[Aside from the Snow Emperor, everyone else in Cold Abyss Snow City had gained something as well. Xue Qing's Immortal Source was nearly full by the fifty-second day after purple qi descended upon the world, and she had only barely restrained herself from entering the Dao Verification state at once...]
[More than five months after purple qi descended upon the world, the Snow Emperor, still digesting her newly gained Immortal Source, suddenly sensed a terrifying pressure that nearly caused her to suffer backlash. At this moment, your Imperial Spirit had finally returned from the cosmic domain to Qingming Hetong Heaven.
The instant the Imperial Spirit entered your body, it was like a blade sliding into its sheath, all its sharpness drawn inward. Only within your secluded cultivation chamber did the continuous hum of an overburdened body ring out. It resounded for several breaths before falling silent once your spirit body had completely fused and you had fully taken control of your flesh. Yet your body was seized by the exhaustion of having every bone fall apart, as though a normal person had worked without sleep or rest for three to five days, weary to the extreme.
Only after you used the Life Law in conjunction with the Double Pupils Origin, drawing out a wisp of "Life Essence" and circulating it throughout your body, did that exhaustion fade. No one had ever warned you before, but only now did you understand that not just anyone could possess an Imperial Spirit before breaking through to the Emperor realm!]
[A peerlessly sharp sword placed in a paper-pasted sword sheath would inevitably shatter that sheath and let the wind leak through. The relationship between spirit bodies was much the same. The pressure of an Imperial Spirit was too heavy; even releasing a trace of