The battle situation was perilous, but Jing Qian remained calm!
He said nothing, merely pouring all his attention into the Sumeru Destiny Essence and sensing the pulse of this unique dimensional space.
Then, following the flow of his intent, he moved forward once more.
Under the pressure, Jing Qian's comprehension of the Sumeru Destiny Essence advanced ever so slightly.
His Magic Power was only enough for one final move, but after this improvement, the effects of the Sumeru Destiny Essence were naturally entirely different!
When every cultivator first obtained a Destiny Essence, exploring its wondrous power would send their strength into a period of rapid growth!
Only after they initially mastered the Destiny Essence's full power would they reach their first bottleneck.
Jing Qian had painstakingly burned his body to determine his destiny and refined this extremely high-ranked Sumeru Destiny Essence, yet only a few days had passed.
His control over this Destiny Essence was extremely crude!
At present, every bit of additional comprehension of Sumeru offered him a chance for a qualitative transformation in strength.
The White Fang-ranked giant crab before him was the first enemy Jing Qian had faced alone since leaving Azure Pearl.
Under the pressure of life and death, he poured all his attention into Sumeru and welcomed a crucial breakthrough!
Before this, as long as his Destiny Essence and Magic Power were sufficient, Jing Qian's Voidwalking allowed him to penetrate deep into the air and seawater, appearing anywhere he wished.
This ability was already powerful enough!
It could almost let Jing Qian remain undefeated in any battle.
And when his comprehension of the Sumeru Destiny Essence improved, a thought buried deep in his heart suddenly surfaced.
Since gaseous and liquid substances could not obstruct his spatial traversal, could solid objects also be crossed in a single leap with the power of Sumeru?
Through their connection of minds, he followed Sumeru Space's tendrils of power and fled straight into the giant crab's multicolored back shell.
"Surely it doesn't work?"
When Jing Qian tried to rely on Sumeru's power to flee directly from inside the giant crab's body, he was startled to discover that his idea was utterly impossible!
His strength was insufficient to break through the layer of White Fang Destiny Essence covering the giant crab's body.
This was not because Sumeru's divine might was insufficient, but because he himself was too weak!
Jing Qian sensed that as long as his Destiny Essence and Magic Power were sufficiently profound, he might truly be able to pierce through the enemy's defenses and enter its flesh directly.
However, that was a matter for later!
For now, the battle had reached its most critical juncture!
As his control over Sumeru improved, even though he had failed to achieve his first tactical objective, the true chance for victory had already appeared in his heart!
Jing Qian seized the moment when the giant crab opened its mouth to roar and compressed Sumeru's power to the extreme.
Following the enemy's enormous mouth, he directly fled into its digestive system and flew downward along its intestines and stomach.
He had awakened to the truth: since he could not pierce straight through the shell, he only needed to find a place where the enemy's Magic Power did not cover!
The giant crab had concentrated its Magic Power over its shell, greatly increasing its defensive strength.
But the various organs protected inside that shell were tender and delicate!
With his resolve as unyielding as iron and his sword thrusting like a dragon, Jing Qian burst from space with the iron spike-sword in his hand and appeared inside the giant crab's small intestine.
He unleashed all his remaining Magic Power and attacked the tender inner wall of its small intestine with everything he had. After only a few strikes, he pierced through it and completely entered the giant crab's body.
Jing Qian no longer held back and completely cut loose!
The spike-sword in his hand danced with abandon. Wherever he went, every organ visible to the naked eye was destroyed by him!
The giant crab, meanwhile, was driven nearly mad by the sudden eruption of pain within its body and struggled desperately on the seafloor.
But all of it was futile!
This mighty fortress had been effortlessly breached from within by its enemy!
It thrashed for the time it took an incense stick to burn before finally dying and collapsing onto the seafloor.
A tiny figure crawled out of its mouth, bringing with him a gush of turbid blood slurry.
The blood slurry was mixed with unrecognizable fragments of internal organs, which drifted away through the sea.
Jing Qian had finally killed the giant crab completely!
He slowly swam upward, raised a hand, released a strand of thread, and pulled over half a coconut log before struggling up onto it.
After all that exertion, he once again found himself drained of Magic Power and physically exhausted.
He was even worse off than when he had just escaped the tsunami!
Now, his raft was gone, his hammer had been lost, and even the only blanket covering his body had been stained with filth, so he had discarded it onto the seafloor.
All that remained on his body was a single Brocade Pouch tied to his arm.
Anyone unaware of the truth, seeing his current appearance, would never imagine that this half-grown child lying on his back and airing himself out on rotten wood was actually a cultivator of the Determining Destiny Realm!
Jing Qian drew several deep breaths before finally emerging from the tense emotions of the fierce battle.
He did not hurry back to Destiny Stele Space to replenish his Destiny Essence. Instead, he first untied the Brocade Pouch from his arm.
Life in this otherworld was far too unstable. If he did not hurry to study the Brocade Pouch, something might happen again, and someone else might seize it!
Jing Qian stroked the tiny Brocade Pouch, which was just over three inches long, and examined it carefully.
The Brocade Pouch was woven entirely from spider silk. It felt cool and smooth in his hand, clearly no ordinary object.
Jing Qian had intended to take it apart and see what was inside, but he discovered that the entire Brocade Pouch was seamless and did not have an opening at all.
He immediately infused his spiritual sense into the Brocade Pouch.
Just as he had expected, this Brocade Pouch was a spatial storage treasure!
A small space, one meter square, appeared within his perception.
Only three simple objects were stored inside this space.
Just as he was preparing to take them out and investigate them, the Sumeru Destiny Essence hidden within his sea of consciousness suddenly changed!
A strange power emerged from within Sumeru and traveled along Jing Qian's arm, entering the Brocade Pouch directly.
Then, this precious Brocade Pouch actually exploded like a balloon with a bang!
Jing Qian was startled at first, but then inspiration struck him, and he immediately fled into dimensional space, vanishing from where he stood.
This time, however, the dimensional space he had entered and exited several times underwent a tremendous transformation!
An independent void resembling a bubble appeared before him!
The Sumeru Destiny Essence had actually swallowed the storage Brocade Pouch and evolved a new void within this dimensional space!
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