Rumble...
A pillar of golden light, wreathed in crackling lightning, stunned everyone present.
They traced the pillar to its source: Lin Shisan, standing motionless where he was.
He was receiving power fed back to him by the Hornless Dragon True Spirit.
He had thought it would be an ordinary transfer of power, but so much had poured into him that it had triggered this pillar-of-light phenomenon.
He was actually about to advance under everyone's eyes.
If forcibly interrupting the advancement had not risked damaging his Dao Foundation and causing his cultivation to regress, he would have stopped it immediately.
Advancing in public was far too conspicuous.
It did not fit his low-profile persona at all.
Without a doubt, it would bring him unnecessary trouble afterward.
But things had already reached this point. After weighing the gains and losses, Lin Shisan could only make a spectacle of himself.
After signaling Bai Youyou with his eyes to guard him from beside him, he sank his consciousness into his Dantian and began advancing in public.
Inside his Dantian, the Hornless Dragon True Spirit was releasing wave after wave of warmth.
It was refining the Dragon Breath Qi it had drawn back out of Zi Tianya's body earlier and feeding it into him in an unending stream.
His meridians expanded and contracted slightly, while his bones gave off exceedingly faint cracking sounds.
The bottleneck of the Seventh Stage of Meridian Opening was loosening, forcibly split open from within by that power from deep inside the Dragon Spirit.
With every beat of Lin Shisan's heart, the Hornless Dragon True Spirit exhaled a mouthful of Dragon Breath Qi, and a mass of light formed inside his Dantian.
At the same time, the golden barrier above the Dragon Palace began to tremble slightly, its runes lighting up