Light rippled before Pan Long's eyes, and he was back in the wilderness cave where he had gone into "seclusion."
The well-trained horse still stood guard at the cave entrance, completely unaware that its master had vanished and returned. Pan Long couldn't help smiling at how content it looked.
He got up, walked out of the cave, and sat on a rock in the sun, sorting through what he had gained and considering what to do next.
He had gained a great deal from this trip into the Classic of Mountains and Seas Fragment. Four rounds of tempering his body with Earthly Baleful Force had surpassed decades of hard cultivation for an ordinary person.
More than that, he vaguely sensed that he had gained something even more important.
Just before returning to the Nine Provinces World, he had noticed something new in the void that had always been pure white.
There was a clear, translucent deep blue-green, and a pure, rich, bright yellow.
Blue-green energy swirled far above his head, while yellow energy gathered far beneath his feet. Both still looked distant, and there wasn't much of either. For now... he couldn't see any practical significance to them.
But Pan Long believed the appearance of those two energies had to mean something.
If nothing else, the presence of the Azure and Yellow Qi meant that the pure white expanse could no longer be called a void. It now had an "up" and a "down."
He still felt no gravity inside it, but simply being able to tell up from down had greatly weakened the sense of emptiness.
At the very least, that would let him train there longer.
As for further benefits... Pan Long was sure there would be some.
He hadn't had the Classic of Mountains and Seas Fragment