Lin Taichu sat inside the carriage with his eyes closed, regulating his breath. The Soul Power inside him was still suppressed by the Restriction, and he could only bring out around twenty percent of his strength.
The driver was Zhao Feng's trusted aide. His cultivation was not high, but he drove extremely steadily. The carriage headed east the whole way, following the official road toward the next city.
Lin Taichu lifted the carriage curtain and glanced at the sky outside. The farther they got from Luofeng City's range, the weaker the Restriction's suppression inside him became.
After roughly an hour of travel, the carriage passed over a ridge. The Soul Power inside Lin Taichu suddenly surged and roiled, as if something had been stripped away from his body.
The Restriction had been lifted. That invisible force that had suppressed him for several days completely dissipated. The Soul Power inside him surged, recovering from twenty percent to fifty percent, then to eighty percent, and finally returning in full.
Lin Taichu took a deep breath and circulated his mental method. Soul Power rushed through his meridians, even denser than before he entered Luofeng City. He sensed himself carefully and discovered that his cultivation had actually improved noticeably.
Originally, his strength had been at the peak of the fifth level of the Half-Saint realm. Now, both the density of his Soul Power and the speed at which it circulated far surpassed before, faintly showing signs of breaking through to the sixth level of the Half-Saint realm.
Luofeng City's Restriction had suppressed him for several days, constantly tempering his Soul Power between suppression and resistance. Once the Restriction was lifted, his Soul Power was like a flood bursting through a dike, smashing through its shackles and greatly raising his cultivation.
Lin Taichu clenched his