Cheat Cultivator's Ascension-Chapter 494: Soul Formation Realm (1)

Time passed, with each pair of nascent sources merging with each other, Su Xiaotian felt his strength surpassing what he previously thought was his limit time and time again, each explosion from the merging causing a deep, resounding boom within his body, followed by a torrent of profound energy that washes him whole.

This wonderful, curious event happens for just a mere fraction of a moment, and yet for the immortal-like young man that experienced it, the encounter might just as well be as long as eternity itself, as the process of his entire being changing from the breakthrough felt like it was happening for a long time already, and can still extend up to an eternity.

Such profoundness doesn’t last for too long though as after what it felt like eternity to him, Su Xiaotian finally emerged out of that state, with the signal waking him up being the gradually receding energy coming from the merging of his nascent sources, the previous mysterious transformation obscured to even himself, the creator of said nascent sources, finally revealed as what felt like shackles that bind him starts falling apart one by one, making him feel better than he ever did before.

Within the twentieth layer of the Infinite Qi Dimension, the immortal-like young man’s figure gradually got up from his meditating, lotus position, the previous feeling of extreme suppression and pressure from the sheer weight of the ambient spirit qi within this region of the dimension no longer affecting him now, his stride straight and proud, his movements fluid and sublime as he proceeds to approach the next layer.

All while bridging the gap between himself and the twenty-first layer, Su Xiaotian also starts checking out the changes within himself, the power he possesses now, the immense might seemingly hiding deep beneath his body, just waiting for his will to wake up and utilize it to its full potential.

The first thing that came to his mind is how well-developed the Replica of the River of Time had become inside his body, the flow of temporal rule completely controlled by the walls of the previously near collapsing walls of the new organ system formed by the river within his body, a portion of the genuine replica of the True River of Time that allows his previous self to return and assist him with his growth.

And as if pointing that his current potential is one that even his previous self, high and mighty, unrivaled in cultivation, is completely incapable of predicting what sort of strength he will have in the future, the Replica of the River of Time developed even without merging with the other fragments still in the Universal Shop System, something that himself from that shattered timeline wouldn’t even imagine of.

Not only that, but he also managed to bring the fragment he has under complete control, albeit still being limited from its true potential due to the massive consumption of both qi and soul power in order to utilize temporal rules continuously in combat.

Deciding to inspect the improvements on his utilization of temporal rules later, he finally paid attention to the semi-transparent, floating golden screen that appeared right in front of him, providing a comprehensive evaluation of the changes that happened the moment that he entered the Soul Formation Realm.

[Detected the disappearance of all nascent source signature within the user’s body... diagnosing root cause of the issue... diagnostics complete...]

[Detected the merging of the nascent sources within the cores with the soul formed from the user’s entry to the Soul Formation Realm... scanning for any possible problem this can cause...]

[No problem detected. The merged nascent sources and souls work harmoniously, bringing an unprecedented change in the user’s body]

[Detected the transformation of the dual-nascent source (Yin-yang), turning them into true beings with the integration of the newly formed souls, improving the performance of Parallel Processing.]

[Improved Parallel Processing: Allows split thoughts to directly take over tasks that the user’s mind wants. This split thought is the exact copy of the original mind, meaning it can process the same way the user would in any given situation, even if just a simple command is given.]

[Detected an improvement of all of the user’s talents, increasing the user’s stats even further, along with the stat improvement of the breakthrough]

[Detected the improvement of the Yin-yang nascent source’s hidden feature, Outer Manifestation. Outer Manifestation can now practice qi and soul cultivation, relying on the user. Improves the user’s cultivation speed by 25% for each source cultivated at the same time. When not cultivating, each source passively raises all stats by ten percent, and when manifested outside the body, the boost of each source goes up to 25%]

Numerous information greeted him as soon as he started reading, all of them being ones that made him extremely pleased; the previous difficulties and challenges, along with the immense pain that he had experienced during his breakthrough, were completely disregarded in his mind, given just how much he had gained in return.

Eager to find out how much he had actually grown, Su Xiaotian then acted out of his whim, not intending to pull his punches as he started circulating Primordial Nihility Transcendent Qi within his body.

And almost as if instinctually assisting the motion of the dense, immensely powerful energy, temporal rule starts circulating from the Replica of the River of Time within his body, oozing out ever so slightly and making the Transcendent QI flow more freely than ever before, as if a long-running, powerful machine finally had its well-deserved maintenance, having it well oiled.

Strength, or rather, might surges to its extreme as the immortal-like young man’s figure starts startling the flow of ambient spirit qi within the twentieth layer once more, this time, not the tempestuous currents stronger than usual nor the near-murderous torrent seemingly targeting anyone that is breaking through, but rather a completely different scene altogether.

As if in awe of the power in front of it, ambient spirit qi trembles with each movement Su Xiaotian makes, each motion of his hand seemingly turning into rules that governs the very foundation of a cultivator itself, spirit qi, assumed, or rather, known to be non-sentient yet responsive due to the rules of the world, acting like subservient, loyal subjects under the immortal-like figure’s command.

Intent on trying to find out what sort of things he can achieve with this newfound power, Su Xiaotian then waves his hand, and with that mere motion, not infused with his transcendent qi nor his immense soul power, the path in front of him was parted, not from the subservient will of the ambient spirit qi all around, no, the qi itself is too slow to respond to what happened.

Through sheer physical strength alone, Su Xiaotian managed to cleave a path leading him deeper into the levels of the Infinite Qi Dimension, a path that doesn’t last for too long as the dimension itself had already acted upon its rule and the extremely abundant qi starts flooding the empty area once again, making his previous effort appear like nothing at all, yet even then, is still an immense show of pure, brute, physical strength beyond normal comprehension.

After seeing what his entry to the Soul Formation Realm had brought upon him, Su Xiaotian couldn’t help but smile in amazement as even he himself found the improvements from this one step alone way too high for other people to even dream about, not even mentioning normal cultivators, even people as talented as his mother or his younger sister aren’t even capable of replicating a fraction of his growth after jumping cultivation realms.

And looking at his own information on the main system screen, it just proves this thought of his all the more.