Two years later, in the Cultivation Room.
Xiao Yu held his body in a strange posture, golden light flickering over him. Faint traces of scales shimmered across his face, hands, feet, and other exposed parts of his body. His features were somewhat contorted, and beads of sweat the size of beans rolled steadily down his forehead, as though he were enduring tremendous pain.
After a long while, Xiao Yu stopped cultivating, and his body returned to normal. After stretching his limbs, he murmured to himself:
"A ten-thousand-year-old Nirvana Purple Heart Fruit really is powerful. Body refining feels much easier now, and my progress has sped up by nearly half!"
Half a year earlier, he had accelerated the nirvana illusion heart tree's growth to ten thousand years. The fruit at its center had turned such a deep purple that it was almost black, giving off a rich, sweet fragrance. The slightest whiff made him want to swallow it whole.
After adding a few more drops of purple liquid and seeing no noticeable change, Xiao Yu decisively picked the Purple Heart Fruit and swallowed it in one gulp.
Even calling its flavor a heavenly delicacy could not do it justice. Not daring to spend any longer savoring it, he immediately circulated the Brahma Saint Body Refining Art to refine it.
Once he had finished refining the entire fruit, the multifaceted crystalline core within him gleamed with purple light, constantly releasing wisps of hazy purple vapor. It had also grown a size larger.
In his subsequent cultivation, Xiao Yu was delighted to discover that his efficiency had improved considerably.
First came body refining. Previously, he had needed more than a day to absorb the medicinal potency of a Dragon Scale Fruit; now, he needed only a little over half a day. This had