After scaring off the black bear, Pan Long continued training at the camp.
Earthly Baleful Force Body Tempering was a complicated process. Although he had completed the hardest step, there was still plenty to do.
He needed to refine the residual Earthly Baleful Force accumulated inside him. Only after refining all of it could he gather Heavenly Stellar Force to temper himself.
The Earthly Baleful Force was heavy, while the Heavenly Stellar Force was light and pure. They represented opposite tendencies in the transformation of Heaven and Earth Essence, one yin and the other yang. If they met directly, they would not explode, but they would cancel each other out.
Cancellation itself was no great problem. But when those two kinds of vital energy canceled each other out, they would turn into a large volume of ordinary air.
In nature, that would mean a sudden gust of wind.
But if it happened inside a human body...
Forensic examiner: "Sorry, the deceased's body is in too many pieces. I can't put it back together."
Would his gravestone then have to read, "He died just like Zhao Wuji: scattered far and wide"?
Pan Long shuddered and hurriedly focused on his training. Using the Nine-Turn Mysterious Art, he dissolved the lingering threads of Earthly Baleful Force inside him, returning them to heavy vital energy that strengthened his body.
A long time later, he opened his eyes and sighed.
"Too slow!"
Compared with tempering his body directly with the Earthly Baleful Force, refining what remained was outrageously slow.
He looked at the sky. The sun was already nearing the western horizon.
He had started refining the residual Earthly Baleful Force after lunch. Now half a day had passed, and he had refined one percent at most... perhaps not even that.
At this rate, he