In the blink of an eye!
Yin Ming had already spent a year cultivating in seclusion in the Void Abyss.
Within the Gourd Space, the Formless Tree grew new black bark, becoming a first-ring-tier transcendent magic plant.
The eight undead skeletons revived by Lady White Moon had absorbed quite a bit of the Soul Crystals' aura. A wisp of deep-blue soul fire had formed within their divine jade bone bodies, showing faint signs of coming into being.
The Soul Crystals accumulated in the Abyss were almost exhausted. His wizard cultivation had finally reached the upper limit of the second-ring tier, with ten second-ring mental runes permanently inscribed. He only needed to construct an energy circuit to form a Third-Ring Mental Rune to break through to the third-ring tier.
The talisman array of the second-ring Bloodline Origin Ancestral Talisman provided by Zeus No. 2 could now incorporate eight External Cores.
Meanwhile, the Human Acupoint Diagram provided by Zeus No. 1 consisted of 365 acupoints, meeting the prerequisites for cultivating the Heavenly Cycle Qi Restriction.
"Cultivation method: Heavenly Cycle Qi Restriction (Qi Essence Method)" "Founded on the Human Meridian Map and Acupoint Diagram, incorporating the Internal Elixir's greater heavenly cycle circulation, the Golden Pass Jade Lock, and acupoint opening." "Limit-Breaking Method: Ancient god power."
The Qi Essence Method primarily drew upon the Internal Elixir Dao.
The External Core path abandoned the flesh-and-blood body, constructing an energy-form body for ascension.
Whether one internally refined one's own essence into an elixir or ritually refined minerals, mercury, and silver into one, it served as an anchor for the energy body in the Material World. It was like the Void Abyss in the Nightmare World, or a server on a network. Corpse-Liberation Artifacts worked on the same principle.
Having lost the fleshly body of