Chapter 33

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That was the omen of the seventh white line appearing!

Even with his eyes closed, Bai Shi could feel the changes around his fist. In his consciousness, he sensed that before the sixth white line had even completed, the seventh white line had suddenly appeared!

Generally, when cultivators break through, each stage brings some pain, let alone when breaking through several levels at once.

The appearance of the seventh white line indicated that even if he became a Seventh Stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, Bai Shi was very clear that this was a bottleneck. If he could endure the pain and push through, he might become a Seventh Stage Foundation Establishment cultivator with a bottleneck in one night. If he couldn't push through, not only would he not reach the Seventh Stage, but he might not even touch the bottleneck of the Sixth Stage Foundation Establishment for a long time!

He could roughly guess that this situation might be due to the spiritual energy from the ancient tree inside the tree hollow. Now, the spiritual energy of this ancient tree had been extracted by his consciousness from the trunk. If he gave up at this moment, the spiritual energy from the ancient tree would dissipate into the void in a short time.

As Bai Shi's consciousness continued to output, the spiritual energy from the ancient tree kept pouring into his body. The numerous spiritual energies swirled around his body, like shuttles, using his body as a barrier. As they penetrated this human flesh barrier, Bai Shi's body endured a tearing-like pain at every moment.

As the intense pain gradually intensified, the sixth and seventh white lines continued to slowly extend. If from the starting point to the end point, they actually circled around Bai Shi's fist and returned to the starting point, forming a white line circle.

At the moment when the intense pain intensified, sweat beads the size of soybeans appeared on Bai Shi's forehead. These sweat beads came from the pain transmitted by his body and also from the determination and endurance revealed by his trembling lips!

Leaves on the ground danced as the spiritual energies continued to shuttle through Bai Shi's body. The speed of the spiritual energies' shuttling became faster and faster, and in the blink of an eye, they were like arrows, with Bai Shi as their target.

It seemed that every cell in his body was jumping rapidly, producing intense stabbing pain!

A mysterious strong wind arose outside the tree hollow, circling around the ancient tree, making the leaves on the ground surround the ancient tree like a vortex.

The strong wind blew into the tree hollow, blowing away Bai Shi's black hair and lifting the only withered grass inside the tree hollow. These withered grasses rampaged inside the cave but were ultimately carried out of the tree hollow by the invisible force that burst forth.

The white fox raised its head and looked at the floating Bai Shi. At this moment, it no longer felt any fear from the powerful force, but rather a hint of curiosity and excitement in its deep blue eyes.

Time passed quietly amidst the endurance and persistence, and it was already deep into the night. The strong wind outside the ancient tree continued to rage, and some branches of the ancient tree, having lost their spiritual energy, eventually withered and, under the strong wind, made creaking sounds before dancing in the wind.

As dawn was about to break, the intense pain seemed to have reached its limit. But this limit was not the first for Bai Shi; the first time was when he took the He He Powder in the stone forest.

Therefore, this pain was not just about endurance for Bai Shi; it was more about the harvest!

His tightly closed eyes did not open, even though the slightly bitter sweat had seeped through the gaps in his eyelids and into his eyeballs, causing great discomfort. But Bai Shi, whose body was floating in mid-air, seemed to be waiting for a moment.

His consciousness was filled with the illusion of spiritual energy pouring in, and within this illusion, he saw the seventh white line about to connect!

"I must pass this hurdle!"

At a certain moment, a resolute thought flashed through Bai Shi's mind. His trembling lips were no longer trembling but were clenching his teeth, and fresh red blood seeped from between his teeth, looking quite ferocious.

Even the sweat beads on his forehead, at this moment, seemed to carry a hint of blood as they penetrated his pores!

As the sweat beads carrying blood dripped, a vague illusion appeared around Bai Shi's body. This illusion appeared in his consciousness, making him involuntarily concentrate, and his tightly closed eyes suddenly opened. The moment the sweat beads dripped onto his fist, his tightly clenched fist suddenly opened, and a powerful force erupted from his body, creating a sound like an explosion in the void, causing the space around him to tremble!

"Soul!"

As the buzzing sound echoed, Bai Shi's eyes seemed to gain a hint of vitality. His floating body did not fall to the ground when he opened his eyes. Instead, after a light shout, he clenched his fist again.

At the moment he clenched his fist, it seemed to be activating some mysterious law of heaven and earth, making the buzzing sound echo again. The sixth white line had already formed, and the seventh white line, in that instant, became a complete white line circle.

Even though he was now a Seventh Stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, Bai Shi did not feel overly excited. Even with his eyes open, his gaze did not fall on the surrounding objects but focused on the subtle changes in the illusion within his consciousness!

That was the soul, Bai Shi knew clearly!

This was the first time Bai Shi saw this vague illusion, which meant that he was about to have his own soul.

Bai Shi remembered that when a cultivator's strength reached a certain level, they would have their own soul. If this soul was catalyzed, their strength would be several times greater! Just like the difference between a Dongxuan Realm and a Ninth Stage Foundation Establishment.

It was an illusion, and Bai Shi, immersed in his consciousness, could see it clearly. But what he saw was just an illusion, not a physical entity. He could not see the features on the illusion, only a transparent existence, like a concentration of energy, or glass...

Following the output of his consciousness, Bai Shi tried to make the illusion more substantial, as if he were carving out his own soul!

The facts proved everything. Following Bai Shi's consciousness, the originally shapeless illusion gradually took on a form. The form was not clear, very vague, but it was there.

The illusion was the same size as Bai Shi's body. Under his consciousness, it emitted a faint white light, which was the initial color of a cultivator's soul. In Xichen Village, Bai Shi had seen records about souls in the books.

"At this moment, this soul within my consciousness... cannot exert its power. I must catalyze it!"

In his consciousness, Bai Shi's heart pondered, and he suddenly opened his eyes, which gained a hint of vitality. In an instant, he raised his hand, and a force roared through the tree hollow. His fingers lightly flicked, as if activating some law of heaven and earth, but in reality, he used his consciousness to take out the soul-stimulating grass from his storage bag.

A series of actions, if they happened in the blink of an eye, the soul-stimulating grass landed on Bai Shi's fingertips and did not fall but floated.

At the same time, Bai Shi did not hesitate at all and swallowed the soul-stimulating grass on his fingertips.

His eyes contained determination, even with some bloodshot, but this was not entirely from the determination and persistence in his heart; more so, it was from the pain he was enduring!

Bai Shi's expression involuntarily changed, as the bitterness of the soul-stimulating grass was almost unbearable. This bitterness seemed to penetrate every cell of his body, seeping into every drop of blood. However, there were no side effects, only bitterness. In return, there was a change in his soul within his consciousness!

Pulling himself back into his consciousness, as if forgetting the original bitterness, Bai Shi could clearly see that the soul within his consciousness was no longer transparent. The outline became clearer, and the white light became more glaring, like a carving. The illusion gradually turned into a physical entity, and in a short while, it formed a person identical to Bai Shi!

Only this person's eyes lacked vitality, and the body was motionless, seemingly without any color. The only prominent feature was the glaring white light, which seemed to contain immense power, making Bai Shi, within his consciousness, feel an inexplicable pressure, a pressure so strong that he had a moment of breathlessness!

Even so, Bai Shi, within his consciousness, suppressed this feeling. As he raised his hand, it seemed that he used his consciousness to control an invisible force, which catalyzed the soul within his consciousness.

As this invisible force was output, the soul, which had been motionless within his consciousness, finally began to move.

With the help of the soul-stimulating grass, as the medicinal power shuttled through the cells of his body, catalyzing the soul was not difficult for Bai Shi.

As the soul moved, within Bai Shi's consciousness, it seemed to create waves of energy, with a rumbling sound echoing, like an earthquake.

It was precisely because Bai Shi's soul was moving that a faint white light appeared around his body. As more and more white light appeared, in an instant, the entire tree hollow was illuminated like daylight, and some bright white light even burst out of the tree hollow, making the white fox, which was guarding, instinctively retreat a few meters, its eyes full of shock.

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