Twenty years later.
Yuan Kingdom, Primordial Yang Sect, the cave abode on Heaven-Reaching Peak.
Rumble~~!
Whoosh~~!
Within the cultivation room, sounds like dragons roaring and tigers howling, like towering waves crashing across a stormy sea, rose and fell without end.
Wave after wave climbed higher, surging fiercely, stirring the blood, wild and exhilarating!
Liu Yu's upper body was bare, his bronze muscles, as though cast from copper and forged from iron, trembling at an imperceptibly high speed.
On his chest, the circular pattern formed by nine major acupoints lit up. Azure, silver-white, and crimson spiritual light flowed through it, the three colors illuminating one another as they constantly shifted.
His body now stood fifty-nine zhang tall. He had entered his "true form state."
With the aid of five-thousand-year-old dragon-transforming grass and twenty years of consolidation, his body refining cultivation had advanced by leaps and bounds, reaching the peak of the fourth-tier middle stage!
Now, he was breaking through to the fourth-tier late stage!
Once he succeeded, even though he was not a cultivator who specialized in body refining and lacked many of its divine abilities and methods, the solid foundation laid by the Astral True Form in his early years would let him contend against ordinary great cultivators and great demon kings with his physical body alone.
His overall strength would undergo another tremendous leap!
Thump, thump, thump.
Whoosh~
As he circulated the Astral True Form cultivation method, Liu Yu's heartbeat gradually quickened, resounding through the cultivation room like great bells.
That heartbeat seemed to accord with some rhythm of the Great Dao.
Cultivators with insufficient cultivation or too low a level of existence would find listening to it at close range excruciating, their vital blood thrown into turmoil.
Bleeding from all seven orifices, or even exploding and dying,