Cultivating in Honkai!

Chapter 425: Drained Dry, Again

Being an early-stage Void Refinement Realm opens up a lot of possibilities for Shi Tian. He didn’t need to use the Nine Lives Burning Samsara Art to use a fraction of a Dao Treasure. So long as one was able to initially refine (i.e., mark) the Dao Treasure with their mind and spiritual qi, they could mobilize the said treasure to their will.Strangely enough, Shi Tian found himself to be a perfect fit for the Zixiao Palace. One of the Daos he possessed, the Dao of Enlightenment, helped him push through the Dao Treasure’s refinement. He could exert far more influence with this treasure than he had initially expected.

Sitting atop the highest seat inside the palace, Shi Tian was bestowed ‘status’. It was the authority to interfere with the higher-dimensions at will. A crucial aspect of high-level cultivators to become closer to the Dao.

At this exact moment, his status reached the pinnacle of the Void Refinement Realm. It even showed tendencies of pushing through beyond that ‘barrier’, lacking a final push.

‘What a treasure..!’

The familiar presence of appeared around him. It became the ‘final push’ needed by the Zixiao Palace.

The bell hanging atop the palace’s roof rang. Time stopped at that exact moment. The spiritual qi inside Shi Tian began to crazily pour onto the palace. The long-lost sense of weakness gradually flooded his entire body. He had been too accustomed to fighting with forbidden techniques to the point he never fought “properly” in recent times.

His ultimate-grade spirit root soon acted. Its recovery speed is extremely high. In just a few blinks, the surrounding spiritual qi was converted and turned into his reserves. One of its perks is its recovery speed. High-grade spirit roots could never hope to match an ultimate-grade spirit root’s attraction and conversion of spiritual qi. Similarly, it also assists in the comprehension of the Dao it originated from.

Shi Tian became a human-shaped spiritual qi converter, filling in the gaps within the Zixiao Palace. These events happened within the span of a split second. The spiritual qi from the previous ‘nailing’ continuously supplied the Dao Artifact’s inner universe with ambient spiritual qi, to be then converted by Shi Tian himself.

The rest who were transported to the seats weren’t unaffected. The meditation pillows beneath each of them lit up. A familiar sensation surrounded their mind. The very same power Shi Tian used to hold the solar system’s Dao Conferences—the Dao of Enlightenment.

Within the confines of the Zixiao Palace, another world unfolded. The extremely large hall overlapped with the scenery from the Vortex of Genesis. The latter was enlarged to match up with the former. Twelve different constellations were brightly lit up behind Shi Tian. 

‘This…’

Bronya caught onto his plans as she sensed the familiar ‘Primum Mobile’ connected to her once. Back then, the fifteen of them descended to Amphoreus with nothing but their divine mind. Shi Tian, through the power of , connected them all to the various Primum Mobile simulated by the Scepter. Naturally, it disappeared once they returned back to the solar system. Amphoreus returned to its semi-closed state, returning to what it was prior to Shi Tian’s arrival.

It wasn’t just Bronya who noticed things. The fifteen who came to Amphoreus all sensed their respective Paths. The Dao of Enlightenment emitted by the meditation pillows further enhanced their understanding and influence of the said Paths.

At this moment, Shi Tian experienced the ultimate wear-and-tear, having his spiritual qi reserves bottomed just as they had recovered. Becoming a spiritual qi converter for two large consumers of spiritual qi wasn’t exactly a pleasant experience.

‘I need to hold on for a while… not until half of them are dealt with..!’

The Zixiao’s Palace has three functions.

One was to serve as Hongjun’s abode. It was here he became the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial Universe. Most of his myths and legends Pangu’s fall were connected to this palace. Its offensive and defensive capabilities matched them all.

The second was related to . Hongjun opened a sermon three times throughout the Primordial Universe. He utilized the Dao of Enlightenment to enhance the realms of the cultivators who attended it.

Lastly, it was ‘status’ enhancement. The Zixiao Palace embodied Hongjun’s lifelong legends. Its owner could recall a part of his legend, thereby pushing their status upwards.

To utilize the Dao Treasure, Shi Tian had to give up on its offensive capabilities. He turned its defensive capabilities into “trapping”. The ‘teaching’ function was made to boost others’ comprehension and influence over the simulated created by his Dao of All Creation. Finally, the ‘status’ enhancement allowed him to use All Creation more, enhancing the power behind his ‘universe’.

Just like that, five Aeons were trapped into two different universes. This is destined to continue so long as Shi Tian could maintain the crazy spiritual qi consumption—and he was doing so by popping one pill after another. 

Facing THEM was the combined might of twenty-one Void Refinement Realm cultivators; fifteen of which are under the enhancement of Shi Tian’s simulated Primum Mobiles!

He began to give out another set of instructions to others.

“Miss Vita. I will have to ask you to pull Aha to your side.”

“Mn.”

The simulated Elation and Aha inevitably formed a connection. While sitting in a position, she waved her hand.

The feathered mask instantly returned to her right hand. The suppression of the ‘Banished Immortal’s Imprisonment’ disappeared. Shockingly, the mask was replaced by a fig branch. Aha swapped THEMSELVES for Abundance!

‘Emojis’ and ‘Gifs’ popped up on THEIR head one after another. 

“Aha likes this! Aha enjoys this! 11/10! Aha wants more!”

Like a hyperactive child, THEY continued cheering from the sidelines. THEIR voice momentarily broke the serious atmosphere that surrounded them.

There was no Abundance within Shi Tian’s twelve simulated . Shi Tian deemed it was best to imprison THEM first and deal with THEM later. 

The fig branch faced the dual suppression of the two edicts and the sword array. THEY grew faint with every second that passed by.

“Sin. Griseo. It’s your turn.”

“Alright.”

“Understood.”

The two of them bore the simulated Order and Harmony, respectively. Both of them happened to connect to Xipe. Since the latter could connect to them to sneak over to the solar system, they could naturally utilize the same connection to influence THEM.

Bright white strings appeared out of thin air. They wrapped around the three-sided mask, enveloping it into a cocoon.

Just like that, three out of the five were contained.