After chatting with Zhou Siyi for nearly two hours, Ying Wu, the host, still had not returned. It was inconvenient for Song Wen to enter the small island on his own, so he bade Zhou Siyi farewell. After agreeing to visit her again sometime later, he took his leave.
After making his way to Taitan City, Song Wen pondered briefly. Then, gritting his teeth, he finally took out Lan Chen's transmission jade slip.
And then...
Song Wen began a period of days that were both blissful and painful.
Over the next three months, Song Wen met with Lan Chen, Bai Wei, and Ye Bing in turn. During that time, he even rested twice, for twenty days each time.
Having concluded his trip to Taitan City, Song Wen finally returned alone to Cloud Creek Valley and began secluded cultivation.
On one hand, he tempered his cultivation; on the other, he had the black hole in his sea of consciousness rain down Soul Source Essence to raise the realm of his divine soul. At the same time, he also had Shadow Void absorb a great quantity of Soul Source Essence.
During the journey to the Kunxu Secret Realm, Song Wen had devoured the soul bodies of several eighth-rank demon beasts or ghost creatures, as well as the divine souls of numerous Mahayana cultivators, in addition to the Dragon Soul and Venerable Yun Chan's divine soul.
This caused a large amount of Soul Source Essence to accumulate within the black hole in his sea of consciousness.
Time slowly flowed on, and in the blink of an eye, three years had passed.
His cultivation had yet to fully stabilize, but his divine soul realm had advanced as he wished to the mid-Mahayana stage.
As for Shadow Void, its strength had smoothly broken through to