For Xu Taiping as he was now, the greatest danger was the True Essence and Qi and Blood Power the River of Time granted him after each choice he made within it.
Boom!
In an instant, these two immense torrents of Qi and Blood and True Essence surged into Xu Taiping's heart aperture and Golden Core respectively.
The balance Xu Taiping had struggled so hard to maintain was abruptly shattered.
His Qi and Blood were manageable. Even as they surged, they only dealt a slight shock to his physique.
The greatest trouble was still the True Essence contained within his Golden Core.
His True Essence, already seven times purer and more abundant than that of an ordinary Heaven Gazing Realm cultivator, began battering his Golden Core wildly after absorbing nearly twenty percent of Qi Zhou's True Essence.
If Xu Taiping could not suppress this Qi and Blood Power and allowed it to stir up all the True Essence within his Golden Core, he could only watch helplessly as the True Essence inside ran out of control, ultimately breaking straight through to the Heaven Questioning Realm.
Though he had prepared himself, Xu Taiping was still somewhat at a loss before such an immense quantity of True Essence.
But after that brief moment of bewilderment, he marshaled all his Divine Soul Power and forcibly suppressed the rampaging True Essence.
At the same time, he rapidly circulated the Cloud-Riding Scripture's method, beginning to turn the rampaging True Essence from vapor into clouds.
Only once this True Essence turned from vapor into clouds, then from clouds into rain, merging into the great river formed from True Essence within his Golden Core, would the True Essence taken from Qi Zhou truly be refined and tamed.
Only by refining this True Essence could he make his