After taking the Ink Jade Divine Bamboo, Xie Yue sat cross-legged and began refining it. He remained seated for most of the day as the sky gradually slipped into dusk.
When the ink-jade glow around him gradually faded, he slowly opened his eyes. Although the light within Pope Hall was dimmer than during the day now that evening had come, everything before him still appeared as bright as ever.
"This... this is..."
Xie Yue checked his condition for a moment. After consuming that bamboo herb, his cultivation had risen from Rank 28 Soul Grandmaster to a Rank 30 quasi-Soul Elder. And it felt as though the breakthrough had not ended there.
He was utterly shocked. A single bamboo herb had allowed him to advance two ranks. Even with his talent and the training provided by the Spirit Hall Soul Master Academy, gaining two ranks of Soul Power would have required more than half a year of hard cultivation.
At that moment, he immediately understood just how precious the bamboo herb the Pope had given him was! How highly the Pope regarded him! What the Pope had told him about his sister being deceived by treacherous people and leaving Spirit City was all true.
If he wanted to wake his sister up and bring her back to Spirit City, back to his side, he had to use the results of his cultivation and reality itself to show her the truth.
Xie Yue clenched his fists and said, "Your Holiness, I, Xie Yue, will never disappoint your expectations!"
"I, Xie Yue, swear upon my Martial Soul that I will devote my life to Spirit Hall, serve Spirit Hall for my entire life, and safeguard Spirit Hall's honor. Should Spirit Hall ever harbor corrupt and lawless scum of Soul Masters who prey upon