Chapter 552: Chapter 552: The System Says, Guess
It was only then that Jiang Xiaobai suddenly understood. Of course!

The ultimate spirit is the power of the seven principles. In other words, Jiang Xiaobai had already fully reached the celestial limit!

Upon further reflection, Jiang Xiaobai suddenly realized that he had been pushing his limits all along!

Others have only three sub-realms per major realm, but he, Jiang Xiaobai had an ultimate major realm!

He had unknowingly reached the limits!

And now, the heavenly spirit that was supposed to accommodate only seven powers of law had been overstretched by him, forcing him to accommodate seven more!

Overall, he had somewhat pushed beyond what was normally possible!

And this was exactly why he could fight above his level without the slightest effort.

After the surprise, Jiang Xiaobai proceeded to inspect the status of his own spirit, but his mind went blank!

How did his spirit turn black and purple?

Not only black and purple, but he could even catch a faint glimpse of blue sparkle in it?

A closer sense even carried a shocking message.

“System, what’s happening with my spirit?”

Jiang Xiaobai asked blankly.

“Host’s spirit has exceeded the celestial limit and become a supreme existence.”

“Hmm? Explain it more clearly!”

“Host’s spirit manifests the power of Zixiao Divine Thunder.”

Ha!

Jiang Xiaobai couldn’t help but laugh out loud!

‘Manifested the power of Zixiao Divine Thunder?’ he thought. ‘Doesn’t that mean I’m invincible now?’

“Even so,”, continued the system, “the Host should not let success go to his head. When the day comes for you to endure the Thunder Tribulation, you will understand,”

Jiang Xiaobai rolled his eyes, ‘Endure the Thunder Tribulation?’ he thought.

‘For now, I’m just in the Divided Spirit Realm, and to my knowledge, there hasn’t been a single stage that necessitates the endurance of a Thunder Tribulation.’

That was something he couldn’t even fathom right now, so there was no point in thinking too much about it.

But the bottomless curiosity within his heart got the better of him.

Having nothing to lose, Jiang Xiaobai straightforwardly asked, “At what stage will I have to endure the Thunder Tribulation?”

This time, the system didn’t respond right away. For some reason, Jiang Xiaobai felt a lump in his chest, sensing something was amiss.

“System, don’t scare me, okay? I’m not well-read!”

“Take a guess.”

Hearing the system’s voice, Jiang Xiaobai felt a wave of frustration. This system, is it messing with me?

However, even though he was a bit peeved, Jiang Xiaobai didn’t pay it too much mind.

After all, he didn’t believe that he could endure the Thunder Tribulation so soon. That would be unscientific.

Next, Jiang Xiaobai decided not to overthink things. As his celestial spirit changed, so did his spiritual power.

The color of his spiritual power now perfectly matched that of his celestial spirit, and the intensity of the power was intimidatingly strong!

Jiang Xiaobai even had the illusion that with just a bit of effort, he could easily obliterate the world!

“Phew, there’s half a month left. It’s definitely enough time to reach the Unity Period.”

Jiang Xiaobai chuckled. His absorption rate of immortal stones was frighteningly high now.

He took out all his immortal stones and essence and began to silently operate the Kunpeng Swallowing Sky Skill.

He had thought that the results would be similar to before, but when he started to absorb, he was immediately stunned!

The absorption rate was completely different from before, it was at least a few thousand times slower!

That is to say, to achieve the previous effect, he would need to spend at least a thousand times more resources!

Jiang Xiaobai realized that this must be related to his current Zixiao Divine Thunder spirit. Because of this spirit, his spiritual power was significantly different.

Just like before, if you want to replenish a redwood pencil, you need more redwood. You absolutely cannot use wood shavings!

At the moment, Jiang Xiaobai was racking his brains. He only had over 20,000 immortal stones in his hand. These 20,000 stones would be consumed in less than ten minutes.

But the problem was that once absorbed, there wouldn’t be much of an enhancement!

Although he was at the peak of the Great Circle of the Divided Spirit Realm, he was still quite a distance from the Unity Period. Insisting on an upgrade was difficult.

Jiang Xiaobai felt a headache coming on. His resources were clearly insufficient.

He had also tried to cultivate using spirit stones, but the effect was minimal, completely useless.

There was still some time before Gu Ning’s final deadline. If the current situation remained, it was clear that he would surely get beaten again.

While his strength had increased hundreds of times from before, his realm hadn’t met the standard after all.

After thinking for a while, Jiang Xiaobai resolutely left the practice room. When he went out, Ao Yan and the others were still not out, and the courtyard was quiet.

It was the middle of the night.

For some reason, Jiang Xiaobai suddenly wanted to go out and stir up some trouble. He was eager to reap some benefits from entrants like the Hai Xianzong, Towards Heaven Sect or Sky Demon Sect.

These sects surely possessed immortal stones. He didn’t care about the quantity but he was sure that robbing them would yield quite a harvest.

Unfortunately, Gu Ning didn’t let him leave.

As he pushed open the courtyard gate, he saw the fellow still guarding outside.

“Young Master, you cannot leave the courtyard,” he said.

“I know, go and tell my master, ask her if she has any Immortal Stones. My cultivation resources are insufficient,” Jiang Xiaobai replied.

Upon hearing his words, the man nodded and asked, “How many Immortal Stones does the Young Master need?”

“Hmm, fifty thousand?”

The man stood still for quite a while. If it weren’t for Jiang Xiaobai calling out twice, he wouldn’t have snapped out of it.

He thought, ‘Fifty thousand Immortal Stones?’

‘Has he gone mad?!’

‘This young master truly doesn’t know the value of firewood, rice, oil, and salt. Immortal Stones are incredibly precious!’

“This,” he stuttered, “Young Master, isn’t the number a bit too high? We probably won’t have that many.”

“You go and ask her first,” Jiang Xiaobai replied.

“Okay,” he agreed, leaving with an embarrassed look on his face. From the way he walked, one could see that he was really nervous.

After all, fifty thousand Immortal Stones was quite a large number.

But to Jiang Xiaobai’s astonishment, he returned very quickly, and the look he gave Jiang Xiaobai was filled with shock.

“Young Master, here are the Immortal Stones from the Grand Supreme.”

Jiang Xiaobai nodded, took the storage ring, and went straight back to his room, examining the number of Immortal Stones as he moved.

Originally, he thought Gu Ning would give him just a few tens of thousands. To his surprise, she crazily gave him five hundred thousand Immortal Stones!

When Jiang Xiaobai was aware of this, he was a bit stunned.

‘Where on earth did she get so many Immortal Stones from?’

“Sigh, it seems that Gu Ning’s status is even more frightening than I had imagined,” whispered Jiang Xiaobai. Although he was surprised by Gu Ning’s status, he wasn’t worried about the Immortal Stones at all.

‘I’ll use them for now and pay her back later,’ he thought. ‘Five hundred thousand isn’t quite much; it’s possible I could get that from a single raid.’

After that, he blocked out the outside world, took out the Immortal Stones, and started absorbing them. As soon as he finished with one, he replaced it with another.

Thus, five days passed.