"Rustle, rustle, rustle!" Li Xiaoya suddenly stood up. The golden metal fragments covering him scattered like scraps of paper, fluttering through the air before turning into countless motes of golden dust and finally vanishing into nothingness. His perfectly proportioned body stood naked in the air, his skin covered in golden, threadlike markings dotted with mysterious spiritual light. More wondrous still, golden threads formed a pattern on his back. A closer look revealed the image of a demon beast-the Earth Demon Dragon. On either side of that dragon were two more demon beast patterns, though these were much smaller...
The outward changes to Li Xiaoya's body were precisely the signs that his cultivation of the Myriad Beasts Body Tempering Diagram and refinement of demon beast essence blood had reached a certain level.
"Whew!" Li Xiaoya let out a long breath. The golden patterns and threads covering his body rapidly blurred, sank into his skin, and disappeared. Spiritual light flashed around him, and a set of white robes appeared on his body...
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!" Spiritual light suddenly flickered over Li Xiaoya's utterly hairless head. Tiny black dots appeared on his scalp, and hair grew at a speed visible to the naked eye. Before long, it had returned to its original state...
With Li Xiaoya's current cultivation and divine abilities, circulating his energy to regrow his hair could not have been simpler.
"Crack, crack!" Li Xiaoya flexed his fingers, producing a sound like metal scraping against metal. He felt an earthshaking, mountain-moving strength filling his hands. Even if a mountain ten thousand zhang tall stood before him, he felt he could uproot it with a single hand...
"It should be about time, shouldn't it?" Li Xiaoya stretched a little and suddenly murmured...
Meanwhile...
Inside the Purple-Light Daoist Patriarch's cave abode.
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