Entrance to the Second Level

Since entering the depths of the Heavenly Tomb, nearly two months had passed. Over these sixty-odd days, Xiao Ling, Xun Er, and Xiao Yan had traveled constantly across this vast land shrouded in dense fog.

Every Energy Body they encountered along the way was ultimately refined into an Energy Core, whether through the three of them joining forces or Xiao Yan testing himself alone, and stored away in their Storage Rings.

After clearing their way through all this, their harvest over the past two months had been truly plentiful. The only drawback was that the Energy Bodies they encountered had never been particularly powerful, and the Energy Cores they condensed were mostly only second- or third-tier quality. Naturally, they were of no use to Xiao Ling and Xun Er, who had long surpassed that level, so they were all given to Xiao Yan for absorption and refinement.

Xiao Yan had only just barely broken through to the Two-Star Dou Zun level before this, and these Energy Cores happened to be the perfect aid, steadily raising his cultivation.

But as the number he absorbed gradually increased, their boosting effect slowly weakened.

Only then did the three of them realize that absorbing too many Energy Cores could also produce a degree of resistance.

However, this resistance was far weaker than that caused by medicinal pills. As long as they could find Energy Cores of higher quality and in greater quantity, they would still have a significant nourishing effect on cultivation.

In this deathly silent world sealed beneath mist, there were none of the disturbances of the outside world. Though it should have been an excellent place for cultivation, one had to endure a boredom several times more intense than usual. As far as the eye could see, there was only floating fluorescence