Meanwhile.
At Streamside Court in the Jade Parasol Sect.
A waterfall plunged from the sheer cliff like a river of stars falling from the sky. Its thunderous roar only made the mountain retreat seem quieter.
Inside a secluded chamber.
Shen Xiuhan sat cross-legged on a cushion, held his breath, focused his mind, and drove the Golden Eagle Soaring Art with all his strength.
Beyond the window, dawn and dusk traded places again and again. The mountain shadows slanted, then straightened, while time slipped silently by with each breath.
Suddenly, Shen Xiuhan's eyes flew open, and a flash of gold vanished from their depths!
The Essence Refinement Pass is complete!
It's time!
His mind made up.
Shen Xiuhan steadied his spirit and once more activated the art!
Boom!
The force around him surged like a tide, flowing slowly along a mysterious path.
His Soaring True Qi and Cold-Ice True Qi converged like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, pouring into his lower and middle dantians, ready to erupt!
When his condition reached its peak.
Shen Xiuhan hesitated no longer and turned his wrist.
An instant later, a pill the size of a longan hovered quietly above his palm, its rich medicinal fragrance held close!
It was a Spirit-Opening Pill!
Without hesitation, Shen Xiuhan tipped back his head and swallowed it.
As soon as the pill entered his stomach, the true qi waiting in his dantian enveloped it and dissolved it in an instant.
Its immense medicinal power became a siege hammer, driving with the weight of ten thousand jun toward the Niwan Palace between his brows!
"Condense!"
Shen Xiuhan shouted inwardly, and his true qi surged wildly!
The Soaring True Qi blazed gold, while the Cold-Ice True Qi bit like frost. Both streams followed the medicinal power through his meridians