When Jiang Hao woke, the sky was just beginning to brighten.
Morning dew, dawn light.
Beside him, the beauty's hair cascaded like a waterfall as Begonia slept in springtime slumber.
Jiang Hao sank his consciousness into his Dantian and examined his current spiritual power. He was immediately overjoyed, for he discovered that his spiritual power had undergone a tremendous leap—calling it an explosive increase would not have been an exaggeration.
The Supreme Bliss Ode had no particular levels. There were no barriers to break through; as long as one cultivated diligently, one could continue improving, with ascension to immortality as the final result. Jiang Hao suspected this was the Yellow Emperor's cultivation method.
After cultivating with Lu Zhi last night, Jiang Hao had received her perfect pure spiritual essence. He did not know whether she possessed the legendary Phoenix Destiny, but in any case, his cultivation had greatly improved, increasing by roughly half compared to before.
One had to know that his previous cultivation had come from more than a decade of practice across multiple worlds. Yet this single encounter had brought him such enormous benefits. Jiang Hao wondered whether this great increase was also related to the golden light that had cleansed his meridians when he had set up an altar to worship the Dao Ancestor and built the first Daoist temple in this world. He reckoned it was. A two-lane road was vastly different from a four-lane road.
Jiang Hao felt that if he drew talismans now, he could draw six or seven Beginner Talismans in one go without a problem. He even suspected that he might already be able to draw Intermediate Talismans.
He would try later. What if he succeeded?
Just then, Lu Zhi woke as well. Her beautiful eyes turned toward Jiang Hao, yet she