Chapter 501 - 500- One Hundred Spirit Perforations

Inside his body, Grey could sense all ninety-eight spirit perforations roaring with trembling might. Each perforation pulsed with an immense pressure, resonating with the vast amount of spirit energy circulating through his body.

Only two spirit perforations stood between him and the manifestation of his fourth ball of spirit fire.

However, the amount of energy required to shatter those final two perforations seemed to contain the entirety of heaven and earth.

Grey’s expression remained solemn.

He gathered all the spirit essence within his sea of consciousness and sent it surging toward the two remaining spirit perforations like a colossal tidal wave.

BOOM!

Grey’s internal body was suddenly filled with a tremendous wave of spirit energy that gushed and roared forward, rushing toward the ninety-ninth spirit perforation.

The wave was over three thousand feet tall.

It towered like an enormous wall of water, carrying an intimidating and frightening pressure as it swept through Grey’s internal world. His spirit body merged completely with the enormous wave, his consciousness and will becoming one with the surging torrent.

In an instant, the ninety-ninth spirit perforation was engulfed by the massive wave.

Grey’s physical body shivered slightly.

His eyelashes trembled.

His spirit body, fused with the three-thousand-foot-tall wave, crashed directly into the ninety-ninth spirit perforation.

BOOM!

A muffled explosion resounded within his body.

Yet contrary to Grey’s expectations, the perforation did not shatter.

Only a few cracks appeared across its surface.

The ninety-ninth spirit perforation still stood firm.

Grey’s eyes narrowed.

At the same time, the tremendous impact caused a large portion of the spirit energy within the wave to dissipate. The enormous three-thousand-foot wave immediately shrank, falling to a height of only two thousand feet.

It was no longer as enormous or imposing as before.

However, Grey had no intention of giving up.

A trace of decisiveness flashed through his eyes.

Using the recoil from the first collision, Grey redirected the remaining force and once again drove the wave toward the ninety-ninth spirit perforation.

The two-thousand-foot wave surged forward.

BOOM!

Another tremendous impact shook Grey’s internal world.

This time, even more cracks appeared across the ninety-ninth spirit perforation. Some of the cracks extended from one side to the other, and the entire perforation trembled violently.

It was showing clear signs of shattering.

However, the price was equally enormous.

The wave shrank once again, dropping from two thousand feet to a mere one thousand feet.

At the same time, Grey could feel that almost all the spirit energy within his body had been depleted.

Only about one-third remained.

His expression finally became slightly flustered.

At this rate, even if he managed to break open the ninety-ninth spirit perforation, the one hundredth would have to be postponed until later.

His remaining spirit essence would simply not be enough.

And Grey could already imagine that breaking open the one hundredth spirit perforation would be much more difficult than breaking the ninety-ninth.

He had already used a tremendous amount of energy merely to crack the ninety-ninth.

The final perforation would undoubtedly require even more.

Seeing that this outcome was almost inevitable, Grey’s mind shifted toward his storage bag.

A moment later, another pill appeared in his hand.

The pill was green.

It possessed a faint, sickly smell that would make an ordinary person nauseous merely by standing nearby.

This pill was the result of Grey’s experiments with a Spirit Energy Scattering Herb combined with an ordinary medicinal pill.

The resulting concoction had an extraordinary effect.

It could temporarily amplify the total amount of spirit energy within a cultivator’s body, effectively doubling it. At the same time, it greatly increased the speed at which a cultivator could recover their spirit essence.

Grey had decided to name it—

Shattering Dust.

The name was derived from its ability to greatly increase the user’s chances of shattering their spirit perforations.

If it were used together with a Spirit Energy Gathering Array, the amount of spirit energy that could be recovered would become truly astronomical.

However, Shattering Dust possessed a severe drawback.

After a certain amount of time, the spirit energy within the user’s body would suddenly enter a wild and disorderly state.

Ordinarily, such a condition would be extremely dangerous.

A cultivator needed precise control over their spirit energy. If the energy inside their body suddenly became chaotic, it could collide with itself and cause severe internal injuries.

But Grey had another purpose for this chaotic state.

He intended to use it to break open the final spirit perforation.

Even so, the disorderly state did not guarantee success.

It merely increased his chances.

More importantly, for the pill to function as intended, another supplementary pill had to be consumed beforehand.

Without it, Shattering Dust would cause the spirit energy within the body to immediately enter a chaotic and frantic state without producing the desired recovery effect.

Grey had never tested the combination on himself before.

Instead, he had experimented on a native sea creature.

The experiment had been successful.

Therefore, Grey believed it should work the same way on him, provided that he followed the same steps and prepared properly beforehand.

Several minutes had already disappeared into the night.

The warm sensation lingering within Grey’s stomach from the previous pill was gradually fading.

This was the moment he had been waiting for.

Without hesitation, Grey tossed the Shattering Dust into his mouth.

The pill melted almost immediately.

At the exact moment it came into contact with the remaining warm sensation from the earlier pill, the properties of the two substances reacted.

Shattering Dust’s first instinct was to force the spirit energy within the body into a rampant and wild state.

However, the lingering medicinal energy from the earlier pill suddenly countered this effect.

Instead of immediately becoming chaotic, the Shattering Dust entered a strange, docile yet aggressive state.

It began absorbing spirit energy from the surrounding environment.

Grey had already activated the Spirit Energy Gathering Array within the magic ship earlier.

As a result, the surrounding air had long since been filled with dense spirit energy mixed with corrosive substances.

All of it was waiting to be absorbed.

The instant the Shattering Dust activated, Grey felt as though every pore on his body had suddenly opened.

His entire being became like a bottomless vortex.

Spirit energy from the surrounding environment began rushing toward him.

The dense energy poured into his body from every direction, continuously replenishing what he had exhausted during the previous collisions.

Suddenly, the spirit energy wave that had fallen to a mere one thousand feet began rising once again.

One thousand one hundred feet.

One thousand two hundred feet.

One thousand three hundred feet.

The increase was slow, but it was steady.

Grey remained completely focused as he guided the recovering energy.

Within several minutes, the height of the spirit energy wave had returned to two thousand feet.

And it was still rising.

A trace of determination flashed across Grey’s eyes.

The moment the wave reached two thousand feet, Grey’s spirit body and will, which had fused with the massive spirit energy wave, once again rushed toward the ninety-ninth spirit perforation.

BOOM!

The enormous wave slammed into the ninety-ninth spirit perforation.

The already heavily cracked perforation trembled violently.

Countless new cracks spread across its surface like a spiderweb.

At the same time, the one hundredth spirit perforation behind it also shook violently, seemingly affected by the enormous impact.

The two-thousand-foot wave was immediately reduced to only one thousand feet.

Grey did not care.

With a low grunt, he urged the remaining energy forward.

The one-thousand-foot wave surged once again.

BOOM!

It slammed into the ninety-ninth spirit perforation with a deafening bang.

CRACK!

A sharp cracking sound resounded throughout Grey’s internal world.

The next instant—

BOOM!

The ninety-ninth spirit perforation finally shattered open.

The enormous resistance that had been blocking Grey for so long disappeared in an instant.

The spirit energy wave was immediately reduced to only two hundred feet.

Yet that seemingly insignificant amount of spirit energy was enough.

Like a stream rushing into an empty riverbed, the remaining spirit energy surged into the newly opened node.

The once-empty ninety-ninth spirit perforation began filling with spirit energy.

In only a few breaths, the node was completely transformed.

It had officially become Grey’s ninety-ninth spirit perforation.

Only one remained.

The one hundredth spirit perforation.

However, at that exact moment, the true effect of the Shattering Dust finally appeared.

The medicinal energy that had been restrained by the supplementary pill suddenly erupted.

Grey’s spirit energy instantly entered a berserk and chaotic state.

BOOM!

His spirit energy surged violently within his body.

If his body had still been filled with a tremendous amount of spirit energy, Grey would have suffered from the violent collisions taking place within his internal world.

Fortunately, almost all of his previous spirit energy had already been exhausted.

The amount that remained was relatively insignificant.

Even so, the Shattering Dust continued drawing spirit energy from the surroundings at an astonishing rate.

Grey’s spirit sea rapidly expanded.

One thousand feet.

Then, one thousand one hundred feet.

His spirit energy continued climbing at a bizarre speed.

In less than the time it took to breathe several times, his spirit sea had once again reached a height of one thousand feet.

But this time, something was different.

Grey found it extremely difficult to control.

The spirit energy was no longer obediently following his will.

It surged and roared violently, threatening to collapse into chaos at any moment.

Grey’s expression became solemn.

He had to concentrate every ounce of his willpower simply to maintain the wave’s form.

If his control slipped even slightly, the entire one-thousand-foot wave would instantly collapse.

"Come!"

Grey let out a low grunt.

The enormous wave surged forward.

The one-thousand-foot spirit energy wave engulfed the final spirit perforation.

BOOM!

The entire perforation trembled.

Several seconds passed.

Then—

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

A series of loud explosions resounded from within Grey’s body.

The one hundredth spirit perforation shook violently under the relentless assault.

Cracks began appearing across its surface.

One.

Two.

Ten.

Hundreds.

The cracks spread rapidly until they covered the entire perforation.

Grey’s eyes widened.

The final barrier was finally reaching its limit.

With one final surge of his will—

CRACK!

The one hundredth spirit perforation was blown wide open.

The remaining spirit energy immediately surged inside.

Like water pouring into an empty vessel, the chaotic spirit energy flooded the newly opened node and rapidly filled it.

In the blink of an eye, the empty node transformed into a fully established spirit perforation.

Grey had done it.

All one hundred spirit perforations had been opened.

At that moment, the turbulent spirit energy within his body suddenly resonated.

BOOM!

A tremendous pressure erupted from Grey’s body.

The surrounding spirit energy trembled violently.

And deep within his body, where the one hundred spirit perforations had connected into a complete cycle, something entirely new began to take shape.

The foundation required for his fourth ball of spirit fire had finally been completed.