Before he knew it, the sun had already risen.
Qian paid no attention to the gradually brightening sky. His entire mind was focused on his body's evolution.
Finally, when the sun reached overhead, he completed the breakthrough.
Crack—crack—
Along with a sound like shattering glass, Qian felt the invisible shackles limiting the continued growth of his flesh break apart.
At that moment, he felt as if his body had shed a thousand-pound burden, becoming incomparably light.
A liberating feeling, as if the sky were high enough for birds to fly and the sea vast enough for fish to leap, surged into his heart. Qian could not help opening his eyes and letting out a long howl.
Only after several full breaths did he close his mouth.
Sensing the familiar warm current already surging within him, he hurriedly withdrew his gaze, closed his eyes again, emptied his mind, and quietly waited for this warm current to nourish his body and bring about its transformation.
Time passed, second by second.
More than half an hour later.
The warm current vanished.
Qian came back to himself as if waking from a dream.
Feeling his body in its utterly comfortable state, he felt delighted, and even the mental fatigue caused by spending the entire morning striving to break through eased somewhat along with it.
Also—
That feeling from before, where his Spiritual Power pressed down on his body at every moment, had mostly disappeared as well.
At that moment, Qian truly understood what it meant to feel light.
His intuition told him that from today onward, as long as he did not widen the gap between his spirit and his body, he would no longer have to worry about his spirit completely overpowering his body and causing irreversible pathological changes.
Even though his current