The first ray of morning sunlight filtered through the window lattice and fell upon Wang Yue's meditation cushion.
His eyes remained tightly shut, a faint halo of vital essence swirling around him. Then he suddenly let out a low shout: "Hah!"
As the shout fell, the Blood Qi within him abruptly surged, roaring through his meridians like a boiling river.
The Vital Essence Body, far away in the small courtyard outside the county town, instantly sensed this crucial juncture in the main body. It immediately stopped cultivating and, through their synchronized thoughts, continuously sent the pure vital essence it had gathered toward Wang Yue's main body.
"Buzz."
A great mass of vital essence poured into Wang Yue's body like a reversing tide, flowing through his meridians and gathering in his dantian.
The Blood Qi that had originally stabilized at fourteen strands began to tremble violently under the nourishment of vital essence. Streams of crimson current rose from the dantian, eventually condensing into a fifteenth strand of Blood Qi. It intertwined with the other fourteen strands, emanating a dense and powerful Qi Aura.
"I did it!" Wang Yue opened his eyes, a flash of delight appearing within them. Yet that delight was quickly replaced by confusion. He could clearly sense that deep within his dantian lay something like a dormant natural barrier.
Like an invisible wall, it firmly blocked the path for his Blood Qi to continue growing. No matter how he urged his vital essence, he could not condense any more Blood Qi.
"Could this be the limit of my body's Blood Qi?" Wang Yue narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself.
He had heard Wang Shuo say that the clan chief had condensed sixteen strands of Blood Qi in the Blood Condensation Realm. Why, then, had Wang Yue encountered