Precious Materials to Aid Cultivation

Bright light burst through the forest after nightfall. Chen Chuan stood amid its dazzling glare, surrounded by darkness so thick it seemed solid.

Countless twisted, shapeless things seemed to churn and press against one another within it, making all manner of eerie noises. Even the ground beneath him seemed to come alive, heaving with heavy, strained breaths.

Chen Chuan paid none of it any mind. He focused entirely on his stance and guided his breathing.

He had begun cultivating that afternoon and had yet to stop.

This was his first time standing unshielded in the wilds of the Convergence Zone at night, but he felt little discomfort. A Fighter's Bio-Field, together with the Great Bright Light Style he was practicing, could ward off both the assaults from outside and the incursions from the spirit world.

The other world's influence multiplied his energy consumption, though. Whenever he felt it dropping too low, he ate a large chunk of Iron Rust Honey and went right back to practicing. He could not carry all of it away anyway, so he felt no need to ration it.

The Iron Rust Bee Swarm kept surging toward him. The insects grew even more vicious at night, but it made no difference. The gulf between their levels of life was too great. As long as he could sustain his Bio-Field and his mental strength held out, they could not breach its outer layer.

He made no effort to drive them off and devoted himself wholly to cultivation.

Around him, insect corpses gradually piled up on the ground. But the surging tide of the spirit world soon drew them into the darkness, where they became wisps of black smoke and faintly began to take shape. Whenever the light of the Great Bright Light Style touched them, they dissolved