"You're still saying it!" Gu Hui spoke seriously, but Mu Nianci flushed scarlet at the words "dual cultivation."
"Alright, alright, I won't say it anymore!" Gu quickly surrendered, doting on his little wife.
"All in all, the two of us stumbled into incredible luck and obtained one of the greatest fortuitous encounters from antiquity to the present.
You went from the brink of death straight into the supreme innate realm.
Throughout all of history, only a handful had ever entered this realm.
Nianci, first take some time to understand what you've gained. Don't end up with immense power that you can't wield properly.
I'll inspect my own gains as well!"
"Alright!" Upon hearing that it was a fortuitous encounter spanning ancient and modern times, Mu Nianci beamed. It was the innate realm—even the current Nine Supremes had yet to step into it.
After all the bitterness came sweetness. Who would have thought she would go from a weak novice to surpassing those senior masters in a single step?
Gu Hui closed his eyes and examined himself. He discovered that the innate true liquid within his body had vanished. No—it had not vanished.
Rather, a golden particle, both real and illusory, had appeared within his dantian. It was the size of his little fingernail.
It felt illusory because it did not seem real, yet he could sense it.
It felt real, yet he could not sense it too clearly.
But the immense true liquid throughout his body seemed to be stored within it, ready to be called upon at any time to fight enemies or temper his physique.
That golden particle seemed to be the origin of all things, the source of all power.
He could even clearly sense his lifespan now—more than five hundred years.
In other words, only one-third