``` [In the 1,003,937th year, you completed the refinement of the mother plant of the Sixth-ring Dao Medicine Imperial Blood Overlord Vine. After completely refining it, blood vessels thicker than ordinary cardiovascular vessels grew on your heart like tree roots, and a faint Imperial Blood Overlord Vine mark appeared upon it.
Originally, such marks should also have appeared on your blood vessels, but those areas had long since been claimed by the icy patterns of your Cold Abyss Imperial Vein. The Imperial Blood Overlord Vine simply could not compete with those ice patterns that had been branded there for ages.]
[Although the method you used was different, the Imperial Blood Overlord Vine was still a Sixth-ring Dao Medicine. Even without refining it into pills, forcefully refining it alive still brought you considerable benefits.
Not only did it greatly raise your cultivation, but even after repeated condensation, the amount of Immortal Source within your body had already exceeded ninety percent. It also brought a qualitative leap to your physical strength.]
[That same year, you tested your newly increased strength and discovered that relying solely on physical power, you could slightly suppress Puppet Shadow. As an Immortal King Second Realm puppet, although Puppet Shadow did not possess the varied methods of other Immortal King Second Realm experts, it was still no match for an ordinary newly ascended Immortal King. This test meant that your pure physical strength could now contend against an Immortal King Second Realm existence.
The reason you were able to improve so greatly was still because your skin's defenses had strengthened considerably. Many of Puppet Shadow's methods found it difficult to affect you, and you were harder than many defensive Dao artifacts. Only then did you gain the prerequisite to fight Puppet Shadow at close range...]
[In the 1,023,937th