Even so, the power of that Flame Fruit was beyond imagination, completely more than what he alone at the Spring Realm could possibly digest.

　　No, this is it, I'm done for.

　　In an instant, he faced death twice. Just as the golden vortex had absorbed the lightning power contained within the Flame Fruit, now on this side...

Chapter 7: Actually... the Earth Spring Realm!!

　　This was how Shawn Carter felt at that moment. But just then, just as Shawn Carter's Human Spring was about to shatter and burst from being overwhelmed, under the constant washing of the Flame Fruit, the innate primal spirit energy that could previously only slowly nourish his body—and which Shawn Carter had been unable to directly absorb—was suddenly melted by the power of the Flame Fruit, gradually merging with the power of the Flame Fruit and flowing into Shawn Carter's Human Spring.

　　"Buzz... buzz..." As this innate primal spirit energy merged into the Human Spring, the Human Spring, which was about to shatter, immediately solidified. After surging and expanding to the point of bursting, it was then repaired by the power of the fusion between the Human Spring and the Flame Fruit, and then expanded again, digested again.

　　The compression process also became completely different. Innate primal spirit energy—not to mention the Human Spring Realm, even those at the Earth Spring Realm or even the Heaven Spring Realm who had reached the unity of man and nature—could not directly use it. The ancestor Henry Carter had given Shawn Carter just a little, merely to help him slowly nourish his body, because even the Six Sea Realm, which was countless times stronger than the Three Spring Realm, found it extremely difficult to directly use innate primal spirit energy.

　　The so-called geniuses who had the chance to absorb innate primal spirit energy could only let it slowly nourish them, and the amount they could absorb was minuscule. But at this moment, Shawn Carter directly merged the vast amount of innate primal spirit energy in his body into his Human Spring. The difference was indescribable, terrifying to the extreme.

　　Precisely because a large amount of innate primal spirit energy was absorbed into his Human Spring, Shawn Carter finally managed to resolve the crisis of being blown apart. The Flame Fruit was also gradually absorbed and fused by this abundance of innate primal spirit energy.

　　Shawn Carter just stood there, unmoving for a full two hours, while inside his body, countless earth-shattering changes had already taken place. Not only had his Human Spring been compressed to unimaginable limits, but the vast amount of innate primal spirit energy had also merged into his body and Human Spring, completely transforming Shawn Carter's physique and body.

　　If Shawn Carter at the Human Spring Realm had absorbed so much innate primal spirit energy at this moment, even the ancestor Henry Carter of the The Carter Family would have been scared half to death if he knew.

　　Shawn Carter himself only breathed a sigh of relief when he felt that most of the power of the Flame Fruit had finally been expended and would no longer threaten his life.

　　"Boom..." At this moment, Shawn Carter could finally unleash the Human Spring power that had been compressed to the limit, directly rushing into the Middle Dantian. In an instant, like a volcanic eruption, it exploded in the Middle Dantian, directly opening up a spring of power that connected all the meridians in his body, as well as some special meridians—the Earth Spring was opened.

　　But unlike others, whose Earth Springs were of normal size—about the size of a typical bowl—Shawn Carter's Earth Spring was ten times larger, as big as a huge washbasin. The primal spirit power flowing within was naturally ten times stronger. With just a slight activation, it rumbled through his body, driven by the power of the Nine-Turn True Fire, and wherever Shawn Carter willed, primal force would instantly condense.

　　Although after opening the Earth Spring at the Three Spring Realm one could use primal force, that was only after stabilizing, and usually only in the mid or late Earth Spring stage could one use primal force so freely. But Shawn Carter at this moment could control it at will, with perfect ease.

　　You have to know, at the early Earth Spring stage, one could only condense primal force in very few parts of the body; in the mid stage, a bit more; and only in the late stage would it gradually cover the whole body and become thicker. But Shawn Carter was different—his power surged, rumbling terrifyingly, and primal force covered his entire body.

　　Not only the Earth Spring—stimulated by the Flame Fruit and Shawn Carter's unprecedented, terrifying compression—at the same time as opening the Earth Spring, the Human Spring in his Lower Dantian had also expanded nearly tenfold compared to before. The Earth Spring and Human Spring surged and operated together. Although he had just reached the Earth Spring Realm, the might he displayed was utterly terrifying.

　　"Earth Spring Realm... damn, this... this can't be real, this..." At this moment, even Shawn Carter was shocked. Before, all he thought about was survival, about expending the power—he hadn't thought of anything else, much less expected that the bottleneck which, even for the fastest genius in the clan's three-thousand-year history, took three months to break through (and for most people, half a year or even a year), he himself had broken through in just a little over two hours after returning from the ancestor.

　　Over two hours!!

　　He had only used a little over two hours, and he had actually reached the Earth Spring Realm. He had never even heard of such a thing before.

　　Terrifying, fucking terrifying—even Shawn Carter himself was scared.

　　It was unbelievable. Thinking about how the ancestor said his father broke the Six Clan Alliance's record, and that only took two and a half months, but now he...

　　Earth Spring Realm... Earth Spring Realm, he had really reached the Earth Spring Realm. Although it was only the early stage, the power made Shawn Carter feel filled to the brim.

　　Not only had he broken through, but with the help of the Flame Fruit's power and the changes in his body, Shawn Carter found that the arm previously broken by Eric Carter had also recovered. What made Shawn Carter's heart even more restless was that the thread of lightning in the golden vortex was still constantly colliding and moving. If that thing ever got out, it would be a real problem.