Ye Han pointed a finger, and the Truefire Gourd slowly spun before him, rings of mysterious, profound flame runes swirling endlessly within it...
He had been refining the Truefire Gourd while absorbing the Purple Cauldron's aura to cultivate for nearly a month now...
By spending spell power without holding anything back and constantly using the Treasure Refining Art on the Truefire Gourd, he had refined seventy percent of this high-grade spirit artifact. It had become one of the strongest treasures he could currently use.
After all, he also practiced a fire-element cultivation art. Once he switched to that art, the power he could unleash would be extraordinary.
Just as he had expected, after the Purple Cauldron absorbed its imitation, the aura it released not only allowed him to cultivate, but also restored the damage to his foundation and the cultivation he had expended when using the Qing Xuan Pearl's life-saving secret method, the Qing Xuan Divine Body...
Over this past month or so, Ye Han had not only recovered completely from his injuries, but also achieved a delightful surprise. Perhaps because he had experienced so many battles of life and death recently, he had smoothly broken through to the Second Layer of Foundation Establishment Realm while cultivating with the Purple Cauldron's aura.
Although the first and second layers of the Foundation Establishment Realm were only one layer apart, the difference in cultivation level made the gap considerable. His strength had increased by more than thirty percent since he arrived in the Upper Tomb Land...
Cultivation could not be measured by spell power alone. Experience in spell combat, insights gained from duels to the death, and the lessons learned from casting various spells could all create significant differences between cultivators...
For example, a Foundation Establishment middle-stage cultivator whose cultivation had been