In the silence of "Soul-Nurturing Ancient Tree" isolated from the world, several months passed quietly.
Yuni's consciousness had already become numb, but under the continuous soul nourishment provided by Bi Ji with the power of Origin, it miraculously did not collapse. Instead, it was tempered and toughened by this extreme torture.
The initially hazy, chaotic state like Yuni began to undergo subtle changes under the continuous erosion of life energy.
Deep in the core of Yuni, a weak but extremely condensed spiritual light with strange and contradictory characteristics is slowly growing.
Bi Ji's consumption is huge. In the past few months, she has devoted most of her energy to guiding and suppressing this "prisoner".
Although the process is slow and full of iterations, a weak trend towards orderly and stable development has already emerged.
Today, as usual, when Bi Ji injected pure life energy into the tree hole through "Soul-Nurturing Ancient Tree" and guided it to slowly penetrate into the protagonist's body, her emerald green eyes moved slightly.
It's different.
The "Yuni" no longer just passively accepted nourishment and combing as before. On the contrary, the faint spiritual light inside it suddenly became much brighter, and began to actively guide the life energy input by Bi Ji to conduct careful contact, testing, and even... an extremely preliminary and tentative fusion!
Although the signs of fusion are minimal and extremely unstable, this means that Yuni's self-awareness has reached a critical critical point!
At the same time, the life energy in the tree hole began to gather uncontrollably towards the location of Yuni. It was not Bi Ji who actively guided it, but the spiritual light in Yuni's body, like a newborn, greedy vortex, which began to spontaneously and faster and faster swallow up the surrounding life energy! Its speed was far faster than any moment in the previous months!
"Soul-Nurturing Ancient Tree" itself also emits a slight, breath-like pulsating brilliance, extracting a more majestic and purer breath of life from the periphery of Lake of Life and injecting it into the tree hole. The life concentration of the entire space instantly increased to an astonishing level, and even a faint, emerald green mist of life condensed.
"It's about to begin..." Bi Ji withdrew the energy output of the guide and took a few steps back. A trace of solemnity flashed in her emerald green eyes, as well as a trace of imperceptible complexity. She knew that the most critical moment had arrived.
The ball of "Yuni" began to squirm violently and Transformation turned into a constantly changing and extremely unstable light cocoon. Sometimes strange gray lines appeared on the surface of the light cocoon, exuding a heart-stopping silence; sometimes it was covered with vigorous greenery, full of vitality. The two forces collided with each other, making the light cocoon constantly deformed, as if it would burst at any time.
A powerful and chaotic energy wave began to emanate from the light cocoon, and climbed upward at an alarming speed! Eighty-five thousand years... eighty-eight thousand years... ninety thousand years... ninety-three thousand years...
The increase in years is astonishingly fast, but it is not without cost. Each level jump is accompanied by more violent trembling of the light cocoon, and a painful scream from the depths of the soul that can be felt even through the light cocoon. It is the wail of Origin that has been forcibly torn, forcibly bonded, and forcibly infused with power.
Bi Ji is fully focused, constantly forming seals with her hands, ready to intervene at any time. She must ensure that this violent energy impact will not completely get out of control and will not endanger "Soul-Nurturing Ancient Tree" itself. She must also be on guard, at the critical moment of breakthrough, whether Yuni will try to do something unwise due to the surge in power.
Ninety-five thousand years... ninety-eight thousand years... ninety-nine thousand years...
The energy fluctuations climbed to the peak, and the trembling of the light cocoon also reached its limit. The gray and green lights on the surface flashed crazily, as if it was about to explode completely in the next moment!
Yuni's consciousness was currently in a boundless chaos and storm. He could clearly "see" that his faint aura was like a small boat in the Angry Sea, which was almost shattered by the violent energy tide.
"Boom--!"
Outside, that cocoon of light that was shaking violently, as if it was about to burst at any moment, suddenly erupted with a strange gray-green light inside! This light was no longer flickering and repelling each other as before, but showed a strange, intertwined, and rotating situation! A more majestic, more condensed, contradictory atmosphere that simultaneously contained vitality and deep silence suddenly burst out from the light cocoon!
Ninety-nine thousand nine hundred years!
The energy fluctuations brazenly broke through an invisible limit and launched the final and most ferocious impact towards the threshold of qualitative change!
"We're about to break through!" Bi Ji's eyes narrowed, and his hands quickly drew a mysterious trajectory in front of him. A more solid emerald green barrier enveloped the entire inside of the tree hole, isolating the external impact of the violent energy. She could feel that the nature of the power of the "prisoner" seemed to be undergoing some indescribable and essential changes. It was no longer a simple confrontation between life and decay, but... a strange, preliminary sign of integration and transformation!
Although this sign is extremely weak and full of uncertainty, it is undoubtedly a key and good signal! This means that this "prisoner" may step into the level of Hundred-Thousand-Year in an unprecedented and contradictory way!
Inside the light cocoon, Yuni's consciousness was in the center of the wildly rotating energy vortex, enduring unprecedented pressure and pain, but it also felt a new and powerful force, which was being nurtured and condensed with difficulty in the endless conflict and annihilation...
The silent soul exploded into the gray-green tangled, slowly spinning energy vortex in the deepest part of consciousness. At the moment when it broke through the last barrier of ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine years, it suddenly collapsed crazily inward!
In the tree hole, the light cocoon that was pulsing violently and almost bursting, the brilliance suddenly converged inward, and then every beat, like a real heart, affected the ebb and flow of the life energy in the tree hole. A clearer and thicker pressure filled the air - that was the pressure of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast!
But this coercion was completely different from any Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Bi Ji knew. In Bi Ji's emerald green eyes, the surprise was getting thicker. She could clearly sense that the square in the center of the tree hole was The "existence" that has experienced drastic changes is undergoing an unprecedented sublimation of its life essence. It is by no means a simple stack of Soul Power, but an essential leap in the level of life, accompanied by a certain "definition" of the source of its power!
At the moment when the Yuni breath broke through the Hundred-Thousand-Year threshold, outside the tree hole, in the sky over Lake of Life, the devastating Hundred-Thousand-Year Heavenly Tribulation thundercloud that should have appeared did not condense.