Qing Chen raised an eyebrow. The instant his fingers formed a seal, the thousands of middle-grade spirit stones on the stone platform began bursting in succession.
Amid crisp cracks, the spirit stones on the surface crumbled into powder. Pure spiritual energy billowed like white mist and streamed into his body through his fingertips.
This was not a loss of control, but a tide of spiritual power following his breakthrough to the late Golden Core stage;
-like a dam opening its floodgates, his newly advanced true essence awaited its final resonance with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
"Just in time."
Qing Chen half-closed his eyes, allowing the spiritual energy to surge throughout his body.
The spiritual energy in the Primordial Extremity Dao Palace truly was extraordinary. Several times richer than that of the spirit veins on Heavenly Jade Island and Immortal-Severing Island, it was unmistakably of the high-grade fourth tier!
Yet it carried a docility that seemed to have been tamed.
"Even a little dust slipping through a mighty figure's fingers is enough to benefit minor cultivators like us endlessly."
Ordinary high-level spiritual energy carried a certain sharpness; the slightest lapse in attention could send one's meridians into disarray.
Yet the spiritual energy here was like warm jade melting into water, flowing into his sea of qi with each breath. Even the pores all over his body opened slightly in comfort, as though he were soaking in a warm spring.
Mystic Origin Exalted Immortal probably trained it casually back then, Qing Chen thought, activating the ninth level of the Brahma Demon-Refining Art.
Within his sea of qi, his dark-gold Golden Core hovered at the center, the Blood-Killing Heavenly Phenomenon totem on its surface shimmering with flowing light.
As though it had eyes, the docile spiritual energy skirted the raging