Mastering two host techniques is already hard enough. The requirements of the Life and Death Lightning Art are enough to make another person despair.
But he didn't despair because these requirements aren't difficult for him to fulfill. In terms of the host techniques, all he needs to master them to 100% is to fill up his life seeds.
Once he fills up his life seeds with energy, all the scattered terminals within them will be exposed. The next thing to do is to connect them in one large happy circuit. This is something that is easy for him to do.
Not only is the process of meeting the host technique requirement easy for him to do, but the process also enhances the harmony of the wood and lightning element within him.
This is why the mastery of the Life and Death Lightning Art is at 95%. He is almost done mastering it. And by the looks of things, once all 1,024 of his life seeds have been connected, he will be able to complete the remaining 5% of the Life and Death Lightning Art.
So meeting all five requirements is just a matter of time. He already has the life-preserving item he needs, the minimum number of life seeds, and the environment with a high concentration of energy.
As for the mastery of host techniques and the Life and Death Lightning Art, he will be able to fulfill them when he fills up his life seeds. If he focuses, he can do that in one year.
So in one year's time, he will be ready to advance to the fourth mortal coil. The thought made him elated.
He quickly closed his eyes to concentrate on cultivating. But before he could do so, he received a message from his sect ID.
The Sect ID didn't vibrate or make any noise to notify him of the mission. It only lit up briefly.
He set it this way so that messages won't interrupt him during cultivation. If he hadn't been paying attention to his surroundings after cultivating, he wouldn't have noticed it.
Since he noticed it and had some time on his hands, he decided to check the message. He used his divine sense to lift and pull the sect ID card over to him.
Then he clicked on the ID card and navigated to the new message. When he saw the message, he realized that it was from Stella.
Stella is the lady with the God physique. She said, "How was your breakthrough? Are you fine? Do you need help?"
He read the message and didn't know what to feel. On the one hand, he didn't like that she knew that he had broken through. On the other hand, he appreciated that she was looking out for him.
Her god physique is essentially a physique that makes environmental mana behave like internal mana. The most direct benefit that this brings to her is power that is greater than that of her internal energy and fast cultivation process.
Her cultivation process is very fast because she doesn't need to subdue external energy in order to refine it. Mana from the environment literally funnels into her body to be refined with just a thought from her.
Another benefit of external mana behaving like her internal mana is that she can sense more information from environmental mana than most people.
She doesn't have divine sense, but she can communicate with mana without it. This communication is on the same level as Thor's ability to speak with metal and his ability to speak with plants.
So she can't see him directly because she doesn't have a divine sense, but if she pays attention, she can learn a lot of things that are happening throughout the secret realm.
In a way, her physique truly tries to make her a god. Her physique wants to make her the most powerful being in a place and also helps her to know everything going on around her.
He doesn't mind the first privilege that she has gained with her physique. He doesn't mind that she is far more powerful than she should be, but he has a big problem with her snooping on him.
He would have ignored her ability to snoop if she wasn't so focused on him. But she is his fan, and unlike other fans who want to see him but can't, she has a way to keep tabs on him.
As long as he interacts with mana such as he did when he was breaking through, she can sense it. It is as if she is a paparazzi always monitoring him. He doubts anyone will like it.
Unfortunately for him, no matter what he thinks about it, he can't do anything to stop her.
He could only sigh and say, "It is my fault for writing books to earn money. Besides, nascent soul patriarchs also snoop on people, and we have to deal with it."
The thought of how the nascent soul patriarchs had been monitoring him without him knowing made him chuckle deprecatingly and say, "I can't even sense when they snoop. I should reconsider trying to do something to block their snooping when I can sense them snooping."
Currently he can sense it when golden core cultivators are scanning the world with their minds. It is because both golden core cultivators and foundation establishment cultivators use divine sense.
The divine sense of Golden Core cultivators is just stronger. But nascent soul cultivators use something else entirely to sense the world.
Nascent soul patriarchs use their spirits to sense the world. Not only is it more powerful, but it is also something that he doesn't have. This is why nascent soul patriarchs can sense the information transmitted using the voice transmission spell.
What he thought was being secretive was actually an open means of communication for nascent soul patriarchs. But Stella's situation is even more special.
She doesn't have a divine sense or a spirit, but she can still keep tabs on him without his knowledge. This is even though he is stronger than her.
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