Eternal Heavenly Emperor-Chapter 333 - 323: Opening the Life Spring

From obtaining the opportunity for a breakthrough to truly beginning the assault on becoming a Warrior, it took Chu Hao a full two months.

Now, another New Year has arrived, and the majority of Martial Artists have gone back first, to spend the holiday with their families or sects. Then they’ll return here to seek enlightenment, hoping for a breakthrough to advance from the Three Minor Realms into the Middle Three Realms, achieving a qualitative leap.

In the hearts of most people, New Year reunions hold an extremely significant meaning.

Those who remain here now are generally those with deep insights, on the verge of a breakthrough, as well as some loners. For them, going back means being alone again — what place isn’t suitable for living, and what place can’t be called home?

Chu Hao had forgotten about time. His mind was operating at full capacity, performing Derivation within his body, simulating against the Heavenly Spring, and forming a Life Spring within himself, gushing with Star Force.

This time, the Life Spring didn’t collapse, unlike many times before when it seemed perfect, but would shatter after running for a while.

Chu Hao opened his eyes. Next, he would assault the rank of Warrior.

Through days of Derivation and brewing, a nascent form of a Life Spring had taken shape inside his body. It was like planning to excavate a man-made lake; everything was planned but he hadn’t officially started yet.

This start would mean earth-shattering changes.

He picked up a piece of Spiritual Medicine and crunched away, swallowing it in two or three bites. Then he grabbed the second one and began to furiously chew once more.

Opening the Life Spring required a massive amount of energy; otherwise, it would be impossible to achieve, especially for Chu Hao. He had also cultivated body techniques, hardening his skin, muscles, and bones to an incredible degree. No doubt, opening the Life Spring would require even greater power to support it.

After ten, twenty, thirty pieces, Chu Hao couldn’t help but feel distressed. These Spiritual Medicines could have been used to improve his Cultivation later on. Yet now, they were being consumed in one gulp, just like a cow chews peony — a waste.

But without eating these Spirit Grasses, he wouldn’t be able to make the breakthrough. And if he couldn’t break through to become a Warrior, what use would he have for more Spiritual Medicine?

He must succeed, or else it would all be a waste.

Before long, a furious power surged within his body. That was the energy from thirty pieces of Spiritual Medicine, each one of Sixth Grade! Xiaocao was very generous. For an average Martial Sect trying to make a breakthrough, being able to prepare a large number of Seventh Grade Spiritual Medicines from their own sect or family was already quite good.

He sighed at the thought and quickly began to guide the medicinal power, then fused it with his own strength, and slammed it towards his Dantian with full force.

Each person’s Life Spring is located differently, but it’s generally near the Dantian — you can’t escape that. But the human body is extremely delicate, with meridians and blood vessels everywhere. One cannot randomly open a Life Spring; choosing a poor spot would spell disaster as soon as the process begins.

Only by opening the Life Spring in the right place can you create something akin to an Inner World. It may appear as just a point but possesses an infinitely expanding space.

Chu Hao was making comparisons. This was somewhat similar to the singularity mentioned in physics, which requires a tremendous amount of energy to create a special space.

The human body itself is a microcosm, and now, Chu Hao was about to cause an explosion, the universe’s big bang within himself, starting from nothing to something, taking the first step.

Thinking this, he began the assault with the violent energy.

Boom!

Guided by Star Force, he struck towards the Dantian, but the point where the Life Spring would form was incredibly tough. The first assault ended in failure.

Chu Hao was neither sad nor joyful. Zhang Tianhua had explained the process of becoming a Warrior in detail to him. This wasn’t something that could be achieved overnight, but a prolonged process, and that’s why so much Spiritual Medicine was needed.

Boom, boom, boom, waves of energy repeatedly struck, causing Chu Hao’s body to tremble continuously.

Modern physics posits that the universe originated from an explosion of a point. Chu Hao also believed that he was igniting his own personal microcosm, and although the Life Spring was far smaller than the actual universe, it could be regarded as an embryonic form.

Because this was a true Inner World, seemingly a point, yet harboring endlessly Deriving space.

This was genuinely the process of creating something from nothing, making this step extremely difficult to traverse.

Chu Hao continued the assault, rumbling, his body emitting rhythmic quakes, signifying the opening of a new world.

One day, two days, three days passed, and the energy from the first batch of Spirit Grass depleted. Chu Hao quickly ate the second batch.

After ten days, twenty days, Chu Hao kept nibbling on the Spiritual Medicines extravagantly, to an extent that could drive someone mad, while the contents of the Mustard Seed Ring kept dwindling. After one month, only about one quarter remained.

Boom! Chu Hao’s body violently trembled, and a fearsome wave burst forth from within, releasing an endless oppressive force.

He had finally opened the Life Spring.

Although this Life Spring was pitifully small, merely a point, a Life Spring was still a Life Spring— it signified an elevation in rank.

A slight smile appeared on Chu Hao’s lips, but he did not slow down. He continued to expand the newly formed Life Spring.

At this moment, he noticed a significant difference.

The expansion of the meridians is limited by the body itself, since the body’s tolerance is finite, so the vast majority of people can only cultivate for three hours each day, some a little more or less, but the difference is only within a very small range.

However, the Life Spring is different.

From the perspective of the human body, the Life Spring is always just a point, and what expands is the inner space, which is irrelevant to the body’s tolerance. Theoretically, the Life Spring could be expanded continuously.

But in reality, no one can achieve this.

Because the expansion of the Life Spring requires the support of spiritual power, it is an inner space, and only the soul can touch it, thus during the process of expanding the inner space, the guidance of spiritual power is needed.

Spiritual power is consumable; once it’s depleted, one can no longer continue cultivation and must let the soul rest, and only after recovery can one continue.

However, there are Spiritual Medicines in the world that can quickly replenish the soul, thereby extending the time for cultivation. Additionally, everyone’s soul strength is different, which also creates differences in cultivation time limits.

Chu Hao continued nibbling on the Spiritual Medicine, expanding his Life Spring. He planned to exhaust all his spiritual power before starting to liquefy the Star Force and infuse it into the Life Spring. Otherwise, the Waterless Spring would quickly run dry.

The Life Spring kept expanding until, five hours later, Chu Hao’s spirit was drained, marking the end of the session.

One does not actively cultivate their soul until they reach the War Venerate, so now he could only passively wait for the recovery of Soul Power.

Five hours, a considerably long time.

Average Warriors could only cultivate for three hours, no different from those in Martial Sect and martial masters, he had nearly doubled this time, which meant his cultivation speed was also nearly twice that of an average Warrior.

The Life Spring had been opened, he could now be considered a Quasi-Warrior.

Why not a true Warrior yet? The Star Force has not been liquefied. If this step is not completed, the Life Spring will quickly run dry, and the realm would regress back to Martial Sect.

Of course, once the Life Spring is opened, it exists forever, much like the Spring Eye that might temporarily run dry, but as long as there’s groundwater to nourish it, it will revive.

It’s the same with the Life Spring.

Chu Hao did not want to wait until the Life Spring ran dry before starting again; he continuously condensed the Star Force to liquefy it.

This was not difficult. To go from gas to liquid state, all that was needed was immense pressure. Yet, in terms of ratio, forming a single drop of liquid Star Force required ten thousand times the gaseous Star Force, making the conversion rate pitifully low.

Since the liquefaction itself is of Star Force, in this process Star Force is useless, it must rely on the power provided by Spiritual Medicine to support it, which naturally consumed a huge amount of Spiritual Medicine.

A day and a night passed, and Chu Hao’s spirit had only recovered by one third. This was because the soul’s recovery required sufficient sleep; staying awake like he did could not be at the highest efficiency for recovery.

He did not resume expanding the Life Spring but continued with the liquefaction of Star Force.

This was a one-time deal because the Star Force that would be refined later would be in liquid state, hence there would be no need for another conversion process—once reaching Warrior, one can cultivate the Third Layer of the Minor Formless Mysterious Skill.

After a total of three days, the Star Force inside his body finally all transformed into liquid state.

The twenty meridians became empty, but this was not a step backward, rather it was a significant advancement.

Because before, these meridians had to store Star Force as well as serve as channels for the flow of Star Force, taking on dual functions resulted in neither efficiency being able to maximize—there always had to be space left to store Star Force, and space to let Star Force circulate.

But now, the Star Force was stored in the Life Spring, and the meridians had become dedicated channels for the Star Force, which allowed for maximized efficiency.

Why is Martial Sect considered the Three Minor Realms while Warrior is the Middle Three Realms? Naturally, there’s reason for that.

After three days, Chu Hao’s spiritual power finally recovered to a reluctant ninety percent, he then resumed the expansion of the Life Spring. Over four hours later, he stopped when his spiritual power was again exhausted.

It had been a long time since he last slept, and now that his great task was accomplished, he quickly laid down on his bed and fell into a deep sleep.

This sleep lasted a full day and night, and when he awoke, he felt his mind was extremely clear and his thoughts incredibly agile.

He nodded to himself; indeed, starting from Warrior, one began to cultivate the spirit, albeit passively, through constant consumption and recovery to improve, though not as evident as War Venerate, who had corresponding Secret Techniques for direct soul cultivation.

He did not conclude his retreat, instead he began to cultivate the Third Layer of the Minor Formless Mysterious Skill, the Warrior Chapter.

Cells inside his body became a Flame Furnace, he drew from the power within the Star Stones, continuously transforming it into his own Star Force, and storing it in the Life Spring. However, he had not consumed much Star Force over these several days, and the Life Spring had just opened with limited capacity, so after absorbing and refining the Star Stones for around two hours, his Life Spring was already filled to the brim.

It was like a basin filled to the top, unable to hold anymore liquid.

Chu Hao finally took a breath of relief, clenching his fists tightly and showing an excited expression.

Warrior, he had finally stepped into the Middle Three Realms. (To be continued. If you like this work, welcome you to come to Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please read on m.qidian.com.)