Once Void Refining reached full completion and the flesh had wholly become a pill, opening the entire body to the outside world and merging with it would be as natural as a ripe melon dropping from its stem, as water flowing into a channel. Opening that connection before the flesh had wholly become a pill could still link the five elements within the body to those outside, but the body would become like a vessel through which water flowed. Far longer accumulation and refinement would then be needed before every part of the flesh, blood, and bones could be replaced by the essences of the five elements. Compared with cultivating step by step, it meant twice the effort for half the result.
Mu Bai had yet to realize this. He felt only wild delight at the success of his experiment with the wood attribute, showing that his temperament still needed tempering.
With his wood-attribute experiment successful, Mu Bai impatiently opened a connection between the earth-attribute essence within him and the outside world as well. Just as before, once all the earth-attribute essence in his flesh, blood, and bones had dispersed into the outside world, the dense earth-attribute elements of Tianmu Mountain poured through the pores all over his body. They nourished his flesh, blood, and bones before returning outside, cycling without end and likewise merging into one.
Mu Bai did not worry about revealing his secrets in front of Xing Yun. However, with the various powers of the Eastern Ridge gathered at Tianmu Mountain for the tournament, he could not continue opening connections for all his attributes. Should he cause a disturbance, it would not escape the perception of the Dao Ling Realm cultivators here.
There would be time enough to open all those connections in the future. Mu Bai