The jade hare sank, the golden crow rose, and another five days passed!
Clouds billowed and rosy light shimmered around Xiao Tian's place of seclusion. Glistening mist rippled like water, and the surrounding flowers, grasses, and trees benefited enormously from the vital essence he drew in through his breathing.
Wisps of divine radiance curled around Xiao Tian as he swallowed rosy light and exhaled auspicious radiance. Dragons roared and tigers howled with every breath, dragon-shaped and tiger-shaped columns of energy passing through his mouth and nose. His Dragon-Tiger Thunderclap had reached perfection. As he breathed, it was as though a True Dragon and a White Tiger were sleeping, producing rolling rumbles. This was his own rhythm. Coiling dragons and crouching tigers circled his body and lifted him up, leaving him seated cross-legged three feet above the ground.
In the first stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm, Xiao Tian had taken the path of fleshly body becoming spirit to its utmost limit. Transcending it any further would truly mean fleshly body becoming divine.
Three-colored treasured radiance flowed across his entire body. The spiritual membranes of light covering his flesh, bones, internal organs, skin, and meridians had transformed to their utmost limit.
His physical body had now entered a domain comparable to that of a newly advanced Venerable. Within the mortal realms, the Venerable level represented the pinnacle of transformation, whether in body, soul, cultivation realm, or magical power.
Yet in the flesh becoming saint stage of the Spirit Transformation Realm, Xiao Tian had relied doggedly on consuming medicines to continually uncover the innate potential hidden within his body. With the support of the Calabash Brothers' origin great Dao fragments, his physical body had kept advancing, resulting in his current gains.
The twenty-seven Sacred Fruits and twenty drops of the Fountain of