The azure bead, like a relic, split open from the middle and transformed into clusters of tangible deep-blue auspicious clouds. Above those clouds, the phantom of an azure lotus suddenly took shape.
This phantom azure lotus had a full seventy-two petals. As it swayed, it slowly solidified, releasing tens of millions of rays of azure radiance. Solemn and majestic, it filled the entire hall with crystalline light, as though the place had turned into a crystal palace.
When the fluctuations of a Nascent Soul's power condensed into substance, it signified the completion of the Nascent Soul stage. When those fluctuations formed a Dharma-Aspect Lotus, it meant one had surpassed Nascent Soul completion and reached the early stage of Tribulation Crossing.
Chen Qingdi's cultivation had been extraordinarily high before, but at most it had been close to Qi Lianliancheng's. This showed that he had gained no small benefits in Kunlun over the past few days, his cultivation advancing by leaps and bounds.
Yet when Chen Lifu and Wang Yanyang, who were standing guard nearby, saw the power fluctuations from Chen Qingdi's Nascent Soul condense into a Dharma-Aspect Lotus, they showed not the slightest joy. Instead, their expressions became even tenser and graver.
After a Dharma-Aspect Lotus blazing with myriad rays of light appeared behind his head, Chen Qingdi's Nascent Soul became incomparably solemn and imposing. Then, in the blink of an eye, a mass of azure shadow appeared beside the Dharma-Aspect Lotus. It swayed and grew increasingly dense, as if it were about to give birth to another Dharma-Aspect Lotus.
Yet the shadow swayed without cease. Many times, it had already taken on the shape of a Dharma-Aspect Lotus, but after the time it took an incense stick to burn, it still seemed to be just one thread short, unable to