The Eldest Princess Had Returned

Rumble—

Thunder rolled through her dantian.

As Ten Thousand Demons Devour Heaven spun wildly, the flash of green swallowed every last wisp of Nine-Dragon Qi like a whale.

With each portion it devoured,

the tender shoot grew another inch.

The nine dragon phantoms that had run rampant let out mournful cries.

At last, they became streams of the purest golden light and flowed into the azure lotus.

In a daze,

an unfathomably profound incantation flowed through her mind.

The shattered core sinks into the abyss and becomes calamity ashes; a spark of spiritual light nurtures emerald depths.

Yesterday, clouds and mist rose from the ink pool; today, the lotus blooms and gives rise to jade marrow.

Hum—!!!

As the final word fell,

the azure lotus in her dantian's sea of qi finally stopped growing.

Rooted in the void, it spread its stem and leaves. Crystal-clear from end to end, it looked as though it had been carved from the finest jade.

And at the top of its stem,

a bud quietly emerged.

Though it remained tightly closed, the aura it gave off was several times more terrifying than her Ten-Mark Stage Golden Core—at the very least!

Drip.

A soft sound echoed through the empty dantian.

A drop of golden dew had gathered on the azure lotus bud.

Then it slid down

and fell into the long-dried sea of qi below.

Qi had liquefied!

Understanding dawned on Jiang Yuechu.

In the Ink-Dot Realm, the qi within her had been like mist and smoke.

Vast and surging, yes, but insubstantial all the same.

The Lotus-Seeding Realm used the Dao Lotus to purify and compress that gaseous qi into liquid True Essence.

A single drop of True Essence held enough energy to equal a hundred strands of her former qi!

That was why,