Saint Sovereign of Nine Heavens

Chen Yu sat cross-legged in the training room. Along with the circulation of his breathing and breathing technique, the Astral Energy swirl around him started to move, forming a whirlpool and moving according to the rhythm of his breathing.    

    

Suddenly, Chen Yu opened his eyes. The whirlpool quickly shrunk and rushed towards Chen Yu like a gust of wind. Chen Yu opened up all the pores on his body and with a clap of his hands, he absorbed all the Supreme Force into his body.    

    

"The Astral Qi is overflowing!" Chen Yu let out a long breath as he felt the thick and strong qi in his body.    

    

It had already been half a month since the mountain had been sealed. In this half month, Chen Yu mainly trained in Black Star Art, the former cultivated at night, absorbing star power and fusing it into the astral energy. However, more than half of the star power Chen Yu absorbed was still devoured by the Star Soul.    

    

As for the Profound Heaven Spell, Chen Yu, after half a month of cultivation and consolidation, borrowed the resources left behind by Falling Star Immortal and finally reached the peak of the ninth level of Heavenly Astral Stage. He was only one step away from the Spirit Accumulation Stage.    

    

However, Chen Yu faintly felt that it wouldn't be easy to cross this step.    

    

"No matter what, I have to give it a try!" Without any hesitation, Chen Yu continued to close his eyes and started to attack Spirit Accumulation Stage.    

    

Although his cultivation and breakthrough speed were shockingly fast, Chen Yu knew that his foundation was actually very solid. With the help of the Blood Flame Tyrant Spell, what he lacked would always be resources.    

    

After cultivating to this stage, Chen Yu clearly felt the benefits brought by the Blood Flame Tyrant Spell. His strong physique not only helped Chen Yu tremendously in the battle, it also allowed him to contain more Essence. As long as he had enough resources, his foundation wouldn't be unstable.    

    

Concentrating on sensing the circulation of the Supreme Force in his body, Chen Yu started at the fourth stage of the Profound Heaven Spell Art, which was precisely the Spirit Accumulation Method.    

    

Spirit Accumulation, as the name implies, is the accumulation of spirit energy. When a martial artist reaches this realm, they need to continuously extract spirit energy from the astral energy and hide it within their Dantian to nurture and strengthen it in the form of a 'Spirit Vortex'. They would reach a stable state and fuse and resonate with the Spiritual Soul.    

    

Spirit Vortex was a whirlpool of spirit energy. Its strength was also the key to a warrior's ability in the future.    

    

The process of condensing a Spirit Vortex took a long time and required a large amount of perseverance as well as spirit pills that corresponded to the spirit energy of the warrior to support it.    

    

Before this step, ordinary Heavenly Astral Stage Warriors would need to accumulate spirit energy after they had tested the attributes. Chen Yu, on the other hand, didn't need to do this anymore.    

    

The nature's aura that Chen Yu absorbed from the Punishment Tower had a strong fire attribute. Adding to the fact that he had just consumed the Earth Fire Spirit Origin Fruit, the fire attribute spirit energy was extremely rich. Although it was not able to directly turn the astral energy into flames, it was still stronger than normal fire attribute Spirit Accumulation Stage practitioners.    

    

If it wasn't for Chen Yu's ethereal body constitution, he had the confidence of breaking through the Spirit Accumulation Stage within a year. However, there was definitely a reason why an ethereal body was called a Waste Body.    

    

Furthermore, Waste Body s were publicly recognized, and even the experts of Ruling Spirit Sect thought so. This undoubtedly showed how big of a problem Chen Yu was facing!    

    

But no matter what, Chen Yu had to try it out first to see if he could condense Spirit Vortex.    

    

As Chen Yu circulated his cultivation technique, the rich Supreme Qi flowed according to a specific method. He felt as if his mind was not present at all. Following the Profound Heaven Spell technique, he started to think about the scorching fire spirit energy that was omnipresent in his body.    

    

Very quickly, Chen Yu felt the presence of a pure and thin scarlet aura. This aura was very familiar to him. It was pure and pure, yet it was also agile and blazing, as if it was something that belonged to the heavens and earth, containing a mysterious and unique meaning.    

    

Without a doubt, this was pure fire spirit energy.    

    

Because the realms of Heavenly Astral Stage were still too low, there was no need to separate and extract the attribute spirit energy within the heaven and earth origin energy, so they were all used up. However, when one reached Spirit Accumulation Stage, the vitality that was mixed with many different types of attributes would become extremely complicated, and one would have to use the elemental energy that suited their physique to cultivate. Only then would they be able to step into a higher realm and become stronger.    

    

There were no shortcuts in this step of training. It was a great test of a martial artist's willpower and mentality.    

    

Under the guidance of the fourth stage of the Profound Heaven Spell, the pure scarlet fire attribute spiritual energy constantly gathered in the meridians, converging towards the dantian. But at the same time, the ordinary mixed energy also converged with the fire attribute spiritual energy.    

    

Chen Yu was not surprised by this. Any cultivation technique, even if it was an exceptional skill, when practicing this step, it would inevitably have mixed effects with the Astral Qi. After all, fire attributed spiritual energy was only a part of normal Aura. What Spirit Accumulation Stage Warriors had to do was to take the fire attribute spiritual energy from the astral energy and discard the other mixed attribute spiritual energy.    

    

As Chen Yu circulated his cultivation technique, a whirlpool formed in the depths of his Dantian. At the center of the whirlpool was the pure fire attribute spiritual energy. At the periphery of the whirlpool was the mixed and ordinary Supreme Qi.    

    

The whirlpool spun non-stop, causing the red fire energy to grow stronger. Meanwhile, the ordinary Supreme Force spread out and entered Chen Yu's meridians, and with a thought, spread out of his body.    

    

If someone was here, they would see the white mist constantly dispersing out of the pores all over Chen Yu's body, as if it was his martial arts.    

    

Time flowed by, in the blink of an eye, two hours had passed. In the depths of Chen Yu's Dantian, the red fire spirit energy was increasing.    

    

"There doesn't seem to be any problems?" Bloodfire Emperor's experience when he broke through Spirit Accumulation Stage flashed across the depths of Chen Yu's mind, and he suddenly felt that it was a little strange. Until now, he hadn't felt any adverse effects of the ethereal body on his own cultivation.    

    

However, Chen Yu suddenly felt that something wasn't right after he thought about it for a while.    

    

He focused his senses, and saw that outside the Spirit Vortex, a different color started to appear in the originally revolving mixed astral energy.    

    

Different colors of the Astral Energy began to manifest, and they all had a unique and profound feeling to them.    

    

"This is …" Chen Yu was surprised and relaxed after he used his cultivation technique.    

    

The rotation speed of the spiritual energy whirlpool within his dantian immediately slowed down, and the whirlpool started to dissipate. Chen Yu did not mind this. His attention was focused on the various colors of the Astral Energy that were being generated by the spiritual energy whirlpool.    

    

"Wood Spirit, Water Spirit, Ice Spirit and Earth Spirit Body of Myriad Spirits?"    

    

After a moment of surprise, Chen Yu thought for a while and came to a realization. His mouth twitched as he let out a helpless smile.    

    

The effects of the Ethereal Body had finally appeared, and it was obvious that the effects were not small.    

    

Sitting cross-legged, Chen Yu's thoughts swirled as the totem swirl in his dantian started to loosen up. The principle of retreating when one fails to advance in the martial way was especially evident at this moment.    

    

An hour later, Chen Yu calmed himself down, steeled his heart, and continued activating the Profound Heaven Spell.    

    

After the Profound Heaven Spell circulated again, the astral energy flowed into the Dantian and the whirlpool started to expand and solidify again.    

    

However, as the fire attribute spiritual energy grew stronger, so did the spiritual energy of other colors.    

    

Chen Yu ignored this and continued to cultivate.    

    

Three days later, Chen Yu's body suddenly shook, he could sense that the Spirit Vortex inside his dantian had suddenly become chaotic, all kinds of different colored Spirit Qi were attacking and clashing with each other, causing many parts of the Spirit Vortex s to shatter, causing the Spirit Vortex s to be unable to grow.    

    

Chen Yu clearly felt that if he continued to cultivate, all sorts of Spirit Attributes would become even more chaotic and wreaked havoc. The Spirit Vortex in his dantian would no longer exist.    

    

Once the Spirit Vortex broke, these few days of cultivation would be useless, not to mention breaking through the bottleneck in Spirit Accumulation Stage!    

    

And the symbol of entering the Spirit Accumulation Stage was precisely the Spirit Vortex reaching a stable state. Even if the warrior did not cultivate for a long time, the Spirit Vortex would not disappear like smoke!    

    

Since he was unable to stabilize the Spirit Vortex, the shackles of his ethereal body was extremely obvious to Chen Yu.    

    

Having stopped cultivating, Chen Yu stood up and walked out of the small courtyard. He gazed at the vast and boundless mountains of the Royal Spirit Mountain.    

    

Chen Yu had a feeling that his path of martial arts had been interrupted. For a moment, he couldn't help but feel depressed.    

    

Chen Yu had expected such an outcome, but when it really came down to it, he had no way of dealing with it.    

    

Even though Bloodfire Emperor was well-versed in Profound Heaven Sect and had extensive knowledge, he still did not have the appropriate solution.    

    

"An ethereal body is already extremely rare!" Chen Yu muttered to himself, "It's almost unheard-of for an ethereal body to be able to break through the barrier of Spirit Accumulation. Therefore, even if I want to look at the path that the predecessors have taken, I still can't do anything about it!"    

    

"Could it be that we'll just be stuck at the ninth level of the Heavenly Astral Stage like this? No, definitely not! " Chen Yu clenched his fist, "Even if there is no road ahead, I will still take my own path!"    

    

"However, if we are unable to construct the Spirit Vortex, how do we break through the Spirit Accumulation Stage?"    

    

As Bloodfire Emperor's memories surfaced in his mind, Chen Yu carefully recalled the method Bloodfire Emperor used to break through Spirit Accumulation Stage.    

    

With the two spirits of wind and fire, he formed the Spirit Vortex, the fire spirit as the inner and the wind as the outer, and as the mutual surface, he suppressed the geniuses of the Profound Heaven Sect younger generation.    

    

"When we were building the Spirit Vortex, Bloodfire Emperor also cultivated the Profound Heaven Spell!" Chen Yu pondered. "The difference between him and me is that my physique is special. The strength of the various spiritual elements in my physique are almost the same." If I hadn't stayed in the Punishment Tower for a year and consumed it, when I built the Spirit Vortex with the Profound Heaven Spell, it might not be the case now. Maybe the core spirit energy in the Spirit Vortex is not fire spirit energy, but a different kind of spirit energy! "    

    

"So, the fire spirit energy in the Spirit Vortex I built is actually not that important. As long as I consume the other type of Spirit Dan, the other type of Spirit Dan might become stronger! "    

    

"Among my current Spirit Vortex, fire spirit energy is the strongest, and it is at the core position. It suppressed the other Spirit Qi, but when the Spirit Vortex grew larger, it was unable to continue suppressing it. "Why is that?"    

    

With Bloodfire Emperor's experience, Chen Yu naturally had good experience. However, when this question appeared in his heart, he couldn't find an answer.    

    

Falling Star Immortal had already left the mountain. Otherwise, Chen Yu could have asked Falling Star Immortal for some advice.