A Troubled Heart!

The eighth floor was far harder than Li Qingshan had expected.

He had easily repelled a Golden Immortal as powerful as Dark Star on the seventh floor. He had thought the eighth would be difficult, but not so difficult that he could barely take a step.

He had never imagined the true trial would be this terrifying.

Even a peak Golden Immortal would be worn to death by this vast ocean of the Great Dao.

Just as he felt the immortal power throughout his body nearing exhaustion, a warm tremor came from deep within his brow.

The Wish-Fulfilling Gourd.

It had lain dormant deep within Li Qingshan's brow. Since he entered the Chosen Secret Realm, it had only trembled faintly to warn him when treasure was nearby.

This time, it awakened on its own.

A faint layer of chaotic light appeared on the gourd's surface. The glow was exceedingly gentle, yet it carried an ancient aura.

The chaotic light spread from his brow and flowed along his meridians into every part of his body.

At the same time, the Wish-Fulfilling Gourd began absorbing the law origins pouring into Li Qingshan's body.

Those chaotic, violent law origins carried the will to destroy everything. Yet after the gourd absorbed them, they grew docile, and it fed strands of pure Chaos Origin back to Li Qingshan.

That returning Chaos Origin flowed into Li Qingshan's immortal apertures on its own, helping temper all 108 of them.

With each tempering, the apertures' walls grew sturdier and the law origins within them grew purer.

Li Qingshan felt a weight lift from his entire body.

The pressure of the vast ocean of the Great Dao remained, and towering waves of law still battered him, but the force that had made every step a struggle had weakened by