Several months later.
In Raging Wave Despair, the waves still pounded relentlessly, day and night.
When Lin Yuan first arrived, the waves had battered him into howling on his very first day. Now, he sat cross-legged atop a Sinking Silver Pillar without so much as swaying. The waves crashing against him had no effect whatsoever. This place could do nothing more for him.
His eyes were closed, his attention focused entirely on his dantian.
Within his dantian, his soul power was countless times denser than it had been several months ago. Compressed to an extraordinary density, it spun around a central axis, faster and faster, its orbit shrinking as everything converged on a single point in the center.
That point of light grew brighter and brighter, blazing like a miniature sun.
A crystalline core was slowly taking shape at the very heart of that light, but it was still unstable, brightening and dimming over and over.
The Sinking Silver Pillars beside Lin Yuan presented an entirely different scene.
"Ah!"
"I can't take it anymore... these waves are killing me..."
Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, and the others were each strapped to a Sinking Silver Pillar, battered this way and that by the waves. They had the red-level seven trials and only needed to endure five double-hours on the pillars each day. Although that was less than Lin Yuan's twelve double-hours, even those five left them utterly miserable.
A wave crashed over Xiao Wu, flattening her against the pillar. She gulped down several mouthfuls of seawater and coughed violently.
"I... I'm about to fall apart..."
Zhu Zhuqing gritted her teeth, her face pale. As a support-type soul master, Ning Rongrong had the weakest constitution, and by now, tears were streaming down her face. Xiao Wu's scorpion braid had come undone