His meridians opened wide, his flesh gleamed translucently, and every joint in his body cracked as his essence, vitality, and spirit climbed to their peak.
The deeper he descended, the more astonishing the concentration of spiritual energy became, and the higher the temperature rose.
Even someone as powerful as Shi Yi had turned crimson all over, his skin frighteningly hot.
By now, he had descended to one of the Sun God Tree's roots. A glowing mass lay here, formed from vast amounts of condensed, compressed spiritual power. Its essence was so concentrated that it had undergone a qualitative transformation, and it also carried the sacred aura unique to the Sun God Tree.
Shi Yi hesitated briefly, then opened his mouth and swallowed the sun-bright mass in one gulp.
It was as though he had swallowed a sun. His abdomen blazed with dazzling light that shot in every direction, as if he were about to explode.
He sat cross-legged in midair, his entire body translucent and his bearing solemn and majestic. The various runes and magic arrays inscribed within him began to work, devouring the sacred essence in great gulps like bottomless pits.
His bones were also steeped in the scarlet spirit liquid, continuously tempered and fired, ringing with the clang of colliding metal.
Most astonishing of all was Shi Yi's primordial spirit. The scene there was immeasurably grand, with brilliant rosy light and auspicious colors bursting forth, as though a True Immortal were ascending amid radiant clouds.
Shi Yi discovered to his astonishment that his primordial spirit power was soaring, gradually climbing to a level that even he found somewhat terrifying.
Compared to before, it had nearly doubled.
Ever since entering the Blood Moving Realm, Shi Yi had taken the strongest possible path at every step. Later on, he had