Body of Ten Thousand Stars Second Layer
While the outside world was still busy speculating about who—or which force—was responsible for destroying thirty-two Prime One Church branch altars in just three days, Ian Song had quietly returned to the Lesser Sun Sect and chosen to go into closed-door cultivation.
Inside the Divine Temple's training room, Ian Song took out a jade box.
The jade box contained Frost-Soul Essences. According to Carl Yelson's description, these essences could strengthen both the body and the soul—they were a rare, innate Spirit Medicine in this world.
"Omniversal God-Eye!"
With a soft invocation, Ian activated the God-Eye. As his pupils shifted, a flood of information appeared in his mind: Frost-Soul Essence, a spirit-body creature, able to nourish, repair, and strengthen spiritual power, while also tempering the body and improving innate aptitude—though only effective for beings below the Immortal level.
"So this is the Frost-Soul Essence!"
A trace of joy appeared in Ian's eyes. Ever since he had mastered the Pill Condensation Technique, he not only gained the ability to directly refine pills, but also acquired a wealth of knowledge about Spirit Medicines.
Frost-Soul Essence was an extremely high-grade spirit-body medicine. When combined with three ordinary Spirit Medicines, it could be refined into a ninth-grade pill—the Frost-Soul Pill.
The greatest effect of the Frost-Soul Pill was to boost spiritual power, with the added benefit of tempering the body and improving innate aptitude.
With a thought, Ian opened his mouth and swallowed a Frost-Soul Essence. Instantly, a wave of icy energy spread through his body, splitting into two streams: the lighter stream rose up and drifted directly into his sea of consciousness, while the heavier stream sank into his flesh.
About two-thirds of the energy floated upward, while one-third sank into his body.
The rising energy quickly reached Ian's sea of consciousness and flew straight toward his Nascent Soul.
Without any need for further refinement, that power fused directly with his Nascent Soul. The other stream, sinking downward, spread into his muscles, bones, and meridians, slowly tempering and strengthening his flesh.
Body of Ten Thousand Stars!
Ian activated the body-forging art he’d inherited from the Stellar Divine King. As the technique ran, his body became like a parched sponge, madly absorbing the power inside him. In just half a quarter-hour, all of the energy was completely digested.
Ian pulled up his system interface and found that after absorbing one Frost-Soul Essence, his body-power had increased by about 800 points, and his spiritual power by about 10 points.
Next, Ian took out three types of Spirit Medicines and refined a Frost-Soul Pill using a Frost-Soul Essence.
With a push of Pill Condensation Technique, the Frost-Soul Essence and the three Spirit Medicines quickly fused together, forming a thumb-sized, crystal-clear pill that gave off a faint, refreshing fragrance.
He tossed the Frost-Soul Pill straight into his mouth.
The medicinal power dissolved inside him, once again splitting into two streams—one merging with his Nascent Soul, the other tempering his body.
Testing showed that the Frost-Soul Pill was more than twice as effective as consuming a Frost-Soul Essence raw; each pill could increase body-power by about 2,000 points and spiritual power by about 20 points.
After destroying so many Prime One Church branch altars, Ian's Storage Ring was overflowing with Spirit Medicines of all kinds.
So, he had more than enough auxiliary herbs to refine Frost-Soul Pills.
Thus, Ian spent the day refining Frost-Soul Pills with Pill Condensation Technique while swallowing them one after another. In just one day, he consumed over a thousand Frost-Soul Pills, boosting his spiritual power by more than 10,000 points.
His body-power soared to over a hundred thousand points.
Some might wonder—if each Frost-Soul Pill should increase body-power by about 2,000 points and spiritual power by 20, why did taking a thousand pills only boost his stats by a little over 10,000 spiritual power and a bit more than a hundred thousand body-power?
Don't forget, both spiritual power and body-power stats grow cumulatively, so by the time he reached a thousand pills, the amount gained from each additional pill had already become very small.
Plus, the human body develops drug resistance, so a thousand Frost-Soul Pills was already the limit—even if he took more, the gains in body-power and spiritual power would be extremely limited.
With more than nine thousand Frost-Soul Essences left and plenty of auxiliary herbs, Ian simply refined them all into over nine thousand Frost-Soul Pills.
A few days later, all nine thousand Frost-Soul Pills were finished. Even with his powerful spiritual power, Ian felt exhausted.
So he simply lay down in the training room and went to sleep.
He slept for three days and three nights straight.
When he finally woke up, he was once again full of energy—his spirit was more vigorous than ever, and he even felt a faint sense of invincibility. The main reason was that his body-power and spiritual power had skyrocketed after consuming all those Frost-Soul Pills.
He pulled up his system interface:
Host: Ian Song
Level: 21
Body-Power: 156,000 points
Spiritual Power: 16,000 points
Skills: Body Arts, Piano Master, Driving Mastery, Gun Master, Super Chef, Painting & Calligraphy Mastery, Eastern Medicine Mastery, Gambling Mastery, Language Master, Dance Master, Raging Tidal Surge, Thousand-Hands Strike, Ninefold Dragon Step, Whirlwind Thirty-Nine Kicks, Golden Needle Method, Fire-Arts Spellcraft, Primal Heaven-Crushing Palm, Wind God Art, World-Shaping Avatar.
Divine Abilities: Photographic Memory, Mastery Insight, Clairvoyant Vision, Radiance of Life, Spatial Stasis, Gravity Domain, Pill Condensation Technique, Puppet Mastery Divine Art, Omniversal God-Eye, Soul-Control Brand, Resurrection Divine Art, Beast-Taming Seal.
Cultivation Methods: Body of Ten Thousand Stars, Heavenbreaker Sword Art, Dragon-Phoenix Codex.
Item: Blood God Wings
Virtual World: Enabled
Reputation Points: 10.11 billion
Next lottery draw: 5 billion points.
The biggest changes were in the body-power and spiritual power stats. Originally, his body-power was just over 50,000, and his spiritual power was barely 5,000.
Once he leaves this world, his level should increase by at least ten ranks.
Meanwhile, his cultivation methods also changed—the old Origin-Nurturing Sutra, Azure Lotus Sword Codex, and Darkgold Physique were all removed.
The surge in body-power made Ian feel a strong sense of breakthrough with the Body of Ten Thousand Stars, something he hadn't felt in ages.
Closing the system interface, Ian sat cross-legged and began to activate the Body of Ten Thousand Stars manual.
As the Body of Ten Thousand Stars activated, stars lit up within him, resonating with those in the cosmos.
Time passed slowly, but Ian felt his flesh being continuously strengthened by the Body of Ten Thousand Stars. After an hour, his body radiated a soft jade glow, like a peerless treasure.
At the same time, his physical improvement stopped. He knew he had reached the point of breakthrough to the second stage of the Body of Ten Thousand Stars.
Boom!
With the cultivation method running smoothly, the star diagram inside him exploded, only to re-form into an even stronger constellation.
"The second stage of the Body of Ten Thousand Stars—achieved!"
Crackle!
Ian stood up, his body shaking. Instantly, a thunderous roar erupted from within as waves of power surged out.
Boom!
Ian threw a punch at the training room wall, causing the entire room to tremble slightly.
This training room was crafted by the Stellar Divine King—its toughness was such that even Immortals couldn't shake it. For Ian to make it tremble, even a little, was truly remarkable.
From this, Ian deduced that his physical strength had already reached the Fusion stage, even surpassing ordinary Fusion-level experts.