Ye Zhen woke on the third day after Bai Zizai had visited him. The reason he woke was that Jian Qianxiong had obtained a rather precious Soul-Fixing Pill for treating soul injuries.
After waking, Ye Zhen's entire body was still filled with an indescribable swelling pain, as though the two dantians within him had both expanded by a full circle.
This was likely the consequence of his cultivation soaring wildly 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 to raise his cultivation to the fifth level of the Palace Opening Realm.
Yet now, he had traversed eighteen years' worth of road in only a few days. It would have been strange if nothing had gone wrong.
After carefully examining himself, Ye Zhen discovered that aside from his wildly elevated cultivation, there was not a single place within his body that was uninjured.
His dantians, meridians, spirit palaces—especially the Four-colored Innate Soul Light within his spirit palace—were as frail as gossamer threads.
Having personally experienced the Golden Lotus Return Pill, Ye Zhen now understood its mysteries.
Unlike other pills, which directly raised one's cultivation, the Golden Lotus Return Pill had taken another path.
It used its medicinal power to frantically stimulate Soul Power. Moreover, its medicinal power had been arranged with extreme ingenuity, seeming to form Soul Power into an array that absorbed and devoured Worldly Essence.
Only under such circumstances did the claim that the higher one's soul cultivation, the better its effects become make sense.
The main reason Ye Zhen had fallen unconscious was that his soul cultivation was simply too powerful, especially his Four-colored Innate Soul Light, whose very essence was stronger than the