Xiao Yan felt as though not a single part of his body was free from pain.
"Hiss... urgh..." Xiao Yan had barely drawn in a sharp breath before the pain forced it back out.
"Now that you're awake, stop lying around." Old Yao extended his index finger and tapped Xiao Yan's forehead, transmitting all the cultivation essentials he had organized for the second part of the Peerless Prison Body to Xiao Yan. "If you don't want to suffer for nothing, consolidate your gains sooner."
Xiao Yan closed his eyes and began absorbing the information Old Yao had passed on.
Fortunately, the second part of the Peerless Prison Body did not require Dou Qi. Instead, it restored the body through Soul Power. Otherwise, with Xiao Yan's battered body hurting even when he breathed, he truly would not have been able to endure the circulation of Dou Qi.
After examining it carefully, he found that this cultivation method was truly unheard of. It required using the soul to "deceive" the body, making it regard the newly opened meridians and passages as parts it had always possessed, then restoring its injuries on that basis.
Once he understood the principle, the following steps were not difficult. Xiao Yan's Soul Power had always far surpassed his body, so aside from feeling somewhat strange, "deceiving" his body placed no strain on him.
After leaving Soul Power throughout his body, this round of cultivation came to an end.
Several months later.
Green flames erupted downward from all over Xiao Yan's body. With a kick of his feet, his body tore through the air, and repeated sonic booms rang in his ears.
"No technique, just pure strength—and I broke the sound barrier like this."
This was the first time in months that Xiao Yan had remained conscious during