"With water's softness, shed the force of ten thousand pounds; borrow water's momentum to flee with the speed of light... truly marvelous."
"Not just in the Profound Martial Realm—even after I break through to the Earth Martial Realm, this escape art will still be useful."
Lin Chen praised it inwardly. Then he closed his eyes slightly and followed the method in the jade slip, using his spiritual sense to draw upon the pool of deep-blue, viscous water spirit essence on the stone platform.
The liquid essence seemed alive, slowly rising under the guidance of Lin Chen's spiritual sense.
It transformed into strands of deep-blue spiritual thread, seeping through the pores in his right palm, strand by strand.
Time trickled past.
Inside the stone chamber, Lin Chen's aura gradually strengthened as he refined the Azure Origin Pill.
Meanwhile, a faint blue glow swirled across his right palm, outlining an increasingly distinct phantom rune.
While Lin Chen refined the pill and condensed the talisman, all manner of events were unfolding throughout Cloud Dream Marsh.
After all, the struggle for opportunities never stopped merely because one person entered seclusion.
To the northeast, inside an underground cavern.
Scorching magma flowed slowly through gullies, and the air was thick with the smell of sulfur and burning heat.
On a raised stone platform, Ye Guyun sat cross-legged, bare-chested.
His skin was an unnatural crimson, with waves of heat faintly steaming from his pores. Behind him, his dark-red spear stood embedded in the rock, its shaft humming incessantly.
An object floated before him.
He had obtained it after a bitter battle with a demonic beast in a cave, and it contained exceptionally pure earth vein fire essence.
"Refine!"
At a certain moment, Ye Guyun abruptly opened his eyes. He opened his mouth and swallowed the fire