After two months inside the cave, Oscar reached eight years of age in this new world. If he was in his old world, he would be eighteen years old.
It was also an important day for him to manifest his first essence crystal.
The quality of the essence crystals that he was going to create today would directly affect the height that he could reach, the level he could attain, as a refiner.
He sat quietly in front of the stone chamber. Two months of harnessing ether had raised his power base by a whole level, almost equal to what he had gained from the previous four or five years of refinement.
This slightly surprised the remnant. That must be the reason why the divine archmage said in the book that when harnessing ether here, the lower the power base, the faster the growth rate.
Oscar had been able to practice refinement since the day he came to this world, and he was already very engrossed in it.
After two months of hard work, he had become a bit proficient. He had already exceeded the remnant's original expectations by a great degree.
So, even the guardian was looking forward to the result of Oscar's creating his own essence crystals today.
[Beast Slayer, let's start. Circulate your essence as I showed you. First, open your veins according to the Twilight Skill, and then, activate all the essence in your body]
After a while, Oscar who had been harnessing ether for a week, listened to the remnant as he continued to direct him.
[Now, divide your essence into nine equal parts, and inject them into the acupoints of your feet, knees, ribs, spine, and shoulders]
According to the remnant's words, Oscar used his mental power to inject the divided nine essence into his acupoints, and then held on firmly.
Under the control of the energy, the nine essence slowly circled around the nine acupoints, not dispersing.
He continued to listen to the remnant words.
[Calm down your nerves, and concentrate. Feel the essence changes in these nine places with your heart, feel the stable state of the essence in each place, and feel which group has the most stable essence]
Oscar concentrated attentively. In the acupoints inside his body, the essence was constantly spinning and struggling, trying to rush out of his control.
Gradually, with the passage of time, he felt that the orb of essence on his left shoulder gradually stabilized, and he suddenly relaxed the control on his left shoulder.
Soon, the orb stayed firmly on his left shoulder without being disturbed by his mental force, slowly rotating on its own.
The Remnant also felt that the orb had stabilized.
[Now, focus on the orb on the left shoulder, and gradually integrate its essence]
According to his instructions, Oscar first moved the orb on the right shoulder, which was closest to the left shoulder, over slowly, and then drew out a trace of essence and slowly merged it into the acupoint on his left shoulder.
Suddenly, the orb on his left shoulder swayed slightly after a trace of essence was integrated into it.
Oscar quickly reduced the amount of essence that was integrated into it, and the air mass on the left shoulder stabilized again.
A trace of essence then continuously merged into the orb on the left shoulder, as fine and long as the silk of a spring silkworm.
Slowly, the orb on his left shoulder became bigger and bigger, while the air mass on his right shoulder kept shrinking and finally had nothing left.
After the orb stabilized, Oscar moved the essence orb to his spine. Just like before, a little bit of peeling off, and then a little bit of integration.
[Beast Slayer, as the orb on your left shoulder grows, the amount of essence you're integrating into it can be increased. Just ensure the stability of the orb]
Oscar increased the integration of his essence, and the orb did not shake. Then he tried to integrate the size of the essence little by little, making the speed of integration faster and faster.
When the eighth orb moved over, the orb on the left shoulder had become extremely huge. He divided half of the essence in the eighth orb and infused it in, and then the last half of the essence was also infused into the left shoulder.
At this point, Oscar's innate essence scattered throughout his body had all moved to the essence acupuncture point on his left shoulder, as if a space had been opened up on his left shoulder.
The huge orb of essence was slowly rotating in the essence cave, it seems so calm and natural.
[Good. Now you let the essence from your left shoulder come out little by little, and fuse it in front of you.]
Oscar did what he was told, and a trace of essence suddenly passed through the left shoulder, stopped a foot away from his body, and then began to slowly rotate in mid-air.
With his previous experience, Oscar continued to increase his output of essence with the continuous growth of the essence orb in front of him.
After a full three hours, the last trace of Oscar's essence was immediately output from the left shoulder of his body. This was taking too long.
For an ordinary refiner, it usually took no more than a quarter of an hour to release essence into the body. But for Oscar, he had actually achieved three hours of essence output, even the remnant, was a bit surprised.
At this time, the essence orb in front of Oscar had become a giant orb of essence which was centered on his body, constantly revolving around him slowly.
Its light, flashing faint blue in colour, illuminated the entire immortal cave.
The faint blue light of essence echoed the thousands of faint green light dots around it, making it look quite magical.
[Beast Slayer, this is the last step, you must keep your mind steady. Try to gradually compress the essence in your body to form a round crystal.
The smaller the compression, the higher the ability to attack your opponents and defend yourself in the future]
In fact, according to the book of records, the larger the created essence crystal, the stronger your ability, which was determined by the amount of natural essence.
The created essence crystals had different compression strengths due to the different talent of each refiner.
The essence crystals created by those with high potential were smaller than those with low aptitude, but the power of their attributes was much greater, and they were stronger in attack and defense.
Although there were also some refiners with high potential who preferred the bigger sizes of their essence crystal, and were proud of having them as badges of honor, so that they could show their strength in front of others.
According to the remnant's instructions, Oscar kept compressing the huge orb of essence outside his body as layers of fine sweat beads seeped down his forehead.