Su Mo stayed at Hua Suiyu’s attic for quite a few hours. He had a great chat with his new Senior Brother and Sister from whom he was able to know more about Towering Sky Peak.
After that, Su Mo and Tian Chen went out of the attic. Su Mo was sent to live in the third attic where the Third Senior Brother used to live. Now that it was vacant after his death, he could move in.
“Su Mo, you can live here for the present. Our Master will come back in a few days, I’ll take you to meet him then!” Tian Chen said to Su Mo in front of the attic.
“Thanks, Tenth Senior Brother!” Su Mo thanked Tian Chen with a fist-palm salute.
“You’re welcome! Well, I should go back to cultivating. Make yourself at home!” Tian Chen smiled.
With these words, he went back to his attic.
Su Mo entered his new home. It had three storeys, the first floor was for the entrance hall, the second floor for the bedroom, and the third floor for the practice room.
Thick dust could be seen everywhere, so it must have been vacant for a long time.
However, it did not matter much to Su Mo. He waved his arm to raise an air blast, sweeping all the dust away. In just a few moments, the attic looked completely renewed.
“What’s this formation?” Su Mo felt puzzled at the complex lines engraved in the practice room.
Deep in thought, Su Mo looked at the four starting containers of the formation, before placing four Lower Spiritual Stones in them.
The moment the Spiritual Stones were placed, the unknown formation soon began to operate. Continuous Spiritual Qi rapidly gathered and permeated the practice room.
“This is a small-sized Aura-gathering Formation!”
Su Mo exulted for he knew only Aura-gathering Formations could gather aura from heaven and earth. He had not expected to see one of those in the attic. It was a bestowed gift that could allow him to cultivate much more easily.
The four Lower Spiritual Stones, however, soon turned into ashes after exhausting all their Spiritual Qi.
“Seems like Lower Spiritual Stones are far from enough!” Su Mo inwardly sighed, and immediately placed five Medium Spiritual Stones in each starting container.
The Aura-gathering Formation was activated again and plenty of Spiritual Qi flowed into it.
Afraid of wasting time, Su Mo sat cross-legged in the formation and began cultivating.
He had set a small goal before coming to the Dark Domain——to reach the Enlightenment Realm within one month, but with Hong Qingxuan and Wu Sheng’s company, he did not have time to devour Spiritual Stones as they hadn’t taken any breaks during the journey.
Now that everything was settled, it was the right time to break through.
Although there was a delay, his foundation became more stabilized and his Genuine Vitality more refined, so he could leap to the Enlightenment Realm directly!
As his Devouring Martial Soul was released, the thick Spiritual Qi in the room rapidly flowed toward Su Mo. However, it was still hard for him to break through even with his Devouring Martial Soul and the Aura-gathering Formation.
Woosh!
Su Mo waved his arm and took out a small hill of Spiritual Herbs.
Earlier in Skymoon Imperial City, he had sold all his weapons, scrolls, crystals and other items except for the Spiritual Herbs to the Sky-sea Pavilion, because they were very useful for cultivating.
These Spiritual Herbs were abundant enough to be worth billions of Lower Spiritual Stones.
“Devour!” Su Mo shouted and then started to devour Spiritual Herbs.
All of them flew toward Su Mo instantly and wrapped him in.
Some lousier Spiritual Herbs burst out right away, releasing their herbal efficacy. While the better ones remained intact, a lot of them lost their herbal efficacy rapidly.
Spiritual Qi seethed inside Su Mo as the herbal efficacy increased. He controlled his breath and desperately had it refined.
At the same time, his cultivation skyrocketed to Peak Lv 8 True Spirit Realm within a few mere moments.
Su Mo continued with resolve and prepared for promotion to Lv 9 True Spirit Realm.
The barriers of Lv 9 True Spirit Realm was broken through by the strong combination of Spiritual power and herbal efficacy.
Su Mo successfully entered Lv 9 True Spirit Realm.
He didn’t stop there and continued with the refining to feed his Martial Soul. His cultivation continued to increase simultaneously.
Early Lv 9 True Spirit Realm!
Middle Lv 9 True Spirit Realm!
Late Lv 9 True Spirit Realm!
Peak Lv 9 True Spirit Realm!
Su Mo’s cultivation advanced to Peak Lv 9 True Spirit Realm within only 7 or 8 minutes. By then, only less than half of the herbal efficacy had been used.
“Break it through in one go!” Su Mo grit his teeth and kept pushing hard.
Genuine Vitality inside him gradually transformed into wisps of thin Vital Spirit in his nine Spiritual Spirals.
He was now half step into the Enlightenment Realm.
It was obviously much harder and more time-consuming to enter Enlightenment Realm than Lv 9 True Spirit Realm.
Two days had gone by on the brink of an eye.
In the early morning of the second day, 99% of Su Mo’s Genuine Vitality had transformed into Vital Spirit, and that was thanks to the massive amount of herbal efficacy. After all, the transformation of Genuine Vitality to Vital Spirit required too much spiritual Qi for him to do it only with that.
Fortunately, those Spiritual Herbs had been enough to support him until then.
However, there was no herbal efficacy left for him to truly enter the Enlightenment Realm.
Whoosh!
Su Mo once again took out millions of Lower Spiritual Stones.
“This is either make or break!”
“Burst!” Su Mo bellowed.
He desperately activated his Devouring Martial Spirit. Countless Spiritual Stones exploded and turned into waves of Spiritual Qi shrouding him.
“Breakthrough! Breakthrough! Breakthrough!”
Su Mo inwardly shouted and desperately refined his remaining Genuine Vitality into Vital Spirit.
Finally, after one hour, all the Genuine Vitality was converted into Vital Spirit.
At that moment, his 9 Spiritual Spirals rotated violently and rapidly as their power increased. Spiritual Qi within a several-mile radius flew toward Su Mo and formed a huge vortex above the attic.
After a while, everything grew calm again and Su Mo spat out a mouthful of murky Qi.
He was finally promoted!
Lv 1 Enlightenment Realm!
Su Mo freed from worry as his strength and cultivation sharply increased. His willpower was also enhanced accordingly as that strengthened his spiritual consciousness as well.
His spiritual consciousness could cover a 5-kilometer radius when he was at Lv 8 True Spirit Realm. Now the coverage increased to over 15 kilometers.
Su Mo released his spiritual consciousness, only to find Tian Chen and Hua Suiyu standing outside their attics and gazing toward his own in shock.
Taking his spiritual consciousness back with a smile, he stood up and went out.