In the contest of true qi, Lu Feng struggled to hold on, a full realm below his opponent. Only one conviction remained in his heart: I cannot die. If I die, everything will come to nothing. I cannot die. If I die, I will never see the two young ladies back home again!
That conviction made it feel as though a wild beast were roaring inside him, crying out in defiance.
That cry finally unleashed the beast within. With that shout, a mighty surge of true qi burst forth like a wild horse freed of its reins, charging and crashing through everything in its path.
In that instant, the Five Elements Art began circulating furiously on its own. Vast torrents of true qi poured into his middle dantian, bypassing the Bronze Sword within and rushing straight into the five meridians connecting his middle and upper dantians.
The five meridians, which had previously seemed somewhat sparsely filled, were immediately packed to the brim. The compressed true qi was almost solid.
At the same time, an exceedingly strange force gathered from every limb and bone in Lu Feng's body into his lower dantian. It then traveled through the meridians connecting his lower and middle dantians, entered his middle dantian, and continued upward, passing through his upper dantian into his purple mansion.
In an instant, countless brilliant hues of mystic light flashed endlessly within his purple mansion. As they flickered, they resembled dazzling gemstones, breathtaking to behold.
Moments later, those dazzling gemstones transformed into streaks of flowing light, circling rapidly around his primordial spirit within his purple mansion.
They spun faster and faster, their orbits growing smaller and smaller, until they finally converged into one. Like a multicolored seed, it slowly unfurled, eventually becoming a flower resembling a Golden Lotus, suspended above his