All the flying demonic beasts plummeted.
Qin Shujian gave another cold shout. Holding his saber, he inscribed a formation rune in midair, then sent it into the grand formation.
"Earthsplit!"
The earth shook.
In an instant, it seemed as though the stars themselves had shifted.
The pale golden patterns covering the ground came fully alive.
Then—
Mountains collapsed.
The ground split open.
Countless demonic beasts were swallowed and buried within.
At that moment—
Qin Shujian felt his Divine Sense recede like an ebbing tide. More than half vanished in an instant, and even the true essence within his body evaporated until it was nearly exhausted.
Seeing this—
His gaze hardened. Looking at his Life Source, which had already exceeded sixty million, he acted with a single thought.
Nearly forty million Life Source vanished.
In exchange, he forcibly raised all six remaining cultivation manuals to the sixth level of the Spirit Martial Volume, the peak of the Sky-Soaring Realm.
Rumble!
As the cultivation manuals advanced in an instant, the spiritual energy drifting through the world surged wildly toward him, forming two torrents that poured into his dantian and the spirit god within his sea of consciousness.
The true essence he had expended—
Recovered completely in less than a breath, and its total quantity increased severalfold.
As for his spirit god—
Empowered by the six cultivation manuals, it grew directly to forty-one zhang.
His surging Divine Sense—
Showed no further signs of leaving his body.
The breakthroughs in those six cultivation manuals had sent Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy flooding into him, seemingly unlocking another hidden reserve within his body and strengthening his flesh even further.
Thus—
Although his spirit god had grown to forty-one zhang, it had not escaped his control.
Qin Shujian did not know how powerful the spirit gods