She still had to rely mainly on spirit stones and medicinal pills to boost her cultivation.
Xiao Minghuang took a deep breath and began circulating her cultivation technique.
Countless pills and spirit stones were drawn by her aura. Their potent medicinal power and spiritual energy burst free like chicks breaking from their shells, then surged into her body together like young swallows returning to their nest.
Absorbing such a vast amount of spirit stones and pills at once would result in some loss of quality, but it allowed her to absorb more spiritual energy in less time.
With only one month left until the grand competition, she could not cultivate slowly and methodically. Speed had to come first.
Moreover, as the owner of a heavenly-grade Five Elements Spiritual Root, she absorbed spiritual energy countless times faster than those with ordinary spiritual roots.
If an ordinary spiritual root tried to absorb so many spirit stones and pills at once, its spiritual power would likely burst through its meridians in an instant, causing the body to explode and perish!
Yet Xiao Minghuang was not affected in the slightest. Heavenly-grade spiritual roots absorbed and transformed spiritual energy at an extraordinary speed, while the Five Elements Spiritual Root could absorb spiritual energy of every attribute between heaven and earth. The two complemented each other, and the result was far more than a simple one plus one.
It was one times two!
Feeling the spiritual power within her gradually boil, Xiao Minghuang's focus grew ever more concentrated.
"Gather!"
In an instant.
A vast amount of spiritual energy surged into her body like a hundred rivers returning to the sea. It circulated through her meridians, flowing into every limb and bone, like a boundless ocean with raging waves and ceaseless currents, as though it could wash