To break through the Samsara Realm, one needs a more refined Source Power storage item, Source Crystal.
This item is unique to the Nine Heavens and can be exchanged for using Source Stone at a rate of one hundred Source Stone to one Source Crystal.
While Situ Jiannan was out gathering intelligence these past few days, he also managed to acquire some Source Crystal.
I exchanged approximately 80,000 Source Stone, but due to the large quantity and increased exchange rate, I only managed to exchange for a little over 700 Source Crystal.
According to the information Situ Jiannan gathered, Samsara Realm requires approximately a thousand Source Crystal.
They're still short a bit, so they can only try to exchange it with Xuchengzi. This is one of the reasons why Situ Jiannan suggested not to antagonize the Qian Yuan Sect for the time being.
Although the Qian Yuan Sect is insignificant and there's not much to exploit, there's still some profit to be made from them.
Afterwards, Situ Jiannan went to find Xuchengzi. When Xu Chengzi heard that Lin Heng wanted to exchange for Source Crystal to break through to the Samsara Realm, he immediately transferred a thousand Source Crystal from the Qian Yuan Sect's treasure pavilion without saying a word, and exchanged them at the normal ratio.
Now that he had the Source Crystal, Lin Heng found a secret chamber with an array within the Qian Yuan Sect and began preparing for his breakthrough to the Samsara Realm.
If Nirvana is the beginning of immortality, then entering the Samsara is the first step onto the Great Dao.
To enter the Samsara, one must first comprehend the true meaning of life and death.
Life lies in time; it is through understanding the Law of Time that one's soul can reach this level.
Further breakthroughs in cultivation require Source Crystal as a medium.
Source Stone contains Source Power, Source Crystal, in addition to Source Power, also contain a trace of the power of the Universe Origin.
No one knows exactly how the Source Crystal veins were formed. There are rumors that they were formed from the bloodline of Pangu when the world was created, but this has not been confirmed.
However, people know that without the Source Crystal, it is impossible to successfully break through to the Samsara.
At this moment, Lin Heng sat cross-legged in the secret room, with 1,700 Source Crystal placed around his body.
At one point, Lin Heng closed his eyes and began to guide his soul power to break through his cultivation level.
Within that spiritual sea, the immense Source Power that Lin Heng had accumulated through his Third Nirvana began to be continuously refined and fused.
Through repeated refinement of the Source Power, after tens of thousands of refinements, the original Source Power began to show a slight difference.
The Source Power, like an ocean, began to coalesce into a sphere of primal Source Power.
The sphere kept spinning, frantically absorbing energy from its surroundings.
Lin Heng sensed the need of the Source Power Sphere and began to guide the surrounding Source Crystal to absorb it.
Within the Source Crystal, Source Power and the power of the Universe Origin were continuously drawn in and then poured into Lin Heng's spiritual sea.
A barb began to protrude from the sphere, just a little bit at a time.
In the blink of an eye, nearly a hundred Source Crystal were drained, and the barbs only sprouted a tiny bit, smaller than a fingernail.
This time, Lin Heng directly controlled the extraction of three hundred Source Crystal.
With three times the energy, the barbs grew much faster, but only stopped when they reached the size of a little finger.
The sphere's demand was far from being met. Sensing that insatiable need, Lin Heng became ruthless and controlled five hundred Source Crystal at once to extract energy.
At five times the speed, the barbs began to grow at a visible rate, and when they reached about three inches, and when the five hundred Source Crystal turned into waste, the barbs stopped growing once again.
At this point, the sphere's demand had lessened slightly, but it still hadn't reached its limit.
Lin Heng once again controlled the remaining eight hundred Source Crystal to extract energy.
About the time it takes to drink a cup of tea has passed, and just as the eight hundred Source Crystal were about to become scrap, Lin Heng was worried that he wouldn't have enough Source Crystal.
The barbs suddenly stopped growing, and a surge of immense energy began to erupt from Lin Heng's body.
Although the formation provided cover, the energy Lin Heng generated during his breakthrough was so immense that it slightly exceeded the formation's limits. Within the Qian Yuan Sect, a slightly oppressive aura could be felt.
Inside the main hall of the Qian Yuan Sect, Xuchengzi sat on the sect leader's throne. When Lin Heng's faint but oppressive aura emanated from him, Xuchengzi's expression darkened.
"Has Lin Heng broken through?"
"But even I am slightly inferior to this aura. Is he really only breaking through to the First-Turn Samsara?"
Xuchengzi was somewhat incredulous. After all, First-Turn Samsara already possessed an aura comparable to Third-Turn Samsara. If Lin Heng had grown to the Ninth-Turn Samsara, who could possibly be his match?
"Snort!"
After a moment of astonishment, Xuchengzi let out a cold snort.
"So what if you're strong? I'll use you to seize the Origin Vein, then secretly join forces with the Blood Demon Sect to eliminate you. Then the trouble will be over, and the Origin Vein will belong to my Qian Yuan Sect! Ha!"
Inside Sun Yuan's room, he was chatting with Situ Jiannan.
Upon sensing Lin Heng's presence, Sun Yuan was overjoyed, Situ Jiannan was startled.
"I knew I hadn't misjudged him. If he didn't even have this much spirit, how could he be worthy of being my brother, Sun Yuan?"
As the Five-Spirit Fierce Ape, the most powerful demon beast among the Demon Race, Sun Yuan naturally possesses his own arrogance.
If Lin Heng didn't possess strength worthy of his attention, how could Sun Yuan have submitted?
Looking at Situ Jiannan, he was both surprised and delighted.
What was astonishing was that Lin Heng possessed such a powerful aura even after just breaking through.
I'm happy to have made that decision.
A single wrong decision led him to his current position.
Don't underestimate him just because he's only a cultivator who First Nirvana. Even a Samsara Realm expert like Xuchengzi would dare to look down on him while he's by Lin Heng's and Sun Yuan's side.
The aura that Lin Heng unleashed when breaking through to the Samsara Realm aroused various thoughts among the people in the Qian Yuan Sect.
Lin Heng, who had just made a breakthrough, was about to stabilize his breathing when an unexpected change occurred.
The white jade on his body floated out automatically, and after reaching above Lin Heng's head, it cast a pure white light that enveloped Lin Heng.
Before Lin Heng could even guess what Bai Yu was going to do, a strange image appeared deep within Lin Heng's soul.
It was the same seed that had sprouted, but this time, its growth was quite strange.
Sometimes fast, sometimes Immovable, sometimes completely still.
Lin Heng kept his eyes fixed on the seed. Even if an hour passed and the seed did not change at all, Lin Heng's Divine Power was completely focused on it without the slightest slackening.
It was a very strange feeling. Although Lin Heng could not personally experience it, he could vaguely guess that the changes in the seed came from the flow of time.
But this time, it's not just a simple Time Deceleration.
Instead, it cycles continuously through Time Deceleration, accelerating, and coming to a standstill.
Lin Heng stared at this single image for twenty days.
During these twenty days, the seed simply repeated the process of deceleration, acceleration, and stillness.
But in Lin Heng's eyes, the scene was no longer so simple.
Like a blurry image, it is gradually becoming clearer.
Meanwhile, during these twenty days, Lin Heng himself was unaware that his soul power was advancing by leaps and bounds, rising rapidly at a rocket-like speed.