The moment the blue divine radiance enveloped Xu Yi, he had nearly turned into a translucent beam of light. At last, the radiance dimmed. Zhang Yunjing's face showed pain, but he felt slightly relieved inside. He strained to drive the radiance onward, continuing to press down.
Xu Yi was suffering terribly, too. His Life Wheel had only just revived when that strand of blue divine radiance tried to flee, just like the vanishing Divine Diagram. It was about to break free of the Life Wheel's restraints when Zhang Yunjing's radiance enveloped it.
With brute force, he pressed the strand of blue divine radiance—which had been about to escape Xu Yi's Life Wheel—back within it. The strand still refused to be bound by Xu Yi's Life Wheel, but no matter how it struggled, Zhang Yunjing's powerful Life Wheel kept it pinned down.
"Quit moving around, damn it! This is a once-in-a-thousand-years opportunity. Hurry up and circulate your Life Wheel. Try to refine the Dao Fruit." Xu Yi was enduring unimaginable pain when Huang Mei's thoughts reached him. His spirits immediately soared.
At last, he understood that the strand of blue divine radiance was the Dao Fruit—in other words, a divine rank, the very foundation that allowed mighty figures to become Immortal Venerables. Take the entire Southern Territory: there were plenty of old monsters at the Divine Diagram Realm, but only two had become Righteous Immortals and entered the system.
Under normal circumstances, only cultivators at the Divine Diagram Realm could pursue a divine rank, and even then they needed both fortune and hard work. Now, a pie had fallen from the sky and the divine rank had burrowed into his Life Wheel. Xu Yi naturally had no reason to let the chance slip by.
He followed Huang Mei's instructions and began