Soon, Sun Stone Shi Yi's Primordial Spirit was tossed inside. In an instant, several Soul-Devouring Scorpions lunged at him, the sharp barbs on their tails flashing with a chilling gleam as they stabbed toward his Primordial Spirit.
Pfft!
A barb pierced Shi Yi's Primordial Spirit. Immediately, a terrifying power of laws swept through his entire spirit. These were dissolution laws, capable of melting all things.
His whole body stiffened, and his movements grew sluggish. A horrifying hole appeared at the wound and began spreading outward.
Enduring the excruciating pain, Shi Yi employed the methods recorded in the Calming Chaos Art. The First Elder had said that he would begin by tempering his Primordial Spirit, and in the process, he could also master the Calming Chaos Art.
A full ten Soul-Devouring Scorpions plunged their venomous barbs into Shi Yi's Primordial Spirit. That dissolving power nearly annihilated him on the spot.
Fortunately, his Primordial Spirit had grown much stronger and more refined through the First Elder's initial tempering, allowing him to weather it by sheer force.
Yet the dissolution laws were far too terrifying. They continued eating away at Sun Stone Shi Yi's Primordial Spirit, bringing the threat of death ever closer.
Sun Stone Shi Yi sucked in a cold breath and did everything in his power to stay alive.
Several times, he felt he could no longer hold on and hovered on the brink of death, but each time, he forced himself to endure.
After an unknown amount of time, Sun Stone Shi Yi's Primordial Spirit began to glow, turning from withered to full. He had adapted to the Soul-Devouring Scorpions' venom. Even when all ten released their dissolution laws at once, they could do nothing to him.
At this point, the Soul-Devouring Scorpions' venom was useless against him.
Shi Yi's