Song Wen wholeheartedly agreed with Gu Que's suggestion.
Thus, after telling Xuan Li not to disturb him unless something threatened the sect's survival, he began his secluded cultivation.
The first thing he chose to do was refine the Immortal Spiritual Qi.
He wanted to see whether it was truly as miraculous as Gu Que had claimed.
Song Wen took out the small rainbow-colored sphere, drew a wisp of Immortal Spiritual Qi from it, and guided it into his body.
It then occurred to him that Gu Que might offer unsolicited advice while he refined the Immortal Spiritual Qi. Song Wen simply sealed his Sea of Consciousness, preventing both Gu Que and Shadow Void from sensing the outside world.
The moment the Immortal Spiritual Qi entered his dantian, Song Wen noticed that it was utterly different from ordinary spiritual qi:
Rather than flowing lightly like spiritual qi, it was heavy and sluggish, wholly incompatible with the magical power within him.
Fortunately, however, the Immortal Spiritual Qi did not damage his dantian or magical power in any way.
Song Wen immediately circulated his cultivation technique, driving the magical power in his dantian to wrap around the wisp of immortal qi in layer upon layer, attempting to refine it.
Yet the seemingly weightless Immortal Spiritual Qi proved extraordinarily steadfast. No matter how his magical power battered it, it merely drifted with the surging currents, showing no reaction to the magical power pressing against it from all sides.
Unwilling to give up so easily, Song Wen drove his cultivation technique at full force, carrying the enveloped Immortal Spiritual Qi through his meridians in continuous cultivation cycles.
Time crawled by amid mounting frustration.
One day, two days.
One month, two months.
Soon, a year had passed.
Having worked to refine the Immortal Spiritual Qi without