Besides his progress with paper offerings, Chen Miao had also made headway in the Extreme Yin Body-Refining Art and Five Hells Soul-Refinement.
He could now complete eight rounds of Extreme Yin Body-Refining in a single session, and nine rounds were not far off.
Moreover, as he completed more rounds of body refinement, Chen Miao gained control over the Body-Protecting Astral Energy covering his body.
Now, he could shift and layer the Body-Protecting Astral Energy.
In other words, if bamboo splints were shot at Chen Miao again, he could concentrate most of the Body-Protecting Astral Energy from across his body in one spot, strengthening its defenses to withstand a more powerful attack.
The innate boost from his five hells half-immortal body was the biggest reason he had brought the Extreme Yin Body-Refining Art this far, but the increased soul strength from Five Hells Soul-Refinement also played a part.
As Five Hells Soul-Refinement tempered Chen Miao's soul more and more times, he discovered an increasing number of benefits.
Over the past month and a half, Chen Miao had found that even in his normal state, without activating his iceheart state, he could quickly enter that same calm mode of thinking.
In other words, Chen Miao's thinking had become clearer.
Beyond that, some of Chen Miao's other attributes had improved too, such as the range of his eyes-closed perception.
Without activating iceheart or his heavenly spirit yin aperture, its radius had increased from the basic two meters to three.
This improvement was an increase in his base "value," so when Chen Miao activated his iceheart state, its boost was applied to that new base value.
Now, with iceheart (II) alone, its range reached nine meters. Adding his heavenly spirit yin aperture doubled it again to eighteen meters!
In other words, even if Chen