A month later, Miao Yi's slightly excited emotions calmed down once more. He realized that the rate at which he refined the Orbs of Will was no longer as fast as before. Even though he was still continuously absorbing the fire spiritual essences into his art source, it was no longer the same as before, where he could feel an obvious improvement every few days.
In the beginning, it only took him a dozen or so days to refine one orb, instead of seven days. Now, it took him more than a month to refine one orb every five days.
However, there was one thing that he was certain of. As long as he maintained the absorption of the fire spiritual essences and allowed his art source to shine even more brilliantly, the rate at which he refined the Orbs of Will would continue to increase.
A year later, the seven-petaled white lotus on Miao Yi's forehead once again unfurled a beautiful petal, looking as if it was alive.
With a slight smile on his face, Miao Yi slowly opened his eyes. He didn't expect that he would only need a year to break through to White Lotus Eighth Grade.
Originally, it would have taken him six to seven years to break through. Excluding the one year he spent cultivating in Mount Calming Sea and the three years he spent hiding and cultivating on the island, it only took him a little over a year to break through. His cultivation speed had more than doubled.
He silently closed his eyes and looked within himself. As expected, the number of Orbs of Will needed to break through to the Ninth Grade had doubled again. This meant that he would need about six hundred and forty orbs.
Currently, he had been meditating here for more than a year without eating. When he woke up from his cultivation, he felt a strong sense of hunger.
There was no one to take care of him here. When he was in East Arrival Cave and Mount Calming Sea, Qian'Er and Xue'Er would visit him regularly. When he was cultivating on the island, Qi Xiuhong would take care of him as well. But now, he had to rely on his transcendence energy to endure without eating or drinking for an entire year.
As soon as he retracted his transcendence energy, his bodily functions immediately became extremely weak. With his current cultivation, he clearly wasn't strong enough to abstain from eating.
He walked down from the throne and exited the grand hall. Once again, he climbed onto the round plate that resembled a jade Ruyi scepter and looked up at the exit.
The Supreme Fire Palace was surrounded by flames. It was always so bright. There was no night. The light that shone through the crystal walls into the grand hall was always so dreamy. However, he didn't know that the sun, moon, and stars were rising and falling outside.
After a year without anyone to disturb him. His restless emotions also calmed down.
Supreme Yao Lord Lie Huan hadn't returned to the Supreme Fire Palace for over a year now. Clearly, the rules of the Sea of Constellations Subjugation Crusade were binding on him. He probably wouldn't return until the Subjugation Crusade was over. This meant that... He still had five or six years of peace and stability.
He turned around and got off the disc. He threw some firewood and a pot in the small square and started cooking.
He boiled a thick soup and roasted a large skewer of meat.
She realized that she hadn't bathed for a year. Although she wasn't dirty, she couldn't bear the psychological barrier. She went to the back palace and went to the room where she had once torn her skirt. She took out an exquisite bathtub made of top-grade jade. There was a woman's enchanting body embossed on it.
He didn't know which woman it belonged to, but he had seen it in the house before. Now that he thought of it, he naturally wanted to borrow it.
Once the food was ready, he took out a large leather pouch from his storage ring and filled it with a large basin of water.
He couldn't find a water source in the Supreme Fire Palace. Fortunately, in preparation for the Subjugation Crusade, he had prepared enough resources for everyone to survive for ten years. Coupled with some of the spoils he had previously obtained, he didn't have to worry about living in the Supreme Fire Palace at all. If Supreme Yao Lord Lie Huan didn't want to return, he could easily stay here for twenty to thirty years.
He placed a board on top of the towering bathtub and laid out the food. There wasn't even a lack of fruits. There was no doubt that the storage ring was very good at keeping things fresh. After placing two jars of fine wine on the table, Miao Yi stripped off his clothes and soaked in the bathtub.
Eating and drinking while soaking in the bath felt pretty good. Miao Yi tossed the bones out of his mouth, and so did the cores of the fruits. He tossed the empty wine jar behind his head and smashed it to pieces.
The once clean, clean, and solemn Supreme Fire Palace square was instantly reduced to a mess. Bones, fruit cores, broken wine jars, and burnt firewood littered the ground.
Miao Yi didn't really care. There was a chance that he would die at Lie Huan's hands anyway. He wasn't here to clean up the Supreme Fire Palace anyway. If he could find a way to leave, he wouldn't mind helping Lie Huan clean up the place for the sake of saving himself some trouble.
Half a day later, Miao Yi had devoured over a hundred catties of food. He invoked his arts and compressed the food into his stomach. If he wanted to eat, he would eat as much as he wanted. This time, it would take a long time. He couldn't possibly come out every day to make food.
After eating and drinking his fill, Miao Yi soaked in the bathtub and took a good nap. Once his body was fully recovered, he invoked his arts and washed the bathtub and pot clean. He would have to use them again in the future. The dirty water flowed all over the floor.
Miao Yi then returned to the grand hall, sat down cross-legged on the throne, and continued cultivating.
The benefits of cultivating the Fiery Star Technique in the Supreme Fire Palace were indescribable. The speed at which he refined the Orbs of Will was increasing by the second. Even though the rate of improvement was slow, after a month, Miao Yi was ecstatic. It had completely overturned the way he calculated his cultivation progress in the past.
Six hundred and forty Orbs of Will were completely consumed after a year and a half, and the white lotus projection on his forehead unfurled its ninth petal.
It only took him a year and a half to break through from White Lotus Eighth Grade to White Lotus Ninth Grade. Even Miao Yi himself was shocked by his speed.
According to his calculations before he joined the Sea of Constellations Subjugation Crusade, it would have taken him at least a dozen years to break through from the Eighth Grade to the Ninth Grade. He thought this speed was already quite fast for cultivators of the same level, but he never expected it to be this fast.
It was only now that he realized the true terror of the Fiery Star Technique! Perhaps there were other cultivation techniques of the same grade that could increase one's cultivation speed, but the Fiery Star Technique he cultivated was the fact that it could continuously increase one's cultivation speed. No matter how powerful other people's cultivation techniques were, they would still need to break through to the next grade before they could increase their cultivation speed again. However, his Fiery Star Technique had no such limitations. As long as the conditions were right, he could constantly increase his cultivation speed.
"Ahhh …" Miao Yi raised his arms and roared, "Blue Lotus realm! Blue Lotus realm … "
He was only one step away from entering the next great realm, and it was within his reach, without any problems at all. It made Miao Yi feel that all the hardships he had suffered and all the hardships he had gone through were all worth it.
He quickly exited the grand hall and set up the pot to continue cooking and bathing. He didn't want to waste any time at all. He was eager to step into the realm he had always dreamed of. He had been stuck in the White Lotus realm for several decades now.
He really wanted to try out the Blue Lotus realm that had always suppressed him to the point where he couldn't even lift his head!
With the spear art that Lao Bai had taught him, the transcendent artifact that Yao Ruoxian had refined that could partially nullify attacks, and his Blue Lotus realm cultivation, Miao Yi would be able to face any cultivator below the Red Lotus realm single-handedly!
There was also the Mystic Yin Mirror. Only after reaching the Blue Lotus realm could the Mystic Yin Mirror be considered a true transcendent artifact!
Perhaps he could even use the Mystic Yin Mirror to help him escape from this place and avoid being caught by Supreme Yao Lord Lie Huan. As long as he could escape, he didn't believe that Supreme Yao Lord Lie Huan would be able to predict that he had been here.
Thus, he quickly left a pile of trash outside the grand hall and scurried back to his throne to confirm the number of Orbs of Will in his storage bangle.
The number of Orbs of Will required to break through from White Lotus Ninth Grade to Blue Lotus First Grade had doubled once again. He now needed 1,280 orbs, which was close to 1,300 orbs.
When he left Mount Calming Sea, he had left most of the Orbs of Will behind, only bringing around four thousand orbs with him.
Even though he had obtained quite a lot of Orbs of Will from the Red Scarves Alliance, they were pitifully few in number. There wasn't much left for everyone to divide among themselves. The main reason was that everyone didn't have the chance to cultivate in peace after coming to the Sea of Constellations. They only had a few left to replenish their transcendence energy, so a large number of Orbs of Will were useless in the Sea of Constellations. Thus, most people exchanged their Orbs of Will for items that could save their lives.
On the other hand, when he suddenly killed Zhao Lingtu and his fellow disciples, he managed to loot over two thousand Orbs of Will from Zhao Lingtu's body, as well as over three hundred Geotranscendence Bangles. He reckoned that Zhao Lingtu had looted them from other people as well.
At the time, he was so focused on escaping that he gave the Mountain Suppressing Hammer and Spirit Illusion Greatsword to Sikong Wuwei and Zhao Fei. The two of them were already satisfied and didn't want to share anything else with him. Thus, the Orbs of Will and other items that belonged to Zhao Lingtu and his fellow disciples were all in Miao Yi's hands.
In addition to the four thousand Orbs of Will that he had originally brought with him, he now had around 6,400 orbs in total. Excluding the nine hundred Orbs of Will he used to break through to White Lotus Ninth Grade in the Supreme Fire Palace, he still had around 5,500 orbs left.
With this, after using up 1,280 Orbs of Will to break through to Blue Lotus First Grade, he would still have around 4,000 orbs left. Even if he added in the two thousand five hundred and sixty orbs he used to break through to Blue Lotus Second Grade, it would still be more than enough. It would be impossible for him to break through to Blue Lotus Third Grade. He would need over five thousand Orbs of Will to break through to that level.
Miao Yi was glad that he had brought a few thousand Orbs of Will with him to the Sea of Constellations. Otherwise, he would have missed this opportunity.
After confirming that he still had some food in his hands, he quickly calmed down and entered a state of cultivation …
Outside the island of Skyfire Mountain, the sky was overcast with dark clouds. Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled, and the sea was raging with torrential winds and torrential waves. Not too far away from the island, a dragon steed and a giant octopus were locked in battle.
The dragon steed's eyes glowed with a bewitching red light as it tore at one of the octopus's tentacles. With a flick of its head, it tore off one of the octopus's tentacles with its sharp teeth. Then, it turned around and bit down on another tentacle. With a flick of its head, it tore off yet another tentacle. At the same time, it furiously kicked at the octopus's body with its four hooves as it fought furiously with the octopus in the sea.
It was easy to imagine how strong a dragon steed's legs were, let alone a dragon steed with a bewitching red light. This wasn't the giant octopus's first time hunting a dragon steed, but it didn't expect to encounter such a troublesome and ferocious dragon steed. Under the intense pain, the giant octopus's body was torn apart by the dragon steed's kicks. It quickly retracted its tentacles and dove deeper into the water.
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