"Senior Brother Wan, how are your injuries recovering at the moment?"
When the wine had reached its mellow height, Lu Xuan asked with concern.
"They've already recovered about seventy to eighty percent. It's just that there are still some aftereffects in my sea of consciousness, so I can't cultivate normally. I'll have to recuperate for a while."
Wan Zhong smiled.
"That's good."
After hearing Wan Zhong's answer, Lu Xuan let out a breath of relief.
"Once you've fully recovered, Senior Brother can begin preparing for another breakthrough."
Wan Zhong shook his head. "It isn't that simple. Breaking through to Nascent Soul once consumed who knows how many resources and Treasures from the Sword Sect and myself. If I try again, who knows how long I'll have to accumulate them."
"Also, I need to properly temper my soul and will, and strive to absorb the experience from this failure."
Wan Zhong said solemnly.
Although this failure had struck him hard, his state of mind remained fairly optimistic, and he still had no small amount of confidence in himself.
"Haha, let us encourage one another, Senior Brothers."
Lu Xuan smiled and raised his cup.
"Perhaps Junior Brother Lu will break through before me!"
Wan Zhong said with a laugh.
"I'll borrow Senior Brother's auspicious words."
The three chatted merrily for a while. Considering that Wan Zhong was still in the recuperation stage, Lu Xuan and Zhou Chao rose to take their leave.
Lu Xuan returned to his Cave Mansion, took out that piece of Seventh Grade God Stealing Jade, and separated a wisp of Spiritual Sense into it.
Several months later, a profound and mysterious Divine Sense, as if it had taken solid form, returned from the God Stealing Jade to Lu Xuan's sea of consciousness.
"There's more and more Divine