Three years later.
In the underwater cavern beneath the icy pool, a blood-red seal two feet square floated before Song Wen.
"At last, it's successfully refined." Song Wen exhaled a stale breath.
The blood-red seal suddenly hurtled toward Song Wen's face, but just before striking him, it abruptly dissolved into blood and seeped into his body.
As his life-bound treasure, the Blood Sea Imperial Seal naturally had to be kept in his dantian and nurtured at all times.
Now that it had advanced to the immortal grade, the blood sea manifested by the Blood Sea Imperial Seal had gained greatly in power, defense, and resilience.
Yet when Song Wen probed his storage ring with his spiritual sense, his expression turned rueful.
Over the past three years, refining the Blood Sea Imperial Seal day after day without interruption had consumed considerable immortal essence. As a result, Song Wen had spent another twenty thousand-odd immortal spirit stones.
Now, only thirty-six thousand-odd immortal spirit stones remained in his storage ring.
Song Wen sank his consciousness into his sea of consciousness.
His figure materialized there.
Song Wen lifted his gaze slightly, glancing at the Sea of Consciousness Black Hole high above.
The black hole was continuously shedding silver motes of light, which divided into two streams, one falling toward Shadow Void and the other into the mist deep within his sea of consciousness.
This was Shadow Void and Song Wen's true soul form continuously absorbing and refining soul source essence.
Song Wen approached Puxuan.
"I intend to begin cultivating the Six-Aspects Prison-Suppressing Body."
"Benefactor, this humble monk understands."
Puxuan pressed his palms together and offered a Buddhist salute, then began murmuring the complete cultivation method for the Six-Aspects Prison-Suppressing Body, along with its key points.
Outside the sea of consciousness.
Song Wen sat cross-legged,