Chapter 4134 — The Uses of the Star Ink Stone
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Heh heh, Di Xingdao is one of the few true experts on Middle Island. With him personally guiding your charge at the Golden Core, how could anything go wrong? He is human, I am a spirit beast—in such matters, naturally his word carries the most weight. Besides, what he cultivates is the Creation Battle Art, a thing I've never even touched. I've no say in it at all." The Ghost Thing chuckled with a *heh heh*.
"Then... I'll begin preparing for the breakthrough now," Wei Zhao said with a nod, his voice grave.
"Hold on. On the matter of the Creation Battle Art I can't speak, but as for how the Star Ink Stone should be used, what he said was not the whole of it. If you follow his instructions, it's not that it won't work—but you certainly won't draw out the Star Ink Stone's full effect," the Ghost Thing suddenly cut in.
"Oh?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback. What Di Xingdao had told him was that the Star Ink Stone contained the power of meteor and star, and that so long as one absorbed it during the breakthrough, the golden core one condensed afterward would be far more solid and resilient than those of other Golden Core cultivators—stronger by a wide margin in both attack and defense than others of the same rank.
"You can hardly blame Di Xingdao for telling it incompletely. The Star Ink Stone is matchlessly rare, and as a human cultivator, it's remarkable enough that he knows as much as he does. It's just that by his method, at best you'd develop half its effect—that doesn't count as a perfect breakthrough," the Ghost Thing said.
"Then what would count as a perfect breakthrough?" Wei Zhao asked quickly.
"Naturally, you must draw out the Star Ink Stone's full power for it to be a perfect breakthrough. Rare as this stone is as a meteor from beyond the heavens, it is a union of that meteor and the boundless sea. Within it lies not only the power of the stars, but the power of the sea as well!" the Ghost Thing explained.
"The power of the sea?" Wei Zhao was startled. "The power of the stars can make a golden core more solid and resilient, but what use is the power of the sea?"
"The sea—when still, it embraces all things; when stirred, its waves swallow the sky. So the power of the sea can give your golden core more variables, more possibilities. And more crucially still, it can make your divine sense far purer and more powerful than that of others of your rank!" The Ghost Thing paused, then went on: "If the power of the stars is what adds hard strength to your golden core, then the power of the sea adds soft strength. Only with both hard and soft together is it a perfect breakthrough."
"I see. Then how am I to absorb this power of the sea? Is it the same as absorbing the power of the stars, gathering it with true qi?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Of course not. The power of the sea is not as rigid as the power of the stars—true qi can't grasp it. You must gather it with your divine sense," the Ghost Thing instructed. In matters of the primordial spirit, he was a grandmaster among masters.
Only then did Wei Zhao see the light. He at once began his secluded breakthrough under the Ghost Thing's guidance, leaping ranks to charge at the Golden Core stage!
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Middle Island, the Cultivator Academy.
On Middle Island, apart from the great sects and powers coiled there like dragons and tigers, there stood another force of exceedingly transcendent standing: the Cultivator Academy.
Across all of Middle Island, the Cultivator Academy was beyond question the highest-tier academy of them all. Nearly every core disciple of the great sects would come here during the Golden Core stage to gild themselves. R1152