Ye Zhen woke on the third day after Bai Zizai came to visit him. The reason he woke was that Jian Qianxiong had procured a rather precious Soul-Fixing Pill for treating soul injuries.
After waking, Ye Zhen's entire body was still filled with an indescribable bloated pain. It felt as if the two dantians within him had swollen by a full circle.
This was likely the consequence of his cultivation rocketing from the first level of the Palace Opening Realm to the fifth level in an extremely short span of time.
Under normal circumstances, Ye Zhen would have needed at least eighteen years or so to raise his cultivation to the fifth level of the Palace Opening Realm.
But now, he had traversed an eighteen-year road in just a few days. It would have been strange if nothing had gone wrong.
After carefully examining himself, Ye Zhen discovered that aside from his crazily increased cultivation, there was not a single place in his body that was uninjured.
His dantians, meridians, spirit palaces—especially the Four-colored Innate Soul Light within his spirit palace—were as faint as gossamer threads.
Having personally experienced the Golden Lotus Return Pill, Ye Zhen now understood its mystery.
Unlike other pills, the Golden Lotus Return Pill did not directly raise one's cultivation. Instead, it blazed a different trail.
It used its medicinal power to frantically stimulate Soul Power. Moreover, the medicinal power had been arranged with extraordinary ingenuity, seemingly forming Soul Power into an array that absorbed and devoured Worldly Essence.
That was why the saying that the pill worked better the higher one's soul cultivation was came about.
The main reason Ye Zhen had fallen unconscious was that his soul cultivation was simply too powerful—especially his Four-colored Innate Soul Light, which was intrinsically stronger than Three-colored Innate