[Cloud Ascension Rankings rank: 26, points +200] [Entered the Heavenly Strategy Academy, points +1000] [Current points: 2523]
Xu Yang looked at the notifications on his panel, unable to keep a smile from his lips. The two rewards had stacked, giving him twelve hundred points at once-the largest single reward he had ever received.
"Add to bone root!"
Smiling, he sat up in bed and poured all twelve hundred newly acquired points into his bone root.
In an instant, a force appeared out of nowhere in every limb and bone, sweeping through him like a raging fire.
Xu Yang felt his entire body heating up. His flesh grew scorching hot, and his bones shifted as though they were being reconstructed.
His blood energy surged, his flesh seeming to churn beneath invisible hands. The surrounding power of heaven and earth rippled in response and gathered toward him.
A few breaths later, these changes subsided, but Xu Yang still keenly noticed several changes in his body.
His pores had expelled some tainted blood, and his body brimmed with more vitality than before. He seemed much lighter, and his control over the power of heaven and earth appeared stronger as well.
"My spirit bone is about to emerge!"
For the first time, his body had undergone an obvious change. Xu Yang knew then that his persistence had been justified: his bone root could indeed be upgraded into a spirit bone.
After adding another point to his lifespan, he began absorbing the spirit qi in the quiet chamber.
"This quiet chamber's ability to draw in spirit qi practically gives me half again as much cultivation time each day."
In half an hour, he finished refining all the spirit qi. He found that the amount the quiet chamber gathered overnight was roughly equivalent to