Time passed day by day.
One month later.
A blinding azure light suddenly erupted above the rear hall.
A vast, boundless pressure instantly enveloped the entire Heaven-Piercing Peak.
The Water Qilin leaped from the Jasper Water Pool and let out a reverent low growl toward the rear hall.
Cang Song, Shuiyue, and the other peak masters hurried over.
The stone doors slowly opened.
Daoxuan stepped out.
His once graying hair had unexpectedly turned jet-black and lustrous.
The wrinkles on his face had vanished without a trace. He seemed thirty years younger, like a middle-aged scholar.
Even more terrifying was the aura around him.
Deep and remote, as though he had fused with heaven and earth.
Tian Buyi and Ye Xuan arrived as well.
Tian Buyi released his divine sense and studied Daoxuan with uncertainty.
"Sect Leader Senior Brother, your cultivation... why has it fallen?"
In Tian Buyi's perception, Daoxuan's original Taiqing Realm aura had vanished, replaced by fluctuations equivalent to the peak of the Shangqing Realm.
Daoxuan threw back his head and laughed, his laughter brimming with unprecedented exhilaration.
"Fallen? No, this is transformation!"
Daoxuan raised a hand, and an incomparably pure surge of Magic Power poured forth.
Even the surrounding space faintly rippled.
"I have converted all the true essence within my body into Magic Power."
"Though my realm has fallen to the peak of Refining Qi into Spirit, my current strength is more than ten times greater than before!"
"Even without the Zhu Xian Sword, I could suppress Poison God with one hand!"
Daoxuan's words brimmed with peerless confidence.
What excited him even more was that the Zhu Xian baleful qi that had tormented him for so long had long since been reduced to ashes beneath the cleansing tide of Magic Power.
Not only had he eliminated the