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Su Xin had seized a total of twenty-one Heavenly Fire Essences from the Heaven-Reaching Island Armory. After giving seven of them to the others, he swallowed all fourteen of the remaining essences and began his seclusion.
Li Huai and the others naturally needed to go into seclusion as well to digest the power of the Heavenly Fire Essence, but they couldn't all do so at once. After all, someone still had to manage Jiangnan Circuit.
So, aside from Li Huai, who was definitely going into seclusion, Gao Changqing and Zhao Yiming, who were on the verge of breaking through to the Spirit Transformation Realm, went into seclusion too. For the time being, Lu Xun and Liu Hao managed Jiangnan Circuit.
Refining fourteen Heavenly Fire Essences in succession had indeed greatly improved Su Xin's strength, but not by as much as he had imagined.
Heavenly Fire was born of heaven and earth, and the Heavenly Fire Essence condensed from refining a small world contained the power of that entire realm.
Unfortunately, a small world was still only a small world, not a true world. Thus, the Heavenly Fire Essence still contained a tiny flaw, and Su Xin couldn't fully fuse with heaven and earth.
Still, it didn't matter. Su Xin had gained more than enough power from the Heavenly Fire Essence. He was now just one step away from advancing to the Soul Fusion Realm, but that step wasn't easy to take.
Even though the Su Family's mutated bloodline made it much easier for him than an ordinary martial artist to break through bottlenecks, that depended on what kind of bottleneck he was facing.
The bottleneck between Spirit Transformation and Soul Fusion was no easy