In just a few breaths, Ying Xiao's aura plummeted wildly, falling from the early fifth grade to the fourth, third, second, and only barely stopping at the early first grade.
His originally enormous body, several zhang in length, shrank to merely a foot long.
At that moment, the mysterious purple wood above his head slowly faded away, and the Thunder Rune chains binding him vanished as well.
On the other side, Ning Fa was enveloped in dense blood mist, radiating a powerful vitality like an erupting volcano.
On one of the thick branches of the Divine Wood Totem behind him, a purple fruit the size of an infant's fist slowly grew. Runes flickered across its surface, making it appear profoundly mysterious.
A moment later, the bloody light around Ning Fa dissipated. When he reappeared, blood energy continued to leak uncontrollably from his seven orifices, yet his face held both astonishment and delight.
His body was now filled with an unimaginably vigorous force of vitality. It felt as though he had absorbed and refined a fifth-grade divine body-tempering treasure.
Although this vitality could not directly be converted into his body cultivator realm, for a considerable period to come, both his body cultivation and the cultivation of his Divine Firmament Manifestation would advance by leaps and bounds.
By Ning Fa's conservative estimate, this would save him at least fifty to a hundred years of arduous cultivation.
Though this only concerned his body cultivation, with the support of his Five Elements Thunder Body, his mana cultivation had always progressed extremely quickly. In the past, it had always been his body cultivation that held him back.
Now that he had gained this unexpected windfall, it would undoubtedly greatly shorten the time needed for him to reach the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm. In