1 billion; Divine Sense: (100+50.5) ten thousand】

Looking at the realm data in her field of vision, Hua Changxi first showed joy, but soon, the joy turned into confusion.

What made her happy was that the realm points had finally broken through the bottleneck, exceeding one billion.

What confused her was the change in the Divine Sense data.

"100+50.5?"

"What does that mean?"

Hua Changxi didn't understand at first why the Divine Sense data wasn't merged directly but marked separately, but she soon figured it out.

A cultivator naturally possesses a soul body, and the soul body carries its own soul power. The 1 million in the Divine Sense should be the soul power points inherent to a Nascent Soul cultivator, while those 50.5 ten thousand soul power points should be what she had cultivated herself.

It hadn't been revealed in the data before, and she didn't know if it was because her realm hadn't broken through the one billion point mark.

Having figured out the data issue, Hua Changxi hurriedly checked her dantian.

Previously, when she fused the seven-colored exotic fires into the Great Sun Divine Flame, although she rushed into the spatial rift at the fastest speed and slashed at a section of the Fusang Divine Tree branch at the fastest speed, her dantian was still scorched by the Great Sun Divine Flame; the fire Qi stored in her Qi Sea was almost evaporated by the scorching heat of the Great Sun Divine Flame; and the Nascent Soul floating above the Qi Sea was also scorched to the point of being on its last breath.

At this moment, the Qi Sea had recovered its previous vastness, only the fire Qi in the Qi Sea had become much more solidified. If the fire Qi before was in a gaseous state, then the fire Qi in the Qi Sea now was in a liquid state.

Once the gaseous fire Qi encountered any trouble in the dantian, it was easy to cause the Qi Sea to become unstable. An unstable Qi Sea not only easily injured the dantian but also easily caused the spiritual energy in the body to riot; liquid fire Qi was undoubtedly much more stable.

Although Hua Changxi was a bit surprised by this change in the Qi Sea, she was more joyful. As for why such a change occurred, she felt there were two reasons.

First, the Tang Yu was beneficial to cultivators; soaking in it was like returning to the mother's womb. When she escaped from the spatial rift, she was covered in wounds, but now they had all been repaired.

Moreover, through the perspective of the Observation Technique, she could see that her spiritual roots were even more crystal clear than before.

Judging the quality of spiritual roots largely depended on their transparency; the more transparent the spiritual root, the purer and tougher it was, and the greater the volume of spiritual energy it could withstand flowing through it.

Since the quality of the spiritual roots had improved, the dantian was naturally no exception, becoming more solid than before. If a giant wave of spiritual energy were to rise in the Qi Sea again, it was estimated that it could hold out for longer. If she encountered an enemy who wanted to destroy her dantian, it would certainly be harder to severely damage her than an ordinary person.

With the improvement in dantian quality, it could naturally accommodate a liquid Qi Sea.

Secondly, it was the reason for the Great Sun Divine Flame.

Although the Great Sun Divine Flame scorched her dantian, from another perspective, the dantian repaired by the Tang Yu could also be considered to have been tempered once by the Great Sun Divine Flame.

At this moment, the Great Sun Divine Flame resting on the Fusang Divine Tree branch no longer emitted a scorching heat that could burn the heavens and destroy the earth, but the suppressing power of the Divine Flame had not converged. Like a torch, it hung high above the Qi Sea, and under its powerful suppression, it promoted the transformation of gaseous fire Qi toward a liquid state.

However, although the suppression of the Great Sun Divine Flame stabilized the Qi Sea, it caused great pressure on the Nascent Soul.

Previously, the Nascent Soul was floating in the middle of the Qi Sea, but now, the Nascent Soul could only float cross-legged above the Qi Sea.

The change in the position of the Nascent Soul in the dantian still gave Hua Changxi some concerns; she didn't know if this would have any impact on her cultivation.

Then there was the wisp of black flame on the heart of the Nascent Soul.

Previously, when encountering a crisis, the black flame almost completely submerged the Nascent Soul. Now that the danger was resolved, the black flame retreated back to the heart, but it had grown several times larger than before, covering half of the heart.

This kind of coverage was not the surface submergence of the Nascent Soul, but rather half of the heart, from the inside out, had ignited with black flames.

Looking at the heart that had turned half black, Hua Changxi's expression was a bit serious. The black flame would amplify emotions; once reason was submerged by emotions, it was easy to do unpredictable things.

This time, it was her desire to survive that overcame her fear. If she had retreated even a little, she would have been submerged by fear, fallen into complete helplessness, and then could only passively wait for the arrival of the Grim Reaper.

Thinking of the situation at that time, Hua Changxi still had lingering fears.

Hua Changxi stroked the back of her right hand, feeling fortunate that she had trusted the master of the Xiangguo Temple back then and branded the Awakening Pattern on the back of her right hand.

Many times when emotions flared up, she couldn't perceive certain desires rising in her heart at all, leading to nourishing the black flame without knowing it. The Awakening Pattern would remind her at the first moment that she was fueling the black flame.

Of course, the Awakening Pattern could only remind her, letting her perceive the desires in her heart. To completely solve the black flame problem, she still had to find the white jade lotus petal, ignite the white flame, and let the black and white flames reach a yin-yang balance.

After checking her body and confirming that she was fine, Hua Changxi had the heart to look closely at the bottom of the Tang Yu where she was located.

Looking at the roots of the Fusang Divine Tree, Hua Changxi sighed: "If I had known..."

If she had known that there was a Fusang Divine Tree at the bottom of the Tang Yu, she wouldn't have had to risk breaking into the spatial rift.

However, there were not so many "if I had knowns" in reality. The situation at that time did not allow her to have other choices, and she was also not sure if she could soak in the Tang Yu, besides being a fire spiritual body, was it also because she had subdued the Great Sun Divine Flame?

Hua Changxi summoned the Floating Light Sword nurtured in her dantian Qi Sea, picked it up, and slashed toward a slender tree root.

This center of the array eye was guarded by the Artifact Saint Palace. Previously, when condensing the Great Sun Divine Flame, the master and disciple of Baili both looked like she was a robber. She probably wouldn't have many opportunities to come to the Tang Yu in the future. Since she encountered it, she certainly had to cut more divine tree roots to take away.

Although the Floating Light Sword couldn't be drawn, when combined with the Floating Light Sword Art, it was still very sharp for slashing trees.

Cutting trees underwater was too strenuous. Hua Changxi was panting with exhaustion, and she stopped only after cutting more than ten tree roots that were as wide as a rice bowl and dozens of meters long.

Hua Changxi wanted to put the Fusang Divine Tree roots into the Sumeru Mustard Space, but who knew, as soon as she put one in, she saw the Spirit River inside dry up at a speed visible to the naked eye, scaring her into hurriedly taking the tree root out.

"The Fusang Divine Tree carries powerful fire-type laws; ordinary mustard spaces simply cannot store it."

Hua Changxi thought for a while and summoned the Shennong Cauldron.

"The Shennong Cauldron should be able to store the Fusang Divine Tree roots, right?"

Hua Changxi was a bit uncertain. Just as she released the Shennong Cauldron and prepared to move the spiritual plants and herbs inside the Shennong Cauldron to the Sumeru Mustard Space on her neck, the riverbed under her feet suddenly began to vibrate.

The next moment, the white soul crystals spread around the Fusang Divine Tree roots floated up and flew toward the Shennong Cauldron like birds returning to their nests.

Watching this scene, Hua Changxi couldn't care about being shocked. Before the soul crystals merged into the Shennong Cauldron, she quickly transferred the supplies inside, and then watched in a daze as the Shennong Cauldron, like a giant beast with a bloody mouth, continuously devoured the soul crystals at the bottom of the river.

As the nearby soul crystals were sucked dry, the white light of the soul crystals around Hua Changxi's location disappeared, and the bottom of the river gradually turned blood-red.

In the blood-red, Hua Changxi noticed several places where strands of white fine streams were pouring down.

The places where the white fine streams fell were exactly where the soul crystals were most abundant.

Hua Changxi swam toward a white fine stream, and when she saw that the white fine stream was flowing in from a black crack, her expression suddenly changed.

A spatial rift!

The white fine stream was actually flowing in from a spatial rift. There was actually a spatial rift at the bottom of this Tang Yu!

Hua Changxi went to look at other places with white fine streams, and every white fine stream was connected to a spatial rift.

Feeling the pure soul power emanating from the white fine streams, Hua Changxi had a guess: the soul crystals at the bottom of the river certainly didn't appear out of thin air; most of them were condensed from these white fine streams.

Hua Changxi looked at the Fusang Divine Tree roots at the bottom of the river, and her expression gradually became clear. Yes, there were divine tree roots here, so it must be connected to the space where the main trunk of the divine tree was located.

If she wasn't mistaken, behind these spatial rifts was the space where the Fusang Divine Tree she had broken into before was located.

Hua Changxi stared at a spatial rift, took out the Floating Light Sword, inserted the sword into the rift, condensed spiritual energy, and began to tear the rift. Soon, she tore open a large opening.

As the rift grew larger, the white fine streams poured down with a splash, like a waterfall.

Through the gap in the rift, Hua Changxi saw the sky-covering Fusang Divine Tree, and also saw a brilliant white long river winding around the divine tree like a sash. ===== CHAPTER 185 =====