The earth energy contained in the berserk bear's blood essence was immensely heavy, rampaging through his meridians.
Lu Heng sat cross-legged in the center of the grotto, his breathing exceedingly slow. Each exhalation carried out wisps of dark yellow, turbid air.
The Five Spirits Chaos Art circulated rapidly within him.
Deep in his dantian, the Yin Yang Twin Fish leisurely swished their tails, grinding down the violent energy pouring into his Qi Vortex layer by layer.
Once thoroughly assimilated by his Chaos Dou Qi, the initially harsh, coarse earth energy became a gentle, warm current that seeped through his limbs and into his marrow.
His Five Elements Spirit Body was already perfected. Now, nourished by the earth essence of a high-tier ferocious beast, the bones throughout his body gave off a series of faint cracks.
Hidden injuries and impurities deep beneath his flesh were forcibly squeezed out by that heavy power, forming a thin layer of grayish-brown grease on his skin.
Lu Heng opened his eyes and looked down at his palm.
His skin was firmer than before, faintly gleaming with a metallic sheen.
He had grown considerably stronger again.
After refining the blood essence, Lu Heng did not rush to leave.
He had already felt his Dou Qi advancing earlier. Perhaps refining the blood essence would help him break through sooner; he might as well make that breakthrough before doing anything else.
Lu Heng closed his eyes again and continued cultivating.
Meanwhile, countless miles away, in the Black-Corner Region of the Northwest Continent.
In the dense woods of the Back Mountain at Jia Nan Academy's Inner Academy.
A young man dressed in black sat cross-legged on a bluestone boulder, a broad, heavy ruler slanted across his back.
He opened his right hand, and with a soft puff, a