Speculation!

Inside the silent Cave Mansion, Shen Fan held a brightly colored stone in each hand, one red and one blue. Vast True Realm Power surged from within him, continually pouring into the two stones.

At first, neither stone budged. They were every bit as hard as the True Realm–level Seven-Colored Primordial Stone!

But True Realm Power was, after all, one of the highest sources of power in the Sea of Chaos. Under Shen Fan's unrelenting effort and the constant washing of True Realm Power, the two stones in his hands eventually began to melt!

The special energy hidden within them gradually came within Shen Fan's grasp, and he drew it into his body.

But just as he reached this point, something unexpected happened.

The moment Shen Fan drew a trace of the special energy contained in the stones into his body, he discovered that his body was like a piece of soft tofu—it couldn't hold on to the energy at all!

Worse, that mere wisp of energy wandered through his body once and "burned away" a large portion of his meridians. It was like hot oil poured over butter, leaving him utterly defenseless!

How could this be possible?!

Shen Fan was no ordinary cultivator. He had entered the True Realm through the Bloodline Path, and he was no weakling even among True Realm cultivators!

His physical body in particular was constantly tempered by vast amounts of True Realm Power. It had long since transformed into a genuine True Realm Body. Apart from True Realm Power of the same level, nothing else—not even the highest-grade cosmic Chaos Rare Treasure—could so much as harm a hair on his body!

Yet this powerful body was as fragile as paper before a trace of the special energy drawn from the mysterious stones. Forget bearing