Cheat Cultivator's Ascension-Chapter 492: Ascending to Soul Formation Realm (2)

Despite the immense enthusiasm in his mind as he braves the dangers of this situation, Su Xiaotian still couldn’t help but wince every now and then as the collapsing walls of the Replica of the River of Time continue to shatter and part even more, allowing temporal rule to freely wreak havoc within his body more and more.

’This can’t go on for long... perhaps I can rely on Grand Desolation and Grand Completion Transcendent Bodies’ synergy to tough it out...’ he thought to himself before shaking his head once more, realizing the problem with this possible method of crossing over and completing his breakthrough.

’The refinement and tempering of my body will slow down a lot if I activate both physiques though, not to mention the absorption might hog all these energies circulating within himself and stop the process altogether.’ such thoughts appear in his mind, making him shake his head as he come into a single conclusion forcing him to steel his resolve and tough everything out.

’There will always be another chance if I fail here, if I ascend to the Soul Formation Realm using the easier way, I might just regret it if there are benefits to the harder path...’ he reasoned out as a wry smile formed on his face, only now noticing just why is it that every time he encounters a chance for a major increase of strength, the encounter is always accompanied by immense pain.

Exactly because it is the path that he chooses to tread, refusing to let go of any form of improvement that he can acquire, no matter how hard and arduous a path he has to walk through in order to get there.

And from the results, the gap between his strength and the strength of peers of the same cultivation realm as himself, one can only acknowledge that this immortal-like young man got much more than what he had bargained for, enduring the immense, yet temporary pain in exchange for the permanence of talent, the permanence of combat prowess that goes beyond logic of normal man.

Now armed with this newfound reason not to be concerned of anything else, the immortal-like young man proceeds to focus on his cultivation, the collapsing River of Time with the crack in its walls ever so expanding not stopping him from pushing the temporal rules circulating within it even further, merely increasing the control over it while increasing the force so that he can still recover control should everything go haywire.

As this happens, though, he also starts diverting some of his strength towards the further reinforcement of the Replica of the River of Time, his vitality, soul, and spirit undergoing substantial transformation due to his breakthrough getting better and better in stabilizing the situation within the new organ system in his body.

While all of this happens, the refinement and tempering of each fiber of the young man’s body never stopped, the process now turning more subtle to his senses as he focuses more on reigning over and bringing the raging Replica of the River of Time under total control, wanting to reach the point where even with the current level of temporal rule’s circulation, the walls of the river won’t even show any sign of the most trivial of damage.

In order to achieve this level of progress, though, Su Xiaotian is well aware of how much effort he needs to put into this opportunity that he found himself in right now, his mind working and sorting out the order of things he needs to complete first in order to get the most out of this chance he acquired for himself.

’I think I need to reach right until before stepping to the Soul Formation Realm before the final step...’ he noted in his mind as he watches the torrent of temporal rule gradually slipping out of his control, its circulation ever so increasing in strength and power prompting him to focus more of his effort to suppressing the destruction it is causing, which in turn slows down the process of his breakthrough to the Soul Formation Realm. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞

Although insignificant outside of this dimension given that he will return right after the moment he left, time passed within the Infinite Qi Dimension, the breakthrough and the improvement of the Replica of the River of Time messing up with Su Xiaotian’s perception so much that he wasn’t even aware of how many hours, days, or possibly weeks, eve months, he is here already, those passing thoughts distracting him ever-so-slightly every now and then as he pours his entire attention to his breakthrough.

Now gradually coming to a stop, the refinement of his body, spirit qi, and soul comes to a halt, something that more often than not signals the crossing of a cultivator to the next realm, as for this young man, however, something in his guts tells him that his breakthrough to the Soul Formation Realm is far from over.

With the attention he had to pay to the refinement of his body now freed from its duty though, he can now freely pour everything he got to refining and improving the Replica of the River of Time, not to mention the fact that even without stepping into the Soul Formation as of yet, the improvement that the refinement brought to himself allows him easier time to accomplish his next goal.

Now having full focus on the Replica of the River of Time, the immortal-like young man smiles as he now finally allows the temporal rules surging within its walls to explode and rampage as much as it can, and with the sudden increase in the load that the walls of the river must bear, not only cracks, but also holes starts forming all the more, and in a larger manner at that as well, forcing the one cultivating to pour all that he got into reinforcing the walls of the river with all his strength.

An effort is evident to the surrounding as the Transcendent Qi being utilized to corrode and absorb the impact of the temporal rule hitting the walls of this newly created bodily organ of his depletes in quite a significant amount, making it so that the density of ambient spirit qi around him visibly thins out every now and then.

Seeing the fact that the twentieth layer that previously made his body crumble now failing to supply him with the amount of ambient spirit qi he needs to consistently take control of the temporal rule raging within his body, Su Xiaotian couldn’t help but entertain the thought of moving to the next layer of the Infinite Qi Dimension instead, however, with his current state unable to even take a single step, the idea gradually fades out of his mind.

This forces him to push himself to work into a near burnout state, his body putting in more effort to continuously take in great amount of ambient spirit qi, way more than the amount he usually handles, the sources within each of the core now glowing in an unprecedented, pure white light as each continues to refine ambient spirit qi into the higher order Primordial Nihility Transcendent QI, which was then guided to move towards his meridians until it reaches its destination, the blood vessel-like structure that allows temporal rule to flow within his body.