Refining Form and Tempering Essence, Marrow Like a Saint's (Double-Length Chapter-Please Subscribe!)

As he spoke those final words.

The Awakened Spirit, Illuminating Essence Dao Lord bent deeply at the waist, as though Liu Dongqing had utterly broken his spine.

He was also one of the rare opponents in Dao strife who had managed to escape alive and intact after fighting a brutal, bloody battle against Liu Dongqing.

However.

Though he was still alive.

Yet.

The price the Awakened Spirit, Illuminating Essence Dao Lord had paid for that life was even heavier, even more devastating, than what many cultivators who had already perished at Liu Dongqing's hands had suffered.

If one truly insisted on tallying it all up.

He was actually the one among them with the least personal enmity toward Liu Dongqing.

But there was no helping it.

Such was the mercilessness of Great Dao strife.

His path of immortal cultivation overlapped with Liu Dongqing's.

Their resonance with Dao Fruit Resonance overlapped across fully eight layers, across an entire domain of the Body-Soul Three Origins!

Such an overlap.

Such exclusivity in their future invocation of Dao Fruit Resonance.

Meant that today, the instant Liu Dongqing's [Qi Origin True One] Dao Fruit Resonance reached complete perfection, he had to settle this matter with the Awakened Spirit, Illuminating Essence Dao Lord once and for all.

Otherwise.

If he simply stood by and watched his opponent advance triumphantly through this domain of Dao arts in his Southern Splendor Yang Spirit body.

Either.

One day, his opponent would start later yet arrive first, overtake him on a bend, and then Liu Dongqing himself would be the one whose spine was broken, who was forced to surrender every foundation of his Dao arts and every resource for his cultivation through a Dao oath!

Or.

The Awakened Spirit, Illuminating Essence Dao Lord would truly seize one of those