Sword Tooth appeared at Jing Qian's fingertips, flickering like a cold star.
Yet within that starlight was the infusion of Magic Power from ten White Fang Destiny Essences.
And the location he attacked was highly deliberate as well.
When he activated Worldly Understanding, the Snow Woman's perfectly integrated dharma form was inexplicably disassembled.
The dense Azure Wing Destiny Essence flowed through the Snow Woman's dharma form along a complex route.
It was like the dharma form's meridians and blood vessels, spreading densely throughout its body.
A powerful intuition shone in his heart, compelling him to treat the nodes through which the Magic Power circulated as his targets.
This was the enhancement Worldly Understanding granted in battle.
When Jing Qian tapped the node at the back of the Snow Woman's neck with Sword Tooth, a miracle happened!
"Boom!"
This solid, massive dharma form, seamless as one, suddenly exploded after its stable structure was destroyed!
Ao Li, hidden within the dharma form, revealed her true body for the first time.
Jing Qian seized the moment. His arm shot out like a dragon spear and viciously stabbed the back of Ao Li's neck.
With a hook of the Sword Tooth in his hand, he directly pinned the Snow Woman down to death.
A wave of smoke, pure cyan with a faint blue sheen, swept toward him.
Jing Qian finally collected his first rent from the Snow Woman!
And the soul of a Dragon Elephant Realm cultivator naturally possessed deep reserves and condensed Magic Power.
A single stream of cyan-blue smoke had already brought him the spoils of at least three White Fang Sea Demons!
A Snow Woman's soul could bring Jing Qian at least four Destiny Forging Opportunities!
This first stream of smoke was merely the first stone rolling down before a mountain collapsed.
Jing Qian leaped into the dimensional void once more and attacked the Snow Woman.
This time, he emerged from the right, brushing against her figure as he struck toward her lower back.
Another explosion rang out. The dharma form split open, and Jing Qian easily thrust Sword Tooth into Ao Li's true body for the second time.
An even larger mass of smoke surged toward him.
Jing Qian sucked it in fiercely, feeling an indescribably comfortable sensation fill his body and soul.
Every harvest he made in the Destiny Stele Space left him unable to stop!
And the arrival of the second stream of smoke allowed him to condense a new Destiny Forging Opportunity.
He immediately fled the space, picked up the second refined sword blank, filled it with Magic Power, and began gnawing away at it with wild abandon.
A new Sword Tooth destiny pattern suddenly condensed.
Then, the miraculous effect of the Destiny Forging Opportunity took hold. The two destiny patterns shattered and recombined, becoming even more powerful.
Looking again at the information on the Destiny Stele, he immediately saw a change:
Sword Tooth (Azure Wing 3/10)!
Jing Qian summoned a small sword shaped like a tiger fang. A wisp of Azure Silk had appeared on its flawless white-jade blade.
The small sword's aura of Magic Power had grown markedly stronger!
Jing Qian's battle prowess rose again, and he continued attacking the Snow Woman.
Within the Destiny Stele Space, souls had no intelligence, only instinct. Their strength was utterly incomparable to when they were alive.
This Snow Woman's soul was repeatedly ambushed from behind, yet she had no idea how to anticipate the enemy's position and strengthen her defenses in advance.
She remained in a state of passive resistance throughout, allowing every one of Jing Qian's ambushes to succeed.
The third time, the fourth time, the fifth time...
Jing Qian was like a demon hidden in the shadows. Every time he appeared, he heavily wounded his enemy.
He felt no pity for the fairer sex, treating Ao Li like fish on a chopping block as he hacked her apart sword stroke by sword stroke.
Wave after wave of even more tremendous smoke surged over. He sat cross-legged, doing his utmost to digest and absorb it.
Before long, his cultivation of Destiny Essence and Magic Power broke through again, and he successfully condensed his nineteenth White Fang Destiny Essence.
Then a precious mass of memories plunged straight into Jing Qian's spiritual consciousness.
Within his sea of consciousness, the Worldly Understanding destiny pattern flickered once. Like a long whale drawing in water, it absorbed that mass of memories into the golden destiny pattern.
The information within the memories was rapidly crushed and dissected, then successfully absorbed.
Jing Qian felt as though, in an instant, he had taken an Essence Extraction Art from the entry level, through comprehension, to complete mastery.
The secret technique "Hundred Ghost Night Parade Destiny Tome," cultivated by Ao Li of Qi Zhi Shi Island, condensed the Snow Woman's dharma form. Its core destiny pattern was a Blue-Blood-grade Frost Descent destiny pattern, belonging to the Mountain-Sea Destiny.
The Essence Extraction Art paired with Frost Descent was called Lotus Planting Art, perfectly matching the Mountain-Sea Destiny.
This Essence Extraction Art possessed an exceedingly high rank. It was a core secret inheritance of the great power behind Qi Zhi Shi Island, specifically used to condense Destiny Essence and Magic Power for the Mountain-Sea Destiny.
Ao Li had diligently cultivated it for many years, yet only after she first entered the Dragon Elephant Realm had she finally mastered it.
Relying on this secret art and the Frost Descent destiny pattern, she had planted a snow lotus in her sea of consciousness. It could produce one Azure Wing Destiny Essence every day, providing unimaginable and tremendous aid to Ao Li's cultivation!
The secret-art knowledge she had painstakingly studied and comprehended over the years, along with all her experience cultivating the Lotus Planting Art, directly became Jing Qian's nourishment and was absorbed by him.
To Jing Qian, this secret art was equally compatible with the Sumeru and Tidal Wave destiny patterns and could serve as an important supplement to his Destiny Essence and Magic Power.
Planting a lotus in the void through Sumeru would undoubtedly be far more effective than Ao Li's Frost Descent!
Jing Qian involuntarily set everything else aside and began focusing on using the newly learned Lotus Planting Art.
The secret method of the Lotus Planting Art moved according to his will as well, using his Magic Power to condense a white-jade lotus seed and shoot it toward the Sumeru destiny pattern.
According to the memories, he only needed to connect this peculiar lotus seed with the aura of his own destiny pattern. Using the destiny pattern as an anchor, he could leverage the essence of heaven and earth to plant a miraculous lotus.
But just as Jing Qian thought he could succeed with ease, the Sumeru destiny pattern suddenly moved.
This strange destiny pattern that suppressed his entire sea of consciousness abruptly surged forward and shattered the white-jade lotus seed with a single strike.
Then, as if it still had not vented its anger, it surged forward again and slammed violently into Jing Qian's spiritual consciousness.
Jing Qian felt as though he had taken a blow from a club. His head throbbed, and he could not recover for quite some time.
At that moment, an inexplicable meaning transmitted from the Sumeru destiny pattern entered his perception.
"Cough, blech!"
What was going on?
Jing Qian was rather dumbfounded!
It had spat at him?
I'm being bullied by my own destiny pattern?
The unexpected turn of events caused Jing Qian's cultivation of the Lotus Planting Art to fail miserably.
He immediately realized that his cultivation was too weak and his Magic Power insufficient. The lotus seed he had condensed had been rejected by Sumeru!
That lotus seed had contained only one White Fang Destiny Essence. It truly did not match the high-and-mighty Golden Root destiny pattern of Sumeru.
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