The Bewildered Sky Dream Ice Silkworm

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm was extremely nervous and said, trembling, "What are you doing? I can't understand your moves at all."

"Start fusing. Now! Hurry!"

Qian Chaoguang gave no explanation. He only said it quickly in his mind, then drove the Spirit Connection Art with all his might, urging his Pseudo Divine Sense upward.

"How did I run into such a strange human brat like you!"

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm grumbled resentfully, then steeled himself and began increasing the intensity of the Spiritual Origin fusion.

The thick white light grew increasingly solid, slowly pouring into Qian Chaoguang's body, while its true body gradually became transparent during the process, its size also shrinking.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had already realized that what Qian Chaoguang had said before was right.

If they did not open up this so-called Sea of Consciousness as soon as possible, the two of them would be finished together right away.

According to the Spirit Connection Art's description, this was an extremely difficult barrier. The slightest carelessness could result in death.

After a cultivator's cultivation reached perfection in the first layer, if they wanted to continue cultivating downward, they first had to open up something called the Sea of Consciousness.

Only after opening the Sea of Consciousness would the Mental Power that underwent transformation afterward have a place to reside, preventing it from exploding and turning the cultivator into an idiot.

Right now, this was the process Qian Chaoguang was undergoing.

He controlled his Pseudo Divine Sense, sweeping up a large amount of Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's Spiritual Origin as it charged upward without stopping, reaching straight into the Niwan Palace known as the Upper Dantian.

It was different from the traditional Douluo Spirit Master cultivation method, so naturally, the location of Qian Chaoguang's Sea of Consciousness was also different from the location of a traditional Spirit Master's Sea of Spirit.

The Pseudo Divine Sense shone brightly at the very top. Relying on Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's vast Source Power, it easily broke through the sealed bottleneck and drove straight in.

"Prepare for the impact. I'm going to detonate my Mental Power after compressing it to the extreme. When I detonate my Mental Power, you inject your origin rapidly. Success or failure depends on this one move."

"What? Detonate your Mental Power? Do you have a death wish?"

Qian Chaoguang suddenly said this, startling Sky Dream Ice Silkworm.

In its view, Mental Power was the origin of a living being. Once Mental Power was detonated, the consequences would be unimaginable.

But...

Even if it objected, it would be useless.

Before Sky Dream Ice Silkworm could say anything, the Pseudo Divine Sense rose and fell like a heart, and a violent roar exploded in Qian Chaoguang's mind.

An explosion like the beginning of the universe occurred within his Niwan Palace. The massive amount of compressed Mental Power violently blasted open the Niwan Palace, expanding it to an unbelievable degree.

This was the newborn Sea of Consciousness.

At that moment, some inconceivable change seemed to occur at the center of his brows.

The Ancestor Aperture opened at that instant, as if becoming a bridge linking heaven and earth with the embryonic Sea of Consciousness.

Those star-like specks of light spread out hazily, scattering to every corner and dyeing the entire Sea of Consciousness pale gold.

At this moment, the Pseudo Divine Sense had completed its transformation, evolving into true Divine Sense.

Sky Dream Ice Silkworm stared blankly at everything before him.

He could sense that this Divine Sense was incomparably powerful, and that the Sea of Consciousness was as stable as an eternal barrier, but he simply could not understand what had happened.

In his understanding, Qian Chaoguang's Mental Power level had instantly surpassed his own and evolved to the point where it possessed form and substance.

To him, this was simply too unbelievable.

As an unprecedented Million Year Soul Beast, he had worked hard for a hundred years and still failed to complete this transformation. Yet at this moment, the host he had chosen had done it.

"Don't just stand there. Speed up the fusion. This is only the first step of a ten-thousand-mile march. How far we brothers can go in the future all depends on right now. Trying to expand the Sea of Consciousness later will be as hard as climbing to the heavens."

Qian Chaoguang's voice rang out in the newborn Sea of Consciousness.

At some unknown point, Electrolux's Divine Sense had also transferred into the Sea of Consciousness.

Qian Chaoguang's Mental Power and Electrolux's Mental Power were both called Divine Sense, but there was an essential difference between the two.

The "divine" in the former referred to the spirit.

It relied on one's own power, using a special method to directly sublimate the spiritual body to an extremely high level before beginning cultivation. It could be called being born directly in Rome; afterward, it was basically a process of accumulation, with almost no bottlenecks.

The "divine" in the latter, however, referred to a Deity.

It was an enhancement and transformation that Mental Power obtained incidentally after elevating the essence of one's own life. Fundamentally, the difference was enormous.

It was hard to say which was superior and which was inferior.

The appearance of Divine Sense allowed Qian Chaoguang to use Mental Power in the early stages to pull off all kinds of wild maneuvers, but the price was that the difficulty of cultivation increased sharply in geometric progression.

This was mainly reflected in terms of speed.

Mm.

However, the current Qian Chaoguang had no time to think about these things. An even more difficult part was still waiting for him.

Under the control of the newly born Divine Sense, his Soul Power also underwent a violent explosion in his dantian.

This explosion did not destroy his dantian, but it shattered all the meridians in his body into tiny fragments.

Qian Chaoguang let out an inhuman roar, his face incomparably savage.

Severing all the meridians in his own body—this kind of pain was almost impossible to describe in words.

The Sky Dream Ice Silkworm, who was in the middle of the fusion process, had already gone blank.

First, he self-detonated his Mental Power, and now he was self-detonating his Soul Power and blowing up every meridian in his body. Wasn't this really just courting death?

Was there still time for him to run away now?

The bones and tendons in Qian Chaoguang's body began to let out a dense series of crackling pops. The sound itself was not loud, but it carried a heart-stopping sensation, as if his entire body might burst apart in the next second.

Purple-red blood also kept seeping out from the surface of his body, and fragments of his ruptured meridians flowed straight out through his skin together with the blood.

If anyone had been watching from the side at that moment, they would definitely have been stunned by the scene before them.

Qian Chaoguang had completely become a man of blood. His clothes were fully soaked through with purple-red blood, then frozen by the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's cold energy into a layer of bloody clothing. He looked utterly terrifying.

The little life energy remaining in the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's main body continuously poured into his dantian, replenishing the deficit within.

Now, inside Qian Chaoguang's dantian, a vortex formed from Soul Power gradually took shape. The Soul Power that had exploded and scattered throughout his body earlier was controlled by the vortex and his Divine Sense, constantly gathering into shadowy outlines of meridians.

Yes, reshaping his meridians. This was the true first step in formally cultivating the Qi Refining Art, and it was also why his cultivation had progressed so quickly before.

Because that had never been normal cultivation at all. It had merely been material used to reshape his meridians.

At this moment, Qian Chaoguang no longer had the strength to scream. Only hoarse, rasping breaths kept escaping from his throat.

This was truly too painful!

In the newly opened Sea of Consciousness, the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm cried out in alarm, "Hey, hey, hey, are you all right!? You couldn't have kicked the bucket, could you?"

"Shut up! Speed up your fusion process!"

Qian Chaoguang roared in agony within the Sea of Consciousness, then began guiding the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's remaining origin to merge with himself.

At that moment, the aura around him plummeted rapidly, dropping straight from level ten back to the state he had been in before awakening.

The Soul Power vortex inside his dantian released a powerful suction force, drawing in the surrounding Heaven and Earth Origin Power, as well as the final trace of power left inside the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm's body.

In the original work, Huo Gua had been unable to absorb these powers, but Qian Chaoguang's physique was strong enough to withstand them, making them just right for him to use.

Vast Heaven and Earth Origin Power was drawn into his dantian, continuously compressed and shaped within the Soul Power vortex, solidifying into an inverted trapezoid Golden Base. It looked as if it had been forged from pure gold, incomparably magnificent.

The instant the Golden Base took form, Qian Chaoguang's fallen aura surged upward rapidly, charging straight into the range of level thirteen before finally stopping.

The core of the Qi Refining Art—the Qi Sea—had been opened!