Chapter 214: Spring Silkworm

While cultivating bitterly, Jiang Xincheng also studied the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant. After many days of study, Jiang Xincheng finally understood the first three layers of the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant. In recent days, he thoroughly mastered the first three layers and prepared to start practicing.

The Thousand Refinements Spirit Tempering Method had reached its peak perfection for Jiang Xincheng, laying the strongest foundation for his Spiritual Sense. The speed at which the Thousand Refinements Spirit Tempering Method absorbed Spiritual Sense was only close to medium. Its main role was to build a foundation, establishing the most powerful Spiritual Sense base for Jiang Xincheng.

Now that the goal was achieved, the Thousand Refinements Spirit Tempering Method began to hinder Jiang Xincheng’s rapid Spiritual Sense progress. So it was time to change to a different Spiritual Sense cultivation method. This Spiritual Sense cultivation method was one of the top-tier methods from the Golden Age of Primordial Force cultivation in his previous life.

Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant!

A Celestial Grade, Upper Tier Spiritual Sense cultivation method, only one step away from the Divine Grade. Its speed in cultivating Spiritual Sense was incredibly fast. If practiced to peak perfection, it was recognized as the fastest Spiritual Sense cultivation method on Earth.

As the name suggests, while practicing, it could form a strange Spiritual Sense entity inside the body that resembled a spring silkworm. It was entirely made from the purest Spiritual Sense combined with the soul, just like many spring silkworms.

Once successfully cultivated, these Spiritual Sense entities would devour a strange external force like silkworms eating mulberry leaves, converting it into Spiritual Sense Power and storing it in Jiang Xincheng’s Spirit Sense Sea.

The Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant was divided into nine layers. Each layer allowed the cultivation of nine silkworms. Nine layers meant eighty-one silkworms. Each silkworm increased Spiritual Sense speed as fast as an average Primordial Warrior of the same rank relying on Primordial Force to naturally nurture Spiritual Sense Power.

That meant if Jiang Xincheng could cultivate the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant to the peak perfection of eighty-one silkworms, his Spiritual Sense improvement speed would be eighty-one times that of a Primordial Warrior of the same rank. What a staggering difference.

The speed at which the silkworms absorbed external force and enhanced Spiritual Sense Power was comparable to Jiang Xincheng’s current speed using the Thousand Refinements Spirit Tempering Method. One could imagine how fast the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant cultivated Spiritual Sense.

After preparing, Jiang Xincheng began to practice the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant.

The hardest part of practicing the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant was combining Spiritual Sense Power with the soul to form a Spiritual Sense entity resembling a silkworm. The more of these Spiritual Sense entities there were, the greater the pressure on the Spirit Sense Sea, and the harder they were to form. So the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant became more difficult to practice as one advanced, while the early stages were relatively easier.

However, there were gains and losses. Although these Spiritual Sense entity silkworms pressured the Spirit Sense Sea, they also tempered the Spiritual Sense and soul through this pressure. The more silkworms there were, the stronger the tempering of Spiritual Sense and soul, making the Practitioner’s Spiritual Sense and soul increasingly pure and powerful.

Once practiced beyond the third layer, the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant’s refining effect on Spiritual Sense was no less than the Thousand Refinements Spirit Tempering Method. Most importantly, the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant could also refine the soul, something the Thousand Refinements Spirit Tempering Method could not do. One could imagine how formidable the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant was.

The first layer’s practice method of the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant flowed slowly in his mind. Jiang Xincheng started operating the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant in his Spirit Sense Sea and began forming the first silkworm.

Operating Spiritual Sense methods required the utmost care and caution because the soul was there. A slight mistake could not only harm the brain but also damage the soul, causing irreparable injuries. How could Jiang Xincheng not be cautious?

Time passed. Jiang Xincheng slowly transformed the Thousand Refinements Spirit Tempering Method into the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant. He began operating it according to the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant’s circulation path, bit by bit, strand by strand… as slow as a snail.

After an unknown amount of time, Jiang Xincheng finally changed the circulation path from the Thousand Refinements Spirit Tempering Method to that of the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant. There was no conflict between the two, which was why Jiang Xincheng could switch so quickly. If not for this, Jiang Xincheng would not have chosen the Thousand Refinements Spirit Tempering Method as his Spiritual Sense Foundation Building method earlier.

Jiang Xincheng chose the Thousand Refinements Spirit Tempering Method precisely to practice the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant. Not only did they not conflict, but they also subtly complemented each other.

The Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant had started operating, so next was condensing the Spiritual Sense entity, the silkworm. Jiang Xincheng became even more cautious and careful, his expression unprecedentedly serious and focused.

Although the silkworm was just a Spiritual Sense entity, its body structure was extremely complex. Otherwise, it could not absorb the external strange force and convert it into Spiritual Sense Power so quickly. Condensing it was extremely difficult.

Fortunately, Jiang Xincheng’s Spiritual Sense Power had reached the late General Realm, and his Soul Flame had turned milky white. His foundation was quite strong, making condensation much easier than for most people.

Egg, larva, pupa, adult!

These were the four stages of a silkworm. The Spiritual Sense entity silkworm cultivated by the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant also had to go through these four stages. Each stage was difficult, and any problem would lead to failure.

As the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant operated, Jiang Xincheng controlled a thin strand of Soul Flame and infused it into his Spiritual Sense. Just as it was about to form an egg, unexpectedly, the Soul Flame was a tiny bit too much, instantly turning into a mess. The first attempt to condense the egg failed.

Jiang Xincheng was prepared for failure and did not lose heart. He started condensing the egg again. Only a few minutes later, he failed again because the Spiritual Sense Power was a tiny bit too little.

Then the third failure… the fourth failure… the fifth failure… up to the one hundredth failure.

Even though he had understood the first three layers of the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant, it was still very difficult when it came to actual practice.

Just to form one egg, Jiang Xincheng failed a full one thousand times. This showed how hard it was to practice the Silkworm Devours the Sun Chant. After the egg formed, the next step was the larva.

Breaking out of the egg to become a larva was even harder. Even though Jiang Xincheng was prepared for a long battle, he did not expect to fail over two thousand six hundred times before completing the process from egg to larva.

Then came becoming a pupa and finally an adult. He did not know how many times he failed or how many times he had to start over. Jiang Xincheng only knew it was at least over ten thousand times, and he still had not formed the first Spiritual Sense entity silkworm.

Fortunately, having experienced so much pain and despair in his previous life, Jiang Xincheng did not lack persistence and determination. He failed once and tried again, failed again and continued… In this cycle, time passed bit by bit, and the New Year drew nearer.

After failing tens of thousands of times, Jiang Xincheng finally found the trick. Success was getting closer. Once the first Spiritual Sense entity silkworm was successfully condensed, the second and third would be easier, thanks to the experience from the first.

Success was already within sight