Once their business was concluded, Song Wen exchanged a few more pleasantries with Daoist Hongyun. After they exchanged communication jade slips, he took his leave.
Once he was far from the Primordial Origin Sect, Song Wen's expression darkened somewhat.
There was no other reason.
He did not currently have four million superior spirit stones on him, only a little over three million.
Back when he had advanced to Mahayana, he had nearly exhausted all his spirit stones.
These three million or so superior spirit stones had come from killing Yu Bi.
Song Wen disguised himself again, taking on the appearance of a Void Refinement cultivator, and headed to Cold Sun City. There, he sold some treasures he had no use for, finally scraping together four million superior spirit stones.
Afterward, he left Cold Sun City once more and found a remote place with reasonably abundant spiritual energy, where he entered seclusion to wait.
During his seclusion, Song Wen did not attempt to improve his cultivation.
His cultivation had already reached the peak of the early Mahayana stage.
This bottleneck was not so easily broken through.
He chose to cultivate the myriad poisons primordial body.
After he had consumed the Azure Glazed Fruit, his myriad poisons primordial body had improved considerably, and he could once again cultivate it as usual-by consuming highly poisonous substances.
Between cultivation sessions, Song Wen periodically used Qiao Mengyu's Soul Lamp, the Ten-Thousand-Mile Breath-Tracking Technique, and his connection to the spiritual sense mark he had left on her to check whether she had returned to the Profound Realm.
It was worth noting that the moment Qiao Mengyu entered the void, both the Ten-Thousand-Mile Breath-Tracking Technique and the spiritual sense mark had lost their connection to her. Although her Soul Lamp had not gone out, it likewise could