The relaxed, cheerful atmosphere in the great hall abruptly stalled.
Qing Chen stopped short of dismissing the two of them.
"Three years ago, Jia Daoyi took the fourth-tier supreme-grade Nascent-Replenishing Heavenly Fluid you bestowed on him, my lord."
"He used it to wash away his Dharma Nascent Soul foundation and revert to a pseudo-Nascent Soul state, then spent a year nurturing his meridians and sea of qi. Two years ago, he formally attempted to break through to the Nascent Soul Realm on the Tribulation Platform in the Bloodedge Army's northern camp."
Su Zixuan sent the Jade Slip in her hand into the air, and an illusory image of a wasteland shrouded in thunderclouds appeared.
At the center of the Formation Plate sat a slightly plump, middle-aged cultivator, his face covered in blood.
It was Jia Daoyi, who had followed Qing Chen since their days in Qiongzhou.
"He passed the first trial, condensing his Nascent Soul."
In the image, brilliant Nascent Soul light blazed a thousand zhang high from Jia Daoyi's body, and a true Nascent Soul barely a foot tall laboriously took shape within him.
Though its aura was unstable, that Nascent Soul was utterly different from a Dharma Nascent Soul. It possessed the genuine possibility of communing with the laws of heaven and earth and continuing to cultivate upward.
"He also passed the second trial, the heart demon tribulation."
Terrifying black qi flooded out of the depths of the void and poured into Jia Daoyi's body.
Several times, his divine soul nearly succumbed.
In the end, he endured.
When all the heavenly demon black qi dispersed and Nascent Soul light rose from his body, this Demonic Path cultivator, usually so adept at reading faces and most skilled at flattery and maneuvering,
actually sprang up from the Tribulation Platform like