[This item was rather special. There was no need to hand it to the Snow Emperor to refine into pills; the pellets you kneaded by hand had the same effect. You only needed to pay attention to the ratio between the Origin Spring and the Cockscomb Red Phoenix Sunflower. And for you, with your Double Pupils, even if the difficulty were ten or a hundred times greater, it would not be a problem.
You swallowed all three blood pellets at once, then began another round of secluded cultivation within the Inner Palace...]
[In the 2,673,945th year, you spent nearly two hundred thousand years before finally refining all three blood pellets. Looking inward, the Immortal Source within your body had now reached... ninety-two percent! With less than ten percent remaining, you could attempt the first step of breaking through to Quasi-Emperor: "Pulse Gathering"!
Yet the Phoenix Divine Mark's spirit was still asleep. It had no Shocking Change Worm to assist its refinement, so this would likely take at least another one or two million years.
Fortunately, you had not faced any particularly great crisis recently, so this time would not affect you. Even your next trip to Supreme Changrong Heaven would only take place one and a half million years later, when the large altar on the other side would finally be completed—and that would also happen to be when you had gathered all the Innate Wood Essence.]
[That same year, after leaving secluded cultivation, you noticed that Snow City was unusual. It was decked in festive finery, and you soon learned why. During your seclusion, Xue Que had attained enlightenment and truly broken through into the Quasi-Emperor realm. Such joyous news could not be kept quiet. Though he was still stabilizing his aura and would need another thirty to fifty