Inside the Cave Abode,
four identical figures sat cross-legged on white jade cushions, facing one another.
Between them,
glowing patterns spread across the ground, intertwining into a profound Formation.
Upon the Formation diagram,
a pile of High-grade Spirit Stones had been heaped.
A rough count
put their number at over a hundred!
Yet none of the four figures paid the slightest attention to the High-grade Spirit Stones piled before them.
Their eyes were tightly closed,
their focus concentrated,
all their minds and energy devoted to cultivation!
They remained utterly undisturbed by the outside world.
At the same time,
as the four cultivation techniques circulated,
the Formation atop the pile of Spirit Stones began to operate.
Dazzling light continuously flowed and flickered. The spiritual energy within the originally crystal-clear Spirit Stones was relentlessly drawn out and refined, becoming streams of incomparably pure mana that surged like a flood into the bodies of the four figures.
The vast mana was almost tangible, blazing with radiant light as it linked the four figures together!
The surging, boiling mana circulated back and forth among the four people without end,
even forming an enormous vortex in the air!
The surrounding space
twisted visibly beneath the effects of that tremendous power!
Layer upon layer of visible spatial ripples spread outward.
Drawn by that powerful mana, even the surrounding space seemed to have been transformed into a vortex!
Yet at this moment,
none of the four figures paid any attention to what was happening around them.
All of them wholeheartedly immersed their minds within their bodies,
rapidly digesting the immense mana gained from refining that pure spiritual energy,
branding it all with their own marks
and turning it into their own strength!
Because of this,
as the vast mana merged together like rushing torrents, their Auras steadily