The dense jungle lay dozens of li behind him. Lu Xiaotian now wore blue robes, and a layer of flowing black mist drifted over his body. Ordinary cultivators could hardly see through it well enough to make out his appearance.
Lu Xiaotian sat cross-legged on the ground, surrounded by swaying grass and flying birds. Unfamiliar low-grade demon birds and beasts appeared now and then in the sky or among the grass.
Lu Xiaotian raised a hand, and a small bottle appeared in his palm. He flicked the bottle lightly, sending the stopper flying. A drop of Azure Star Dew flew out and turned into a streak of light that entered his mouth.
As soon as the Azure Star Dew entered his body, it transformed into countless specks of spiritual light. They coursed through his meridians, where the power within his channels gradually assimilated and absorbed them.
After several cycles, Lu Xiaotian exhaled a breath of stale air. A glint briefly flashed in his otherwise placid eyes before they returned to normal.
"There's quite a lot of this Azure Star Dew. Even absorbing all of it will probably take me years."
A smile appeared on Lu Xiaotian's face once he had absorbed the Azure Star Dew. Whatever the case, cultivating with it was more than ten times faster than meditating on his own or even using pills.
The surrounding wasteland was deserted. His divine sense spread outward, and nothing in the world escaped it—not the birds and beasts, nor even the demon ants and crawling insects in shallow burrows beneath the ground.
Whenever a cultivator broke through to a new realm, their Primordial Spirit received a tremendous boost for a short time. During subsequent cultivation, the Primordial Spirit also grew slightly as their cultivation advanced. More often, however, it was the