Only after a long while did Li Bufan slowly suppress the wild joy in his heart.
He gently exhaled a breath of stale air, drew his gaze back from the sea, and settled it on his Storage Ring.
His fingers brushed the edge of the Storage Ring. With a slight stir of his thoughts, a grayish-white pearl emerged from within and floated quietly above his palm.
The pearl was only the size of his thumb, grayish-white all over, with a smooth, unmarked surface. It looked utterly unremarkable.
Xie Qisha had given him this Soul Pearl after he comprehended the Blade Domain and completed his training.
At the time, Xie Qisha had merely said he had left him a treasure for self-defense, telling him to refine it when the time was right.
Back in the Myriad Spirits Cave Heaven, he had personally witnessed Ye Xu control this Soul Pearl. It had left an exceptionally deep impression on him, so he had wanted to refine it ever since.
But his cultivation had been far too low then, and afterward came Red Sleeve Fragrance and the Hidden Dragon Tournament. Thus, the Soul Pearl had remained quietly in his Storage Ring, and he had never found the time to deal with it.
Now he had nothing weighing on him, and his cultivation could no longer be mentioned in the same breath as before. It was the perfect time to refine the Soul Pearl.
He took a deep breath and cleared away his stray thoughts. Holding the Soul Pearl between his palms, he condensed his spiritual sense into a thread and probed its interior.
The instant his spiritual sense touched the Soul Pearl's surface, a faint coolness traveled along it into his mind, followed by a gentle tug, as though his spiritual sense had been