At last, when barely more than two hundred beads remained, Xu Yi felt that something was about to emerge from within him.
A vortex of qi suddenly rose inside his body. The moment it appeared, he knew it was Cloud Crane Pure Qi.
In an instant, a black line flashed through him. It was a strand of hair. With a thought, he moved it out of his body.
It was the fisherman's hair. Afterward, it had been refined into his divine embryo, and he had never seen it again. He had not expected it to reappear now.
A moment later, a vortex appeared inside him, flickering in and out. He had never seen it before, but after thinking carefully, Xu Yi understood: it was that strange vortex, the one that had stripped him of his magic power yet allowed him to refine large quantities of Wish Beads.
How had this thing popped out, too?
He tested his spells. They worked without a hitch.
At last, no more phenomena appeared, and Xu Yi stopped refining the beads. He hurriedly asked Huang Mei about it.
Huang Mei said, "This is an Unusual Phenomenon: Phoenixes Returning to the Palace. After attaining ghost immortalhood, you shed your mortal body to form an Immortal Body. The mortal body doesn't disappear; it transforms into the qi of the origin body—in other words, turbid Qi—and recombines to form this Immortal Body. If the original body contained anything sufficiently bizarre, it can trigger an Unusual Phenomenon: Phoenixes Returning to the Palace after one becomes a ghost immortal. Of course, it's a rare occurrence. What sort of phenomenon would anyone else have? Only a freak like you could manage this."
Xu Yi ignored Huang Mei's teasing and tested the effects of the three newly emerged phenomena.
He soon figured