Gazing across the boundless sea, Su Shi'er flicked his hand, raising a wave a hundred zhang high.
Then his true essence surged, drawing a vast mass of seawater around him into a sphere that enveloped him.
He shifted his hand seal. His true essence turned to cold, and the water froze into ice.
In the blink of an eye, a massive ice sphere, hollow within and solid without, appeared above the sea.
The ice was ten zhang thick, enclosing a space three zhang across.
At a glance, it looked like a small iceberg.
Standing at its center, Su Shi'er willed a surge of true essence to press the sphere slowly downward.
An incense stick later, it sank a hundred zhang beneath the sea.
After making a few preparations inside and setting up a formation, Su Shi'er sat cross-legged.
He waved his hand, and more than a hundred supreme-grade Spirit Stones flew from his sleeve and embedded themselves in the ice walls around him.
The moment they appeared, dense Spiritual Qi filled the sphere. Bound by the formation, it could not escape.
Before long, the Spiritual Qi grew so dense that it became mist. Some condensed into droplets that slid quietly down the ice.
The Spiritual Qi in this three-zhang space was every bit as dense as in Su Shi'er's Heaven-grade Cave Mansion in Sunset City, among the East Sea Islands.
After all, using more than a hundred supreme-grade Spirit Stones to cultivate at once was surely unheard of anywhere in the Cultivation World!
If other cultivators learned that Su Shi'er had brought out so many supreme-grade Spirit Stones just for cultivation, they would have called him a spendthrift.
Top-grade Spirit Stones were rare enough, but supreme-grade Spirit Stones were rarer still.
Compared with top-grade Spirit Stones, supreme-grade Spirit Stones also