- "Old Ancestor!?"
Gu Zhaoyang noticed Gu Jinlai's abnormal state and hurriedly stepped forward to support him.
Gu Chifeng was even quicker to bring men and surround him in the center.
"No matter, my spiritual awareness was simply overconsumed."
Gu Jinlai glanced at the many demonic beast corpses across the clearing. "It just so happens I'll carry out a round of Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation to replenish my spiritual awareness."
With that, he turned to Gu Chifeng. "All of you, work together to reasonably distribute and utilize the corpses of these Demonic Beasts, intermediate demonic beasts, and High-ranking Demonic Beasts."
"Understood."
Gu Chifeng and the others answered respectfully and submissively.
"Su Nanxing, Gu Zhaoyang, you two stand guard."
Having given his instructions, Gu Jinlai quickly circulated the Great Sun Ninefold Refinement Visualization Method, executing Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation.
In an instant, the vital Qi and blood within his body surged like boiling water.
Jing, qi, and spirit are fundamentally one.
With surging jing and qi, spirit naturally arises.
Refined further by the Great Sun driven by his spirituality, it transformed toward spiritual awareness.
Yet this state lasted only a moment before Gu Jinlai paused.
The sequelae of forcibly condensing his True Spirit surfaced.
His spirituality withered.
He had essentially overdrawn his spirituality, and his soul vitality had decreased right along with it.
Now, performing Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation to condense spiritual awareness resulted in a drastically diminished effect.
Nothing was more emblematic of putting in twice the effort for half the results.
It will likely take two or three months of effort for my spirituality to recover, Gu Jinlai estimated.
However, while a massive impact was tied to condensing spiritual awareness, simply recovering the spiritual awareness he had consumed incurred a somewhat smaller effect.
After a moment,