After that figure tore through the air and departed, the elders of the various sects high above the clouds seemed to awaken together from a frozen dream.
Their movements and expressions returned to normal in that instant. They adjusted slightly, entirely unaffected.
Yet strangely, once they emerged from that time-stopped state, no one discussed what had just happened or mentioned the figure who had appeared out of thin air, as though nothing had occurred.
Time slipped by, second by second, as Li Bufan cultivated.
He sat upright in the center of the arena, the hundred-foot-long golden Dragon Aura continuously circling him.
With this infusion of Origin Essence, the Yang God within his Upper Dantian grew more substantial and lively under its nourishment. The five-petaled flower between its brows quietly gained two more petals.
The flower of blood and qi at the center of his Lower Dantian likewise transformed from five petals to seven. Through that ceaseless tempering, his blood and qi took on a deeper golden hue, flowing with the weight of molten gold and lending every breath the steady resonance of a beaten drum.
When the golden Dragon Aura was finally refined and absorbed in its entirety, the text on his Heaven Rewards Diligence destiny also completed its corresponding change.
[Heaven Rewards Diligence] [Five Elements Heaven Skill, Three Flowers Chapter: Great Mastery (/)]
His cultivation had advanced all the way from Minor Mastery of Three Flowers to Great Mastery, and he had even progressed some distance within that stage.
One reason he had gained such an enormous improvement was that Cen had also infused him with the share of Origin Essence originally belonging to Lin Zhiyan, effectively combining the rewards the two of them had accumulated during the Hidden Dragon Tournament.
The other was that, after receiving