"A year has passed. I've more or less figured out the Qi Refining path. It's about time to start breaking through realms—make several breakthroughs in one go!" Zhou Tong sat cross-legged beside the pool in his small room.
The pool had already accumulated over two thousand jin of Yuan Liquid. This faintly pale-green Yuan Liquid, brimming with boundless vitality, was the harvest of the past year.
According to the formation Zhou Tong had originally set up here, it should have produced only a little over seven hundred jin of Yuan Liquid in a year. But over the past year, Zhou Tong had devoted himself to studying formations and had long since further improved the Spirit Gathering Array here. Its gathering range had expanded by more than double, while its efficiency in producing Yuan Liquid had tripled.
That was how he had accumulated over two thousand jin of Yuan Liquid.
"Time to break through!" Zhou Tong sat down cross-legged and slowly adjusted the true essence within his dantian.
"Crash!!"
Golden-red true essence surged like a scorching sea of flames. Under Zhou Tong's control, it gathered frantically.
This was fire-attributed true essence cultivated through the "Immortal Burning Tome." This cultivation method was among the Three Realms' finest Qi Refining arts; the true essence it cultivated vastly surpassed that of other methods in both quantity and quality.
Zhou Tong opened his mouth and inhaled, immediately drawing a stream of life-filled Yuan Liquid into his body.
"Boom!!"
In an instant, raging waves churned within his dantian. The moment the Yuan Liquid entered his body, it was assimilated by the true essence cultivated through the "Immortal Burning Tome," then swiftly merged into his original true essence.
His true essence, already at the innate limit, received such immense support that it immediately reached its utmost extreme.