Lin Ke shut the stone chamber door, took several formation stones from the Golden-Wing Envoy Nest, and fitted them into the grooves in the floor.
Next, he would keep cultivating!
He sat cross-legged and circulated his spirit power through a full cycle according to the instructions in the five-colored glazed body technique.
Only after every trace of energy within him had settled did he drive the formation with his spirit power, formally beginning a new stage of body tempering.
He was still working on the first color: wind color.
The first layer of wind color used wind as a blade to temper the flesh.
First came the surface of the body, then the sinews and bones, and finally the five viscera.
At full mastery, his flesh would rival a Spirit Artifact, and even the nine-heavens astral wind would be unable to harm his body.
During his previous cultivation session, he had tempered his flesh without any wind.
Although it had yielded some results, that had merely been feeling his way forward, not truly cultivating the first layer.
Only now was he beginning genuine wind tempering.
Lin Ke activated the formation. The Clear Wind Formation hummed, and the surrounding air began to move.
"Whoosh-"
Then he drew a deep breath, formed a hand seal, and sank his consciousness and bodily vitality into the embracing origin palace.
Passing through profound darkness and crossing that barely perceptible barrier, Lin Ke's consciousness form appeared within the embracing origin palace.
As his consciousness and vitality left his flesh, his perception of his physical body gradually blurred, then vanished entirely.
Only after completing all this did he dare to temper his body without restraint.
Wind, come!
The Clear Wind Formation surged into action. The air in the chamber abruptly accelerated, forming sharp wind blades that streamed