Atop the White Pagoda, the Alliance clerks on the lower floors were handling their work in an orderly fashion. Yet on the topmost floor—Ye Xiu's private level—it was complete chaos.
The physicians raised from scratch by the Alliance proper hurried forward, examining the seated Qi He from head to toe. Meanwhile, researchers from the Heavenly Physician Valley's underground laboratory gripped their terminals, calculating frantically.
"Sir, the results are out. Alliance Leader Qi has displayed no other abnormalities. We cannot detect anything unusual about this sudden increase in spiritual power. It seems to have completely fused into him and become a part of Alliance Leader Qi's body."
The white-robed physician bowed slightly to Ye Xiu in respect.
"So what is the final conclusion?"
Ye Xiu frowned. He had always kept an eye on Qi He's cultivation. Since Qi He had not devoted all his energy to cultivation, he had only relied on basic Pattern-Regulating Breath for simple practice all this time. Under such circumstances, it was naturally impossible to expect much more.
Reaching the middle stage of Core Formation at his age could only be attributed to the Alliance being so absurdly wealthy that it could recklessly pile resources onto someone and forcibly raise their cultivation.
Had another cultivator focused wholeheartedly on cultivation consumed resources as vast as Qi He's, then with talent equal to his, they would more or less have had to make a push toward Nascent Soul.
"The quantity of spiritual power within Alliance Leader Qi has already grown to the point of overflowing. Once its density rises, it will overlap and condense into substance, and in the end..."
The cultivator dressed in a researcher's robe was about to continue when Ji Ye cut him off directly.
"In plain words, he's about to break through into Nascent Soul,