Eight days later
Inside the Water Mansion, Bai Yi sat with his eyes closed, his brows faintly furrowed.
His Spiritual Power surged like a rising tide, repeatedly crashing against the bottleneck of the seventh layer of Qi Refining.
He had already reached the peak of the sixth layer of Qi Refining the previous evening, but after an entire night, he still hadn't broken through the bottleneck of the later stage.
The medicinal pills have increased my Spiritual Power too quickly. It's become too insubstantial, leaving me just a hair's breadth short.
After another failed attempt left his Spiritual Power depleted, Bai Yi steeled himself. With a turn of his thoughts, he swallowed three or four Spirit-Gathering Pills and a Spirit-Breaking Pill.
His surging Spiritual Power boiled, like a furnace stoking the medicinal power of the Meridians Pill and burning through his meridians.
Bai Yi's face flushed crimson, and his presence was like a sword drawn from its sheath.
When the Spiritual Power in his Dantian once more reached its peak, it surged toward the bottleneck at his Acupoints like a raging flood.
Blood seeped from his pores. Under the far greater assault of Spiritual Power, the bottleneck began to tear apart bit by bit, then collapsed like a breached dam.
Bai Yi let out a long howl. His restless Spiritual Power mingled with the sound waves and swept through the entire Water Mansion, sending out a surge of force far stronger than before.
Seventh layer of Qi Refining-breakthrough!
After his successful breakthrough, Bai Yi had no time to celebrate. He hurriedly circulated the Minor Five Elements Art to steady the restless Spiritual Power within him.
Several hours later, as the spiritual energy in the Water Mansion rapidly dwindled, Bai Yi exhaled a mouthful of Turbid Qi like mist. Only then