It was the beginning of Hai Hour, late at night.
Ren Ye began cultivating the Rhinoceros Emperor Inner Canon again. With the experience of two previous failures, the process went considerably more smoothly this time.
This time, he shortened the "spirit suspension" process at the horn on his forehead even more cautiously, making the spiritual energy sphere and turbid energy sphere smaller than before. After refinement, the two beads separated and hovered above his head.
Then he carefully stirred his divine sense and began the Spirit Drawing into his body.
He swallowed the spiritual energy bead, letting it sink into his abdomen and burst beneath his Star Core Inner Core, forming a seemingly very shallow sea of spiritual energy. The turbid energy bead entered through his ox horn, flowed down his dragon spine, and battered his blood-and-qi meridians, expanding their breadth and width while cleansing his body.
Following the Divine Canon Emperor Scripture's method for a complete circulation, Ren Ye guided the turbid energy bead through his limbs and bones. As it flowed, he gradually had it absorb the turbid energy hidden in his blood-and-qi meridians and forced out by its violent scouring and compression.
Thus, the turbid energy bead grew larger and larger. By the final stage, when it returned to his dantian, it had become a smooth bead slightly larger than a soybean. The process was like rolling a snowball. The turbid energy between heaven and earth was refined outside his body, then drawn inside, where it devoured the turbid energy in the azure ox's own flesh as it violently scoured his meridians. That was why it grew larger and denser.
After the turbid energy bead completed a full circulation through his body, Ren Ye immediately felt incomparably clear and comfortable... as though the previously unbearable swelling pain