Just as Li Bufan stood by the window, his gaze resting on the outline of the mountain range bathed in morning light, a voice entered his mind directly. "Awake?"
Li Bufan's lips curved slightly when he heard those two words, and he turned around.
By now, his cultivation had completely stabilized. After a month of continuous tempering and refinement by the Mountain Character Art, his foundation had become even more solid, as though it had been poured anew.
Over the past month, although his Five Elements Heaven Skill had not advanced much, both his vital energy and spirit had undergone extraordinarily profound changes under that unceasing tempering.
When he looked inward, he could clearly sense that although the seven petals upon his Yang God's brow had not increased in number, every petal had nearly doubled in size, and the power of divine sense contained within had become denser and deeper.
The flower of vital energy at the center of his lower dantian was much the same. Its petals had grown a full circle larger, while the color of his vital energy had deepened, carrying a molten-gold texture as it flowed.
The body-refining section of the Mountain Character Art seemed to have reforged his fleshly body from the ground up. Any trace of instability that might have accumulated from his successive breakthroughs had been thoroughly purged by that constant tempering.
After being tempered by the Spirit Refining Chapter of the Mountain Character Art, Li Bufan could more or less sense some of the mysteries behind Li Tianying's unfathomable voice transmission technique.
He tried to imitate it in the same manner—using divine sense to lock onto a target, then vibrating the air with True Essence and compressing his voice at a specific frequency into a fine, precise wave.
His first few attempts