Xia Ming took a deep breath and suppressed the turmoil in his heart.
Without the slightest hesitation, he guided the blue-green Meridian Soul Bone toward his body.
The instant the Soul Bone touched his skin, it flowed like spilled mercury, transforming into countless warm, lively threads of energy.
They seeped into and merged with him through every pore and every tiny meridian, leaving no opening untouched.
The fusion process was far more wondrous than he had imagined.
Xia Ming felt as though his entire body—
from the finest meridian endings to the main channels running through his torso and limbs, then to the hidden passages linking his Spirit Sea and energy core—
had been immersed in the gentlest hot spring, one containing boundless vitality.
An unprecedented sense of clarity and comfort spread through every cell in the blink of an eye.
The countless blue-green energy threads formed from the Meridian Soul Bone were no longer foreign objects.
They perfectly merged with and covered Xia Ming's original meridian network.
Vitality so abundant it was beyond imagination flowed into every inch of his meridians and permanently reinforced them.
Xia Ming could clearly sense that the walls of his meridians, already incomparably resilient after repeated tempering,
now glimmered with a faint blue-gold radiance, their thickness and toughness increasing by several times over.
The space within his meridians was widened by a gentle yet stable force.
It was as though narrow country paths had been upgraded into highways capable of carrying torrents of energy.
He even had an almost arrogant intuition.
Even if someone used Divine Power to shatter his meridians inch by inch at this very moment,
with the support of this immense vitality, the ruptured portions could reconnect and heal in an instant, returning to normal!
This absolute sense of control and