I Was Forced To Marry The Phoenix Empress-Chapter 198: Discovery

’Status Panel!’ Yi Chen exclaimed in his mind.

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=== Godly Cultivator System ===

Name: Yi Chen

Age: 18 years

Strength: 180

Spiritual Sea: 10 -> 10.5

Qi Pool: 9 / 332 [Recovery Time: 24 days]

Cultivation: Fifth Level of [Meridian Refinement Stage]

Qi Nature: Fire

Innate Ability: Eye of Truth Lv1 (Passive) [Progress: 920-> 10,920 / 100,000 EXP]

[Cultivation Arsenal]

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"There it is..." he muttered with eyes filled with disbelief while glancing at the stat.

’Doesn’t the spiritual sea only open after one enters the Qi Absorption Stage...’

As this thought entered his mind, his breathing turned hurried.

"Doesn’t that mean that the more ghostly beasts I’ll slay, the greater my spiritual sea will become?" Yi Chen muttered in excitement as the glow in his eyes brightened.

Remembering how easily his Qi flames were able to kill a grade 9 beast, he was sure he would be able to increase it by a large margin. However, at the same time, a question started to surface in his mind.

’Just how was I able to injure the ghostly beast, which is immune to all Qi attacks? Even though the flames conjured from the Crimson Fire Arts do not consume my own innate Qi, they still consume the Spiritual Qi in the surroundings...’

He was sure that Gao Zhen, with all her strong background and connections, wouldn’t provide him with wrong information, so it only meant one thing.

’It’s definitely related to the Crimson Fire Arts...’

He concluded in his mind.

Feng Lei’s words from before echoed in his mind the next moment.

’The origin of the Crimson Fire Arts lies within the Valley of Death...’ (A/N: Chapter 127)

"It looks like I’ll have to explore that place myself if I want to get to the depth of this mystery...However, all that could wait for now."

As Yi Chen finished those words, a wide grin formed on his face.

His eyes locked on the towering black pillar of light, which was now more visible than before thanks to the destruction caused by the beast.

"It’s time for the hunter to become the hunted." Yi Chen recovered his sword the next instant and started making his way towards the black pillar.

His motive was simple. To slay as many of these ghostly beasts as possible while making his way towards the tomb’s core.

He didn’t need to wait for long, as just five minutes later, a ghostly beast lunged towards him.

’Like hell I’m going to engage with you physically,’ Yi Chen sneered gleefully, and the next instant covered the boar-like beast in flames.

Ding!

Successfully slain a Grade 5 Indomitable Horned Boar (Remnant Soul)!

+ 1000 EXP!

+ 0.001 Spiritual Energy

"Eeeh? So low?!" Yi Chen couldn’t help but exclaim with a confused expression when he saw the spiritual energy he had gained.

The experience points had also decreased substantially, but compared to the reduction in one decimal place, in its case, the spiritual Energy had decreased by a lot.

"Is it because it’s just a Grade 5 Remnant Soul?" He muttered to himself and, to confirm this, started looking for more beasts.

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Ding!

Successfully slain a Grade 7 Crimson Toothed Tiger (Remnant Soul)!

+ 6752 EXP!

+ 0.14 Spiritual Energy!

Ding!

Successfully slain a Grade 6 Nightmare Wolf Beast!

Ding!

Successfully slain a....

Ding!

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Ding!

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Ding!

One after another, he slew all the beasts that came in his path, which allowed him not only to confirm his hypothesis but also to find out a few new things.

"So, using Crimson Fire Arts to conjure attacks always consumed spiritual energy..."

He thought while looking at his status panel. His spiritual energy had dropped significantly.

=== Godly Cultivator System ===

Name: Yi Chen

Age: 18 years

Strength: 180

Spiritual Sea: 2.36 / 10.88 [Recovery: 8 hrs of Sleep]

Qi Pool: 0 / 332 [Recovery Time: 24 days]

Cultivation: Fifth Level of [Meridian Refinement Stage]

Qi Nature: Fire

Innate Ability: Eye of Truth Lv1 (Passive) [Progress: 10,920-> 73,997 / 100,000 EXP]

[Cultivation Arsenal]

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Earlier, he always thought that it was his mental stamina which was being consumed whenever he used the Crimson Fire Arts.

However, now it became clear to him that it wasn’t the mental stamina, but spiritual energy that was being consumed.

’So everyone has a certain minimal spiritual energy within them even though they have not broken through to the Qi Absorption Stage...’

Yi Chen concluded in his mind.

Along with this, he also noticed something strange.

The spiritual energy he gained after slaying the ghostly beasts wasn’t only increasing his spiritual energy in itself.

Along with that, it was also increasing the capacity of his spiritual sea during this period, which had risen from 10 to 10.88 by now.

’Is this because there’s something special about these remnant souls? Or is it natural for the spiritual sea capacity to increase alongside spiritual energy?’

He thought to himself with furrowed brows. However, knowing that he didn’t possess enough information to answer them, he quickly shook those thoughts away.

’Whatever...for now, I know there’s only one thing I need to focus my attention on.’

Yi Chen glanced at the progress in his Innate ability. The EXP points had increased tremendously in the last few hours.

"With this pace...maybe it will level up even before I reach the tomb’s core..."

Yi Chen muttered with a tone of anticipation as he ventured deeper into the forest.

He slew a couple more ghostly beasts, and seeing that his spiritual sea was nearly depleted, he started looking for a place to rest.

"A pond!" he exclaimed with a bright expression when he saw a small pond in the middle of the forest.

Seeing the crystal-clear pond in this humid forest, his first instinct was naturally to take a dip.

However, he immediately resisted that urge.

Using the remaining spiritual energy within his spiritual sea, he used Crimson Fire Arts to envelop the pond’s surface and its periphery in flames.

"No movement at all..."

Yi Chen nodded to himself the next second.

He jumped into the pond the very next instant, which was only waist-deep.

"So, refreshing!" He exclaimed while laughing. The next second, cupping his hands together, he took a sip of the crystal clear water.

’Sweet!’ he exclaimed with beaming eyes.

However, his attention was immediately pulled by the notifications that popped up in front of his eyes.

+5 Spiritual Energy!

+5 Spiritual Qi!

’This!’

The very next instant, he opened his status panel to confirm something.

[Spiritual Sea: 5 / 10.88]

[Qi Pool: 14 / 332]

"!!!"