High Martial: I Grind Professions

Chapter 248: Chapter 160: Bright Moon Formed, Qingshi in Peril

It felt slightly heavy in his hand, a familiar sensation.

There was no earth-shattering eruption; Li Wen just stood quietly.

His consciousness sank into his Dantian, and the domain of his Blade Soul unfurled around him.

Then, he began to practice some of the exquisite basic blade control skills from the Profound Dome Rainbow Silence Chapter.

The blade flashed to life!

First, its movements were incredibly slow. Every inch of its trajectory was clearly visible, the edge seeming to drag an immense weight as it pushed through the air. It emitted a low boom like muffled thunder, a testament to its incredibly condensed power.

This was control at the very limit of his strength.

Immediately after, the blade’s light abruptly accelerated, transforming into a dazzling cascade of purple and silver light.

Countless blade shadows, as swift as thunderbolts, crisscrossed the training ground. They overlapped in layers, yet every slash landed with absolute precision on its intended path, never missing its mark.

The air hissed as it was rapidly sliced apart.

Then, the flow of his blade changed again! At times, it was like the Star River of the Nine Heavens pouring down, vast and majestic. At others, it resembled a single ray of light piercing the dark night—condensed to its absolute limit, silent yet possessing ultimate penetrating power.

The flashing blade shifted between the corporeal and the ethereal, moving with an elusive rhythm, as if rehearsing some subtle connection between space and time.

Finally, he brought his blade to a halt and stood still.

All the turbulent Blade Intent, surging True Essence, and the vast power of his Primordial Spirit were instantly withdrawn, as if they had never existed.

Only the fine, crisscrossing scratches on the training ground’s floor and the faint, lingering ripples of energy in the air testified to the intensity of the practice session.

The entire blade practice session lasted about half an hour.

Li Wen wasn’t pushing himself to the limit. He was simply making careful adjustments, allowing his essence, qi, and spirit to resonate in harmony, bringing every inch of his body and every wisp of his True Essence to its optimal state.

Once he finished, Li Wen gave his wrist a light flick.

SHIING! The practice longsword flew backward with incredible precision to its original spot on the weapon rack, coming to a perfect, motionless rest.

Without the slightest hesitation, he turned and walked toward the passage leading to the meditation chamber.

The meditation chamber was sparsely furnished, with only a meditation cushion and a small Power Supply Array.

Li Wen sat cross-legged on the cushion. He raised a hand and took a pill from a small storage artifact. It was the size of a pigeon’s egg, wreathed in a haze of purple qi and starlight—the Bright Moon Realm-Breaking Pill.

He swallowed it without hesitation.

The pill melted the moment it entered his mouth. An immense, unstoppable torrent of energy—cool yet domineering—instantly erupted, sweeping throughout his entire body before surging into the Sea of Qi in his Dantian.

Daring not to delay, Li Wen immediately began circulating the breakthrough Secret Technique from the final, Ninth Layer Chapter of the Nine Heavens Divine Body.

As the Heart Method activated, the True Essence in his body immediately began to circulate at high speed, like elite soldiers receiving a command from their king.

The vast True Essence formed a huge, outward-spiraling vortex of power centered on his Dantian.

At the same time, within his sea of consciousness, the halo of his Third Layer of Primordial Spirit blazed with light. Spiritual Power radiated from his body, firmly controlling the flow of energy to ensure it surged along its predetermined path.

The Star Core at the center of his Dantian represented the Peak of Flying Star Stage. Now, under the combined influence of the Heart Method and the pill’s energy, it began to transform violently.

The originally stable, condensed Star Core, which slowly rotated like a miniature star, began to expand, soften, and deform under the dual impact of the immense energy and the profound Heart Method.

Like refined iron in a furnace melting into liquid metal, brilliant starlight and purple Thunder Fiend intertwined as they radiated from within.

Immediately after, the liquid energy core began to contract inward and reshape itself.

Under the dual guidance of True Essence and Spiritual Power, its form gradually stretched and extended... until it finally converged and solidified into a perfectly arced crescent moon, its light contained within.

The crescent moon formed the arc of a quarter circle, its two ends as sharp as hooks, its curve both elegant and powerful.

Its entire body was a deep purple-gold, with countless tiny silver lightning patterns flowing across its surface. At its core, it seemed to hide a hyper-compressed galaxy, where specks of starlight flickered in and out of existence.

After forming, the crescent moon did not remain still.

It slowly rotated in the center of Li Wen’s Dantian with a steady, inexorable rhythm.

With each rotation, the space within his Dantian seemed to be expanded and consolidated by an invisible force, becoming more vast and sturdy.

A vast, boundless True Essence, characteristic of the Bright Moon Realm, began to flow ceaselessly from the crescent moon. It washed over his entire body, merging with his purple-gold Divine-Demon Body from the inside out, initiating a deeper level of integration and reinforcement.

The entire breakthrough process lasted for more than an hour.

The purple-gold crescent moon finally stabilized, floating in the center of his Dantian. It ceased its violent flickering and settled into a constant, steady rotation.

An aura far more powerful and vast than before emanated from deep within Li Wen’s body, instantly filling the entire meditation chamber.

’I’ve done it! The Bright Moon Realm!’

Li Wen felt neither joy nor sorrow, only the calm understanding of a success that had come as a matter of course.

He slowly opened his eyes. A purple glint flashed through them before vanishing, making them appear even deeper and more reserved.

He immediately looked inward, inspecting his body.

The total amount and density of his True Essence had skyrocketed by nearly three times compared to when he was at the Peak of Flying Star Stage!

Moreover, its flow was smoother, it contained a higher level of energy, and it carried a hint of the cold, heavy, and domineering nature of the Bright Moon Realm.

Every flow of True Essence seemed to resonate faintly with space itself.

His sea of consciousness was vaster and brighter. The light of his Third Layer of Primordial Spirit was more condensed and brilliant. His range of perception had increased exponentially, and his fine control over himself and his surroundings had reached a new level.