Xu Yanli lowered his head and looked at his hands.
These hands had wielded a blade to cut down evil and brushed across paper to set strategies. Now, a faint, chaotic glow hovered over his palms—the color of Life and Destruction completely fused together.
The Second God Trial, Soul Refining of Life and Destruction Tides. Three hundred and sixty-five days.
Not a single day less.
At the start, lightning had struck him until his skin split and his flesh tore, leaving him unable to get up for half an hour. Later, he could stand steady in the Thunder Domain for a full hour. At first, the Life Force had poured into him until his meridians nearly burst; now he could precisely guide every wisp of vitality to where it needed to go.
His body was like a chunk of refined iron—heated red-hot, hammered, quenched, then heated and hammered again, tempered over and over without pause.
After three hundred and sixty-five rounds of tempering, it was no longer a matter of whether he was tired. His whole body felt loose and full of stored-up strength.
He moved his wrist. His bones gave a soft crackle, and all his hidden strength seemed to flow out.
The Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores throbbed clearly within him. This was the Second Soul Core he had condensed during this period, forged from the opposing forces of Life and Destruction.
By all reason, the two forces should never have been able to coexist. The slightest slip could have blown his soul to pieces.
But he had done it.
The bloodline of the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon had given him a body like a giant dragon's, and that had been further tempered by the Life Force and Destruction Force he had wielded all this time.
His