Rapid Progress!

Inside the thatched cottage.

At that moment, Jiang Ning felt his blood surging through him like a tide. It roared throughout his body, and a faint, precious glow flowed beneath his skin.

"With the Flower of Essence nourishing you in return, your blood will strengthen on its own from now on!" the old man told Jiang Ning.

Jiang Ning nodded in agreement.

He could feel the response from his body, could feel the purity of his blood leaping to a new level.

Then he turned his attention to the sea of qi in his dantian.

After four breakthroughs, his inner core had transformed into gold.

Within it lay an ocean of pure, ever-renewing true essence.

The Flower of Qi draws on true essence as its spring to water the golden flower, he thought.

At once, the golden inner core in his dantian blazed. Wisps of golden mist rose from it and gathered above his dantian.

The mist thickened into clouds.

His aura rapidly waned.

The depletion of qi affected more than qi alone. His essence and spirit began to decline as well.

A person's essence, qi, and spirit were one at their root. Though distinct, they were deeply intertwined.

As his true essence drained away, strength left his limbs and weakness spread through his body. It was nothing like the sense of life slipping away that came with depleted blood, yet it was just as hard to bear.

In the thatched cottage.

The old man watched Jiang Ning calmly. Faint golden mist rose from Jiang Ning's pores and dispersed.

He condensed the Flower of Essence first. That means his attainment in true essence surpasses his attainment in blood!

Just then.

He sensed Jiang Ning's aura sinking almost to its lowest point.

He pointed at the empty air ahead.

Hum!

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