Between a stretch of icy peaks lay a volcanic crater, shrouded in black smoke. Scalding magma flowed slowly within, storing up enough vast energy to destroy heaven and earth.
Shi Lan sat cross-legged at the bottom of the magma lake. Before her, a crimson immortal flower bobbed gently in the molten rock.
Threads of fire-element essence seeped from the magma into the depths of her body, refining her physique.
After a while, Shi Lan slowly opened her eyes, parted her lips, and swallowed the crimson flower before her.
Vast energy exploded inside her, surged straight into her spiritual platform, and flooded through her every bone.
This immortal herb had grown in a place of utmost yin, transforming from utmost yin into utmost yang. It would greatly benefit the true fire within Shi Lan.
Moreover, it contained a fragment of law born from the alternation of yin and yang, which was extremely important to Shi Lan.
The Heavenly Human Realm was a stage devoted to comprehending the laws, to communing with heaven and earth. Fragments of law naturally nurtured by heaven and earth could greatly shorten this process.
Her cultivation, which had gradually stagnated, began to stir and slowly rise once more.
After entering the Heavenly Human Realm, Shi Lan had keenly sensed that her cultivation was progressing more slowly. Her astonishing, day-by-day improvements were gradually fading.
Now, she had to spend several days just to feel the slightest progress.
If she continued cultivating at this steady, unremarkable pace, it might take her years to bring the sixth level of the Jade Purity Creation Art to great completion.
That pace might not seem slow, but compared with how quickly she had cultivated before, it was far inferior.
As she refined the herb, several days passed in the blink of an eye.