Bamboo Mound

The next morning, Ning Chang stood in front of the bamboo wall and practiced controlling spirits.

He devised a plan for himself: each time he became proficient, he would multiply the number of units he could control simultaneously until he had mastered the operation of the massive units.

Simultaneously manipulate bamboo leaves and paths of different sizes.

He thought that in the battle, he needed to confuse the enemy with whole bamboo leaves; and many smaller fragments of varying sizes mixed in with the whole bamboo leaves to mislead the enemy into thinking they were the main attack method; and the truly main bamboo leaf "dust" responsible for entering the enemy's body.

Each bamboo leaf can be divided downwards, eventually shrinking into smaller pieces of roughly the same size.

Before we knew it, half a month had passed.

For the past two weeks, he has been practicing spirit control every day, spending his days between the bamboo wall and his bed.

But the result was satisfactory; he has now basically achieved his initial goals.

He can manipulate a huge number of bamboo leaves to move swiftly through the bamboo wall without touching a single one.

At the same time, he uses the Azure Cloud Step to dodge. He can now condense spirit patterns in less than half a breath, and then he only needs to keep supplying spiritual power to move continuously!

However, this would cause his spiritual energy to be consumed rapidly, and it would be completely exhausted in less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.

Most of them are used for Qingyun Step. As for spirit control, apart from the spiritual power used when it is first attached, there is no need to draw out any more spiritual power.

"There are still about ten days until the sect competition. Should we go and join in the fun?"

He came to his senses. "Now that I've mastered Spirit Control and Azure Cloud Steps, and there's nothing else, let's continue cultivating."

After swallowing a Spirit Gathering Pill, Ning Chang grasped the spirit stone and began cultivating.

After a while, Ning Chang opened his eyes with a slightly disappointed look.

"Too slow," he muttered.

He had completely exhausted the spiritual energy in his body. After cultivating a Spirit Gathering Pill, the spiritual energy in his body was as thin as a thread, less than one-tenth of what it used to be.

"This can't go on; we need to find a quick solution."

He lowered his head and thought.

"The spiritual energy provided by the Spirit Gathering Pill is now far from sufficient, and its effect on accelerating the absorption of spiritual energy has been greatly reduced."

He had anticipated this situation, but he didn't expect it to happen so quickly, with the number of Spirit Fusion Realm cultivators decreasing dramatically!

"After absorbing one spirit stone, I advanced from Spirit Gathering to Spirit Fusion. After advancing to Spirit Fusion, my spiritual power only accounts for 20% of my total meridians. In other words, I need five spirit stones to fill my meridians now!"

At his previous pace, it would take him two whole days to absorb one spirit stone, which means it would take him ten days to fully recover his spiritual power!

"The issue now is simply the absorption speed. Even if we waste the acceleration effect of the Spirit Gathering Pill and swallow it all at once, the spiritual power it provides will not be much more than that of a spirit stone."

Looking at the spirit stone in his hand and the small bottle containing the Spirit Gathering Pill, he remained silent for a moment, when a strange idea suddenly popped into his mind.

As if possessed, he picked up the spirit stone and swallowed it. The finger-sized stone slid smoothly into his stomach without any obstruction.

He immediately began to refine the Azure Cloud Technique.

As soon as the spirit stone entered Ning Chang's stomach, it began to release spiritual energy in all directions. However, since it was inside Ning Chang's body, all of this released spiritual energy was absorbed by the meridians around Ning Chang.

It will be several times faster than before right from the start!

Previously, he only absorbed from the front of his dantian; but now, all the meridians in his body are absorbing the spiritual stones within him!

As the dried-up meridians began to flow with wisps of spiritual energy, the spirit stones dissipated faster and faster, drawn by the flow of spiritual energy, forming a vortex in the opposite direction!

He continuously circulated the Azure Cloud Technique while absorbing spiritual energy from the outside world. Although the amount was small, it was only comparable to that of spirit stones.

.........

He only exhaled and opened his eyes after the entire spirit stone had dissipated.

Looking at the sky, which was almost the same as before he started cultivating, he looked puzzled.

"That can't be right, is it being absorbed that quickly?"

He called out to Xiao Li and asked, "How long have I been cultivating?"

"About a day," Xiao Li replied. "From yesterday morning when you started cultivating until now."

Ning Chang's eyes widened, his face filled with disbelief. "A day? I feel like it's only an hour at most!"

He suddenly realized that he seemed to have found a way to quickly restore his spiritual energy, and that was not all...

"The day has passed by so quickly," he remarked.

I secretly checked my body and found that I didn't feel any discomfort.

"I don't even need to sleep anymore, and I don't feel tired at all from staying up late."

He hesitated. Sleep was originally a necessary activity for restoring mental and physical health, but now it seemed...

He instructed Xiao Li to write this down so that he could ask him about it again later.

After swallowing four more spirit stones and a bottle of Spirit Gathering Pills, he closed his eyes and began to focus on cultivation.

As soon as the Spirit Gathering Pill entered the mouth, it transformed into a small stream of spiritual energy that entered the meridians, while the spirit stone, taking advantage of the pill's medicinal effects, began to release four inverted vortexes.

........

As he calculated, after the four spirit stones were fully absorbed, his meridians were filled, and he only felt a slight swelling.

"Hmm, that's good, but we still need to try to find other methods. Although there will be no residue after the spirit stone is absorbed, it is still a stone after all. It's too strange to eat a stone."

He rubbed his temples and looked at the sky around him. He already had a guess in his mind, but he still called Xiao Li over to confirm.

"It's still about a day, from yesterday afternoon to noon today."

After receiving Xiao Li's reply, Ning Chang finally confirmed it.

"The time required to absorb multiple spirit stones at the same time is almost the same as that for a single spirit stone, and under the influence of the Spirit Gathering Pill, it can be accelerated by one to two hours."

Ning Chang's face beamed with joy, which meant that his cultivation and recovery speed had reached a new level!

After pausing for a moment, he began to study the new method of absorbing spiritual energy. After all, if he could, he would rather not eat stones, even pure stones without any impurities.

He took out a spirit stone and placed it in his palm. He tried to guide the flow of spiritual energy from the entire surface of the spirit stone, imitating the spiritual energy vortex generated by the spirit stone when it was inside his body.

Because it was his first attempt, he lost control and some of the spiritual energy began to dissipate. He quickly stopped and absorbed the dissipated spiritual energy back.

"Now I understand why the other disciples said they couldn't absorb all the spirit stones."

Ning Chang took a deep breath and started trying again, but this time, he chose to proceed slowly.

He first guided three streams of spiritual energy to swirl around the spirit stone, using these three streams to attract the spiritual energy within the stone to slowly dissipate, and then they were drawn together to form a small, slow vortex of spiritual energy.