"Cough... cough, cough, cough..."
Ye Fei coughed a few times and slowed his pace before resuming his absorption of spiritual energy.
He knew his Lightning Spiritual Root was special, which was why he had dared to directly refine the Mountain-Hiding Monster in its intangible form.
But although the Mountain-Hiding Monster could not escape, swallowing it was no easy task either.
An Earth Element Spirit Body that had developed consciousness contained an enormous amount of energy. Fortunately, the rules prevented players from using the various substances around them. Otherwise, he might not have been able to swallow it even in several attempts...
Slowing his refinement, Ye Fei began adjusting the spiritual energy inside his body.
First, he compressed it. Once there was room, he absorbed some from outside into his meridians, then refined and compressed the new spiritual energy as it circulated. Once the compressed, strengthened spiritual energy filled his Dantian, he strengthened his Dantian again...
This process was by no means quick, but underground, he barely felt the passage of time.
At least, to Xu Ming, who had woken from hunger twice, eaten some bread to fill his stomach, and gone back to sleep, not much time seemed to have passed.
"This feels great!"
After finally converting all the energy he could refine into spiritual energy he had absorbed and strengthened, Ye Fei at last emerged from his cultivation.
His gains this time should have been substantial. He had undergone Dantian Enhancement twice, and his spiritual energy storage capacity could increase considerably as well.
But because of the restrictions here, there were no system notifications, and he could not see the changes in his Personal Information, so he did not yet know the exact numerical changes.
"Nothing went wrong with you, did it?"
Xu Ming lay beside a rock five