A crushing pressure, like a mountain collapsing, spread from his chest and coursed through his meridians to every corner of his body.
Li Bufan felt his True Essence continuously pouring into the Heaven Severing Seal.
As True Essence entered it, the suppressive force emanating from the Heaven Severing Seal rapidly climbed as well.
His upper dantian was suppressed, his divine sense seeming to be tangled in countless threads. What had once flowed like water grew increasingly sluggish and heavy.
His lower dantian was suppressed, his body seeming to bear an invisible colossal mountain. A faint creaking sounded between his bones and muscles.
Yet immediately afterward, he felt the tempering effects brought by that suppressive force.
On the Heaven Rewards Diligence fate panel, the proficiency of the Mountain Character Art, Spirit Refining Chapter, and Body Refining Chapter slowly ticked upward as well.
Although the increase was not particularly fast—only around one or two hundred proficiency points per day—it came without him actively cultivating or even deliberately circulating any cultivation art.
In other words, as long as he wore this Heaven Severing Seal, the proficiency of these three foundational cultivation arts would continue to increase automatically, even if he merely sat there doing nothing.
Li Bufan calculated that at this rate, even if he stopped all active cultivation, he could advance all three arts to the level required for Golden Core formation within a year.
His heart began to pound as a thought surfaced in his mind.
Before reaching Heavenly Foothill Academy, it would be best to form his Golden Core first!
That goal had originally still seemed somewhat distant, but now, with the Heaven Severing Seal's assistance and the Threefold True Fire's ceaseless tempering day and night, he could attack from several fronts and raise his cultivation efficiency to an unprecedented