In the room, Xu Yuan watched the direction Rong Ling had left in, his eyes still somewhat dazed.
Below Foundation Establishment—judging by her tone, she was probably truly just one step away from it. With such cultivation, no wonder she could completely disregard the formidable Zhu Yan.
"When will I ever become that powerful?"
After murmuring enviously to himself, Xu Yuan sat down cross-legged again. Having broken through to the middle stage of Qi Refining and possessing superior-grade Five Elements spiritual roots, he naturally would no longer cultivate the inefficient <Little Cangshan Essence-Refining Qi-Transformation Art>.
For him now, the only thing this initial cultivation method still had any meaning for was that Heart-Intent Fist.
Opening the Moon-Gazing Breathing Art, which had been gathering dust for who knew how long, Xu Yuan began reading its contents. He had actually practiced this technique before, but burdened by his mixed spiritual roots at the time, no matter how he cultivated, its efficiency had still fallen short of the <Little Cangshan Essence-Refining Qi-Transformation Art>.
But things were different now. After Xu Yuan set down the Moon-Gazing Breathing Art, he began visualizing inwardly and circulating energy outside his body.
At first, only wisps and threads of spiritual qi gathered toward him. But moments later, hundreds and thousands of streams of spiritual qi came surging in.
In only a short while, so much spiritual qi had accumulated where Xu Yuan cultivated that it actually showed signs of condensing into mist. The gray-robed Daoist within sat as steady as an old god, yet at one moment he could not help but become high-spirited.
"This feels amazing!"
Early the next morning, Xu Yuan woke from his cultivation. Though he had not slept all night, he felt his mental state was still quite good. This was because absorbing such