The moment Jade Gate Pass opened, Shi Tiexin's total mind energy began rising without cease.
Many mind energy cultivators with lofty ambitions chose to hoard as much knowledge as possible before making a breakthrough. This was precisely why.
Knowledge was power. So long as the total limit was broken, all the knowledge amassed in the past could be transformed into power without restraint at this moment. Mind energy, mind energy, ever more mind energy—the sea of mind energy was like a raging ocean, each wave more surging and forceful than the last.
The roiling waves of mind energy poured straight down through Jade Gate Pass, like glittering photons racing through the high-speed channels of the nerves. From the cervical spine all the way to the tailbone, then radiating from the spine into countless nerve fibers, it flooded every nerve ending throughout his body in the blink of an eye.
His powerful physique once again displayed its extraordinary carrying capacity. Nerves that had once needed to be opened bit by bit were now cleared in one fell swoop, without the slightest obstruction.
Every peripheral nerve in his body had been linked through, and mind energy filled all the nerves from head to toe. This was the peak of an ordinary Second Heavenly Layer of mind energy.
Compared to an ordinary peak Second Heavenly Layer, Shi Tiexin's mind energy still seemed insufficient. It was impossible for him to fill every nerve completely. But merely opening them without needing to fill them was far easier than filling them all.
Besides, Shi Tiexin's mind energy had an even stronger driving force spurring it onward, increasing its pressure.
Boom!
At the first beat of the Earth Drum Tremor, the mind energy throughout his body seemed to be pumped by a heart, and its pressure abruptly