Success

More than ten days passed. Li Xiao sat motionless beside the stone platform, sunk so deeply into cultivation that he nearly forgot himself.

Dark-gold Earth Qi hung around him like a thin mist.

He absorbed the Mystic Yellow Stone Marrow piece by piece. The dark gold in his bones deepened, while his flesh slowly but steadily regrew, filled out, and healed.

When he opened his eyes again, his appearance had changed completely.

His skin had taken on a pale golden hue, as though a thin layer of glaze covered it, giving off a faint, deep, lustrous glow.

He stood a little straighter than before. His frame had opened up slightly, adding several centimeters to his already tall figure.

Most amusing of all was his gleaming bald head.

Not a single hair remained, yet his face had regained its handsome, refined looks. The contrast was almost absurd.

With his delicate features and bare scalp, the bald beauty looked both imposing and ridiculous.

Li Xiao slowly rose, feeling the newfound strength within him.

He looked down at his hands. When he clenched his fists, it felt as though each palm held the weight of a mountain.

His once-charred bones had turned the color of white jade, lustrous and resilient, with a faint pearly glow.

This was the first sign of jade transformation. Once every bone in his body had turned to jade, the Glazed Body would begin to take shape.

With Mountain Earth Core Qi for its marrow and Ten-Thousand-Year Mystic Yellow Stone for its flesh and blood, the Glazed Body gave every punch and kick the force of a mountain. An ordinary Fifth-Turn Cultivator could not withstand even a casual blow from him.

Even Venerable Manqiong had only been able to battle Venerable Jingyang for so long without losing because he