The four of them refined the Profound Yellow Essence Qi together, and the results were astounding. After consuming nearly fifty thousand units of Profound Yellow Essence Qi, Xu Yanzhi finally opened her eyes inside the ice coffin.
Just then, a voice came from Xu Yi's Starry Sky Ring. "Why haven't you started refining the Nine Nether Fiend Qi? What are you waiting for?"
Xu Yanzhi abruptly sat up in the ice coffin. She gave Xu Yi a long, deep look, then sat cross-legged, closed her eyes, and began refining it.
Time trickled by. When they had refined seventy thousand units of Profound Yellow Essence, even Gold Corpse Old Cao, whose endurance was the greatest, could no longer hold out and fell into a deep sleep.
Only Xu Yi, his robes soaked with sweat, kept going.
He had outlasted Gold Corpse Old Cao not because his cultivation was profound, but because he had two life wheels that he could switch between at will, letting him fight in shifts.
Finally, when they had refined more than eighty thousand units of Profound Yellow Essence, Desolate Ancestor told Xu Yi to stop.
Xu Yi looked closely. Xu Yanzhi was already surrounded by dense mist, but brilliant motes of light were spreading from her body, piercing through the thick fog.
Suddenly, a phoenix cried out. Radiant clouds burst from Xu Yanzhi, and she let out a soft moan. Then, a Talisman Pattern flew from her body. With a sharp pop, it turned into smoke and vanished.
At last, the layers of mist surrounding Xu Yanzhi disappeared. Xu Yi froze, and so did Xu Yanzhi. The Xu Yanzhi standing inside the ice coffin no longer had that strikingly beautiful yet strangely discordant face. In its place was a radiant, breathtakingly lovely countenance.
Yet that was not