``` [October of the thirty-seventh year. In just half a year, you compressed your immortal essence by twenty percent.
You vaguely felt that this cultivation technique did not seem as dangerous as its introduction had described.
In this cheerful mood, you continued cultivating the Great Wilderness Essence Suppression Art.]
[April of the thirty-eighth year. You compressed your immortal essence by another twenty percent, making quite smooth progress.]
[June of the thirty-eighth year. Just as you continued compressing your immortal essence with the Great Wilderness Essence Suppression Art, Seven Star Island's earth vein suddenly began shaking violently.
You immediately prepared to stop circulating the technique.
But your pupils contracted when the true essence within you inexplicably linked itself to the earth vein.
Ordinarily, this would have been nothing; you could sever that connection with a mere thought.
However, you happened to be at an extremely critical juncture.
An inexplicable panic rose in your heart, and you instinctively circulated all your immortal essence, trying to forcibly halt the Great Wilderness Essence Suppression Art.
But you had clearly underestimated the inertia of this technique.
Not only did your attempt at brute force fail to stop the chaotic immortal essence within you, it instead caused the immortal essence that had just been compressed to its limit to rebound instantly.
The next moment, all the immortal essence within you ran rampant.
At this point, your sole consolation was that your true essence had only been compressed by about fifty percent.
You should have been able to withstand a backlash of this magnitude.
But just then, Seven Star Island's earth vein suddenly shook violently again.
This tremor inexplicably surged into your body, completely detonating the immortal essence within you that was on the verge of running rampant.
In bewildered shock, your primordial spirit was smashed to