In the pitch-black night, Luo Bei sat alone amid the jagged boulders of a mountain valley.
From time to time, the cries of apes and roars of beasts rang out from the mountains. Tiancang Peak covered a vast expanse and connected continuously with more than a dozen surrounding peaks. There were certainly many ferocious beasts roaming within, but Luo Bei's strength was now astonishing. Even if some beast truly came for him, he had nothing to fear.
A full moon slowly rose overhead, scattering its pale radiance into every corner of the valley.
Luo Bei breathed slowly and soon entered a state of selflessness, as though he had completely opened himself and merged with the Heaven and Earth around him.
Within his Sea of Consciousness, the golden true essence condensed by the Eternal Life Sutra of Delusion no longer resembled the sparse threads of golden yarn it had been six months ago. It had condensed into a golden vortex.
The vortex-like golden true essence slowly revolved, seemingly generating an invisible suction force that caused the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy filling the air around Luo Bei to rapidly stream into his body thread by thread.
Those threads of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy converged into trickling currents and circulated through Luo Bei's meridians. As usual, once they completed the ninth circulation, his Sea of Consciousness was instantly filled with the sensation of his entire body being torn apart.
That was because the golden true essence of the Eternal Life Sutra of Delusion and the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy were no longer merely breaking down and tempering Luo Bei's meridians. They had reached his sinews, bones, flesh, and blood. It felt as though his sinews, bones, flesh, and blood had all been placed in a furnace and repeatedly hammered with