"What the fuck did I just refine?"
Chen Yu looked utterly bewildered.
He held both hands out at chest height, palms open, and first examined "Ah Zhen" in his left palm. She was half the size of a fist, oval, blood-red on the surface, and crystal clear, gleaming like a gemstone.
Then he looked at his right hand, where an irregular object no bigger than his thumbnail rested, translucent and lake-blue.
"What is this?"
"Can someone tell me what the fuck this is?"
"I clearly followed the cultivation instructions and circulation pathways for refining spirit essence to the letter. There's absolutely no way I made a mistake. But with the same method, those Dao Sect elders refined spirit essence, while I..."
Chen Yu was at a loss.
Where exactly had things gone wrong? Could he still use this thing?
He studied the mysterious object he had refined.
Then he carefully sensed what was inside.
"This thing also contains pure energy. But unlike normal spirit essence, whose energy generally has no attribute, this little thing... seems to contain fairly distinct water-attribute spiritual power."
"Why did this happen?"
Chen Yu could not understand it.
He frowned and pondered for a moment.
"There are three possibilities."
"First, she was in the middle of self-detonating when I refined her. Her agitated spiritual power and true qi might have undergone a special reaction."
"Second, because the situation was so dangerous, I subconsciously channeled more true qi while refining the spirit essence and overdid it."
"Third, my true qi is different from the Dao Sect elders'."
Chen Yu had long known that his true qi differed from everyone else's.
During the attack at the New Disciple Initiation, the Black-Robed Elder had taken form and ravenously devoured the surrounding spiritual power. Everyone else's spiritual power and true