Mu Bai sat cross-legged in his room, his fingers slightly spread, his hands poised as though cradling the universe.
In his life-and-death battles with Luo Cheng and the burly man who had waylaid him for his wealth, Mu Bai had truly experienced the power of Inner Core cultivation. It activated quickly and struck with tremendous force, capable of injuring the flesh of body cultivators above his level, to say nothing of its effects on Soul Cultivators and Divine Cultivators.
He had only been cultivating the Inner Core path for a short time, however. Despite often spending entire nights breathing and cultivating, he advanced extremely slowly, having only reached the stage of liquefying his vital essence. There was no telling how long remained before he could condense a core. Still, the fact that he could injure powerful body cultivators before even forming a core showed just how formidable its power was.
Eager to grow stronger, Mu Bai seized every moment to breathe in Heaven and Earth Essence Qi, even here in the Sword Sect. There were countless cultivation methods in the world; merely sitting cross-legged in meditation gave him no reason to worry about outsiders discovering anything.
He cleared his heart and stilled his thoughts until all fell silent. Heaven and Earth Essence Qi from the vast Northern Plains flowed toward the Sword Sect's Guest Reception Hall like ten thousand streams returning to their source.
After breathing and cultivating in different places-the Silver Frost Forest, the Spirit Taming Sect, the Earthfire magma, and now the Sword Sect-Mu Bai discovered that the vital essence he absorbed differed as well. Some brimmed with the vitality of plants, some were deep and solid as the earth, some fierce and overbearing as flames, and some surged ceaselessly like rivers.
Here in the vast Northern Plains