"Finally, it's been completely refined. It took far less time than I expected. The foundation of the Innate Five Elements Body must be exceptionally solid for things to have gone so smoothly!"
After closing his eyes and examining himself internally, Luo Hong suddenly clenched his right fist. Purple lightning patterns immediately covered his entire arm. Then, as he turned his palm and grasped, a tremendous blast of compressed air erupted from his hand.
He could now wield the Startling Thunder Immortal Body Technique with ease. Not only was it more powerful than before, but the burden it placed on him had also become negligible!
All of this was because he had refined Yu Dianzhu's most important legacy: the Thunder Beast born from lightning.
Although Luo Hong could take the opportunity to gain insight into the Law of Strength while undergoing a Minor Heavenly Tribulation, delaying his advancement for that was clearly not worth it.
Thus, with the aid of the Black Flame Pill, Luo Hong had already broken through to the Void Refinement Early-stage two hundred years ago. Now, he had cultivated to a point close to the peak of this realm.
The reason his cultivation had progressed so rapidly was because, over the past three hundred years, he had achieved major results in another field of research besides Puppet Technique: the nature of intelligence!
Studying the nature of intelligence had not originally been part of Luo Hong's plans. However, he had found a line of inquiry while in the Nether River, and he also needed it to control the Purple Blood Puppet, so he naturally looked into it.
Intelligence was clearly carried by the primordial spirit, yet it had no physical form and was more like a state of being.
The low-level Outer Realm Sky Demons easily proved that