Buzz!
Dense green smoke lingered in the spacious cave. At this moment, the green smoke was faintly fluctuating. That's because there was an increasingly powerful suction force being emitted from the depths of the cave. That suction force had tyrannically sucked the strands of green smoke away, as if it had turned into a green smoke vortex.
At the centre of the vortex was Mu Chen's figure that was quietly seated like a boulder. At this moment, his body seemed to have turned into a bottomless pit that was endlessly devouring the azure smoke that was surging over into his body.
Sizzle.
As the green smoke endlessly poured into his body, Mu Chen's skin grew increasingly scarlet-red. In the end, with a puff, his clothes turned into ashes and dissipated away.
But even if his clothes were torn to shreds, Mu Chen still did not move. There weren't any ripples on his face. That's because, at this moment, he had not only entered a deep level of cultivation, but he had also emptied his mind. His mind was blank, making him forget that he was still cultivating. Under that blank state, he was constantly visualising the lightning prison in his mind.
Rumble!
At this moment, Mu Chen's mind was extremely different from before. His mind was filled with endless darkness as violent thunderous roars frantically resounded.
Pffft.
Amidst the thunderous roars, there would occasionally be lightning streaking across the darkness as an oppressive and violent atmosphere spread throughout the darkness.
After experiencing innumerable failures, the lightning prison that Mu Chen had visualised finally had some scale.
Although it had yet to reach the stage of success, it was clear that.
At the very least, the embryonic form of the lightning prison was gradually taking shape.
Now that the embryonic form of the lightning prison was in place, what Mu Chen needed to do was to complete it. Since the lightning prison had already taken shape, then he needed to visualise the lightning that could be used to refine his will.
With a thought from Mu Chen, the lightning clouds in the darkness of the lightning prison suddenly churned as they rapidly rotated and rubbed against each other. As the lightning rubbed against each other, a thunderous roar abruptly rang out.
Thunder abruptly rumbled. There seemed to be something strange in the depths of the thunderclouds.
It was taking shape.
Rumble!
The rumbling of thunder grew more and more violent. All of a sudden, a loud explosion rang out. The thunderclouds were actually torn apart.
A bolt of lightning that was over a dozen feet thick shot out.
That bolt of lightning was extremely strange.
It appeared to be formless, but one could clearly sense its existence. As it roamed within the dark lightning prison, rumbling thunder roars continued to spread.
That bolt of lightning was the Nether Demon Heart Thunder!
In just one attempt, Mu Chen had successfully visualised the Nether Demon Heart Lightning.
This was all thanks to the fortuitous encounter of refining the Nether Demon Heart Lightning. After all, as the saying goes, one wants to draw a tiger.
If one did not even know what the tiger looked like, then it was naturally impossible to draw it. It was the same for visualization. If one had not even seen the Nether Demon Heart Thunder before, and had not experienced its characteristics, then the Nether Demon Heart Thunder that was visualized by imagination would definitely not look like anything, and would not be able to achieve the effect of truly tempering one's mind.
However, this was only a single Nether Demon Heart Lightning. It was clearly impossible to activate the lightning prison with just a single bolt. Therefore, Mu Chen needed to constantly visualise the Nether Demon Heart Lightning to completely fill up the lightning prison.
With this goal in mind, Mu Chen did not delay any longer and started to visualise again. Instantly, violent thunder roars once again rang out in the darkness of the lightning prison. As the thunderclouds rubbed against each other, formless lightning started to take shape.
Wanting to fill up the lightning prison was clearly not a small task. The amount of time required would definitely not be short. Therefore, in the following period of time, Mu Chen had sunk into the extremely dull visualisation of the Nether Demon Heart Lightning.
He emptied his mind, discarding all distracting thoughts. All his will was focused on visualising the Nether Demon Heart Lightning. When his will was exhausted, he would stop and enter into a deep slumber to recover. When his will recovered, he would once again start to create this huge task.
In his empty mind, time seemed to have completely stopped. Therefore, Mu Chen was completely unaware of the flow of time. He didn't know how much time had passed in the outside world. He only knew that he needed to continue visualising until the lightning prison was truly formed in his mind.
As for the concept of time, it had already been completely forgotten.
Time seemed to have frozen. Mu Chen didn't know how many times he had entered into a deep slumber to recover his will. Perhaps it was a thousand times, or perhaps even more.
If someone didn't have a firm will, they would have long been driven insane by this dull and dull visualisation. However, Mu Chen's years of bitter cultivation had finally played a crucial role at this moment.
With his tenacious character, he had forcefully endured the dullness. His patience had clearly paid off, and the reward was the lightning prison that was getting more and more filled up.
Rumble!
The scale of the dark lightning prison was indescribably huge at this moment. Lightning clouds were spreading out as the formless Nether Demon Heart Lightning whistled in the sky. That scene was like the arrival of doomsday. If such a scene appeared in the outside world, probably no one beneath the Earth Sovereign Realm would dare to casually enter.
After Mu Chen had spent a long time visualising the lightning prison, it had finally taken form. Furthermore, it had started to display the violence and ferocity of a lightning prison.
As Mu Chen's will wandered in the lightning prison, he could sense that as long as he willed it, the Nether Demon Heart Lightning in the lightning prison would start to attack his will, obtaining the effect of tempering it.
He had finally completed the most important step of cultivating the Nine Lightning Tribulation Visualisation Technique. Naturally, the next step was also extremely important.
That's because Mu Chen had to preserve this lightning prison. Otherwise, the moment his will retreated, the lightning prison would automatically dissipate. If he wanted to cultivate in the future, he would have to create it again.
After experiencing the difficulty of creating the lightning prison, Mu Chen understood that it was impossible.
That was obviously impossible. After all, he could not spend so much time and effort to recreate a Lightning Penitentiary every time he cultivated.
Therefore.
He had to complete the crucial step, which was to solidify the lightning prison in his mind. According to the Nine Lightning Tribulation Visualisation Technique, this step should be called 'Hell Transformation'.
It wasn't difficult to achieve this step. The creation of the lightning prison depended on Mu Chen's will.
It depended on Mu Chen's will. So as long as his will remained here, the lightning prison wouldn't disappear.
However, Mu Chen's will needed to return to his body in the end.
He couldn't stay here forever. If he did, his physical body would die. It wasn't difficult to solve this problem. All he needed to do was to separate his own consciousness.
He only needed to separate his will and leave one in the lightning prison.
All he needed to do was to maintain the lightning prison.
However, this method was rather ordinary, while the Nine Lightning Tribulation Visualisation Technique had its own unique method.
It was the 'Will Seed'.
It was a method that separated nearly half of one's will and turned it into a seed to guard the lightning prison. Generally speaking, this method was rather monstrous, because the separation of one's will would definitely weaken.
His will would inevitably be weakened, and this so-called "Will Seed" had actually directly separated nearly half of his will.
How much weaker would one's will be?
Although this method was monstrous, it was also wondrous. The 'Will Seed' left in the lightning prison would constantly be tempered by the lightning prison. In other words, even if the other half of Mu Chen's will did not enter the lightning prison, the 'Will Seed' he left in the lightning prison would grow stronger and stronger under the tempering of the lightning prison.
In the long run, this would undoubtedly be a very worthwhile investment. All that was required was a little boldness at the time.
However, Mu Chen clearly did not lack such boldness. Therefore, he did not hesitate to split his will into two!
When his will was separated, a terrifying pain spread out from his mind. In that instant, Mu Chen was unable to maintain this state and was nearly forced out of his mind by the intense pain. Fortunately, his willpower was pretty good. In the end, he endured the tearing pain and did not cause all his previous efforts to go to waste.
In the lightning prison, the half of Mu Chen's will that had been separated was hidden in the depths of a thundercloud. Then, it slowly gathered and took up residence.
Rumble!
Outside of the thunderclouds, lightning flashed and struck the half-curled will with a fixed frequency. Following the bombardment of the lightning, one could see that the will began to condense. After an unknown number of times of refinement, the half-curled will finally faintly transformed into an invisible thumb-sized ball.
The Will Seed was finally formed.
The remaining portion of Mu Chen's will looked at the Will Seed and sighed in relief. He could clearly sense that when the Will Seed was formed, the lightning prison seemed to have undergone a unique change. It was no longer as illusory as before.
"Has it succeeded?"
Mu Chen muttered to himself within his thoughts. With a thought, his thoughts started to dissipate. At the same time, the emptiness in his mind also retreated, bit by bit.
On the Sovereign Sea, Mu Chen's figure that was formed from Spiritual Energy, slowly opened his eyes that had been shut for god knows how long. When he opened his eyes, all the information that had been blocked in his mind surged over. His will had once again gained control of his body.
"I've cultivated for a month."
Sensing the information, Mu Chen felt relieved in his heart. In the world of his will, it felt as if several years had passed. But he never expected that it would only be a month in the outside world.
But fortunately, this boredom had finally paid off. He could sense that there seemed to be something extra in his mind. However, that extra thing wasn't tangible, and it was an extremely miraculous feeling.
"Mhm?"
When Mu Chen sensed the object in his mind, he suddenly exclaimed. His face was filled with astonishment. That's because he realised that after nearly half of his will was turned into a Will Seed in the lightning prison, his will was even more powerful than a month ago!
In just a short month, his will seemed to have greatly improved!
(To be continued …)