Chapter 42: Forcibly Breaking Through!

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  Within two days, he broke through to the Zhenyuan boundary, but it was a very challenging thing for time. Time was extremely pressing for Yi Chen.

  "The cultivation of Xīng Hún Jìng's high level has been fully consolidated. Now, let's see if absorbing all the soul spirit stones can successfully advance to the next level."

  Thinking of this, Yi Chen directly sat down on the bed, took out 500 soul stones from the storage ring, each one was the size of a thumb, and piled them up in front of him.

  Although the quantity looks a lot, the soul power contained in the one-star Soul Spirit Stone is limited. Now Yi Chen can only pile up with quantity and gather less to become more.

  "It's a good thing that the Soul Spirit Stones have already been appraised here, otherwise it would take an extremely long time."

  He lightly spat out a mouthful of turbid air, and Yi Chen drove out all the distracting thoughts in his mind. Then, with both hands slightly pinching the seal, the beast soul quietly quivered in the dan Tian.

  "Hmm."

  A strand of soul power seeped out from the beast soul, and under Yi Chen's control, it was injected into a Soul Spirit Stone, drawing out the energy contained within.

  "Hmm."

  At the same time, a suction force seeped out from Yi Chen's body, drawing in the soul power that had been sucked out and channeling it into his meridians, where it flowed into the beast soul.

  As it was absorbed, the soul power contained in the One-Star Soul Spirit Stone decreased at a visible rate, and in an instant, it was completely absorbed, falling onto the bed.

  "Hush, hush."

  He didn't stop there, Yi Chen continued to release a stream of soul energy, injecting it into another Soul Spirit Stone, absorbing the soul energy from that stone.

  Yi Chen absorbed it at an extremely fast speed. The soul power in a one-star Soul Spirit Stone was far from enough for him to absorb, and one stone could only increase his soul power by 1%.

  In just half a minute, he absorbed fifty soul stones.

  "It's just as well that I didn't show any mercy when I was plundering earlier." Seeing such a state of depletion, Yi Chen couldn't help but let out a bitter laugh.

  "Hiss." Without any heartache, Yi Chen continued to absorb the Soul Spirit Stones. After absorbing fifty more, his beast soul also reached a state of saturation.

  At this moment, Yi Chen pinched off the technique, introspected the already saturated beast soul, and after a slight thought, he restarted the technique.

  "Peng, peng."

  This time, Yi Chen did not absorb the Soul Spirit Stone, but instead controlled the beast soul to throb like a heart, and the soul power contained in the beast soul began to surge up.

  Every time the beast soul jumps, every time the soul power surges, the contained soul power will decrease, but the impure soul power will become more refined and condensed.

  After several refinements, the originally saturated beast soul space has been emptied by half, and at this moment, Yi Chen stopped refining.

  "Hiss." The law changed again, and Yi Chen re-absorbed the soul power from the Soul Spirit Stone, making room for half of the beast's soul to absorb fifty more Soul Spirit Stones.

  "There is still no opportunity for promotion."

  Yi Chen furrowed his brow, but didn't lose hope. He re-tempered his soul force and continued to absorb the Soul Spirit Stone.

  After repeating this process several times, Yi Chen's soul power became even more refined and condensed, while the number of his soul spirit stones rapidly decreased. After undergoing five cycles of refinement, he had consumed a total of three hundred soul spirit stones.

  "With such consumption, it's really unbearable! At this rate of consumption, I don't even know if we can successfully advance to the next level."

  Helplessly sighing, Yi Chen continued to operate his Soul Technique, once again absorbing one hundred and fifty Soul Spirit Stones.

  "Finally reached the bottleneck." Yi Chen's eyes flashed with surprise, he finally touched the high-level Star Soul Realm, of course at the cost of 450 soul stones.

  "Reached a bottleneck, continuing at the normal speed of cultivation would require at least a week's time, but now there are only two short days left, so I can only force my way through."

  Cultivation is all about following the natural order of things. If you don't, accidents can easily happen. But now, Yi Chen couldn't care less about that anymore.

  "Hiss." He shifted his gaze to the remaining fifty Soul Stones, a determined glint flashing in Yi Chen's eyes as he once again circulated his Soul Power, forcibly absorbing the Soul Power within the Soul Stones.

  The beast soul had been completely occupied by the soul force, and could not accommodate any more soul force. However, Yi Chen forcibly poured soul force into it, and instantly a feeling of distension and pain spread from the dantian throughout his entire body.

  "It's impossible to break through to the Zhenyuan realm in two days without forcing it." With a gritted determination, Yi Chen endured the intense pain and continued to frantically absorb soul energy.

  As it continued to absorb, Yi Chen's beast soul expanded like a rubber ball, growing at a visible rate.

  If there were any senior cultivators present, they would definitely be shocked and driven mad by Yi Chen's cultivation method.

  Without reaching the state of Zhenhun Realm, Yi Chen can't help the Yi family or his own relatives, so he can only resort to this method.

  Affected by Dantian, Yi Chen's face turned bright red. On the surface of his body, it could be seen that his abdomen was slowly bulging in the direction of Dantian.

  "Give me a breakthrough." His complexion turned ferocious, and Yi Chen absorbed the Soul Spirit Stones one by one. In half a minute, fifty Soul Spirit Stones were absorbed by him.

  Still no signs of breakthrough, but the beast soul has swollen up like a balloon, as if it might burst at any moment.

  Continuing to absorb it would only lead to two outcomes: one is successfully breaking through the Star Soul Realm, and the other is the Beast Soul exploding, rendering him unable to cultivate from then on.

  "A man should be tough on himself." With a gritted teeth, Yi Chen quickly made up his mind and forcibly absorbed the remaining twenty-five soul stones.

  This was even more unbearable, the beast soul grew larger, and Yi Chen's breath also began to become disordered.

  "Hiss." Something even more unfortunate happened, as the amount of soul power contained within the beast soul was too great, a surge of soul power burst out from the beast soul and rampaged through Yi Chen's body.

  The human body's weakest point is its internal organs; with just one collision, it would be unbearable. Yi Chen felt a pain that made him wish he were dead.

  If this continues, the internal organs will definitely suffer severe damage, and by then, even life may be hard to preserve.

  "Give it back." Yi Chen struggled to control, but that burst of soul power was like a mischievous child, refusing to be controlled, rampaging wildly inside his body.

  That's not all, the soul force seemed to have not had enough fun, suddenly adjusted its direction and rushed towards Yichen's heart.

  "Stop it for me!"

  The heart is the foundation of the human body, if it suffers a blow, then it's all over. At this moment, Yi Chen's face turned extremely ugly, flashing a hint of panic, and he controlled himself even more forcefully.

  "Hmm."

  The soul power that ran out of the beast's soul had lost contact with Yi Chen and was completely uncontrollable, rushing towards his heart at a deadly speed.

  "Hmm."

  Suddenly, at the critical moment when the soul force was about to hit Yi Chen's heart, the quiet Tian Shu lying in the storage ring seemed to have sensed something and rushed out of the ring directly.

  "Hiss." The Heavenly Book floated above Yi Chen's head, releasing a golden glow.