Zhou Ru's journey to find her uncle continued. She didn't understand why her uncle left her. She wanted to find Wang Lin and ask him about the cause and effect.
At this moment, at the top of the mountain, all the celestial jades in Wang Lin's bag of holding were placed around him.
He sat in the lotus position and cleared his mind of all distracting thoughts. He focused on cultivating.
Right now, Wang Lin's cultivation had reached the peak stage of the Soul Formation stage and his domain had also reached the peak stage. Next, he was going to reach the Soul Transformation stage!
The Soul Transformation stage was an eternal pursuit for any cultivator.
Once a cultivator reached the Soul Transformation stage, their domain would become corporeal and their power would reach an unimaginable level. In addition, they could absorb celestial spiritual energy. Their spells would contain celestial spiritual energy and their power would be limitless.
In the ancient times, before the Celestial Realm collapsed, a Soul Transformation cultivator wasn't very eye-catching. But now, with the scarcity of celestial jades, a Soul Transformation cultivator could become an overlord.
The key to going from the Soul Formation stage to the Soul Transformation stage was the amount of celestial jades. The more celestial jades one had, the denser the celestial spiritual energy and the higher the chance of success.
Of course, becoming a Soul Transformation cultivator also depended on one's domain. If one's domain couldn't reach the peak stage, they would never be able to reach the Soul Transformation stage.
Understanding the heavenly dao was one of the most important aspects of becoming a Soul Transformation cultivator.
Wang Lin's domain had reached the peak stage, so his understanding of the heavenly dao was different from others. Ever since he saw that the messenger of the heavenly dao was an ancient god, he had a trace of doubt about the heavenly dao.
What was the heavenly dao … In Wang Lin's previous understanding, the heavenly dao was a law, just like the law of nirvana. It operated between the heavens and earth, just like the laws of mortals.
No one could replace the heavenly dao. Cultivators were only going against the heavens and walking out of the control of the heavenly dao. Very few people would think that they could replace or control the heavenly dao.
But now, after seeing the ancient god, Wang Lin's understanding of the heavenly dao had a subtle change.
There was a mystery in front of him. This mystery was very big and with his current understanding, he couldn't understand it in detail.
"The heavenly dao … interesting!" Wang Lin's eyes were calm, but there was a flash of light.
He took a deep breath, opened all the pores on his body, and absorbed the immortal energy in the surrounding immortal jade with all his strength.
Wang Lin had obtained a large amount of celestial jades from his trip to the Celestial Realm. These celestial jades were crucial for him to enter the Soul Transformation stage.
At this moment, a dense amount of Immortal Force gushed out furiously and tunneled into Wang Lin's body.
Compared to the previous times when he absorbed immortal power, the pain his body endured this time was much less. The immortal power entered his body and frantically squeezed the spiritual power that originally existed in his body.
The two different energies were like fire and water. With his body as the battlefield, they began a life and death battle.
The spiritual energy in Wang Lin's body was extremely vast. In the beginning, not much celestial energy flowed into his body. Under the impact of the spiritual energy, it immediately collapsed. However, as time passed, more and more celestial energy flowed into his body. At this moment, the spiritual energy was slowly unable to resist.
Although the total amount of spiritual energy far exceeds celestial energy, its quality is far inferior to celestial energy. A single strand of celestial energy is equivalent to all of a Core Formation cultivator's spiritual energy.
As a result, the spiritual energy inside his body was being pushed back.
When a Soul Formation cultivator breaks through to the Soul Transformation stage, there will be two changes to the spiritual energy inside their body. One, the spiritual energy will be forced out of their body and the only thing left inside their body will be celestial energy. As a result, their body will undergo the final change and they will break through to the Soul Transformation stage.
This method is relatively simple and is the method most cultivators choose. However, this method wastes all of the spiritual energy and they will need to cultivate and absorb it again. Not only is it very troublesome, but it will also cause their cultivation to become unstable during the early stage of Soul Transformation.
At the same time, this method requires the cultivator to go into closed door cultivation for 100 years after reaching the Soul Transformation stage.
The second method is to refine the spiritual energy so that its quality can reach the same state as celestial energy. This method is very difficult and requires constant refining.
However, once it succeeds, they will have a great advantage in the early stage of Soul Transformation. They won't need to go into closed door cultivation to reach the same level as others after 100 years of closed door cultivation.
The advantage of the second method is that it reduces 100 years of closed door cultivation and the speed of cultivation will naturally increase a lot.
Wang Lin chose the second method. After all, he didn't have time to go into closed door cultivation for 100 years.
The spiritual energy inside his body was squeezed by the celestial energy and slowly gathered in his dantian. The meridians outside his dantian were filled with celestial energy. This was a process of transforming the body. The celestial energy was like a millstone, slowly grinding away the spiritual energy inside Wang Lin's body and transforming it into celestial energy.
This process was very slow. In the blink of an eye, three months had passed.
Wang Lin still hadn't moved. Two-thirds of the celestial jades around him had turned grey and some had even shattered.
"Not enough …" Wang Lin suddenly opened his eyes. There seemed to be celestial spiritual energy inside his eyes. He looked like a celestial being and gave off an otherworldly aura.
Although the amount of celestial jades Wang Lin had couldn't compare to the amount that big sects had accumulated for generations, it was still a lot.
However, looking at it now, it was far from enough to reach the Soul Transformation stage.
The transformation in his body had only lasted to 1%. The spiritual energy inside his body was being squeezed and hadn't completely fused.
"No wonder there are so few Soul Transformation cultivators. The amount of celestial spiritual energy needed to reach the Soul Transformation stage is something that even big sects can't handle.
No wonder … "Wang Lin muttered to himself.
The Giant Demon Clan ancestor used the power of the entire clan and the celestial jades he obtained in the Chi Hu Celestial Realm to help him reach the Soul Transformation stage. This was the result of the large amount of celestial jades the Giant Demon Clan had when they moved to Suzaku.
In truth, the Giant Demon Clan ancestor could have reached the Soul Transformation stage many years ago, but he simply didn't have enough celestial jades, so it was delayed until now.
It has to be said that celestial jades weren't only used when reaching the Soul Formation stage. After reaching the Soul Transformation stage, celestial jades were used even more. They were used in battle, healing, and even refining treasures required celestial jades.
Rumor has it that in order to reach the Ascendant stage, one would need more than 10,000 times the amount of celestial jades needed to reach the Soul Transformation stage. The amount needed to reach the Ascendant stage was unimaginable.
In the entire cultivation world, the only place that produced celestial jades was the Celestial Realm.
After the collapse of the Celestial Realm and the disappearance of the celestial veins, the amount of celestial jades was very limited. As a result, it was easy to imagine how precious celestial jades were.
In the current cultivation world, the more time passed, the fewer high level cultivators there would be and the harder it would be to cultivate.
One month later, all of Wang Lin's celestial jades had shattered. There was no celestial spiritual energy left, so he had to stop absorbing them.
"The celestial jade pagoda contains a lot of celestial spiritual energy, but since I promised Zhou Yi to help him preserve the celestial corpse, I can't have any ideas about the pagoda …" Wang Lin pondered a bit, then he stood up and looked into the distance.
His divine sense swept across half of the moon. He had finished gathering 1% of the celestial spiritual energy and his divine sense had become a bit stronger.
"There should be a lot of celestial jades in the Soul Refining Sect … and the other sects must have some as well … I guess I'll have to steal some. I must reach the Soul Transformation stage." Wang Lin's eyes lit up and he disappeared.
Zhou Ru rode on her small body and walked listlessly on a plain. She couldn't see the end of the plain with a single glance.
"He left me here alone and went off to do who knows what. How infuriating."
Zhou Ru held a fruit in her hand and took a bite.
"Xiao Ru 'Er …" A familiar voice entered Zhou Ru's ears. Zhou Ru was startled and immediately turned around. She saw Wang Lin's smiling figure not far behind her.
"Uncle!"
Zhou Ru's face was filled with joy. She immediately jumped down from Xiao Bai and ran to Wang Lin's side. She threw herself into Wang Lin's arms.
Zhou Ru was no longer the little girl from before. She was now in her twenties.
"Uncle, where did you go? You left me here alone." Zhou Ru's eyes were red.
In Wang Lin's eyes, she was still a child. He gently patted Zhou Ru's head. Wang Lin had a complicated look in his eyes. He smiled and said, "Uncle went out to do some things. Now that it's done, do you miss your parents?
I'll take you home … "
Zhou Ru wiped away the tears on her face and happily said, "You're leaving? Good, good."
Wang Lin looked at Zhou Ru. He had watched her grow up, just like Daniu in the past.
He slapped his bag of holding and the pagoda flew out. When Zhou Ru saw the pagoda, she pouted and said, "Uncle, I remember when I was little, I almost starved to death in there …"
Wang Lin waved his right hand and a large amount of fruits from the moon appeared and piled up in the pagoda.
After Zhou Ru and Xiao Bai entered the pagoda, Wang Lin put away the pagoda and looked at the sky. At this moment, a black dot gradually appeared and turned into a mosquito beast.
It let out a roar and landed next to Wang Lin. It revealed a joyful expression and its large mouth kept rubbing Wang Lin's body. It was obvious that it missed him a lot.
"Come, let's go home!" Wang Lin patted the mosquito beast and jumped onto its back.
The mosquito beast let out a roar and charged into the sky.
In the sky, Wang Lin took out the star compass and put away the mosquito beast before flying toward Suzaku.
"Celestial jades, I want celestial jades!" Wang Lin's eyes flickered. The star compass was extremely fast and flew toward Suzaku like lightning.
The moon was not far from Suzaku. With the star compass's speed, Suzaku arrived before him in half a month.
Wang Lin was sitting on the star compass. When he saw Suzaku, he suddenly frowned. "Eh?"
He felt a powerful aura coming from Suzaku. This aura came from a giant plant made of black mist.
"This is … the Forsaken Immortal Clan!" Wang Lin's eyes became cold as he charged toward Suzaku with the star compass.
After breaking through the atmosphere created by Suzaku, the star compass descended like lightning.
Not far away from him, there were more than ten cultivators engaged in a life and death battle. He recognized one of them.