Time flew, and half a year passed in the blink of an eye.
Throughout those six months, Yang Chang'an remained in seclusion in that courtyard residence, recuperating.
Yang Wushuang constantly worried about his grandson. Every few days, he would come over and observe Yang Chang'an's condition from outside the residence, terrified that something might happen to him.
While Yang Chang'an was in deep meditation, things within Spirit Hall were anything but peaceful. Quite a few major events took place.
One incident that caused an uproar and became known to everyone was Pope Bibi Dong's sudden convening of a meeting of the Elders.
At the meeting, Bibi Dong directly proposed obtaining the specific method for breaking through soul ring age limits from the Worship Hall.
Soul ring age limits had always been an iron law of Soul Master cultivation, one no one had broken for countless years.
Yet Yang Chang'an and Niu Wenchuan, those two exceptions, had forcibly shattered convention by absorbing soul rings far beyond their own ranks. This gave Bibi Dong hope.
However, the Worship Hall rejected her proposal as soon as she voiced it.
The Worship Hall's public explanation was simple and straightforward: the theory of soul ring limit-breaking was still in its most basic research stage. Both the data and practical trials remained incomplete, the risks were enormous, and it could not possibly be disseminated lightly.
They also specifically stressed that Yang Chang'an and Niu Wenchuan were merely one-in-ten-thousand exceptions, whose physical gifts and strength of will far surpassed
those of ordinary people. Turning this method into a routine practice that ordinary Soul Masters could use would require at least another ten to twenty years of dedicated research.
Although Spirit Hall's Elders felt frustrated by this explanation and thought the Worship Hall was keeping its secrets to