571 Breakthrough!

While Lin Mu had spoken those words lightly, the Wild Man had still managed to hear them clearly. His ears perked up as he forced his body to move in response. But then he heard the pain filled grunt of Lin Mu.

"Huh? What's happening?" The wild man could not help but say.

He lifted his head and saw Lin Mu who had fallen on the ground. He seemed to be relatively uninjured except for his right hand, so he couldn't tell why Lin Mu was in pain.

'Was the last technique he used perhaps a sacrificial technique? Yes! That must be it! No other technique should be able to create that 'energy' otherwise.' The Wild man thought.

~Shua~

~Shatter~

But then a powerful aura flared from Lin Mu's body.

"WHAT!? HOW?" The wild man exclaimed.

A vortex of spirit Qi formed around Lin Mu as his body started to float in the air.

"He's having a breakthrough? But this is a Nascent Soul realm breakthrough? Why's there no heavenly tribulation?" The wild man said out loud, feeling utterly confused.

He observed Lin Mu for a bit more and saw the amount of spirit Qi in the air increasing more and more. Soon the spirit Qi had become condensed enough that a mist had spread around. The spirit Qi concentration in this minor plane was already five times more than the ripple mist sect's ambient spirit Qi, but now with the breakthrough as a trigger the amount only kept on increasing.

~Rumble~

The loud sound of heartbeats came from Lin Mu's body as they resonated with the spirit Qi in the air. With each beat, the spirit Qi would create a wave.

Wave by wave, beat by beat, Lin Mu's cultivation soared!

The brown armor on Lin Mu's body was instantly restored to the optimum condition before glowing even more. Lin Mu's Dantian was undergoing an even greater change. The shattered core had given birth to a tiny infant.

The infant was translucent and had features similar to that of Lin Mu. But there was a unique thing about him. There was a small silver ring with five spurs on its right hand's middle finger. It was the very same mysterious ring that Lin Mu wore!

~ROAR~

Suddenly the illusory figure of a large bear appeared in Lin Mu's Dantian. It had long claws that looked like daggers and had a unique triangular pattern on its chest. Its fur was brown while the patterns on it were black.

This was none other than the Great Slumber Bear!

The illusory figure of the Great Slumber Bear grew bigger and bigger, till it overlapped Lin Mu's body.

~ROAR~

The illusory figure of the Great Slumber Bear raised its head up to the sky and let out a roar, shaking the lands, and making every beast in the forest shiver. The wild man also saw the illusory figure of the Great Slumber bear and felt terror within his heart.

He could tell that the beast was no common beast. Just from looking into its eyes, he felt his bones quiver. He had felt such fear in his clan's training grounds before. They had illusory arrays that were able to replicate the auras of beasts. This let the clansman train their will and courage.

The wild man had gone through multiple levels of the formation array and had reached the very final level which contained the recorded aura of the strongest beast their clan had ever encountered. That was the level where the wild man had failed to complete.

"I-Immortal beast!" The wild man spoke with shock in his voice.

~gulp~

The wild man swallowed his saliva as he kept on looking at Lin Mu without missing a second. He did not even dare to blink, for the fear that he would miss out on something important. He couldn't help but recall his own breakthrough to the Nascent Soul realm.

Back then he had to survive four bolts of tribulation lightning before he was able to successfully breakthrough. But here was Lin Mu, breaking through to the Nascent Soul realm without any such obstacle.

The concentration of spirit Qi kept on increasing in the air as the mist got even denser. After five minutes though, it had reached a saturation point.

~drip~

~drip~

~drop~

The wild man extended his palm and saw the translucent water on it. His eyes widened as he looked up at the cloudless sky.

"S-Spirit Qi? Liquid spirit Qi? A rain of spirit Qi?" The Wild man muttered in disbelief.

Such a phenomenon was unheard of to him. He had seen the sacred grounds of his clan where the sprint Qi could form a thick mist like there was here in this minor plane, but spirit Qi rain? That was not possible according to his knowledge.

When a cultivator wanted to refine liquid spirit Qi they had to compress the spirit Qi wisps many times in their meridians and Dantian. It was a grueling task and needed to be done specifically in the condition of the Dantian.

The only other mode in which spirit Qi could be seen naturally was in the form of spirit Qi springs. But those were very different from this. They were formed over many centuries and needed unique conditions to do so. Not like now when the rain was spontaneous.

Just the amount of spirit Qi that was currently raining down right now was probably enough to make even a Dao treading realm cultivator jealous.

"What the hell am I doing?" the wild man realized his stupidity before quickly sitting down cross legged and absorbing the spirit Qi.

His body was like a sponge, as it soaked in all the liquid spirit Qi around him. But compared to Lin Mu he was nothing.

If the wild man was like a sponge, then Lin Mu was like a vacuum. The liquid spirit Qi directly formed a floating stream around him as it started to pour into his body.

~Honglong~

The rain of liquid spirit Qi continued to get stronger as all life in this minor plane rejoiced.