novelThe Immortal Core
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Unable to do anything, Qin Feng was directly washed down the hillside.
No matter how hard he struggled, the stream seemed to be bottomless. It dragged him along and three hours would pass before he could stand firm again.
"It looks like we're back where we were before, here I can open up space again!"
As a spatial beast, Bai Li was very sensitive to spatial shifts so she immediately told Qin Feng where he was.
"Hm, that's fine. We'll continue tomorrow!"
That was the only thing he could do, the water was proving to be putting up too much resistance. He moved forward with difficulty and could only reach until he was submerged up to his neck. After a night of absorbing energy, the tide came again.
This time, when the tide was retreating, he returned to that slope and it allowed him to collect the Hell stones.
Since there were powerful beasts that lingered around that slope, Qin Feng did not dare to try them. He could only continuously collect Hell Stones and manage to get a bit further before he was pushed away. Fortunately, he was able to return to that slope very quickly when the tide was low.
After seven to eight days, Qin Feng drifted through and fro with the stream. The amount that he earned would drive anyone insane.
His current consciousness possessed more than five thousand Hell Stones.
In the stream, with only his head exposed, his consciousness continued to grow and finally reached a critical point.
"Almost, just a little bit more!"
Qin Feng's heart roared, the whirlpool that was his Absorption Ability was swirling faster and faster.
Suddenly the conscious realm made a clicking sound, as if it had entered a new state.
A9-tier!
Qin Feng had ranked up again!
At this moment, the stream stopped washing over him and its current began to recede. He followed the current and traveled forward again.
His consciousness had increased and it allowed him better perception of the dangers around him.
One by one, he sailed past powerful Death Behemoths with S-tier auras.
The tide suddenly rose and Qin Feng realised that he did not reach the slope this time. Not only that, while he could sense Bai Li's presence, the two could not communicate with one another.
He was alarmed, his consciousness stretched out and he realized that he had entered a new place.
This was definitely not Dragonspine Valley, instead he had gone over that slope and reappeared on the other side.
Not only that, the flowing stream had turned into a whirlpool that existed in the deep ocean. It swirled around enough to be a significant force but not enough to be too powerful in one direction.
He felt as if he had just entered a vast sea.
The surroundings made him suddenly come to a realization.
"Could it be that I have just entered Bahamut's brain!"
When it came to reaching the level of an Immortal, after death, this was no longer considered as just a 'brain' but instead a limited existence that came from the realm of consciousness and this one was absolutely massive.
However, there was one piece of information Qin Feng found to be very good news, which was that there were no Death Behemoths here.
However, he was not out of the woods yet. He realized that he was unable to move and could only drift along with this vortex at the bottom of the sea!
The scariest thing was that, with his current power, he actually felt very, very weak.
He did not thrash about, maintaining a level of calmness and quietly soaking in the dark sea around him.
The immense energy around him was getting absorbed..
One day, two days...
Three days, four days...
Five days, six days...
Nine days, ten days...
Qin Feng no longer knew where he was drifting to, but his consciousness was constantly growing.
In ten days' time, his consciousness had gotten infinitely closer to S-tier.
The consciousness needed for A9-tier to reach S-tier was ten times of what was needed to go from A8-tier to A9-tier, but after drifting in this sea of energy for ten days, Qin Feng was getting close. It was a testament to just how abundant and powerful the energy was.
At this moment, the drifting Qin Feng suddenly felt something different in his consciousness.
He suddenly opened his eyes and the abundant energy around him could not stop him from viewing the world around him. In the distance, a massive planet entered his line of sight.
"The Immortal's core!"
The Heavens would reward those who tried, he was actually here.
Moreover, this starglobe was a shocking sight.
The Snow Lady's ice starglobe was already huge enough, but maybe with the passage of time, energy dispersed and as time passed the ice starglobe got smaller and smaller. It was a three-hundred-meter in diameter Sacred Ice Stone.
The one in front of him was nine hundred meters in diameter.
Three times that of the ice starglobe.
The waves pushed Qin Feng closer and closer toward the starglobe. His Absorption Ability became more and more frantic, as if he wanted to consume the whole planet.
However, he knew that he could not do so or he would risk implosion.
When he drifted closer, his constantly rising consciousness suddenly burst through a new height.
S-tier!
His consciousness suddenly increased to an innumerable amount, while strange changes happened in his conscious realm.
Boom!
The Sacred Flame Stone that he had before was the first to explode, turning into flaming magma and falling onto his fire starglobe.
The starglobe's surface began to expand in volume as a flood of magma was added to its mass.
Boom boom boom boom boom!
The more than three thousand Sacred Ice Stones contained in his conscious realm also exploded, forming into snow and then frost as it covered the ice starglobe, causing its size to instantly increase tenfold.
The original size of this ice starglobe was about the same size as a fingernail, about one centimeter in diameter, but it had become ten centimeters in diameter!
In an instant, Qin Feng sensed that this starglobe was only truly promoted to S-tier at this time, and he technically had ice abilities that had gone beyond S-tier.
In fact, he had collected a lot of Sacred Ice Stones, when combined it would definitely make the starglobe more than ten centimeters wide. However, the current explosion before the merge was to eliminate repeated runes and condense the extra ones.
The starglobe became almost three times smaller than its initial size, but this was enough to mark Qin Feng as an S-tier ice ability user.
He did not expect that this would be the case.
"No wonder people use Sacred Stones like currency, they are like power credits, you can directly use them to improve yourself!"
"Wait, then, what about my dark crystal core? What would that be like?"
Surrounding the primary dark starglobe were tens of thousands of Hell Stones. They popped up one after another and then merged into the starglobe.
The diameter of this starglobe started to wildly expand.
However, this was not even close to satisfying Qin Feng's needs.
The Absorption Ability surged forth again, as if expressing its will, as if wanting to consume the Immortal's core in front of him!
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