Welcome Back Victorious, Your Imperial Majesty! (4K) (Continued)

She sensed Tan Lin's gaze and returned it with a questioning look.

Tan Lin gave a slight shake of his head, signaling that everything was fine.

After putting the others at ease, he withdrew from cultivation this time without giving a lecture on the Dao. Instead, he began letting blood for himself, then tempering it.

Bloodletting, tempering...

For quite a long time afterward, this was all he did.

The years drifted by.

Another hundred years passed.

Within Heavenly Soldier Star, fortune aura coiled like dragons, continuously nourishing the four figures at its core.

"Phew..."

That day, Tan Lin slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air.

His aura was vast and unending like a primordial star river. The acupoints throughout his body opened and closed on their own as he finished absorbing the most fundamental essence of Fortune for the day.

After more than a century of arduous cultivation, his Dao foundation had become increasingly stable. Yet because the time was not right, and a single movement would affect everything, his cultivation remained at the peak of the Seventh Heaven of Quasi-Emperor.

The blood and qi within him boomed like a Dao bell, and his Indestructible Golden Body shone brilliantly. Years of "bloodletting" had not weakened his vitality; instead, his aura had grown ever more powerful.

At his side was an earthen jar containing a world within. After many rounds of tempering, the blood he had prepared for the future day when his physique reached Great Accomplishment and underwent "blood replacement" was already more or less sufficient.

As his deep eyes opened and closed, they seemed capable of illuminating Reincarnation and seeing through all falsehoods. His subsequent deductions and refinements of the Myriad Selves Grand Dao had clearly reached another level.

On the other side, Tianling also slowly completed her