Chapter 2017 - 84: Leap (Part 2)

To cultivate the Star Pattern, a formation is naturally available to Huan Cai, and it’s more advanced compared to those used by others outside, as she is a Great Grandmaster in this field. When it comes to Star Pattern abilities, she may claim second place, but no one would dare to claim first.

Huan Cai generously set up her Nurturing Array and arranged a series of plans for Zhang Xiaoman to quickly enhance the nurturing of his Star Pattern. She didn’t charge any additional fees for this, treating it as compensation for the accidental material loss earlier.

Zhang Xiaoman did not hesitate, and immediately began the process. Now his Star Pattern Imprint has significantly advanced, because the time spent imprinting the Star Pattern was only half a month, which greatly surprised him, who had originally prepared for a fifty-year plan.

However, speaking of surprise, it’s only personal for him. To outsiders, regardless of how long he spent in this time crevice, it was merely a fleeting moment. This feeling gradually grew on Zhang Xiaoman, who found cultivating here akin to exploiting a bug, without worrying about missing the outside demonic tide. After all, he has an Undying Body, allowing him to cultivate as long as he desires. It’s no exaggeration to say that even if he cultivated here until the end of time and emerged when reaching the Upper Transcendent level, it wouldn’t be an issue.

Of course, the prerequisite for this is that the Demon Princess is able to consistently maintain this state. Zhang Xiaoman naturally doesn’t expect such a possibility, he just hopes to utilize the time here as efficiently as possible to quickly enhance his strength.

While this method seems like a shortcut, only he can actually accomplish it, due to a significant drawback associated with using this method for cultivation. The first point is that the cost of opening the time crevice is enormous; except for beings like the Demon Princess, ordinary cultivators cannot sustain it long-term.

Furthermore, the most critical condition is that cultivation in this time crevice does not greatly help with gaining new insight into the Dark Spiritual Power Sequence; in fact, it severely hinders communication efficiency. This is because the Dark Spiritual Power Particles in the time crevice are not active. After reaching the Extraordinary Level, one can’t take shortcuts like before during cultivation and must advance step by step. Without communicating the Dark Spirit Particles of the previous sequence, the subsequent sequence’s particles cannot be communicated. Thus, it’s not that others don’t know about this fast-track method for enhancing strength, it’s just practically unfeasible, as no matter how long they cultivate here, the realm will not advance, and simply increasing the Spiritual Power limit becomes increasingly difficult, limited by the realm. It’s only Zhang Xiaoman’s unique condition that allows this method to be used.

This time, his goal is to complete the nurturing of the Star Pattern. According to Huan Cai’s guidance, to complete the nurturing of the fifth Star Pattern, a minimum of 1000 years is required.

years, a figure that’s astronomical for Zhang Xiaoman.

For other cultivators, 1000 years might just be a small segment of their long life, but for Zhang Xiaoman, his actual lifespan so far is just over 90, not even one-tenth of 1000 years—showing the high difficulty of nurturing.

However, this 1000 years is only efficient within the large formation set up by Huan Cai. With a normal nurturing method, the time would increase fivefold, thus 5000 years. And without any nurturing, simply relying on self-absorption, the duration would be even longer. Huan Cai didn’t even provide a rough estimate, opting instead for an expression indicating to understand it yourself. This made Zhang Xiaoman lose the urge to continue asking.

The Demon Princess, when needing to maintain the time crevice for 1000 years, agreed without a word, and Zhang Xiaoman didn’t catch even a hint of difficulty on her face. Throughout, she remained calm and unaffected, as if maintaining the time crevice for 1000 years was just an insignificant task.

Zhang Xiaoman nodded solemnly. Well, since the Demon Princess has no issues, what reason does he have for hesitation? After all, it’s just 1000 years of cultivation. Given his current mindset, it’s not a tough task.

Soon, with the Demon Princess’s time manipulation, Zhang Xiaoman embarked on the nurturing journey.

This time, unlike when imprinting the Star Pattern earlier, because the exertion was all on Huan Cai, he didn’t feel the passage of time, and it ended quickly.

However, now the situation is different. Nurturing the Star Pattern isn’t as simple as merely closing one’s eyes to meditate. He needs to constantly touch the Spiritual Power within his body, using it to connect and communicate with the Star Pattern, guiding it gently throughout his body, thereby comprehensively improving his abilities and physical strength.

During this process, as physical strength improves, it’s accompanied by considerable pain.

Thus, these 1000 years are not easy to endure. But this kind of opportunity is rare, with a prominent figure like the Demon Princess assisting him; Zhang Xiaoman doesn’t want to miss out and regret later.

Outside the time crevice, Ni Yang and Huan Cai are naturally unwilling to foolishly wait inside for 1000 years. With just a mutual exchange of glances, Zhang Xiaoman has already completed the nurturing and reappeared before them.