Inside the courtyard.
An intensely cold, sinister aura spread outward. The soldiers stationed in the surrounding courtyards shivered involuntarily and hurried away.
Their eyes filled with bewildered horror as they stared fixedly at the courtyard.
Within it, dazzling white light flickered before their eyes.
The chilling aura that struck fear into their hearts continued to intensify.
Fortunately, this did not last long. As incomparably powerful blue-black force poured out of the courtyard, the sinister cold weakened at a visible rate until it vanished entirely.
The dazzling white radiance, however, grew even brighter. Inside the courtyard at that moment...
The densely piled Silver Brilliance Stones had disappeared, replaced by great quantities of gray powder that covered almost the entire courtyard.
Only at its center did Lin Sheng remain, sitting cross-legged and motionless as a statue.
Yet vast quantities of blue-black force surged wildly from his body.
Countless enormous serpents of force intertwined and coalesced, forming a sphere that enclosed Lin Sheng.
As tremendous amounts of force gathered, the sphere grew denser and larger, slowly rising into the air.
In another courtyard of the Princess's Residence.
Princess Lingyu held a longsword as she sparred with Granny Shi.
"Princess, your strength has improved considerably lately. You've already reached the Six Transformations of Divine Form. One more step, and you'll enter the late Divine Form stage. At this pace, you're undoubtedly the fastest-progressing member of the imperial family in nearly three hundred years..."
Granny Shi put away her Dragon-Headed Staff, smiling and nodding repeatedly, though she could not help feeling a little wistful.
Lin Sheng had spent all this time cultivating in seclusion, but had Ling Yu not also been putting everything she had into her cultivation?
How else could she have advanced so quickly in such a short time?
Even Granny Shi felt