Azure Dragon: Submerging in the Abyss

At the bottom of the Four Symbols Origin-Returning Array.

The energy here was far stronger than what Ye An had sensed when he was in the Qi Condensation Realm.

There were several times as many array patterns as above, and the wood-aspected Origin Energy was so dense that, to a Gathered Origin Realm martial artist, it had almost become a visible pale-green mist drifting slowly through the air.

At the center of the array's base, a blue-green liquid far more potent than ordinary spirit liquid flowed through shallow channels. This was the undiluted form of Cangwu Spirit Liquid.

It was a rare resource produced by soaking the Cangwu Tree's roots in the Spirit Pool. Every drop held wood-aspected energy.

At a point where Origin Energy gathered in the array patterns stood a wooden barrel as high as a person's waist. It was one-third full of that blue-green liquid.

Many specially processed medicinal herbs were soaking in it as well.

Under the liquid's saturation, energy slowly leached from the herbs and fused with it, creating a barrel of body-tempering medicine any martial artist would covet.

Ye An sat cross-legged in the barrel, with only half his face showing.

The medicinal liquid rose above his chest. Its warmth pressed against his skin, while the energy within surged through his pores, acupoints, and meridians like countless tiny streams.

His Gathered Origin Realm body was like parched earth, greedily drinking in every trace of energy from the liquid.

Agony sprang up in Ye An's heart, then shot straight to the crown of his head.

He felt pain in every part of his body.

As the medicine tempered his skin, its energy felt like sandpaper grinding against it. As it scoured his sinews and bones, it struck like an iron hammer; as it seeped into