Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, a year had gone by.
In an opulent room within a side hall of the Imperial City in Great Qing City.
On the bed, Lin Chen slowly opened his eyes, which had been closed for who knew how long. His eyes were as brilliant and ethereal as crystalline jade, seemingly capable of seeing through heaven and earth, striking fear into one's soul.
"Kid, did you... break through?"
The utterly different feeling Lin Chen gave Little Marten immediately filled his tiny eyes with excitement, and he could not help asking in a grave voice.
Looking at the somewhat excited Little Marten floating before him, Lin Chen smiled faintly and nodded. Then, a Spiritual Power capable of shaking heaven and earth slowly swept forth from within his body.
Yet in the next instant, it suddenly vanished without a trace. In that brief moment, it was as though nothing had happened.
At this moment, the heaven and earth within Lin Chen's Mud Pill Palace had completely separated. The heavens were clear and the earth murky, and faintly, thunder seemed to rumble within.
The vast self-contained world within his Mud Pill Palace had long ceased to be as lifeless as before, no longer beyond his grasp or control. Now, he could mobilize and command this world, and the boundless Spiritual Power contained within it was all at his disposal.
With but a thought from Lin Chen, Spiritual Power within that world would gather like lightning, forming a true phantom in an instant. This figure was precisely Lin Chen's Spiritual Body!
However, unlike before, Lin Chen's Spiritual Body had now grown countless times stronger. The surging Spiritual Power fluctuations emanating from it were like ten-thousand-year-old dark ice, cold enough to pierce the bone.
Not only