Merry Christmas, everyone.
For the time being, Huo Hai had neither the time nor the ability to investigate the matter of the Spirit Acupoints. After quietly circulating his spiritual power, he slowly formed a simple vortex once more.
This was a vortex constructed through the special method recorded in the Celestial Star Transformation. The vortex could gather all the spiritual power throughout his body while drawing in the Stellar Spiritual Power diffused around him, preparing for the condensation of a Star Core. This was how he had condensed Star Cores the previous times as well.
However, the newly formed vortex was ultimately not powerful enough. Even though Huo Hai's cultivation had already reached the peak of the middle Spirit Practitioner Realm, and even though his spiritual power far surpassed that of ordinary people, it could only save him some time in condensing the Star Core. Otherwise, he would not have needed such a long preparation beforehand, painstakingly condensing his spiritual power bit by bit.
Without opening his eyes, Huo Hai casually tossed the Qi-Consolidating Pill from the bottle into his mouth. It was not that he trusted the Imperial Family, but that he knew they could not possibly move against him as long as he remained useful to the Southern Cloud Kingdom.
Especially after Huo Hai realized that the Imperial Family intended to use him against the Four Great Families, he became even more certain that they would never tamper with the pill. As the Qi-Consolidating Pill entered his stomach, the spiritual power throughout his body began to circulate at high speed.
A special force instantly acted upon Huo Hai's Star Core and Spirit Source. The spiritual power throughout his body grew increasingly active, and the stirred spiritual power circulated without end, becoming stronger and stronger. At some unknown point,