How could Shi Jiu calm down with this bizarre sight? Heaven knows what this inexplicable scene represented.
Even the old man was scared and left in a hurry. How could this strange, pale gray Vortex be something a low-level Cultivator at the Cultivation Level of Qi Refining stage 1 like Shi Jiu could fathom?
Moreover, Shi Jiu was now very afraid. Although he hadn't seen how that strange Vortex came into his body, could other powerful Cultivators in the Immortal Realm see the trajectory of this gray Vortex and directly cut him open to obtain it?
Just as Shi Jiu's mind was too confused by various thoughts to think normally, a young girl sitting next to him gently patted him and asked worriedly:
"Brother Shi Jiu, were you scared? I was also very scared just now, but look, aren't we all fine? Maybe it's just like the story of the powerful Cultivator that our master told us before, a joke played by some powerful Cultivator. You need to be a little bolder."
Shi Jiu listened to the girl, gave a bitter smile, and was about to say something, but he suddenly realized that the girl hadn't mentioned any gray Vortex. Could it be that only he had this gray Vortex in his body? Thinking of this, Shi Jiu quickly asked the girl:
"Xiao Yue, I remember you and I are both at the Cultivation Level of Qi Refining stage 1. Quickly try to sense if there's anything different in your body?"
Actually, Shi Jiu originally wanted to directly ask the girl if there was anything unusual in her Dantian, but when the words reached his lips, he changed it to asking if there was anything different in her body.
Because if it was truly only him, without understanding the reason, such an unusual phenomenon that others didn't possess could very likely cost him his life.
Shi Jiu didn't truly believe that the peaceful life in the Helian Family meant that other parts of the Immortal Realm were equally tranquil.
On the contrary, whenever tempting benefits appeared, examples of murder for treasure and extermination of entire families were abundant in the Immortal Realm.
"There's nothing different in my body, Brother Shi Jiu. What's wrong with you? Is there any different change?"
The girl frowned and sensed for a moment, seemingly finding nothing amiss, so she opened her mouth to ask Shi Jiu.
"Oh, no? I... I don't either. I just felt that perhaps I was a bit too scared just now, so the True Qi in my body seemed to have scattered a lot.
My Cultivation Level of Qi Refining stage 1 Realm even seems a bit unstable. It seems I did overreact a bit. Xiao Yue, you go back first, I'm going back too. I need to meditate and rest well."
After hearing the words of the girl named Xiao Yue, Shi Jiu was even more certain of his guess.
He casually brushed off the girl's concerns and hurried towards his small house. He had to quickly figure out what this pale gray Vortex in his body was and if it would have any unpredictable dangers.
Back in the house, Shi Jiu closed the doors and windows tightly, then forced himself to sit down and drink a mouthful of hot water, trying to calm himself down.
Once his mind was no longer as tense as before, Shi Jiu sat cross-legged on the bed, guiding a small amount of magic power in his body towards his Dantian.
Indeed, he felt the slowly rotating Qi Vortex in his Dantian, but it didn't seem to cause any damage to Shi Jiu's body; it was just quietly rotating in his Dantian.
Shi Jiu pondered for a moment, trying to control his magic power to slowly approach the Vortex to see if there would be any reaction.
The moment the magic power approached the Vortex, an irresistible suction force generated from within the Vortex, instantly drawing in the magic power Shi Jiu was controlling. At this moment, Shi Jiu's heart seemed to convulse.
How could this Vortex swallow his magic power? Although that magic power wasn't much, it still took Shi Jiu, a useless person with Five Spiritual Roots, a lot of time to refine it. For it to disappear out of thin air, how could Shi Jiu not be annoyed?
However, before Shi Jiu could make his next move, he suddenly discovered that the Vortex had inexplicably and slowly "spit out" a much smaller amount of magic power than what it had just absorbed.
Is this Vortex suffering from indigestion or has it had a change of heart and spit it back out to me?
Shi Jiu muttered to himself.
But when Shi Jiu had a thought and wanted to lead this magic power away to avoid being sucked back into the gray Vortex, he surprisingly found that this small amount of magic power had been refined to be exceptionally solid, completely unlike the flimsy magic power he had refined before.
Compared to this exceptionally solid magic power, the magic power he had cultivated before was like a "consumptive ghost" meeting a heavyweight kickboxing champion; there was simply no comparison. After discovering this, Shi Jiu had a bold guess in his mind:
This inexplicable Vortex has the effect of helping him refine his magic power!
Thinking of this, Shi Jiu's heart instantly leaped.
To verify his guess, he again controlled a much larger amount of magic power in his body than before to slowly approach the Vortex, and the same scene indeed happened again.
The Vortex inexplicably sucked in that magic power, and then in a blink of an eye, it returned a much smaller but extremely refined and solid amount of magic power.
His guess was indeed correct!
Shi Jiu's mood at this moment was beyond words.
The two experiments just now had already given him two such powerful magic powers. If Shi Jiu were to put all the magic power in his body through this process, the benefits he would gain would probably be immeasurable.
It might even be like activating a cheat code for his future Cultivation.
No matter how this Vortex changes in the future, getting the benefits he can now is the Dao.
Thinking of this, Shi Jiu immediately mobilized all the magic power in his body, surging it all towards the Vortex in his Dantian.
And that Vortex was also not picky; as long as the magic power approached it, it would instantly suck it in, and in a short while, it could return new, refined, and solid magic power.
For an entire afternoon, Shi Jiu did nothing else but wholeheartedly convert all the flimsy magic power in his body.
At this moment, although the magic power in Shi Jiu's body had not increased, and was even much less than before, to the extent that his meridians felt empty.
But when he casually cast a spell, a blazing fireball instantly shot out from his hand. It was the Fireball Spell that he had struggled to release for half a day just a few days ago.
Moreover, when he practiced a few days ago, even if he managed to release the Fireball Spell, the fireball would flicker unsteadily due to the relatively flimsy magic power in his body.
How could it compare to this perfectly sized and stable fireball in front of him?
Shi Jiu suddenly remembered that the old man in the academy once said that Cultivators with a single Spiritual Root were also called "Heavenly Spiritual Root," meaning "blessed by nature, uniquely gifted."
The reason for this was that the Heavenly Spiritual Root had a single Spiritual Root, so when absorbing Spiritual Qi, it wasn't like Shi Jiu's Five Spiritual Roots, which absorbed various Spiritual Qi in a very mixed manner.
And after the Spiritual Qi entered the body, one needed to re-sort it, remove the Impurities, and only then could it be converted into one's own magic power.
If this process took a long time, it would also make the Cultivator's own magic power not refined enough, which was even less conducive to future Cultivation.
In contrast, when Cultivators with Heavenly Spiritual Root absorbed Spiritual Qi, they could even directly filter out the Impurities in the Spiritual Qi, thereby greatly compressing the time it took to convert Spiritual Qi into their own magic power.
This made the magic power they Cultivated more enduring than that of Cultivators of the same Realm, and this enduring and powerful magic power.
Allowed those with the Heavenly Spiritual Root, during Foundation Establishment, to even achieve Foundation Establishment without the aid of a Foundation Establishment Pill to remove Impurities from their magic power, simply by refining their magic power themselves.
At that time, after hearing this, Shi Jiu had fantasized about what it would be like if he also had a Heavenly Spiritual Root.
And at this very moment, Shi Jiu, because of this unexpected gain of the mysterious Vortex, also possessed a method of refining magic power comparable to a "Heavenly Spiritual Root."
No, it should be said to be a method of refining magic power that surpasses the Heavenly Spiritual Root, and his path of Cultivation would also have more possibilities.
Shi Jiu suddenly stood up from the bed, stretched his body after sitting for a long time, and felt the slightly sparse but incredibly surging magic power within him. A sense of grandeur even arose in his heart. He now wanted to let out a long howl to vent this joy in his heart:
Cultivation is within reach, returning home is hopeful, and longevity is foreseeable!