Scorching. Scalding!
That was the only sensation Ji Yuan felt after swallowing the Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew.
After all, he had never drunk the stuff before. This was his first time.
And precisely because it was his first time, Ji Yuan experienced just how fierce the brew was.
The liquor slid down his throat like a knife, then its pure energy spread through him.
It flooded every meridian in Ji Yuan's body.
More than that, much of the liquor flowed along his meridians and poured into his Dantian.
The Nascent Soul seated at the center of his Dantian lifted its head, opened its mouth, and swallowed the Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew a second time.
Once the liquor entered his Nascent Soul, which had stood only as high as his knee, its body began growing visibly.
In less than a breath, his Nascent Soul had grown as tall as Ji Yuan himself.
His cultivation changed along with it.
When his Nascent Soul reached only his knee, he was still at the Nascent Soul Early Stage.
When it reached his thigh, he had advanced to the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
When it reached his waist, his cultivation rose to the Nascent Soul Late Stage.
And when his Nascent Soul stood as tall as he did, his cultivation reached its current limit.
Nascent Soul Peak!
It seemed to have taken a long time, but in truth, only an instant had passed.
One moment, Ji Yuan swallowed the Nine-Nether Lifeburn Brew. The next, he had leaped from the Nascent Soul Early Stage to Nascent Soul Peak.
A vast aura surged from the depths of the blood sea, splitting even that sea in two. Only then did Blood Lady and Corpse Luo Old Devil react.
At first, they were simply at a loss.
How had Ji Yuan,