King Time

break through to the spirit realm

Little Black nodded her head, as she watched Shun Long walk towards her usual seat, before she sat down cross-legged and closed her eyes.

After clearing his mind, Shun Long called out 'Heaven swallowed wine', before he took out over 10,000 middle-class spirit stones.

The vine then began to quickly swallow the middle-grade spirit stone that Shun Long had given him, before turning it into pure qi that filled the surrounding air.

Shun Long circulated the 'Sand King's Clock', as 81 balls of bright qi appeared above his head.

Shun Long then began to absorb the pure qi extracted by the 'Heaven swallowed wine' from the middle-grade spirit stones, replenishing the large amount of qi he had put out on top of the golden stairs earlier.

After the 81 balls of qi were once again brought back to peak condition, Shun Long focused his mind as he tried to compress the 81 balls of qi into one, in order to successfully pierce through the Spirit realm.

Shun Long already knew that this breakthrough would be different from the last one.

Unlike the breakthrough to Heaven level, for a breakthrough to Spirit realm, this time, other than compressing a qi ball into one, he also had to condense all of his spiritual power together, creating his spirit senses.

Only then could Shun Long truly enter the early 1st rank in the Spirit realm.

Having his own spirit sense would also drastically help Shun Long in his alchemy as well, along with many other things in the future.

After all, the difference between touching something with spiritual power and touching it with the spirit senses was incomparable.

Touching a medicinal herb with spiritual power gives you a feeling as if you touched it with your own 2 hands, but touching it with the spirit senses is more than that.

This gives you the feeling of checking a medicinal herb at the same time as you touch it.

In a cauldron that closed off during the last step of alchemy, or when a formation master carved runes on the inside of a weapon, the spirit senses would allow the two of them to see what was going on inside, it was not just getting that rough feeling of the situation through their spiritual power.

An endless amount of qi was extracted from the middle grade spirit stones, as they were converted into pure qi from 'Heaven swallowed wine', before they filled the air around Shun Long and Little Black.

Absorbing the pure qi in the air around him, Shun Long then began compressing the 81 balls of qi in the 'Sand King's Hour', while at the same time, compressing the 81 balls of qi, a pungent pain filled his head as he suppressed his spiritual power, before it. turned into a spirit feeling.

3 Hours soon passed, and 27 balls of qi, much brighter than before, were now left inside the 'Sand King's Hour'.

Sweat drops had formed on Shun Long's forehead, but while gritting his teeth he continued to press the qi ball.

6 hours later, a pair of dazzling qi balls appeared above Shun Long's head, inside the 'Sand King's Hour'.

The two spheres of qi were extremely bright, so it completely resembled 2 mini suns.

Shun Long's 81 qi balls have now been compressed in these 2 balls.

At the same time, within his spiritual space, his spiritual power had also been compressed into a small wisp of green light.

Although compressing his spiritual power was extremely painful for Shun Long, who had far more spiritual power than almost any other Heaven-class cultivator so the process was even longer for him, he said, Shun Long could only grit his teeth and continue the process.

He knew that this was the only way he had managed to complete his breakthrough and step into the Spirit realm.

Finally, 4 hours later, an extremely bright ball of qi floated above Shun Long's head inside the 'King's Sand Hour'.

Not only was there a single ball of qi within the 'King's Sand Clock', his spiritual power had also been compressed into a single green ball within his spiritual space.

This green ball was Shun Long's spirit sense.

It contained a part of its own spirit, and was something that every cultivator who stepped into the Spirit realm had to possess.

Little Black who wrapped her body 10m (33ft) around Shun Long's chair, had an expression of excitement in her bright blue eyes, as she said in a delighted voice.

''Congratulations sir!''

Shun Long smiled when he heard the black dragon's excited words, and after patting Little Black's head, an invisible green ball appeared in his hand.

Yet Little Black's eyes were wide open looking at Shun Long's experiment with his spirit senses.

Soon, Shun Long learned that he could only expand his spirit senses to 1m (3.2 feet) from his body at most.

It is impossible to extend it any more than that.

An invisible green field had completely covered Shun Long within a radius of 1m(3.2ft) around him.

Sensing the scene around his master with his soul sense, the black dragon could no longer hide his astonishment, as he said in a surprised voice.

''Mastering! Your spirit senses should not be able to leave your body and scan the air around you directly.''

Shun Long looked at Little Black with a surprised expression, not understanding what he meant.

Nodding his head, the black dragon understood the confusion of his master as he continued—

''Your spirit senses should only be able to enter objects that have direct contact with you. However, this is completely different.

Although it seems that the master can only use his spirit senses within a radius of 1m (3.2 feet) around your body, it is actually no different from an extremely weak soul sense!

Only the soul senses can leave the body of a cultivator and scan the area around them, but the spirit teacher's senses seem to be able to do the same!

Shun Long nodded his head, but a surprised look also filled his eyes after hearing Little Black's explanation.

Does that mean he has a soul?

Nah! Only Nascent Soul stage cultivators could unlock their soul senses.

Moreover, even if Shun Long's spirit sense could be partially categorized as a soul sense, it was probably the weakest among the other soul senses out there.

Moreover, Shun Long was very clear that he was still in the Spirit realm.

The Spirit Realm was a realm where a cultivator enhanced their soul senses, in preparation to enter the Nascent Soul stage.

But then, what is this situation?