Tianbei City, Han Clan's rear garden.
A year and a half passed quietly.
The entire courtyard was shrouded in a faint grayish-white Chaos Barrier, so silent that not even the slightest noise from outside could be heard.
Withered yellow leaves covered the bluestone path in the courtyard, and no one sat by the stone table.
The door to the West Wing was tightly shut, yet in the void above the room, the natural energy of heaven and earth was gathering at an incredibly terrifying speed, forming a massive vortex.
Gold, wood, water, fire, and earth—five different-colored lights intertwined and flowed within the barrier before all being drawn into the room.
Inside the room, Lu Heng sat cross-legged on a cushion.
The five-colored radiance on his body had completely receded, replaced by a warm jade-like glow.
Over the past year and a half, he had tempered the Five Elements Spirit Body to its utmost limit. Every pore across his body was independently drawing in and releasing the natural energy of heaven and earth.
Within his dantian, the grayish-white chaos vortex that had originally been only palm-sized had now expanded into something as vast and profound as a galaxy.
Nine flawless, rounded points of energy slowly revolved around the vortex.
Peak Nine-Star Dou Zong.
With the Five Elements Spirit Body, Lu Heng encountered no shackles from major realms during cultivation. In merely a year and a half, he had raised his cultivation from Middle Five-Star all the way to the absolute peak of Dou Zong.
Only a single step remained between him and the Dou Zun experts who could tear through space with a wave of their hands.
Lu Heng slowly ended his cultivation, and the violent energy within him gradually settled.
He rose from the cushion and pushed open the long-sealed