However, Wang Nan did not remain immersed in the "starry sky" for long. All the insights into space gained during his cultivation now converged. A celestial mountain seemed to emerge behind him, and a vast mental force surged from his glabella. The space before him rapidly receded.
The solidified spirit power between his palms had already coalesced and stabilized completely.
The very center was pitch black, appearing empty, but Wang Nan could feel an invisible bridge connecting it to himself. Undoubtedly, this was the spirit core he had formed.
Surrounding the spirit core, solid spirit power particles, liquid spirit power, and gaseous spirit power were mixed together. Pale golden light, like countless arms, slowly rotated around the spirit core, resembling the Milky Way in the starry sky.
As the spirit core and the three states of spirit power around it slowly rotated, the surrounding world's elemental energy surged into it.
Wang Nan raised his left hand and placed it together with his right palm below the spirit core. His hands slowly lifted, and the spirit core in his hands gradually rose.
The Evil Breaking Dragon circled Wang Nan once, then suddenly opened its mouth and took the spirit core into its maw. A Dragon's roar echoed through the clouds, and the Evil Breaking Dragon's body glowed brightly. The next moment, it, along with the spirit core, burrowed into Wang Nan's glabella.
He did not choose the lower Dantian, which is the easiest place to absorb a spirit core, but rather the glabella.
The first spirit core can be formed without any interference, but subsequent spirit cores increase in difficulty and danger. Therefore, the first spirit core must be placed in the most important glabella position. Even if the formation of other spirit cores fails in the future, the backlash will not cause too much damage.
The moment the spirit core entered his glabella, a powerful and violent force erupted in Wang Nan's sea of consciousness. His long hair turned golden and floated behind him. Streams of golden light converged into dragon-scale shapes, similar to the Evil Breaking Dragon, covering his entire body.
With the Coiling Dragon Staff in his hand, Wang Nan's eyes were tightly closed as he merged the spirit core into his upper Dantian.
Just then, an ethereal nine-colored mist lit up on the surface of Life Lake, and light of the same color rose from the lake water and fell upon Wang Nan.
In his sea of consciousness, Wang Nan felt his mental force sharply increase. The pressure around him suddenly eased, and his mental force surged into the Evil Breaking Dragon's body. As the Evil Breaking Dragon and the spirit core in its mouth simultaneously glowed golden, a formidable aura erupted from Wang Nan.
Subsequently, all the aura in his body completely retracted. At first glance, Wang Nan seemed to be sitting in place, yet also not in this world.
The surrounding storm finally calmed down. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion peeked its head out from behind Di Tian, staring at Wang Nan with its three eyes, then seemed to withdraw its gaze as if afraid of disturbing him.
"Master."
Di Tian had already noticed the changes in Life Lake and bowed in salute toward the lake.
"Di Tian, I will end my slumber and emerge from seclusion early."
"Master, why?"
"Time waits for no one. If this situation continues, the Dragon God's power will no longer belong to us Spirit Beasts before my seclusion ends."
"Master, can you wait a little longer?" Di Tian said, glancing at Wang Nan, who was in meditation. "Perhaps there are other ways to heal your injuries."
Wang Nan did not hear the external conversation. His consciousness had already appeared in a vast and boundless starry sky.
One reason Titled Douluo can use the power of space is due to the insights gained during the formation of their spirit core.
And now, Wang Nan was using this opportunity to experience the power of space.
His mind was completely focused on what was before him.
Brilliant starlight was embedded in the firmament, golden-hued starlight twinkling in the air, flowing like a river from one end of the sky to the other.
He could no longer feel where his body was, but he could clearly perceive that things that were previously invisible and intangible now seemed to have substance. With a single step, he was already at the other end of the celestial river.
Wherever his gaze reached, his body followed. One moment, a nebula was gradually condensing into a true star; the next, he was already elsewhere, watching stars die and become eternal relics in the universe.
Not only the power of space, but Wang Nan could also feel another unique and powerful force affecting him. The starry universe before him was constantly changing, from creation to destruction, and then new life emerging from the wreckage.
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After an unknown period, when Wang Nan awoke from deep meditation again, he only felt that his hair seemed to have grown quite a bit longer.
Beside him, only Di Tian was sitting with his eyes closed, absorbing the world's elemental energy.
Wang Nan curiously looked at him a few more times. Di Tian's cultivation was different from that of a Spirit Master. He did not have a cultivation technique or meditation method like a Spirit Master. His spirit power cultivation was simply a crude absorption of the world's elemental energy into his body, which he then forcefully converted into spirit power through continuous circulation.
"You're awake."
Di Tian noticed Wang Nan's gaze. Without even getting up, he instantly appeared before Wang Nan.
But the current Wang Nan was different from before; he could now capture the spatial fluctuations around Di Tian.
Di Tian did not wait for Wang Nan to speak. With a single hand, he presented a string of bracelets. The teardrop-shaped crystals on them remained, emitting a faint nine-colored glow as they approached Wang Nan.
Wang Nan put on the bracelet while glancing at Life Lake.
"When can you bring the method for using the Life Crystal?"
So urgent?
However, Wang Nan could understand. If there were no other factors, the Silver Dragon King in the Life Lake would need at least ten thousand years to fully recover. By then, who knew what might happen.
"I'll go ask, but I can only say there's a chance. I can't guarantee it."
Di Tian simply nodded.
Without further delay, Wang Nan took a step, and his figure was already several hundred meters away. After a few more steps, he had already walked out of the core area of the Star Dou Great Forest.
It was early morning when Wang Nan left the Star Dou Great Forest. The sun had just risen from the east, casting an orange-red glow upon him.
He looked up at the sky, and a smile finally appeared on his lips.
From now on, he was one of those who could be called a strong person on this continent.
A golden flash, the Coiling Dragon Staff in his hand. Eight spirit rings—yellow, yellow, purple, gold, black, black, gold, red—rose around him.
If a Spirit Master possesses the mental force of a Titled Douluo, the physical strength of a Titled Douluo, the spirit core only a Titled Douluo has, and even a red spirit ring that not even all Titled Douluo possess, then he is a Titled Douluo.
Space around him rippled, and Wang Nan's figure headed toward Shrek Academy.