Chapter 1651: Seven Stars Spirit Setting Pill Pt.3

In the past, Shang Xia hadn’t been able to extract his soul despite his connection with it.

This strand of soul was something he entrusted to the World Origin Source when he entered the Six Direction Realm. It was crucial for his promotion to the Six Direction Realm and also deepened his bond with the world.

Now, not only did Shang Xia need to ascend to the Seven Star Realm, but he also had to completely transcend the constraints of the Spirit Luxuriant World. The first task was to release the portion of his soul he branded into the world.

However… The portion of his soul had already partially merged with the World Origin Source. How could it be so easy to extract it?

Clearly, it wasn’t something that could be solved with brute force either.

When all 7 strands of origin light finally merged into the strand of soul, Shang Xia finally understood how to free it from the World Origin Source when he felt the connection with the 7 suns.

The origin light temporarily weakened the connection between the World Origin Source and his soul, and the 7 great suns in the depths of the void anchored the strand of soul from 7 different directions, enabling it to reform a new balance between resisting the merger with the World Origin Source while slowly detaching from the Spirit Luxuriant World.

Thus, with the blessing of the Spirit Luxuriant World’s Will, Shang Xia completed the third step of crafting his Seven Star Spirit Setting Pill.

The next, and final step when it came to crafting his advancement medicine, required merging 7 drops of world origin from the World Origin Sources from different worlds into the strand of his soul. At the same time, he would need to activate the Spirit Calming Vessels he set up.

If the concoction of the Seven Star Spirit Setting Pill was made using the power of the 7 suns to draw out Shang Xia’s soul that had been branded into the world, the 7 Spirit Calming Vessels located deep in the World Origin Source of the other worlds would be the blade that would sever the connection of his soul to the Spirit Luxuriant World.

Throughout this process, Shang Xia made up for the karmic debt with the Spirit Luxuriant World. The advancement of the Spirit Luxuriant World in the future depended on Shang Xia pushing further in his path of cultivation.

With all external disturbances eliminated and the world eagerly anticipating his promotion, Shang Xia finally concocted the Seven Stars Spirit Setting Pill with the help of the World’s Will.

With the completion of his rank seven advancement medicine, Shang Xia realized that the pill wasn’t something he could craft as he pleased. There was a process to it. The anchoring of the suns in the Big Dipper formation, along with the Spirit Calming Vessels in the World Origin Source of the 7 different worlds were also paramount to his success.

Only when the entire process was completed did the Seven Stars Spirit Stabilizing Pill appear. With that… All he had to do was to swallow the pill to complete the last step to break through.

With no more hesitation, he opened his mouth. The second he did, intense starlight along with the essence that came from the other worlds entered his body.

As soon as it happened, his breakthrough to the Seven Star Realm began!

The Six Direction Qi in his dantian underwent rapid transformation. It started its transformation into Seven Star Qi.

7 blurry origin stars appeared around the core of his dantian, but they didn’t appear in the Big Dipper formation.

Regardless, they seemed to resonate with the worlds containing his Spirit Calming Vessels and the connection was formed between them. After all… Each of those vessels contained a strand of Shang Xia’s soul.

Unlike the strand of his soul that was branded into the Spirit Luxuriant World, the souls in the vessels were more like seeds that were nourished by the worlds they were placed in. They would strengthen his bond with them and assist in the breakthrough process and they were like lanterns guiding his growth. They would even directly affect his future.

With the realization, Shang Xia felt genuine joy and gratitude for the advancement method provided by the Crimson Soul Tablet.

With his soul transforming along with his breakthrough to the Seven Star Realm, the connection between his Spirit Calming Vessels continued to strengthen. He had a strange feeling that as long as he willed it, he would be able to summon them, regardless of the obstruction posed by the chaotic streams and the heavenly screens between the worlds and himself.

Of course, Shang Xia understood it was merely an illusion.

But he also had a strong intuition that as his cultivation continued to climb, perhaps achieving something like that wasn’t impossible! It just wasn’t possible for the time being.

Meanwhile, Shang Xia's body was also undergoing transformation. Abundant vitality filled every cell, and the most obvious change was his rapidly increasing lifespan. It eventually broke through the 1,000 year mark.

Not everything went smoothly as his physical body underwent its transformation. He felt a strong call from the Spirit Luxuriant World and the World’s Will urged him to return to become one with it.

No matter what, Shang Xia was born in the Spirit Luxuriant World and it was where he grew up. The World Origin Source had seen him as its own and it even showed signs of trying to absorb Shang Xia’s soul.

Even though he had the assistance of the 7 great suns and the 7 Spirit Calming Vessels, the urge was still present.

Moreover, that wasn’t just the calling of the world. Shang Xia’s soul also seemed to react instinctively to it, trying to get him to reconnect his karmic ties with the Spirit Luxuriant World.

As for the World Origin Source’s calling to absorb him… It was because he started the world ascension forcefully, igniting the World’s Will’s desire to grow stronger regardless of reason. The fastest way it would be able to continue growing was to devour Shang Xia.

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𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

As the transformation continued, Shang Xia started to trace the source of the connection between the faint origin stars in his dantian. Just as he turned his gaze in the direction of the Essence Ping World, a foreign Seventh Order energy descended into the Spirit Luxuriant World and locked on to his location.