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Chapter 41 - Farewell and Departure

Xiao Qi stretched his waist and jumped off the bamboo bed, then slowly walked towards the array’s boundary. The spirit stones Meng Qi placed in it weren’t that bright, but the whole room was illuminated by the light from the array’s initiation.

Seven spirit stones that shone the brightest were connected into a Big Dipper constellation. Xiao Qi slowly moved his fluffy claws and lightly touched the outermost part of the array. He seemed to be curious and came to see what Meng Qi was doing.

Meng Qi glanced at him and said: “Xiao Qi, be careful not to touch it.”

She then took a deep breath and slowly stepped into the array. A massive amount of spiritual aura instantly engulfed her body. In Three Thousand Worlds, the spiritual aura in a single eight-grade spirit stone was almost equal to a cultivator who had just broken through into the Great Ascension stage. However, cultivators couldn’t use the aura inside spirit stones directly.

People have tried it in the past. However, they were disappointed to find out that even after successfully releasing spiritual aura from a spirit stone, the aura quickly dissipated and couldn’t be absorbed into cultivators’ body. No one could explain this phenomenon. The only plausible hypothesis was that the aura inside spirit stones was different from the aura needed to cultivate.

Cultivators in Three Thousand Worlds relied on breathing techniques and meditation to absorb spiritual aura from the surrounding environment and incorporated it into their body to be tempered. The accumulated spiritual aura gradually changed from quantitative to qualitative, which enabled them to break through to the next cultivation realm.

People with high cultivation talent could easily absorb the surrounding aura for their own use, getting twice the result with half the effort. Meng Qi wasn’t particularly stupid, but her talent wasn’t high either.

Meng Qi closed her eyes and sat cross-legged in the center of the array. Her master disdained her slow cultivation progress, so he specially designed an array that enabled her to incorporate spiritual aura in the spirit stones for her cultivation.

Thanks to that, in her previous life, Meng Qi finally entered the Golden Core stage, which enabled her medical cultivation to break through into the fourth rank. Finally, her medical cultivation didn’t have to suffer a bottleneck because of her slow cultivation speed.

The little white tiger quietly watched the girl being surrounded by spiritual aura. Faint light flashed on her body, making her skin looked even fairer. Her long eyelashes quivered slightly, and beads of sweat slowly rolled from her forehead.

Xiao Qi’s eyes flickered, and the Big Dipper that usually was hidden once again became visible inside his blue eyes. Stars rose and fell, and a faint trace seemed to connect the stars together. Looking more closely, it was very similar to the array Meng Qi drew. If there was any difference, it was that Meng Qi’s array was much rougher. However, the essence was identical. Seven gleaming spirit stones seemed to reflect the shape of the Big Dipper inside the little tiger’s eyes.

Xiao Qi kept watching in silence. The cultivation technique used by demons was different than the one used by humans in Three Thousand Worlds. Humans cultivated against heaven by robbing the essence of Dao that existed between earth and heaven. Because of this, human cultivators had to walk steadily step by step. As their cultivation realm improved, the spiritual sea inside their body would also expand naturally, enabling them to store even more aura for the next breakthrough.

Demon cultivators, on the other hand, were absorbing spiritual aura with their every breath. Ordinary demon cultivators also had a certain star shadow projected on their bodies. With the star shadow’s help, they could absorb the spiritual aura between heaven and earth. Celestial demon carried a constellation of stars, and they could use all different kinds of aura for cultivation. What restricted the demon’s cultivation speed was their spiritual sea’s growth rate, which was far slower than the rate of which the spiritual aura was accumulating. So in many cases, the aura that entered a demon cultivator’s body was wasted.