Rescue 3

Every surge of the medicine's power was a trial of life and death, and he had to endure that repeated tempering for two and a half years.

In the first month, his skin cracked inch by inch. Golden medicinal power streamed from the fissures, wrapping him in a dazzling human-shaped glow.

From afar, he looked like a stone statue encased in a cocoon of light. Only his heavy breathing, unceasing for even a moment, came from within.

Every day, Xuanyuan Tian Ji used her Immortal Emperor power to stabilize his body. At first it took an hour, then half a day, until even sweat began to bead on her forehead.

In the third month, his severed meridians began to reconnect.

The new meridians were thicker and tougher than before, but reconnecting them was agony beyond bearing.

Every meridian restored brought inhuman pain. His body shook violently, his teeth chattered, but he refused to let himself pass out.

A War King's will would not let him lie there in comfort while his old brother still suffered.

In the sixth month, his dantian and sea of qi began to open anew.

Under the nourishment of the Immortal Medicine, his once-parched, cracked dantian came back to life. The foundations of his Immortal Emperor cultivation were being tamped firm again, bit by bit.

His cultivation steadily rose from the Immortal Realm through Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, and Immortal Lord. Every step was as solid as a nail hammered into bone.

In the first year, he broke through to Immortal King.

The instant he broke through, the aftershock of his shattered bottleneck shook all of Enlightenment Cliff. Fine chips of stone pattered down the rock face.

The Divine Silkworm War King's voice came from underground, weak but unmistakably smug. "I'm not dying."

"My old brother's