Time seemed to stand still within the deep, dark cave abode.
Qing Chen sat cross-legged, spiritual energy swirling around him as though tangible, giving off a faint glow in the darkness.
After months of secluded cultivation, his Brahma Aperture was a furnace, his blood qi a river.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged madly into him like a hundred rivers returning to the sea, rampaging through his meridians.
Every surge brought tearing pain, yet also let him feel his flesh and magical power undergoing a transformation;
-like ordinary iron, tempered by a thousand hammer blows until it finally became steel.
Late that night, the chirping insects outside the cave abode abruptly fell silent.
The spiritual energy long accumulated within Qing Chen suddenly erupted, thundering through his meridians like floodwaters bursting through a dam.
He could clearly sense the bottleneck that had trapped him for so long beginning to loosen.
All he needed was one final push to step into an entirely new realm.
He did not use the Lesser Jade Pill he had treasured.
His middle-grade spiritual root aptitude made his cultivation bottlenecks far less formidable than those faced by cultivators with mixed-grade or low-grade spiritual roots.
"Now!"
Qing Chen's thoughts raced, and the three drops of essence blood within his Brahma Aperture ignited simultaneously!
As though a raging fire had been thrown into a furnace, the already surging spiritual energy instantly turned berserk!
A gale arose from nowhere inside the cave abode, sending rubble and dust flying before the fierce spiritual energy ground them into powder.
Boom-
A deafening sound that only he could hear exploded within his sea of consciousness.
The bottleneck shattered at the sound, and surging power flooded every limb and bone.
The fourth layer of Qi Refining-he had done it! He had officially