"Hm? We've reached the Immortal Star Realm?" Li Xiaoya's heart stirred at the news, and he quickly stood up. After casually checking his body's condition, he thought, Looks like I've recovered sixty percent already. That's a little faster than I expected...!
With that, he switched off the chamber's mechanism that released spiritual qi, formed a series of hand seals, and beckoned. Five-colored spiritual light surged, and the shimmering five-element spiritual qi in the air writhed astonishingly, gradually gathering into a ball of light and taking the shape of a Five-Colored Spirit Pill... Li Xiaoya opened his mouth and swallowed it in one gulp. Only then did he activate the abode's mechanism and walk out...
For someone at Li Xiaoya's current cultivation level, a dozen years or so could pass in a single period of seclusion. His control over his state of mind had also become exceptionally precise, and he no longer pined quite so intensely for Liu Xian'er and the others...
Although his injuries had healed faster than expected, they had also proved much more severe than he had anticipated. Using the Bloodthirst Spirit-Communing Dragon-Slaying Sword really had not been a good idea. It had consumed not merely a thousand years of his lifespan in an instant, but nearly two thousand...
Another consequence seemed to be the drain on his cultivation, which had knocked Li Xiaoya straight back down to the ninth layer of the Mighty One Stage... Fortunately, although he had only recently advanced to Mighty One Stage Great Perfection, his realm had been extremely stable. Naturally, that was thanks to the benefits of the ten-thousand-lifetime reincarnation in the Immortal Spirit Realm and his cultivation of the Immortal Ancestor's laws inheritance... Although he had fallen back to the ninth layer of the Mighty One Stage, cultivating his way back