Chapter 717: Divided Mind
After much deliberation, Qin Sang arrived at a bold idea.
Can I rely on both my Golden Core and corpse core to simultaneously activate two astras?
If he could pull this off, then during battle, while wielding one astra against his opponent, he could seize the right moment and suddenly strike with the second. Such an unexpected move would surely throw his enemies into disarray.
With this thought, Qin Sang embarked on a long journey of experimentation.
Simultaneously activating two astras was far from a simple matter of multitasking. It placed tremendous strain on both spiritual consciousness and true essence. With his current cultivation, it was extremely difficult to achieve.
The corpse core contained abundant true essence, so the problem was not in supply. The difficulty lay in how to prevent the two streams of true essence from clashing after unsealing the corpse core. He needed them to coexist in harmony, so that there would be no disorder when channeling them into different astras.
In the beginning, Qin Sang was at a complete loss.
Each time he unsealed the corpse core and attempted to use both streams of true essence, his dantian and meridians turned into a battlefield. In the most dangerous attempt, he had nearly suffered severe damage to his dantian.
Still, Qin Sang did not give up. He tried every possible approach. After an exceptionally long period of trial and error, he finally discovered a glimmer of opportunity and caught sight of hope.
He realized that in order to control two streams of true essence at once, spiritual consciousness had to be powerful enough. That had become the greatest bottleneck.
Even though the Primordial Spirit Sword Nourishment gave him an advantage over cultivators of the same realm, it was still not sufficient.
Moreover, spiritual consciousness not only affected the control of true essence, it also played an even more critical role when managing two astras at the same time.