Song Wen found a remote place with fairly abundant spiritual qi, made it his cave abode, and entered seclusion to cultivate.
He mainly cultivated the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body.
Within the Divine Blood Sect, Song Wen had obtained quite a few spirit medicines for cultivating the Myriad Poisons Primordial Body, which could now be put to use.
Time flew by. The Myriad Poisons Primordial Body grew ever more refined, and the withered yellow aura it manifested became increasingly solid, making Song Wen look as though he were clad in a suit of withered yellow armor.
With an ample supply of Soul Source Essence, Shadow Void's strength also steadily improved, yet it remained unable to break through to the ninth rank.
Every year or two, Song Wen would leave seclusion and travel to Blood Radiance City, where he secretly communicated with Ying Wu to exchange news of recent events.
In the blink of an eye, twenty-five years passed.
One day.
Shadow Void suddenly spoke.
"Master, I feel that I am about to break through."
The withered yellow aura around the cultivating Song Wen abruptly drew in, and his tightly shut eyes opened at once.
He was inside a pitch-black Cave where one could not see one's own fingers, yet his eyes shone as brightly as stars.
"What do you need me to do?"
"Soul Source Essence. More Soul Source Essence," Shadow Void said.
Within Song Wen's sea of consciousness, the black hole overhead had originally been continuously scattering silver light.
The silver light suddenly became denser, as though a Milky Way were pouring down, all of it flooding toward Shadow Void.
Shadow Void's nine tentacles spread flat, absorbing the silver light like a great whale drawing in water.
Its entire body was enveloped in silver light, forming a thick cocoon of