Descending the Mountain (Second Update, Please Subscribe)

After lighting up one gemstone, the Old Celestial Master did not stop.

The golden light around him was still quite dense, so he continued channeling it into the gauntlet.

As he did, the Old Celestial Master chuckled. "This thing is rather interesting."

What it absorbed was actually origin power.

Cultivators spoke of the Snow Mountain Qi Sea. The Snow Mountain lay within the Dantian, and cultivation was the continual process of piling up that Snow Mountain from the Dantian.

The higher the Snow Mountain, the deeper one's cultivation. The Qi Sea, meanwhile, referred to the snow atop the mountain melting and gathering into a misty sea.

It was also the source of the spiritual energy cultivators used daily.

Of course,

these were all metaphorical descriptions, summarized to make it easier for beginners to visualize and comprehend.

In short,

the Qi Sea was like a Game Character's mana bar, while the Snow Mountain was the mana bar's maximum capacity.

And what this gauntlet extracted was precisely the Old Celestial Master's maximum mana capacity.

But if that were all, the Old Celestial Master would not have called it interesting.

If simply dispersing one's cultivation could solve the problem, the Old Celestial Master would have destroyed his Snow Mountain and scattered his cultivation long ago.

The key was that once the foundation of the Snow Mountain was destroyed, the cultivator's divine soul and other aspects would also be damaged. It was truly risking one's life—the Old Celestial Master had hidden here in the first place because he still clung to the mortal world. Destroying his Snow Mountain would merely turn an acute death into a chronic one.

And he was not like Lu Xingshen. Back then, Lu Xingshen had stained his blood, vitality, and soul, destroying his foundation to erupt with overwhelming strength.