Shen Luo slowly walked to the center of the stone lotus platform and sat down cross-legged.
The moment he settled into place, he felt a strange force spread out around him. A faint chanting of the Clear Mind Mantra seemed to rise beside his ears, and he could not help but calm down.
Shen Luo quieted his mind and began regulating his breathing. His entire body gradually relaxed.
After a long while, Shen Luo flipped his palm and took out a Grand Purity Pill, placing it in his mouth and swallowing it.
As the pill entered his stomach, a warm current immediately rose from his Dantian. Even through his flesh and clothes, one could see a ball of green light glowing from within his Dantian, slowly swirling into a hazy green vortex of light.
As soon as the vortex formed, an invisible wind arose within the White-Robed Cave. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth all around began to condense, gradually gathering toward the vortex in Shen Luo's Dantian.
Shen Luo was no stranger to this sensation. This was the stage of accumulating strength before breaking through a cultivation bottleneck; it was almost always like this before every breakthrough. He immediately circulated the Huangting Scripture technique and began unleashing the true power of the Seventy-Two Transformations.
"The Way of all things, the ultimate of transformations; the laws of all things, their great workings lie in evolution. From the same source, bearing different names, it is called mystery. Mystery upon mystery, the gateway to all wonders..."
Each recitation of the Dao resounded in Shen Luo's heart like thunder. Unlike what he had experienced in the dream realm, the spiritual energy entering from his Dantian began seeping into his bones and meridians, surging in reverse through his limbs and body.
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