CHAPTER 641: IT’S ALSO A GOOD MEAL

Chapter 641: It’s also a good meal

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Ten minutes later.

Li Qingran stared blankly at her master sitting cross-legged with her in the advanced spirit gathering formation.

"Master, you're really planning to cultivate together with your disciple..."

Chen Huaian opened one eye and gave her a smug glance: "Hah! What did you think? Was your master joking with you?"

Li Qingran stuck out her little tongue, unable to hide the joy in her heart, and said with a giggle: "Your disciple thought you were teasing me~ But Master... why is your cultivation at the late Nascent Soul stage?"

"Ahem! That's..." Chen Huaian paused briefly, his superhuman brain working frantically as he quickly came up with a response: "That's because your master wants to experience your cultivation realm so I can better guide you... You know, since I'm at the Great Ascension Stage now, improving my cultivation isn't as simple as regular practice - I need to comprehend the Dao Rhythms, and that's not something that can be accomplished overnight."

"Oh~" Li Qingran nodded repeatedly, completely taken in by his explanation.

Despite the numerous holes in Chen Huaian's story, he had the advantage of occupying both the roles of master and Dao Companion.

Whatever he said, Li Qingran believed without a trace of doubt.

"Then Master, let's cultivate together!"

Li Qingran smiled as she activated the advanced spirit gathering formation. Being able to cultivate with her master was something she had longed for.

Moreover, her master had intentionally suppressed his cultivation to the late Nascent Soul stage, which meant she could compete with him to see who could cultivate faster.

The moment the advanced spirit gathering formation activated.

An extremely dense spiritual energy converged toward the Slanted Moon Three Stars Cave like a whirlpool.

The effectiveness of the advanced spirit gathering formation was closely related to the concentration of spiritual energy in the surrounding environment.

Its original function was to gather the surrounding spiritual energy and compress it into high-quality, purified spiritual energy.

The intermediate and primary spirit gathering formations were just weaker versions of these two functions.

Now that the Moon Shadow Sect was built upon four spirit veins and had the premium Celestial Jade Marrow, it could be said to be the place with the highest spiritual energy concentration in the entire Cangyun Realm.

Although the spiritual energy released by the Celestial Jade Marrow was somewhat different from that of spirit veins, after being transformed by the advanced spirit gathering formation, there was absolutely no difference.

Feeling the overwhelmingly dense spiritual energy around him, Chen Huaian couldn't help but feel a bit emotional.

Damn, when had he ever eaten this well? Back on Earth Star, even with the advanced spirit gathering formation plus a pile of spirit stones plus the Nine-Turn Spirit Orchid helping to refine spiritual energy, it wasn't even one-tenth of the spiritual energy purity within this advanced spirit gathering formation.

He circulated the Oceanborn Art to absorb the spiritual energy, and in that instant, all the innate components within his body began operating simultaneously.

The Yin-Yang Sword Bone wanted to absorb spiritual energy.

The Original Dao Physique wanted to absorb spiritual energy.

The Sword Heart wanted to absorb spiritual energy.

The Sword Spiritual Root and Thunder Spiritual Root also wanted to absorb spiritual energy.

Normally, after these things had their share of spiritual energy, there wouldn't be much left for his dantian and body to absorb.

But now, Chen Huaian's supreme-grade dantian could finally eat its fill.

Boom——!

A violent spiritual energy vortex formed around Chen Huaian, swirling madly around him.

Li Qingran stared dumbfounded at her master enveloped by the spiritual energy vortex, her hair dancing wildly in the spiritual energy currents.

Her clothes were almost torn off by the force.

"Master's cultivation actually creates this kind of commotion?!"

Li Qingran was utterly amazed.

As expected of a Great Ascension Stage cultivator - simply outrageous!

"No, I can't let Master surpass me!" She calmed her mind, forcibly shifting her attention away from Chen Huaian, sitting cross-legged and circulating the Tideborn Art. But the spiritual energy that usually obediently gathered toward her now paid her no attention.

No matter how she circulated the Tideborn Art, she could only absorb a tiny bit of spiritual energy.

Most of the spiritual energy swirled around her master, being completely absorbed.

Li Qingran's vision darkened.

What was the point of cultivating like this?

She could only open her eyes and helplessly watch her master beside her.

In less than half an hour, with the massive infusion of spiritual energy, Chen Huaian felt the bottleneck of the late Nascent Soul stage actually beginning to loosen.

Without hesitation, he gathered all his strength and guided the spiritual energy throughout his body to charge toward the threshold of the Great Perfection Nascent Soul stage.

If this were on Earth Star, it would have been extremely difficult - every breakthrough felt like trying to pass stubborn stool.

Just when it seemed like all his spiritual energy was about to surge upward, it would lose momentum and shrink back.

Only by relying on the auspicious beasts in the Demon Sealing Pagoda directly transmitting power to him could that momentary burst of spiritual energy break through the bottleneck.

But now, without needing the help of auspicious beast power transmission, he could easily guide the spiritual energy that surged like a mountain flood to break through the threshold of the Great Perfection Nascent Soul stage.

The continuing influx of spiritual energy helped stabilize his realm.

Perhaps due to accumulated strength finally bursting forth.

This spiritual energy had tremendous momentum, only gradually calming down when it reached the Nascent Soul peak.

One more step forward would be the Nascent Soul stage.

"This is what cultivation feels like? So amazing!"

Chen Huaian muttered to himself.

No wonder cultivators in the Cangyun Realm were either cultivating or on their way to cultivate, even forgetting to eat and sleep.

What difference was there between this feeling of being thoroughly infused with spiritual energy throughout his body and soaking in a hot spring while losing all sense of time and space? And it was fully automatic - he only needed to enjoy it.

But soon, the spiritual energy was gone.

"Where is This Venerable One's spiritual energy?"

Chen Huaian opened his eyes.

He discovered that unknowingly, three hours had passed.

The spirit stones of the advanced spirit gathering formation had all shattered, and as the formation lost effect, the originally gathered high-concentration spiritual energy dissipated with the wind. Most importantly, with three hours having passed, the hourglass had emptied, and his cultivation automatically stopped.

Beside him, Li Qingran was resting her chin in her hands, looking at him with a resentful gaze.

What's up with this little lass?

Instead of cultivating properly, she's just been watching him, right?

Chen Huaian felt pleased inwardly and chuckled involuntarily: "What's wrong, Qingran? Why are you looking at your master with that expression?"

"Master, how can you say that!"

Li Qingran rolled her eyes, turned her head away and complained: "You had a great time cultivating and absorbed all the spiritual energy! For three full hours, your disciple couldn't absorb any spiritual energy at all! Compensate me for my spiritual energy!"

Chen Huaian looked somewhat awkwardly at the small hand Li Qingran extended toward him.

So that's what it was...

He thought his little disciple was being infatuated.

"Sorry, this is also your master's first time suppressing cultivation to the late Nascent Soul stage to cultivate. I didn't expect to absorb your spiritual energy." He pondered for a moment, then asked: "How about this - from now on, we'll each have our own advanced spirit gathering formation so we don't affect each other. What do you think?"

"Does Master dislike your disciple competing with you for spiritual energy?"

"No!" Chen Huaian shook his head frantically: "Absolutely not what I meant!"

"Hmph!" Li Qingran crossed her arms, pouting as she said: "Then, then Master should think of a way for our cultivation to progress together?"

Progress together in cultivation?

Chen Huaian scratched his head.

His physique was too terrifying - if he cultivated normally, Li Qingran definitely couldn't compete with him for spiritual energy. Although he only cultivated for three hours each day, over time it would still affect Li Qingran...

And the only way to progress together seemed to be that method.

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