In most cases, breakthroughs in strength came through secluded cultivation. Although the environment Lu Xiaotian was in was far from ideal, he had long since grown used to it and had few demands when it came to a place to cultivate. Besides, ever since entering the Stone Demon Cave, he had yet to come across a place with particularly abundant spiritual energy.
His mana circulated continually through his body, flowing from his Nascent Soul into his meridians, making one Greater Celestial Circuit before being drawn back into his Nascent Soul. The cycle repeated over and over. His mana grew purer as a result, while its total volume increased at an extremely slow pace.
After his mana had completed one circuit after another, an odd expression appeared on Lu Xiaotian's Nascent Soul. He noticed that with each circuit, a few faint silver specks seemed to emerge from either the Nascent Soul or his meridians, then gather on the surface of the Nascent Soul. Lu Xiaotian did not know whether these pale specks were harmful, so he directed his mana to drive them out of his body. But before long, he discovered that the faint silver specks had exactly the same aura as his own. No matter how hard he tried, his mana could not repel them.
"Since I can't drive them out, I might as well leave them alone." After trying again and again, Lu Xiaotian could not help feeling frustrated. His divine sense could not detect anything amiss about the faint silver specks either, so he simply stopped worrying about them and focused on circulating his mana. Perhaps once he broke through and his cultivation rose, he would be able to expel the specks from his dantian.
Yet as his mana continued to circulate, more and more faint silver specks