The daylight was dim.
Raindrops struck the rain-blocking formation outside the courtyard, splashing water everywhere. To Wei Rong, the sound of those splashes was like thunder.
Farther away, disciples of Gold Emperor Peak were using the Spiritual Qi in the rain to reverse-train their Metal Dao Law Power, making the rain shudder. Law techniques whistled as fellow disciples sparred and tested what they had learned...
Yet none of this could divert even the slightest fraction of Wei Rong's attention.
His gaze remained fixed on Wang Ba, who sat cross-legged before him with his eyes closed, regulating his breathing.
Although he had watched this scene many times over the past days, at this very moment, he still could not suppress the shock rising in his heart:
Fourteen days... in just fourteen days, he has brought the Law Power vortex completely under control...
The Golden Light Nine-Origin Art could lead straight to Spirit Transformation. Naturally, its initial stages were extremely difficult, and its Law Power vortex was highly unstable and prone to running out of control.
Without a senior's protection for a year or so, practicing independently was almost impossible.
Yet Wang Ba had taken only fourteen days to progress from frequent losses of control at the beginning to relying almost entirely on himself over the last two days.
Although he had failed many times early on, he had never readily spoken of giving up.
That alone, however, was not enough to surprise Wei Rong.
After all, Wang Ba was different from cultivators who had only just begun cultivating. As a Foundation Establishment cultivator, controlling such a Law Power vortex was not easy, but gaining complete control in a little over ten days was still within the normal range.
The true difficulty lay in how quickly the Law Power vortex inside Wang