Within the gourd's inner space, milky-white gas slowly seeped into the True Spirit imprint. The originally dim, flickering imprint was like a seed buried deep in parched earth that had finally received sweet rain from heaven, devouring the nutrients with all its might.
As the Aura of Merit continued to be consumed, the dim imprint began to glimmer with a faint light. Its originally illusory form gradually grew clearer under the effects of the milky-white gas, becoming increasingly solid. The light of the True Spirit imprint slowly brightened, changing from the glow of a firefly into brilliant starlight. Even its halo began to rise and fall, inhaling and exhaling as if a new life were being nurtured within.
After expending ten times the Aura of Merit required to cultivate a living being to Earth Immortal cultivation, Jiang Yun successfully nurtured an Immortal Realm True Spirit through the True Spirit Undying Gourd.
After this first attempt, he had more or less figured out how to use the gourd. With his current Grand Luo Golden Immortal cultivation, if he fell and wanted his True Spirit to be reborn, he would need an amount of Aura of Merit equivalent to ten times his cultivation before the True Spirit could be fully nurtured.
To a certain extent, a person's True Spirit represented a living being's potential. Living beings with strong Root Foundations had powerful True Spirits, while those with poor Root Foundations had weak True Spirits. Of course, a True Spirit was not unchanging. Just like Jiang Yun, who had been born with a Low-grade Innate Spiritual Root Root Foundation, after devouring Innate Spiritual Roots of the same origin, his Spiritual Root grade had risen to high-grade innate. His True Spirit would likewise transform and grow stronger.
He made a rough calculation. The Aura