Within Longevity Peak, inside the white palace that suppressed the Blood Sarira, Yu Ruochen, Duan Tianya, and Dan Lingsheng stood in a triangular formation. Four Natal Sword Essences—purple, white, green, and black—pulsed and surged, shattering one by one the demonic illusions that had taken on the solid forms of all manner of fiends.
Of Yu Ruochen's two Natal Sword Essences, one resembled a purple crystal, while the other looked like tangible white gold. Originally, the Natal Sword Essence that gleamed with metallic white-gold light had been somewhat inferior to the crystal-purple one in both color and might. But now, in both hue and imposing force, that white-gold Natal Sword Essence no longer lost out to the purple-crystal sword essence. Clearly, this sword essence Yu Ruochen had refined with his Nascent Soul had also reached the realm of great completion.
When Duan Tianya and Dan Lingsheng had first entered Longevity Peak, they had only just reached the realm of condensing Natal Sword Essence. Their green and black sword radiances had only just taken shape. Yet now, those two sword radiances shone brilliantly, and every thrust unleashed a string of air explosions. Their cultivation had clearly risen greatly as well.
In merely a few breaths, the True Demonic Realm triggered by the demonic true essence within the Blood Sarira was shattered by the three working together. The scattered true essence was also drawn into their bodies through their cultivation arts and refined.
It looked easy, but in truth, when wielding Natal Sword Essence, every strike required the concentration of all one's essence, qi, and spirit. Person and sword essence became one, like a person wielding an iron staff that required all their essence, qi, and spirit merely to lift. Without the force of gathering all one's true essence and blood-qi into a