For all cultivators, the purpose of absorbing stellar sources was to circulate their cultivation techniques, convert them into their own astral source power, and replenish their astral wheels.
Every mustard seed contained an astral wheel.
All astral source power was stored within the mustard seeds!
But Yinghuo was different now. The speed at which it absorbed stellar sources had, in a short time, reached a thousandfold, even ten-thousandfold that of normal cultivation. Ordinarily, the mustard seeds in its body simply could not withstand such a sudden surge of power, nor could its divine intent control it.
The problem was, this stellar source power was not entering the mustard seeds at all.
Its Eternal Purgatory Phoenix body was composed of countless densely packed mustard seeds, yet the wondrous thing about this Primordial Chaos Giant Beast was that, beyond forming flesh and blood, its mustard seeds had new connections with one another.
Simply put, besides possessing the mustard seed–astral wheel system, its body had another system. This system was formed by interconnected mustard seeds working together, making its body akin to a gigantic stomach—or rather, a "purgatory furnace."
Through those ten gates of purgatory, it could directly devour stellar sources into this purgatory furnace and control them for a short time. This stellar source power did not turn into astral source power and enter the mustard seeds; instead, it was suppressed between the mustard seeds by the "purgatory furnace" formed from countless mustard seeds!
Astral source power lay within every mustard seed, while the absorbed stellar sources remained outside them.
The reason it could absorb stellar sources like this without being blown apart by them was because Yinghuo was an Eternal Purgatory Phoenix, a Primordial Chaos Giant Beast. This was a trait of its bloodline. Every single one of its mustard seeds