[Year Twenty-One: You swallowed the Fox Demon's Beast Essence, saving the time you would have spent breathing in qi and improving your cultivation efficiency.]
[Year Twenty-Three: You swallowed the Flood Dragon Core once more, replenishing the Beast Essence you had used up.]
[Year Twenty-Four: You comprehended the Jade Liquid Flood Demon Power.]
[Year Twenty-Seven: The Jade Dew in your twelve major acupoints poured forth and gathered in your qi sea, like fragrant liquid elixir... You successfully entered the Early Jade Liquid Realm, and the Wind and Thunder Melting Sun Precious Scroll reached Minor Accomplishment.]
[Remaining lifespan: 146 years]
[Remaining demon lifespan: 1,473 years]
Just as he thought, even unrefined Beast Essence and Demon Cores had cut the time required in half.
Shen Yi's thoughts drifted for a moment.
He exhaled a breath of clear qi and closed his eyes. A pool of golden Jade Liquid appeared before him as naturally as if it had always been there.
It clung together in a slightly viscous mass, gleaming brilliantly.
It seemed the sweetest nectar in the world, enough to make anyone's mouth water.
Above the Jade Liquid, countless dark-red veins interwove into a vast net, shrouding the entire place.
A searing heat slowly swept through, oppressive and heavy, like something from the depths of hell.
"..."
The twelve major acupoints ceaselessly drew in the qi of heaven and earth, sending it into that vast prison, where it was transformed into droplets of Jade Dew.
Shen Yi opened his eyes again.
He tried to guide the Jade Liquid, and immediately sensed a qualitative change.
It was far more condensed than before.
That meant that in the same amount of time, he could command more than ten times the qi he had before.
In his techniques, that translated into real, tangible killing power.