Chapter 1690: Chapter 1690

The beast core is the essence of a spirit beast, its importance is self-evident.

The Unihorn Dragon Whale, after having its beast core removed, rapidly lost its vitality and eventually perished in the depths of the sea.

Fang Bai secretly felt fortunate, thinking that such a sea beast, comparable to a human Thunder Tribulation fourth-tier expert, would have been the end of him if he hadn’t intentionally let it swallow him and used the Five Elements Origin Qi Cauldron to fend off its stomach acid corrosion and seawater infiltration.

And if he hadn’t attacked from inside its body, there was no way he could have posed a threat to it, let alone killed it.

Now it seems, the decision to venture into the Unihorn Dragon Whale’s belly was absolutely correct.

The beast core of a Thunder Tribulation fourth-tier spirit beast is invaluable and greatly aids martial artists.

If another expert obtained this beast core, it might take years of cultivation to gradually absorb all its spiritual energy and make it their own.

But after Fang Bai obtained the beast core, he immediately sat cross-legged in the colossal mouth of the Unihorn Dragon Whale, swallowed the beast core, and began secluded cultivation.

Once ingested, the beast core slowly dissolved, transforming into a massive amount of spiritual energy that surged through Fang Bai’s meridians and blood vessels like rolling rivers.

Under the impact of the spiritual energy, those meridians and blood vessels continuously widened and strengthened, allowing more spiritual energy to circulate and operate through them.

During this process, Fang Bai could perceive significant changes in his body.

These changes manifested not only in his meridians and blood vessels, but also in his muscles, bones, skin, and even each tiny cell, making them tighter and more resilient, and his physique increasingly powerful. Original content can be found at novel·fire·net

The spiritual energy repeatedly circulating within his body, Fang Bai eventually felt the intense surge of spiritual energy gradually subside, and channeled it with his mind into his Qi Sea, like rivers converging into an ocean.

A vast amount of Water Spirit Qi entered his Qi Sea, filling the space. Ultimately, the impurities of the Water Spirit Qi were compressed and expelled, leaving the purest strand of Chaos Water Spirit Qi.

Since advancing to the Soul Severing realm, the mass of Chaos Spirit Qi in Fang Bai’s Qi Sea split into seven Primordial Spirits.

The seven Primordial Spirits formed a circle, suspended in the Qi Sea. Like an Old Monk meditating, they sat cross-legged, eyes closed, always in a state of cultivation.

Each of the seven Primordial Spirits resembled a miniature version of Fang Bai, completely unclothed, with each having a different body color, each color corresponding to a type of nature’s spiritual energy.

Fang Bai’s cultivation level was only at the initial stage of the Primordial Spirit, so the seven Primordial Spirits remained in their original chaotic state, far from substantial, which was why Fang Bai had never summoned his Primordial Spirit for combat.

However, at this moment, with the changes occurring in Fang Bai’s body, the seven Primordial Spirits were gradually becoming substantial, especially the black Water Element Spirit, which, after absorbing the pure strand of Water Spirit Qi in the Qi Sea, grew significantly larger and stood out among the seven Primordial Spirits.

One day, Fang Bai used his divine sense to internally observe, seeing the seven Primordial Spirits solidified into form. Almost simultaneously, they opened their once-tightly-closed eyes, emitting seven beams of colorful light that intertwined, illuminating the entire Qi Sea.

At that exact moment, spiritual energy surged within Fang Bai’s Qi Sea, overflowing outward and dispersing in all directions.

Three successive waves of spiritual energy erupted like ripples from Fang Bai’s body, spreading outward.

The body of the Unihorn Dragon Whale exploded under the impact of the spiritual energy waves, sending the surrounding sea water surging upward, creating massive waves.

The immense pressure of the sea floor was something even a Thunder Tribulation expert would struggle to endure, but due to Fang Bai’s unique constitution and innate Water Spirit Root, he was unperturbed by the water, like a fish in the sea.

After the three waves of spiritual energy dispersed, Fang Bai calmed down, sitting quietly in the dark depths of the ocean, silently.

A hundred breaths later, in the dark ocean depths, two beams of light suddenly appeared but quickly vanished as Fang Bai’s eyes opened then closed again.

If a martial artist were nearby at this moment, they would notice Fang Bai’s aura continuously surging, steadily climbing.

With each surge, the pressure emanating from Fang Bai’s body intensified.

Prior to this, Fang Bai had used the massive cultivation resources he’d obtained, resulting in the accumulation of extensive spiritual energy within him. Now, with the aid of the Thunder Tribulation fourth-tier sea beast’s beast core, his spiritual energy skyrocketed to a level unimaginable to ordinary experts.

The outcome was that his cultivation breakthrough crossed one threshold after another, advancing three levels, and he shot up from the initial stage of the Soul Severing to Soul Severing Perfection.

Other experts might spend years or even decades to advance a single minor realm, but Fang Bai managed to advance three minor realms in this short time beneath the sea—a feat unrivaled even in the vast expanse of the Three Thousand Great Worlds.

Fang Bai, invigorated, used his divine sense to internally observe once more and found the seven Primordial Spirits in his Qi Sea even more substantial, each radiating with brilliance and surrounded by spiritual energy.

"I don’t know how long I’ve been down here this time, or what’s happened back in Immortal Stone City. It’s time to leave!"

With this thought, Fang Bai let out a long whistle, circulated Water Element Qi, and rushed upward toward the sea surface.

He broke through the sea surface, soared into the air, glanced in the direction of Immortal Stone City, and flew off on the Blood-Drinking Mad Blade.

As he flew over the beach where a previous war between a hundred thousand human experts and countless sea beasts had taken place, Fang Bai saw that it had been cleaned up, with even the smell of blood dissipating in the constant sea breeze.

By now, Immortal Stone City had regained its original tranquility and peace, the city streets were clean and tidy, and the buildings and residences damaged by the sea beasts’ incursion were repaired anew.

Only the occasional expression of having survived a disaster on the faces of some martial artists in the city revealed that there had been a fierce battle of extreme brutality, with countless human experts and sea beasts falling.

From what he saw, it was evident that in that battle, the human side achieved victory, otherwise, inside and outside Immortal Stone City, there would certainly be corpses everywhere, and the city would have fallen to ruin.

This result was pretty much what Fang Bai had expected.

Fang Bai flew over Immortal Stone City, sensing the aura of Xia Chenyu, Shi Xiaolian, Wu De, and the Lightning Marten, knowing they were all safe and sound, which finally gave him a sigh of relief.

Xia Chenyu and the others were gathered in the Wei Family compound, and worry was apparent on everyone’s faces.

Since Fang Bai left Immortal Stone City, ten days had hurriedly passed, and Xia Chenyu and the others hadn’t seen him, leaving them somewhat concerned.

Wei Zhengtian and his wife had led one hundred thousand warriors of Immortal Stone City to repel the sea beasts. Upon returning to Immortal Stone City, they learned that the stone statue was unharmed, all thanks to Fang Bai and the Lightning Marten in driving away the sea beasts, for which they were grateful, sending Wei family members to search for Fang Bai everywhere, but with no success.

Fortunately, Xia Chenyu, Shi Xiaolian, and the others, although worried about Fang Bai, because of their heart connection, knew he wasn’t in mortal danger, so they stayed obediently in Immortal Stone City, patiently waiting for his return.