On the high platform, Kong Jiao and Xuan Heng sat at opposite ends.
Not long after Kong Jiao consumed the True Spirit Golden Elixir, Xuan Heng too successfully drew down an imprint of Great Dao essence, branding it onto his jet-black demon core.
A speck of true soul condensed, and Xuan Heng's demon core instantly became different. His burly, black-armored body was likewise bathed in black mystic radiance.
Of course, compared to Kong Jiao at the other end, his display paled into insignificance.
While Xuan Heng was immersed in stabilizing that trace of Great Dao imprint,
Kong Jiao's divine soul had already, beneath the baptism of the Primordial Yin Ancient Path's all-encompassing Dao essence, almost entirely transformed silver-white.
God-Seeding Wine truly deserved to be called immortal wine personally brewed by True Lord Ruiyun. It possessed an inconceivable wondrous effect in absorbing Great Dao essence.
Less than half a month had achieved what decades of bitter cultivation could.
At this rate, it would not be long before Kong Jiao's Clear-Moon Divine Soul completely transformed into silver-white.
Kong Jiao himself was experiencing something profoundly mysterious.
He felt his divine soul growing lighter and lighter amid the Great Dao essence, like a swan's feather, weightless as nothing.
He had the illusion that it could leave his body at any moment and ascend away with the Dao essence woven across the heavens.
At first, Kong Jiao could still suppress it somewhat. Relying on his control over the Clear-Moon Divine Soul, he forcibly kept it three feet above his head.
But as time passed, Kong Jiao increasingly felt unable to keep it up.
It seemed that some force between heaven and earth was fighting him for control of his divine soul.
Kong Jiao was not wholly ignorant of Zao Xuan, and after True Lord Ruiyun's