At the same time!
Deep within Ping'an City, in a seemingly ordinary little courtyard that was in fact the core of the Secret Realm, where Spirit Energy was at its most dense.
Inside the Quiet Room, atop the Cloud Bed.
Cheng Buzheng sat with his eyes slightly closed, his entire body enveloped in a hazy pale azure glow.
That glow was not still. It slowly circulated and breathed like a living creature; with every cycle, it seemed to faintly harmonize with some grand rhythm between heaven and earth within the Secret Realm beyond the Quiet Room.
Threads of indescribably profound aura spread from his body. They were the faint gleam of laws, traces of the Great Dao made manifest.
What he was comprehending was the Wood Law, the law most compatible with himself.
Suddenly!
The steady, profound fluctuations of law around him stalled slightly, then rolled back like a receding tide, all of it sinking into his body without a single trace escaping.
The surging Spirit Pressure and Dao resonance within the Quiet Room instantly subsided, restoring its usual tranquility.
The next moment, his long-lowered eyelids abruptly lifted.
A flash of pure, profound azure light flickered through his eyes, like the vitality bursting forth when the first spring shoot broke through the earth, and like the spiritual radiance of passing years settled deep within the rings of an ancient tree.
As his eyes opened and closed, the Quiet Room seemed to brighten for an instant, before every strange phenomenon returned to the ordinary.
"As expected..."
Cheng Buzheng murmured soundlessly, a satisfied curve rising at the corner of his lips.
"After gaining entry into the Wood Law, with the current strength of this venerable one's divine soul and comprehension, grasping its subsequent transformations and deeper essence has indeed become much smoother.