"Not enough. There's still not enough Heaven and Earth vital energy in my body."
Though Xia Ping sensed that both his magic power and his primordial spirit had reached the peak of the Return to Truth Realm, breaking through to the Dharma Image Realm and forming his Heaven and Earth Dharma Images required an unimaginable amount of Heaven and Earth vital energy.
After all, his situation was different from everyone else's. They only needed to form one Dharma Image, but he had to form nine—far more than any number of living beings could surpass.
Fortunately, he had entered the Demon World this time and slain countless Demon Kings. He had also seized an inexhaustible supply of pills and spirit medicines from them, enough to carry him into the Dharma Image Realm.
With that thought, Xia Ping didn't hesitate. With a shift of his mind, he took out a vast quantity of pills and then used his martial arts divine ability to form the Sun Furnace.
In an instant, the Sun Furnace refined the pills, removing their impurities and leaving behind only the purest essence—a mass of golden medicinal energy.
Under Xia Ping's control, his mouth opened wide and swallowed it all like a whale gulping down water. At that moment, it seemed as if every pore on his body had become a mouth, producing an incomparable force of devouring.
Rumble!
The massive medicinal power poured into Xia Ping, fueling his advancement. It coursed along his strange meridians and acupoints before finally entering the nine Purple Mansion spaces within him and merging with his nine primordial spirits.
Suddenly, his nine primordial spirits began to crack and pop. Like eggshells, they split open, as though something deep within them was about to break free and escape his body.
"The time has come."