Drinking to "See Him Off"

If the light of those below the innate realm had been dim and muddled, while innate spiritual attainment merely counted as a first glimpse of the gate, then cultivating a primordial spirit meant truly entering the hall and chamber in one's understanding of this world.

Xiang Yang closed his eyes and spread his hands. The tiny primordial spirit within his mud-pill palace illuminated his entire body, passing through his flesh and radiating out into the heavens and earth in every direction.

Through his mind's eye, he could sense countless dense particles floating in the air, a riot of colors, their dazzling hues filled with alluring mystery.

This was the foundation of how the innate surpassed the acquired, how one who had shed mortality surpassed ordinary people: spiritual energy, or perhaps Spiritual Energy Flux.

It was precisely because of this spiritual energy that this world was so fascinating.

Xiang Yang drew a deep breath. Even without employing any special cultivation method, a long, unbroken stream of Spiritual Energy Flux slowly entered his body through his mouth and nose, surging like tides converging around him.

Living in such an environment, even someone ignorant of martial arts would, over time, grow light of body and strong of health, expel impurities, and prolong their life.

Only at this moment did Xiang Yang truly confirm that this was a world of limitless possibilities.

His heart brimming with excitement and joy, he threw back his head and laughed loudly. With only a casual display, he easily stirred the spiritual energy.

Rings of sound waves and air currents, visible to the naked eye, spread across all of Little Merchant Mountain with his laughter. Even the snow-white world seemed to become exceptionally vibrant because of that resounding laugh.

Halfway up one mountain peak, inside a snow cave, the