Inside the cultivation chamber, Tantai Yue slowly opened her eyes.
The lunar laws flowing around her receded like a tide, sinking into the newly opened immortal aperture within her body.
The cold moonlight gradually faded, and the chamber's temperature returned to normal.
Her cultivation at the early Profound Immortal stage had finally stabilized.
Tantai Yue looked down at her hands and felt the surging power within her. Joy shone unmistakably in her eyes.
She gently clenched her fist, and even the space around her palm warped slightly. It was power she had never dared imagine possessing.
"So this is what it means to be a Profound Immortal..."
She murmured the words, her voice tinged with disbelief.
A century-old bottleneck, broken in a single day.
She felt like a trapped dragon soaring into the heavens, like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon.
Her immortal power was several times more abundant than it had been at the peak of the Heavenly Immortal stage, and her command of the laws was purer and deeper. Most important of all was the immortal aperture she had opened.
Within it, the lunar laws had condensed into a silvery-white seed that rotated slowly, ceaselessly drawing immortal energy from heaven and earth and turning it into her power.
As long as that aperture remained intact, her immortal power would never run dry.
"Congratulations."
A gentle voice came from behind her.
Tantai Yue turned and saw Li Qingshan leaning against the cultivation chamber's doorframe, watching her with a faint smile.
The aura around him had changed too.
At the peak of the Heavenly Immortal stage, he stood as steady as a mountain.
But Tantai Yue knew this man could never be judged by ordinary standards. He had defeated Li Xuanyu, a peak Heavenly Immortal, while only at the middle