After teaching the Moonlit Night Seven Forms technique to Turbid Wine and the others, Lu Yang took Lan Yu and flew into the Void Palace.
Previously, without Dark Moon Star, they had been unable to cultivate the Moonlit Night Seven Forms. Now that they had the Dark Moon Divine Soul, they could cultivate inside the Void Palace. However, the Dark Moon Divine Soul could not be used directly. Other than dripping it into the lake water, the only option was to cultivate in close physical contact with Lan Yu. Only Lu Yang could do that.
Additionally, Lu Yang needed to focus on cultivating the Four-Armed Avatar and turn the Dark Moon Spirit into the avatar's second head. This required the joint guidance of the Moon Goddess and the Blazing Demon God. Therefore, he handed everything here over to Malthus and entered the Void Palace with Lan Yu to cultivate.
A full six months passed.
When Lu Yang emerged from the Void Palace again, blood-red snow was once more falling over the East Sea, and the sky had turned crimson under the influence of energy from the other world.
"Boss." Ku Ai Bansheng had been sitting cross-legged beside Moon Lake. When he saw Lu Yang return, he rose and said respectfully, "Boss, I've entered the second form of the Moonlit Night Seven Forms. This technique seems especially easy for us to cultivate."
After eating Enlightenment Meat—the flesh of Ancient Wild Beasts—cultivating spells naturally advanced by leaps and bounds. Lu Yang himself had already reached the fourth level.
Lu Yang asked, "How are the brothers back home doing?"
Ku Ai Bansheng smiled and said, "Our one hundred thousand main forces have all reached at least the peak of the Lord Tier. Another one hundred twenty thousand newly recruited brothers have advanced to