In cultivation, years passed without notice. Thirteen years slipped by like a white colt flashing past a crack.
More than a dozen spiritual medicines that tempered spiritual power—Blood Jade Ginseng, Exquisite-Heart Orchid, Vermilion Moon Lotus, Dragonblood Fruit, and the like—had all been consumed by Song Wen.
The spiritual power within his body had already condensed like mercury, yet it was still not refined enough.
This was because he had not sensed even the slightest sign of an imminent breakthrough.
"Extreme Yin, it is time to consume the ten-thousand-year Nine-Aperture Profound-Connecting Ganoderma. But before that, you should activate the Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation with all your strength, lest the moment of breakthrough arrives and there is not enough spiritual energy to support you."
"Alright!"
As Song Wen spoke, spiritual light shot from all ten of his fingers as he formed hand seals in a smooth, flowing sequence.
In an instant, rune after rune condensed at his fingertips and fell upon the Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation beneath him.
The Hundred-Forged Azure Profound Gold upon which the Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation had originally been inscribed had measured no more than a hundred zhang in length and width. At this moment, however, it abruptly began expanding in all directions, crushing mountaintop after mountaintop. Before long, it had expanded to the edges of the three great formations surrounding it, spanning a full hundred li.
Song Wen flipped his hand and took out a storage ring. With a shift of thought, countless spirit stones surged out from within it.
A few breaths later, a full million high-grade spirit stones had fallen onto the various formation-pattern nodes of the Primordial Essence-Devouring Formation.
The spiritual energy contained within the spirit stones was rapidly drawn away by the formation patterns.
At once, the concentration of spiritual energy within the formation surged sharply,