Luo Chen's pupils contracted as he watched the infant speak.
A cultivator's Nascent Soul was born when the acquired returned to the innate. It was the purest thing, emerging from the mud unstained. Thus, they were often fair and chubby, adorable beyond words!
Even the Nascent Souls formed by aged cultivators held a touch of childlike charm.
But this grotesque, terrifying Nascent Soul made him frown despite himself.
He knew the other man's cultivation of a special method had caused it.
And only an exceptionally powerful method could bring about such a change.
Ordinary cultivation methods could, at most, affect a cultivator's physique and appearance.
When Luo Chen had his epiphany on Heaven Earth Peak and created the Wither and Bloom Dao Scripture, his Nascent Soul had grown old. In truth, though, nothing inside it had changed.
But Nine Spirits Yuan Jun's was covered in tumors, like some kind of monster...
"Hm?"
"So that's it!"
After examining the nine tumors closely, Luo Chen finally understood why the other man possessed so much more mana than an ordinary Nascent Soul Cultivator.
Each tumor was almost entirely solidified mana!
Together, the nine tumors contained even more mana than the Nascent Soul itself!
Now Luo Chen understood why he had craved the Nine Separation Pill so desperately.
Just as someone might train under heavy weights to increase his strength, Nine Spirits Yuan Jun had grown nine external tumors to expand the limits of his mana, gaining a vast reserve that eclipsed his peers.
But if the weight exceeded what the trainee could bear, it would no longer make him stronger. It would become a burden, or even turn on him.
The mana within Nine Spirits Yuan Jun's nine tumors already exceeded that of his Nascent Soul!
If this continued, his Nascent Soul would