Chapter 669 - 417: Mental Realm and Saber Aura

Duan Rong rested for a while before sitting cross-legged on the large green stone.

In the exchange of breaths, his divine thought focused, skillfully pinpointing the indistinct moment of transition in his breathing.

With a wave of dizziness and blurriness, the next moment, Duan Rong had already appeared inside the Sea of Consciousness.

He stood at the center of the dark land, within the entire Divine Soul Space, thin fog rolled on its own.

Duan Rong looked up and saw the vague gray shadow sitting cross-legged at the center of the sky.

At the moment Duan Rong appeared in this space, a certain spiritual connection immediately formed between him and the gray shadow, like two magnets producing an invisible attraction when they come close.

With a thought, Duan Rong’s figure abruptly disappeared from the center of the dark land.

Almost simultaneously, he appeared behind the gray shadow in the sky above.

Duan Rong stood at a high point in the sky, behind the gray shadow, his eyes flickering as he looked at the area around the shadow.

He saw over a dozen fist-sized orbs of various colors, suspended motionlessly near the gray shadow.

The orbs were dark green, crimson, black, and purple, all emitting a dim glow that was not dazzling.

Duan Rong stood there and suddenly stretched out his hand, taking a pure green orb into his hand.

He gazed intently at the orb in his hand, and at the center, under a faint light, was a vague image of a Wu Hook.

Actually, before Duan Rong even entered this Sea of Consciousness, he had roughly guessed through his spiritual connection with the gray shadow what these orbs were. Now seeing the image inside the green orb, he was even more convinced of his initial guess.

These more than ten orbs of various colors floating near the gray shadow represented the essences of the Artifact Spirits containing Mental Realm that he had devoured in the oval stone chamber on Gu Mountain.

The Artifact Spirits had been digested and absorbed into his divine soul, but these essences seemed not to be digested, instead floating around his original shadow.

The Artifact Spirits Duan Rong could devour with essences were merely those of the First Level of Qi Vortex Realm.

Among these essences, only three belonged to Sword Intent.

Duan Rong released the pure green orb from his hand and picked up another dark green orb not far away, seeing within, wrapped in ghostly dark green light, was a solid-looking image of a Deer Horn Saber.

Duan Rong furrowed his brow, these essences seemed unable to be digested or absorbed by the Divine Soul Space. If so, wouldn’t the essences he longed for become mere empty decorations in the Divine Soul Space?

Duan Rong’s eyes flickered, and he suddenly moved his thoughts, attempting to stimulate the orb in his hand. With his thought, the orb began to flicker light and dark.

"There’s a reaction!?"

As long as there’s a reaction, there might be a way. The worst would be no reaction, then he would be utterly helpless.

Duan Rong watched the flickering orb in his hand, his thoughts churning, when suddenly his gaze became concentrated. Almost simultaneously, the gray shadow beside him abruptly opened its eyes and mouth wide.

Duan Rong flashed forward, pressing the orb into the open mouth of the gray shadow.

The dark green orb settled deep inside, hovering at the gray shadow’s chest. Its dim glow flickered incessantly.

Duan Rong stood in the void, suddenly moving his thoughts, and a green shuttle appeared before him, spinning continuously.

This green shuttle was one of the Divine Soul Needles condensed by Duan Rong!

With a movement of Duan Rong’s thought, the green shuttle vanished like a phantom, almost immediately piercing the chest of the cross-legged gray shadow.

Where the Divine Soul Needle passed, countless dark green specks of light burst open on the gray shadow’s chest, like little bursts of fireworks, enchanting in their glow.

Duan Rong actually used a Divine Soul Needle to shatter the essence body of the dark green orb!

Some of these specks faded in the void, while many others merged into the body of the gray shadow.

Meanwhile, the saber image from the center of the dark green orb appeared at the gray shadow’s forehead.

The gray shadow’s face showed a vague expression of pain, apparently from the damage caused by Duan Rong’s previous Divine Soul Needle.

Focused, Duan Rong observed that the saber image at the gray shadow’s forehead seemed a bit blurry, not as solid and clear as it had been in the dark green orb.

It seems that although this method forcefully absorbed the essence body, since it was shattered by the Divine Soul Needle and although the body of the gray shadow envelops it, dispersion is inevitable.

Nevertheless, Duan Rong was quite satisfied with this result.

The gray shadow’s forehead featuring the saber image signified that it now possessed Mental Realm!

Mental Realm, a martial arts realm possessed only by strong ones in the Qi Vortex Realm!

Only a Martial Artist in the Qi Vortex Realm can condense Mental Realm, such as Sword Intent, Saber Intent, Spear Intent, etc.

The Martial Arts capable of condensing Mental Realm are also called Supreme Skills!

The reason Duan Rong thought of this method lies in the Divine Soul Needle’s sacred soul attribute attack, ineffective against flesh and material.

But those essence bodies also belong to the Divine Soul Class. If not, they wouldn’t have been included in the Artifact Spirits and devoured into the Divine Soul Space.