Breaking Through to the Spirit Practitioner Realm

Strictly speaking, someone in the Spirit Practitioner Realm could no longer be considered an ordinary human. It was a kind of elevation, an evolution, a transformation as profound as the leap from ape to human.

Some people in the Spirit Bone Realm could stand against experts in the Spirit Practitioner Realm, but the difference in their very nature remained vast. Crossing that gulf was no easy task. Using Origin Spiritual Power would make breaking through the barrier simple, but relying on one's own strength was another matter.

Huo Hai was living proof. Though his strength already far exceeded that of ordinary people, breaking through the bottleneck was still difficult. Even so, he kept his Origin Spiritual Power firmly suppressed.

As his spiritual power continued to circulate, cracks gradually appeared in the barrier around him. With each crack, his breakthrough accelerated. The cracks were not physical; Huo Hai could only sense them in his mind.

He did not know how much time passed. Then came the sound of an eggshell breaking—or perhaps there was no sound at all. Somehow, in that strange state, Huo Hai knew he had broken through.

In that instant, everything changed as though heaven and earth had been overturned, yet nothing seemed to change at all. The spiritual power within him continued to flow naturally. Huo Hai had never cultivated a Spirit Art; he had used the Body-Refining Three-Spirit Formation. Now that he had broken through, he could only let his spiritual power flow on its own. Cultivating the Mysterious Shadow Art might also have some effect.

The flow itself showed no unusual traits, but Huo Hai felt as though his spiritual power had grown more lively. He could not tell whether it was an illusion. The body that Perfect Foundation Establishment had fused into a single