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Mo Yuming continuously adjusted the method of propelling his soul, driving the spiritual energy within the pen while simultaneously drawing the spiritual energy from the pen tip out of his body.

An hour passed quickly. Just as Mo Yuming was about to exhaust himself, a tiny red light appeared at the tip of the pen. This red light was sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and it was very unstable.

But Mo Yuming was very excited. He knew that he had taken another step forward, finally overcame that hurdle, and was one step closer to success.

Strike while the iron is hot, Mo Yuming disregarded the cost and quickly took out a drop of 'Water Essence' from his storage bag and put it in his mouth to restore his strength. The sacred treasure entered his throat and immediately transformed into pure energy to replenish Mo Yuming's body, instantly restoring his strength, which was on the verge of exhaustion. Even his invisible soul power was instantly restored, and Mo Yuming's mental state was restored to normal in a short time.

Finally, after a quarter of an hour, the red light from the pen tip turned into a flame about the size of a bean. Under Mo Yuming's control, this tiny flame slowly changed, from a sharp cone shape to a semi-circle, and then slowly became flat.

The flame's color changed from an initial bright red to a dazzling golden red, then to a brilliant white light, and finally to a blue light. The flame's temperature also changed with the color.

As dawn broke, the clear chirping of birds drifted in from outside the window.

Mo Yuming stood up and finished his practice. After a night of cultivation, he had finally mastered the use of the Spirit Gathering Brush. He had taken a crucial step in drawing runes. From now on, as long as he memorized the rune patterns, the order of drawing them, the requirements for the interweaving and matching of the patterns, and the processing after drawing them, he could try drawing runes himself.

As the morning sun shone on the mountaintop, Old Man Huo, Huo Chenggang, and Grandpa Dian and Grandpa Lei were already standing in their respective courtyards doing their morning exercises.

The spiritual energy brought by the first ray of sunlight in the morning is the purest, which is something that practitioners of profound arts do not want to miss. In particular, the fire element in the sunlight is especially precious to fire-type practitioners. Cultivating at this time is more beneficial and has the best effect than usual. Therefore, almost no practitioner of profound arts does not get up early to start their morning practice.

Mo Yuming stepped out of the courtyard and stood on the open ground to feel the pure fire element in the first ray of sunlight, naturally practicing the most basic method of absorbing and exhaling.

Open up all the acupoints in your body, allowing them to freely contact the five elements in nature. The Qi Sea in your Dantian is like a miniature universe, with each wisp of spiritual energy like a star. Countless such stars are revolving around the center of the Qi Sea. The center of the vortex is like a black hole that devours everything, continuously absorbing the spiritual power of the five elements into it.

Mo Yuming had never felt this way before. He felt as if his body had melted into the air and become part of everything around him. Apart from the slowly rotating black hole in his dantian, Mo Yuming could not feel anything else in his body.

As the black hole in the dantian rotates, the five elements around it gather on their own, swirling around the black hole, getting closer and closer, and finally being sucked into the black hole.

As more and more of the five elements converge, the vortex centered on the black hole in the dantian grows larger and faster.

Finally, a huge cyclone funnel was formed, and the surrounding spiritual energy was like water in a large vat. Suddenly, a large hole opened at the bottom of the vat, and the water in the vat flowed rapidly towards the hole at the bottom of the vat. This hole was the constantly rotating black hole in the dantian.

Mo Yuming was also surprised at this moment. Although he could not perceive his own existence, his divine sense was still there. With his powerful spiritual perception, he could clearly sense the changes in the spiritual energy around him.

At first, there was only a black hole the size of a bullet, and the surrounding spiritual energy was very thin. Gradually, the surrounding spiritual energy became more and more abundant and denser. As the black hole devoured spiritual energy faster and faster, the spiritual energy rapidly replenishing from the surrounding area formed a rotating eye of a storm, and the surrounding spiritual energy converged towards the eye of the storm faster and faster.

As the gathered spiritual energy became increasingly concentrated, it formed a ball of spiritual light. This light grew brighter and brighter, eventually becoming a dazzling sphere of light. Finally, it formed a massive, multicolored, radiant sphere of light, predominantly golden.

The commotion caused by Mo Yuming alerted several old men who were cultivating in the distance. They all stopped their cultivation and rushed over to watch.

Because of their low cultivation levels, Elder Huo and his nephew Huo Chenggang had no idea what was happening and could only watch in astonishment. Only Master Dian and Master Lei, who had already reached the Heavenly Rank, seemed to understand something, but they weren't sure. The two exchanged a glance and asked each other in unison:

"Hua Chen!?"

"You two esteemed elders, what is Hua Chen?"

Huo Chenggang asked curiously.

“We practitioners of Xuan Gong all know that when we first start cultivating, our dantian is empty. After continuous cultivation of the breathing techniques, spiritual energy will begin to gather in the dantian. At first, it is a thin mist, which we call the Qi Gathering Realm.”

That is, the initial stage of the human realm. As the cultivation level increases, the spiritual energy in the dantian accumulates more and more, and the concentration becomes higher and higher. The spiritual energy gathered in our dantian will turn into liquid due to its excessive density. When we observe the spiritual energy gathered in our dantian with our divine sense, it is like a microcosm of the ocean. This is what we call the Qi Sea Realm.

At this point, our cultivation of profound skills has advanced to the Earth Rank, and we call the spiritual energy gathered in our dantian the Sea of ​​Qi.

When the spiritual energy in the Qi Sea becomes denser, it will tend to solidify into crystals. When viewed from within, it resembles a shining star. This is a sign that one is about to advance to the Heavenly Rank, which we call the Transformation Star Realm.

However, breaking through from Earth Rank to Heaven Rank is different from advancing from Human Rank to Earth Rank. It cannot be achieved step by step. It requires an opportunity to comprehend the universe and, in a single day, the Qi Sea truly and completely solidifies into a solid.

Otherwise, no matter how dense the spiritual energy in the dantian is, it cannot be transformed into a solid. The transformation of the dantian into a star is a spectacular phenomenon that occurs when a person at the peak of the Earth Rank breaks through to the Heaven Rank. It is a process in which the dantian transforms into a star when a person at the peak of the Earth Rank comprehends the universe by chance during cultivation. During this transformation process, a huge amount of spiritual energy must be absorbed.

Because of the high concentration of spiritual energy, the light emitted by the gathering spiritual energy forms the scene before us. However, it varies from person to person, and the phenomena that occur when each person advances are not the same.

The scene I witnessed during my breakthrough wasn't this large; it was just a fireball about ten feet in size. This is because the spiritual energy that fire-type cultivators can draw upon is mostly fire elemental energy, so the breakthrough of fire-type profound arts practitioners usually presents a scene resembling a fireball.

"The young master primarily uses earth-based profound techniques, so when he breaks through to the Heavenly Rank, he should appear in this golden-yellow color," said Master Dian.

"But I feel that the scene when the young master advanced was different from the scene when we advanced!"

"That's what Lei Ye said."