Southern Qi Imperial City, the Princess's Residence.
Inside a separate courtyard.
Lin Sheng's face was dark as still water as he surveyed the piles of silver brilliance stone around him.
Only a month had passed since he attained Divine Refinement.
Throughout that month, he had immersed himself entirely in cultivating the Supreme Heavenly Demon Scripture.
With his intermediate World Affinity talent and immense mental power bolstering him, his cultivation of this Profound Technique advanced a thousand miles a day, progressing at astonishing speed.
Yet the sudden development he had anticipated might occur had happened nonetheless.
No fewer than three hundred thousand pieces of silver brilliance stone were piled in the courtyard. These freshly delivered stones had already lost almost all their luster.
In his perception, the remaining energy within the silver brilliance stone was still steadily dwindling.
Worse, this depletion came without any warning. Even with his perception, he could not detect where the energy had gone, as though it had evaporated into thin air.
Before long, the last scant traces of energy within the silver brilliance stone were completely exhausted.
The crystals that had once shone with a silvery luster had turned a decayed, ashen white. As a breeze swept past, countless cracks appeared across them, until they all crumbled into gray-white powder covering the ground.
"Has it finally come after all!?"
Lin Sheng scooped up a handful of gray-white powder and gently rubbed it between his fingertips, his expression grim.
Although all the advantages at his disposal had brought his cultivation efficiency with the Supreme Heavenly Demon Scripture to unimaginable heights, a mere month was nowhere near enough to break through to Supreme Grandmaster.
"I never expected the silver brilliance stone to be the first thing to go wrong."
He drew a deep breath, forcing himself to calm