The reason I am able to compete with A Huo now is because of my Divine Soul cultivation.
Besides influencing the enemy's mind, one's Divine Soul can also allow them to easily perceive the opponent's movements, thereby increasing combat power.
So it's no wonder that when A Huo entered the Heaven-Questioning Pavilion Heaven-Questioning Pavilion, he was rated as a super-grade, while his martial arts potential was only rated as above average.
However, Chen Mu was not discouraged, since his main focus was on cultivating the Divine Soul, Martial Dao were only a secondary pursuit.
Chen Mu sat cross-legged on the bed, surrounded by Spirit Stone that emitted a rich Spiritual Power, which, under the guidance of the Spirit Gathering Array, swirled around Chen Mu.
The Spirit Stone Chen Mu had placed there were all of the fourth grade. He wouldn't have dared to be so extravagant if he hadn't borrowed money from Liang Yu.
As he desperately absorbed the Spiritual Power from the outside world, the Spiritual Qi within his dantian became increasingly concentrated, showing signs of liquefaction.
Breaking through from the Qi Nourishing Realm to the True Spirit Realm involves compressing the Spiritual Power within the Qi Sea and transforming it into liquid.
This process is extremely difficult. For many ordinary cultivators, it is normal to take ten or eight years to break through from the Peak of the Qi Nourishing Realm to the True Spirit Realm.
However, Chen Mu is both a formation master and has resources. With the accumulation of resources, it will be much easier for him to break through.
The night of cultivation passed quickly. In the morning, Chen Duo and the others came to find Chen Mu and found him cultivating, so they did not disturb him.
By the afternoon, Chen Mu finally sensed an opportunity for a breakthrough.
"Condense the gas into liquid, condense!"
He made a hand seal, his face solemn, and a phantom image of an angry-looking Buddha appeared behind him.
Within the Qi Sea, it felt as if a tremendous pressure was surging in from the outside, causing the Spiritual Qi to begin to contract inward. Finally, a drop of golden liquid condensed within the dantian.
"Success!"
Chen Mu breathed a sigh of relief. With the birth of the first drop of spiritual liquid, the remaining Spiritual Qi would slowly transform into spiritual liquid.
The time this process takes varies from person to person; for him, it should be completed within two or three days.
With the first drop of spiritual liquid, Chen Mu has now stepped into the Early Stage of the True Spirit Realm. The Spiritual Power after turning into spiritual liquid is more condensed than before, and now Chen Mu's casual strikes are at least twice as powerful.
Once all the Spiritual Qi in his body has been converted into liquid, Chen Mu's Spiritual Power can burst out of his body, doubling its power and becoming incomparable to the strength of the Late Qi Nourishing Realm.
Spiritual Qi bursts forth from the body, capable of injuring people from a distance. This is the most obvious characteristic of the True Spirit Realm. From then on, his means of attack were no longer limited to physical contact. Chen Mu was finally able to begin cultivating many martial arts techniques that he could not cultivate before.
"Hmm, I'm a little hungry, I'll go get something to eat!"
Two days later, Chen Mu finished modifying the bulky spaceship in his hands.
With the addition of Space Traversal Rune, this spaceship can teleport within a hundred meters. Combined with its astonishing speed, even King Level powerhouse would find it difficult to catch.
With a way out, Chen Mu and his companions felt emboldened and, far from being afraid of the likely war, even began to look forward to it.
With everything in place, Chen Mu, having nothing else to do, began to study the magic core he had previously unearthed.
As a talisman master, conducting physical analysis on materials he has never seen before is a habit of his.
After studying it for a while, he tried to input a little Spiritual Power into the demon core, but to his surprise, the demon core shattered into pieces with a bang as soon as he injected a trace of it.
"Tsk tsk..."
Chen Mu secretly regretted it; this was very valuable.
He had heard from others before that the demonic energy of the Otherworldly Demon was extremely repulsive to Spiritual Power, but he never expected that injecting even a trace of Spiritual Power into the demonic core would cause it to shatter.
However, the reaction of the magic core gave Chen Mu an idea: to make a bomb.
Chen Mu's Divine Soul was powerful, and he could clearly see the process of the demon core shattering after the spiritual Spiritual Qi entered it.
The moment the demonic energy and Spiritual Qi within the demonic core came into contact, they began to boil, releasing enormous energy in all directions, which caused the demonic core to shatter.
This process was very similar to the reaction of explosives, which gave Chen Mu many ideas.
But after so many years of the Otherworldly Demon invasion of the Pan Emperor Continent, haven't any other talisman masters discovered this?
That was obviously impossible, so Chen Mu wasn't in a hurry to conduct the experiment. Instead, he went out to the bookstore to look up information on the subject.
Two or three hours later, Chen Mu indeed found a lot of information about using magic cores in the bookstore.
He even found a specific way to manufacture the Demon Core Bomb, which made him ecstatic.
No wonder so many forces are buying up magic cores; it turns out they discovered the explosive properties of magic cores long ago.
But after learning more about it, he discovered that the method of manufacturing the Demon Core Bomb was too complicated and seemed to have little practical use.
The key to creating Demon Core Bomb is the absolute balance between demonic energy and Spiritual Qi.
The method that is now circulating is to use the powerful Divine Soul of the talisman master to isolate the demonic energy inside the demonic core, and then find another cultivator with similar Spiritual Power power to inject Spiritual Power into the demonic core.
With the talisman master's Soul Power controlling it, the Spiritual Power injected by the cultivator will not come into contact with the demonic energy for the time being. After the injection is completed and the Spiritual Power on both sides is confirmed to be completely balanced, the talisman master will then fuse the two forces together.
The fusion process must be handled with extreme care; the slightest mistake can cause the magic core to explode. Even for some experienced rune masters, the success rate rarely exceeds ten percent.
The resulting Demon Core Bomb was indeed incredibly powerful, often capable of killing enemies even across a major realm.
However, this manufacturing method is difficult, dangerous, and has a low success rate. Therefore, apart from some powerful forces that manufacture certain military equipment as their trump cards, ordinary talisman masters rarely attempt to create them.
After reading the information about the Demon Core Bomb, Chen Mu fell into deep thought.
The reason why traditional methods of manufacturing magic core explosives have such a high failure rate is mainly due to the artificial control of the fusion of Spiritual Power and demonic energy.
However, one's own Rune Core possesses powerful calculation capabilities. If it controls the ratio of Spiritual Power to demonic energy, then deviations are virtually impossible.
Moreover, this integration process can be precisely controlled through standardized actions, thus solving the problem of failure rate.
From this perspective, Chen Mu felt that he was fully capable of mass-producing Demon Core Bomb.
However, it is still in the theoretical stage at present, and whether it can be realized in practice still needs to be studied and verified.
Furthermore, the method for manufacturing the Demon Core Bomb that Chen Mu is currently seeing is a publicly known method. In fact, the various forces may have used magic cores for more than just making bombs.
Therefore, Chen Mu has developed a deep interest in the magic core. If he continues his research, he might even discover other secrets.
That evening, Chen Mu returned to the inn. Before he could put his idea for the Demon Core Bomb into practice, he encountered the guards from the city lord's mansion.
Bai Jinglong urged him to go to the city lord's mansion as soon as possible, seemingly because there was important news to announce.
Chen Mu didn't say much, went straight out, and headed to the City Lord's Mansion.