Post-Battle Matters

Xiao Yan looked at the Soul Hall Elders in midair, their souls already completely extinguished, and felt a faint sense of unreality. It was the daze that came after a sudden, massive surge in power, when his perception of himself still needed time to settle.

Before his awakening, it was not as though he had been utterly incapable of fighting a seven-star Dou Zun, but he would still have needed to face one with his full attention, every step of the battle fraught with danger. Yet just now, he had calmly wiped out all three of them. This was not a narrow victory, nor a hard-fought battle, but a complete and utter crushing. Even he found such efficiency hard to believe.

His current strength was now that of a genuine eight-star Dou Zun. His Heavenly Flames had also undergone a major improvement, and once he activated the Three Mysterious Changes of Heavenly Fire, he would likely charge straight toward the peak of the Dou Zun class.

The transformation of his soul power was what had delighted Xiao Yan most after this awakening. He no longer had any Shadow Piercing Needles in reserve. The three needle-shaped attacks just now had been the result of mimicking the form and attack characteristics of the Shadow Piercing Needle. Although they lacked the true Shadow Piercing Needle's concealment and lethal strike, they had still served to hold back his enemies.

Xiao Yan could basically confirm that, with the rise in his cultivation realm, his soul power had likely entered the realm countless alchemists dreamed of—the Heavenly State!

Soul power was the foundation of an alchemist. Having entered the Heavenly State, he was now qualified to challenge the rank of a ninth-tier alchemist. The glory of being the Pill Tower champion was certainly dazzling, but the