Behind the imperial city, towering ancient trees cast deep shadows, their lush branches intertwining to cut sunlight into tiny dappled spots that fall to the ground.
The flowers and plants here are exceptionally vibrant, and the air is filled with a faint fragrance of grass and trees.
At this moment, Xia Zihan stood there, a pure purple glow slowly flowing out from her dantian, flowing along her meridians, and finally gathering in her palm.
Once the spiritual energy appeared, it spread rapidly through the air like nimble threads, extending in all directions.
Time passed second by second, and suddenly, a faint chirping sound came from the distant void.
As the cry rang out, it was accompanied by a powerful surge of spiritual energy. A purple light streak swept through the void, its form enormous and graceful, its wings spreading out like a flowing purple cloud.
This light and shadow is none other than the Purple Radiant Heavenly Phoenix, ranked eighty-fifth on the list of all beasts!
After the Purple Luan appeared, it circled in the air for a while before landing in front of Xia Zihan.
It lowered its head and gently nuzzled Xia Zihan's body with its massive head, its eyes filled with affection. Xia Zihan smiled and also reached out to gently stroke the Purple Radiance Heavenly Phoenix's head.
After a moment of intimacy, Xia Zihan had a sudden thought and conveyed her idea of signing a contract to Ziyao Tianluan.
The Purple Radiance Heavenly Phoenix seemed to be slightly taken aback, then raised its huge head and let out a long cry towards the sky. The sound was high-pitched and far-reaching, as if it were expressing its agreement.
At the same time, an incredibly solid purple soul mark appeared on its forehead. The instant this mark appeared, the somewhat ethereal life contract within Xia Zihan's body also manifested and then merged into the purple soul mark.
Seeing Xia Zihan successfully establish a formal contract with the Purple Radiance Heavenly Phoenix, Xia Chaozong, who was in the distance, felt somewhat worried.
It's important to understand that signing a contract is an ability unique to the Soul Contract Realm. Firstly, signing a contract requires a vast amount of spiritual energy to establish the bridge between the parties; secondly, it requires the divine soul that can only be born at the Soul Contract Realm.
The Divine Soul is the most core manifestation of a cultivator's soul, and its birth symbolizes a qualitative leap in the cultivator's control over their own soul power. Only by possessing a Divine Soul can one accurately utilize the power of a Beast Soul after establishing a connection with it.
Xia Zihan has not yet reached that level, but if there is enough spiritual energy, coupled with the Purple Radiance Heavenly Phoenix's lack of resistance, she can barely establish a preliminary contract as long as there is enough spiritual energy.
However, after the contract was signed, since no divine soul was born, the power that could be used was extremely limited. But judging from the Purple Radiance Heavenly Phoenix's ranking of the top 100, even if the power that could be borrowed was weak, it was more than enough to deal with ordinary early-stage Soul Contract Realm experts!
Thinking of this, Xia Chaozong nodded. Seeing this, Xia Qingwan waved her hand, and several rare resources appeared in front of her before merging into the void above Xia Zihan's head.
In an instant, beams of light, like nimble rays, emerged from the void and quickly spread in all directions.
As the rune light spread, the spirit-gathering array set up last night began to frantically absorb the spiritual energy within a radius of dozens of miles.
Countless strands of spiritual energy converged on Xia Zihan and Ziyao Tianluan like a surging tide. This tide of spiritual energy came with great force, making a rushing sound as it flowed, like a stream.
As the spiritual energy approached them, it began to swirl around them, gathering more and more, spinning faster and faster, until finally forming a huge vortex of spiritual energy around them.
"From now on, all we need to do is add materials from time to time to prevent the spirit-gathering array from dissipating. The rest can only be left to Xiao Jiu..."
After doing all this, the crowd spread out not far away, silently protecting Xia Zihan.
Time flies, and three days have passed in the blink of an eye. On a high mountain behind the imperial city, Qin Luo gazed at Xia Zihan's figure in the distance, looking at the increasingly deep purple contract, and thought to himself that success should be imminent.
Then his eyes flashed, and with a wave of his hand, a nearly transparent spiritual energy barrier enveloped the mountain peak.
This barrier is almost imperceptible unless you consciously try to perceive it; it blends perfectly with the surrounding environment.
After it was all over, Qin Luo sat cross-legged inside, quietly waiting for the moment when Xia Zihan would successfully sign the contract.
Fortunately, Xia Zihan didn't keep Qin Luo waiting too long. After an incense stick's time, a clear and high-pitched phoenix cry resounded through the valley, echoing for miles around and reaching the clouds.
With that phoenix cry, a dazzling purple contract emerged between Xia Zihan and the Purple Radiance Heavenly Luan. The contract, like tangible characters, dyed the surrounding area a brilliant purple.
The surrounding spiritual energy surged and danced wildly.
The Purple Phoenix spread its enormous, flowing wings, and with a crisp cry, it transformed into a beam of purple light and merged into the contract. Then, the purple contract slowly returned to Xia Zihan's body.
In an instant, a vast and pure power, centered on the contract, surged towards Xia Zihan's limbs and bones.
The spiritual nourishment given to the Purple Radiance Celestial Phoenix over the past few years has been completely returned with the signing of the contract!
With the support of spiritual energy, Xia Zihan's cultivation level began to rise rapidly. Starting from the first stage of the Spirit Vortex Realm, the spiritual vortex within her Qi Sea spun rapidly like a wild horse.
With each breakthrough in a minor realm, she could feel the spiritual vortex within her body spinning faster, and the purity of her spiritual energy becoming more concentrated.
Second stage, third stage... the speed of spiritual energy feedback showed no signs of slowing down, continuously providing her with ample spiritual energy for her breakthrough. The surrounding space was slightly distorted due to the high concentration of spiritual energy, and ripples of spiritual energy spread outwards like waves.
Sixth stage, seventh stage... Finally, when she broke through to the ninth stage of the Spirit Vortex Realm, the spiritual energy vortex around Xia Zihan gradually subsided. At this moment, her skin surface shimmered with a rich purple light, looking like a thick layer of purple armor.
This was due to the inability to perfectly control spiritual energy during a rapid breakthrough, but Xia Zihan felt no anxiety. For others, breaking through several realms at once would cause instability in their foundation, but due to her special physique, this would not happen to her.
Her Purple Star Spiritual Emperor Body can not only continuously nourish and strengthen itself with the Purple Radiance Spiritual Qi, but also continuously refine those illusory spiritual energies during the strengthening process, thus consolidating its foundation and cultivating its essence.
This is also the biggest guarantee that she dared to break through to the ninth level of the Spirit Vortex Realm in one go!
As Xia Zihan successfully broke through to the ninth level of the Spirit Vortex Realm, on a distant mountain peak, Qin Luo was gritting his teeth and desperately circulating the Myriad Manifestations Return to One Technique, devouring all the spiritual energy flowing out of the void into his Qi Sea, in order to prevent others from discovering the anomaly here.
At the same time, a series of system notifications kept echoing in his mind...
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