Chapter 144: The Power of the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye

Chapter 144 -76: The Power of the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye

The hollow that had faintly cracked open on Jiang Xuan’s forehead was something the word “horrifying” could not begin to describe. The dark, somber aura churning within it seemed to conceal an endless abyss. Merely looking at it in the mirror gave Jiang Xuan the illusion that his Divine Soul was about to be pulled in.

However, the moment the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye opened, Jiang Xuan subconsciously wielded an instinctual power that originated from the depths of his Divine Soul.

At this moment, the gravitational and repulsive forces between Heaven and Earth were like soft clay that he could knead and control as he pleased.

WHOOSH!

Without a breath of wind, Jiang Xuan’s figure once again levitated in mid-air. At his will, the mountain of scriptures in the Scripture Pavilion broke free from the shelves and began to slowly revolve around him like a nebula.

At this moment, Jiang Xuan exuded a powerful aura just by standing there.

As the saying goes, if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail, and you’ll want to hammer it.

This was exactly how Jiang Xuan felt at this moment. The immense power of the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye filled him with an irrepressible urge to test it out. He was itching to unleash the Dharma Eye’s full might and probe his current limits.

At the same time, a thought rapidly surfaced in Jiang Xuan’s mind—he wanted to fight Su Xingying again.

‘This time, I can beat her without self-destructing!’

But in the end, his reason overcame his agitation, and he forcibly suppressed the urge to immediately challenge Su Xingying.

‘Phew… I can’t be hasty. The three-school joint examination is tomorrow.’

‘Right now, my most important task is to find all twelve remaining acupoints of my First Spirit Core.’

Finding and activating the last twelve acupoints wasn’t just about bringing the First Spirit Core’s Cultivation to Perfection; it was also directly related to how well he would place tomorrow.

After all, his Flesh Body was currently weak and his Magical Power was thin. Only his Divine Soul was barely passable. In such a state, he couldn’t unleash much of the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye’s power at all.

Just like now, Jiang Xuan could feel that to use the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye’s ability, he had to open the Dharma Eye on his forehead as wide as possible.

Furthermore, the wider that ‘eye’ opened, the stronger the gravitational forces he could control.

But he could also clearly feel that his Magical Power was constantly being consumed in the process of opening the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye.

In addition, when the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye opened, a pressure as immense as a mountain would descend directly upon his Flesh Body.

This pressure was already much weaker compared to the gravity he could exert on others using the Dharma Eye.

But because his Flesh Body was so weak, this gravitational force still made him tremble uncontrollably, his bones even letting out faint, creaking sounds.

‘If I force it open, my Flesh Body will be crushed… My Magical Power, on the other hand, can barely hold out.’

Closing his Nether Abyss Dharma Eye and lightly rubbing the spot, Jiang Xuan said with some delight, “Although my Magical Power is thin, the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye isn’t picky about Spiritual Qi. By relying on the Circulation of Heaven and Earth from the Nine Breath Qi Ingestion Technique, I can continuously channel external Spiritual Qi into the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye as the energy to power it.”

“This way, I can unleash more of the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye’s power than I expected.”

…

Thanks to the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye’s trait of “devouring everything and rejecting nothing,” Jiang Xuan’s strength had, in a way, been greatly enhanced.

But because of the limited tolerance of his Flesh Body, it was still not certain he could win against the likes of Qin Feng, Xie Hanyan, or that Chen Qianjun who had dared to bring out a treasure—all of whom had built their foundations with Spiritual Medicines and Treasures since childhood.

In this situation, achieving Perfection for his First Spirit Core was especially important. Not only would it grant Jiang Xuan another Divine Power Seed, but a perfected Flesh Body would also allow him to unleash the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye’s power by another couple of notches.

‘Besides, the Primordial Sea and the Flesh Body are inextricably linked. If I awaken a Divine Power Seed that reinforces and strengthens the Flesh Body…’

Thinking of this, Jiang Xuan’s eyes lit up. He immediately took a deep breath and sat down cross-legged on a cushion in the Scripture Pavilion.

The next moment, with his eyes shut tight, he directly willed the two mirrors in his mind to merge into one.

This step was surprisingly easy.

After all, both the Clear Heart Mirror and the Celestial Heart Mirror were manifestations of Jiang Xuan’s own mind. The only difference was that one focused on the inner workings of his body, while the other reflected the world outside.

But ultimately, they were born of the same soul and shared the same origin. With a slight shift in Jiang Xuan’s thoughts, the two mirror surfaces flowed together like water and became one.

HUMMM—!

The newborn mirror emitted a clear and pure halo. Merely by floating in his Sea of Consciousness, it made Jiang Xuan’s Heart Soul feel limpid and clear, all his restlessness and distracting thoughts silently cleansed by the light.

When Jiang Xuan activated this mirror and applied its Power of Insight to his own Flesh Body—WHOOSH… a flash of clear light shot through him, and the turbid mists within his body instantly dissipated.

The next moment, the texture of his muscles, his meridians, and his acupoints appeared with even greater clarity within the Celestial Heart Mirror.

And as Jiang Xuan continuously poured his Magical Power and Power of Heart Soul into the mirror, the meridians and acupoints displayed within became increasingly clear, even slowly magnifying. In the end, not even the most minute meridian branches could hide.

Relying on this method, Jiang Xuan focused his search for the time it takes an incense stick to burn. After dispelling countless veils of mist within his body, he actually managed to find the trace of an acupoint.

‘The ninety-seventh one, found it! Only eleven left!’

Just like that, time slowly trickled by as Jiang Xuan continued his inspection. Soon, a whole night had passed.

Early the next morning, Jiang Xuan arrived at the Chen Daoist School.

The moment he stepped into the Daoist School, he discovered that the other students had also arrived extremely early.

However, in the vast Daoist School, of the nearly three thousand students present, most wore looks of unconcealable apprehension, their expressions anxious and restless.

In the entire Chen Daoist School, only a handful of people were truly full of confidence and eager to begin.

Qin Feng, Xie Hanyan, and Fang Xiao were three of them.

There was no fear in their eyes, only anticipation and joy.

Furthermore, all three were surrounded by a crowd of students, and Fang Xiao, despite his origins in the Lower Classes, was no exception.

Although the students gathered around the trio also showed some apprehension, they had an air of confidence and reassurance that the others lacked. When they looked at the other students, their eyes held a trace of barely perceptible superiority.

Jiang Xuan only gave these scenes a passing glance before paying them no more mind.

At this very moment, his heart was filled with an indescribable sense of regret, and he wished he could go back to last night and give himself a hard slap.

‘Why didn’t you experiment more with the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye yesterday!’

His attempt to open his acupoints last night had not gone smoothly.

A low Spirit Root Grade didn’t just mean a low affinity with the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi; it also meant Jiang Xuan had more turbid qi in his body than a prodigal Cultivator.

Yesterday, finding the ninety-seventh, ninety-eighth, and ninety-ninth acupoints had gone relatively smoothly, but when he got to the last nine, the difficulty suddenly increased by nearly tenfold.

This caused him to work all night just to find one, raising the Number of Acupoints Opened for his First Spirit Core to 100.

In the early hours of the morning, Jiang Xuan had been ready to give up, thinking he would just spend the next ten days or half a month finding the last eight acupoints—for someone with a Profound Level Middle Grade Spirit Root, cultivating the First Spirit Core to Perfection was just that difficult.

Jiang Xuan’s situation was considered relatively good. Most Cultivators with a Profound Level Spirit Root had no hope of ever reaching Perfection unless they had a fortuitous encounter.

After giving up on finding the acupoints, frustrated, he had decided to test out his Nether Abyss Dharma Eye—hoping to wash away his dejection with the novelty of its power.

However, his lingering frustration meant that even while testing the Dharma Eye, his mind kept returning to the matter of the acupoints.

‘Sigh… if only opening acupoints had a shortcut, just like forming the Dharma Eye…’

This was just an offhand complaint from Jiang Xuan; he didn’t actually think there was any real shortcut to opening acupoints.

But just as he was about to give up, his Spirituality—bolstered by the thousands of scrolls in the Scripture Pavilion—suddenly made him recall something.

‘Celestial bodies have their own gravity. The sun captured the nine major planets with its powerful gravity, making them revolve around it.’

‘The Earth also has its own gravity and captured the moon as its satellite… Speaking of which, could the relationship between my Primordial Sea Spirit Core and my acupoints be similar to this?!’

When this idea appeared in his mind, he was completely stunned. After a few breaths, he came to his senses and hurriedly began to experiment.

Activating the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye, he treated his Primordial Sea Spirit Core as the ‘sun’ and his numerous acupoints as ‘stars’. Then, he used the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye to apply a Gravitational Singularity to his Primordial Sea.

…

As he recalled this, Jiang Xuan’s gaze grew even more complex.

On his first attempt, his experiment was interrupted. But it wasn’t a failure; rather, in the process, he had discovered another terrifying aspect of the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye.

—After applying the Gravitational Singularity to his Primordial Sea Spirit Core, influenced by this gravity, the free-roaming Spiritual Qi between Heaven and Earth swarmed into his body like a tidal wave, at a speed far exceeding his usual rate of absorption, several times faster in fact.

???

“The Nether Abyss Dharma Eye also has the effect of accelerating Cultivation.”

At that time, Jiang Xuan was completely stunned. He also came to understand something else: a Righteous Level Spiritual Pupil was never just for combat; its uses in aiding Cultivation were also endless.

Applying a singularity to his Primordial Sea Spirit Core was the first auxiliary use he had found for it.

However, because too much Spiritual Qi surged into his body, Jiang Xuan’s experiment to use the Spirit Core to stimulate his acupoints was disrupted, causing his first attempt to fail.

Fortunately, he quickly thought of a solution—by using the Circulation of Heaven and Earth from the Nine Breath Qi Refining Method, Jiang Xuan could block the Spiritual Qi outside his body.

Without the interference, Jiang Xuan could finally concentrate fully on applying a gravitational pull to his Primordial Sea Spirit Core and making it vibrate.

And the vibration of the Primordial Sea Spirit Core really did induce a tremor in the acupoints.

Of course, even though those acupoints shielded by the Laws of Heaven and Earth vibrated, they were still hidden by a thick mist, completely undetectable by ordinary means.

But Jiang Xuan, who possessed the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye, could not only see the acupoints but also the lines of gravity and even the gravitational field.

The connection between the acupoints, hidden by the world, and his Primordial Sea was not broken. Those lines of gravity still existed.

Following the lines of gravity, Jiang Xuan could find…

‘Why should I even bother to find it!’

A spark of inspiration flashing in his eyes, Jiang Xuan immediately activated his Nether Abyss Dharma Eye and grasped the lines of gravity with his Power of Heart Soul. The next moment, he began to pull carefully.

Afraid that the lines of gravity would snap, causing the acupoint to be lost forever and leaving his body incomplete, Jiang Xuan pulled very slowly.

However, although this method was slow, it actually worked.

The acupoint, shielded by the Laws of Heaven and Earth and hidden deep within the mist, actually began to slowly break free from its misty shackles under Jiang Xuan’s pull, appearing clearly in his perception!

‘The Nether Abyss Dharma Eye… is invincible!’

The moment he succeeded, Jiang Xuan was overwhelmed by endless joy and amazement. But what immediately followed was a heart full of regret.

‘All that time last night was wasted. Why didn’t I just trust the Nether Abyss Dharma Eye a little more?’

Losing one night would normally be nothing.

But the three-school joint examination was right around the corner. Being a step behind at this juncture truly made Jiang Xuan miserable.

Therefore, he was in no mood to pay attention to anyone else at the moment.

Finding a secluded corner to sit down, Jiang Xuan activated his Nether Abyss Dharma Eye and followed the lines of gravity between his Primordial Sea Spirit Core and the acupoints, pulling out the acupoints hidden by the Laws of Heaven and Earth one by one.

‘Sigh… I hope there’s still enough time.’