Cheat Cultivator's Ascension-Chapter 493: Ascending to Soul Formation Realm (3)

Pushing through the struggles of suppressing the temporal rule and keeping it within the confinement of the Replica of the River of Time, Su Xiaotian’s mind enters a state of freedom from any outside interference, his will working all the more effectively to completely reinforce the walls of the river’s replica all while making sure that it expands and improves through the help of the raging temporal rules within.

Minutes, hours, and days would pass that he maintains this state, the sole thought in his mind being the completion of the refinement in order for him to reach the next level of cultivation, the pain gradually turning down as time passes by, as if a sign or confirmation that whatever he is doing, it is working, and now, he is nearing the completion of his breakthrough.

With the pain diminishing as time continues to pass by, Su Xiaotian finally managed to start getting a grasp of the improvements brought about by his current breakthrough, opting to check in further detail later as he is well aware of the fact that he has yet to step into the Soul Formation Realm.

Allowing time to slip past his grasp as he enters a wondrous state of cultivation, the immortal-like young man found himself gradually shattering the limits of his current realm once again, the previously raging temporal rule now calm under his complete control, the rule once wreaking havoc as it leaks throughout his entire body now helping the circulating qi, vitality and soul power temper and develop his body all the more, as if the erosion of time brought about more destructive changes for his strength to reconstruct.

It was also at this moment that he starts wincing in pain once again, the stimulation from his body being completely eroded by the power of time inside him making him grit his teeth as he felt completely certain that he had never experienced something like this before, yet oddly enough, despite the immensity of the suffering, he fails to find anything that is damaged within him, not even at the smallest of level.

The reason for that being his Primordial Nihility Transcendent Qi completely reconstructing everything that was eroded by the temporal rules, forging it to become even greater than before, almost as if the temporal rule on his body is but a mere flame of tempering that he had to go through before the quenching relief of his Transcendent Qi washes over his body, this process improving not only his physique, but his soul and qi as well.

’This is...’ feeling something amiss as he knows from the accounts of his elders, mostly his mothers and grandmothers, that there wasn’t something like this in the process of taking the final step as a Nascent Source Realm cultivator and reaching the Soul Formation Realm, Su Xiaotian couldn’t help but feel a bit of a problem coming his way for a few moments, before he brushed those thoughts off seeing that other than the severe, yet superficial pain, he is getting nothing but benefits from this changes.

’It’s time...’ after a while, he finally felt something shifting, as if another invisible shackle was shattered by his sheer strength alone, this moment allowing the Primordial Nihility Transcendent Qi within his body to surge far greater than it ever had before, his physique, along with his soul improving at the same tremendous rate as his qi, forcing him to absorb more and more of the ambient spirit qi around in order to support this growth.

Moments, mere moments pass, and the endless supply of qi within the twentieth layer of the Infinite Qi Dimension starts to thin out noticeably, surprising Su Xiaotian as never had he expected something like this to happen, causing him both a sense of crisis and joy.

Joy from the fact that inferring from the consumption of his breakthrough alone, it is already obvious just how much he will improve once he truly stepped into the next realm, especially when considering the fact that never in his entire time cultivating during this life did he managed to absorb enough energy within the Infinite QI Dimension to cause the ambient spirit qi all around him to plummet in quantity.

And a sense of crisis due to the fact that if such a case continues, then not to mention in the future, even his breakthrough now might turn into jeopardy if the twentieth layer fails to provide him with the amount of spirit qi he needs.

Thankfully for him though, the dimension he is currently in is nothing if not for the truly infinite amount of spirit qi it produces, the thinning amount within the twentieth layer recovering back to how it is originally within no time at all, almost as if the place being drained of its spirit qi was nothing but an illusion the immortal-like young man was caught inside of previously.

The next series of events however confirmed the authenticity of the twentieth layer’s diminishing ambient spirit qi as his body starts absorbing like a black hole once more, repeating the process and allowing him to witness yet again just how much spirit qi his cultivation consumes, the cycle of the twentieth layer’s spirit qi plummeting before it recovers back again repeating for no one knows how long before his body finally stopped its absorption.

Feeling a little bit bloated from all the Transcendent QI circulating within his body, Su Xiaotian then felt like there was but a mere thin line barring him from entering the Soul Formation Realm, and one single action would allow him to rip past this line. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

With a single thought, his soul power starts wrapping around the nascent sources within his cores, each and every single one of them moving away from their domain as the twin nascent source of each core approaches each other, seemingly of their own volition, the ten pairs of ’beings’ that are both his creation and a part of him coming in contact with one another, forcing out from their contact a massive amount of energy exploding outwards with a tremendous force and speed.

Surprisingly however, not a single drop of energy came out of the immortal-like young man’s physical body, and from the outside, it might seem like there’s nothing happening at all, as if his breakthrough is already finished and right now, he was merely consolidating his current realm as even the ambient spirit qi in the twentieth layer returns into its original calm; if continuously slamming at the immortal-like young man is a sort of calm, that is.

Such motion from the twentieth layer is all normal; however, given the torrential amount of qi within the place, the apt description for its current state being more of a raging ocean in the midst of a storm rather than a massive whirlpool intent on drowning a single man within its depths.

While Su Xiaotian is completely unaware of everything happening outside his body, he is solely focused on his breakthrough, the merging pairs of nascent sources exploding with such an immense amount of qi repeatedly, and yet, even that, he feels nothing but comfort, knowing that his strength starts undergoing massive changes once again.