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In the afternoon, Huo Yutong woke up.

After forcing down her grief and paying her respects to the Old Butler, she cultivated far harder than before.

This time, she did not cry. Instead, she grew strong, turning grief into motivation and strengthening her Mental Power by a large margin.

Inside the room, Qian Chaoguang held the lychee-sized Golden Spirit Fruit in his hand. Without the slightest hesitation, he swallowed it directly.

If any other Spirit Master saw this, their jaw would definitely drop on the spot.

As a Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures that could help Spirit Masters temper their bodies, just like Whale Rubber, the Golden Spirit Fruit contained extremely tyrannical energy. It was usually combined with many supplementary ingredients to make a medicinal liquid for a medicinal bath.

Taking it directly did have better effects, but nine times out of ten, the person would explode and die.

Qian Chaoguang, with his powerful physique, did not need to worry about that. He circulated the Golden Body Art to its limit, and his surging blood and qi formed a furnace inside his body, squeezing out every bit of energy within the Golden Spirit Fruit.

Under the effects of the Golden Body Art, this tyrannical energy became like steel needles, stabbing into all the major acupoints throughout his body.

A ferocious expression appeared on Qian Chaoguang's face. After all these years, this was the first time he had fully pushed the Golden Body Art to its absolute limit.

This energy stimulated his body like ten thousand blades piercing his heart, constantly strengthening every inch of his flesh and blood.

His blood and qi circulated to the extreme inside him, forcing the temperature of his body's surface to rise sharply.

Seen from the outside, the surface of Qian Chaoguang's skin had already turned an extremely terrifying red, and his entire body had swollen by a full size.

The not-so-abundant Soul Power in his dantian was swept up by his violent blood, qi, and energy, charging toward the flesh, blood, and bones that had yet to be tempered.

He could clearly sense that his body was gradually growing stronger, sealing away all the energy inside him and forming an extremely powerful shackle.

Blackish blood seeped out from the surface of Qian Chaoguang's skin, gradually staining the clothes on his body red.

When his Bloodline Power circulated to its limit, Qian Chaoguang could no longer suppress the pain inside him and suddenly let out a roar.

A sound came from within his body, like a tiger's roar and also like muffled thunder rumbling, releasing a deep, rolling boom.

Boom!

Just as Qian Chaoguang felt as if his body was about to explode, he suddenly sensed that some invisible restriction seemed to have been broken, and his whole body felt incomparably refreshed.

Under Huo Yutong's shocked gaze after she rushed over at the sound, wisps of red steam gradually evaporated from the surface of his body.

Qian Chaoguang took the opportunity to stand up and roared toward the sky.

This time, it was no longer a painful shriek, but a cathartic release.

After six long years of cultivation, with the help of this Golden Spirit Fruit, he had finally completed the cultivation of the Flawless Body.

Once the first stages of all three arts were completed, he would be able to break through into the second level of the Golden Body Art—the Blood Qi Wolf Smoke realm.

At the same time, completing the cultivation of the Flawless Body also heralded another matter.

Qian Chaoguang could finally begin cultivating the Qi Refining Art and start increasing the Soul Power inside his body, soaring to rank ten at an extremely fast speed.

From that day onward, Qian Chaoguang became much quieter than before, and there were far fewer smiles on his face.

At least, that was how it seemed to Huo Yutong.

But what she did not know was that back on Blue Star in his previous life, Qian Chaoguang's personality had already been this cold, even somewhat cold-blooded.

From childhood to adulthood, he had seen all the warmth and coldness of the world and tasted every facet of life.

If it had nothing to do with him, he stayed well away from it. That had already become the norm.

Huo Yun'er's death had once again sounded a warning bell for him, making him afraid to, and unwilling to, casually interfere in matters unrelated to himself.

It was only after crossing over to this Douluo Continent that the Old Butler's kindness and Huo Yutong's attachment had torn open a crack in the ice within his heart.

Now, that crack had sealed shut once more.

Apart from burying himself in forging and cultivation all day, almost nothing else could attract his attention anymore.

Whenever Huo Yutong spoke to him, Qian Chaoguang would return to that smiling appearance from before.

But Huo Yutong, who understood him extremely well, knew in her heart that this was merely a facade. He had only buried that grief deep within his heart.

Half a year had passed, and under Qian Chaoguang's frenzied cultivation, he had successfully pushed his cultivation up to rank ten.

This counted as a characteristic of the Three Refinements Stage.

Once a cultivator completed the cultivation of the Flawless Body, during the Three Refinements Stage, their own cultivation would surge, reaching the current peak of their cultivation at an extremely fast speed.

After bitterness came sweetness. That was the current state of this set of arts.

Next, what awaited him was even more difficult Mental Power cultivation—the Spirit Connection Art.

This was also why he was in no hurry to obtain his First Soul Ring.

Qian Chaoguang had a vague premonition that if he rushed to break through before cultivating the first level of the Spirit Connection Art, Mortal Transcendence, to perfection, what awaited him would certainly be death.

Unlike the Golden Body Art and Qi Refining Art, which were simple and easy to begin, the cultivation difficulty of the Spirit Connection Art was far greater than before.

During the Mortal Transcendence stage, the cultivator needed to constantly visualize a pattern provided in the art inside their mind using a special method, thereby increasing their Mental Power.

Once their Mental Power had grown to a certain realm, they would compress this mass of Mental Power as much as possible, continuing until it was compressed into a single point. At that point, cultivation of the Mortal Transcendence stage would officially be marked as complete.

Once Qian Chaoguang obtained his first soul ring and officially advanced to become a Spirit Master, the three great arts would merge and connect, simultaneously erupting with effects far more powerful than before.

Perhaps because Qian Chaoguang had lived two lives, his soul was far stronger than that of an ordinary person.

Because of that, the Mental Power he had been born with was far greater than that of a normal Spirit Master.

Even Huo Yutong, when she had just awakened her Martial Soul, had fallen far short of him.

This was also why Qian Chaoguang had not been affected too deeply by the Blood Tiger's Confusion Skill several years ago.

However, even with this innate Mental Power that was far stronger than other people's, Qian Chaoguang still spent a full week before he officially entered into the cultivation of Mental Power.

That showed just how difficult the Spirit Connection Art was to cultivate.

This did not make Qian Chaoguang slow down his cultivation speed.

As usual, with such a high threshold for cultivation, once he achieved success in it, the rewards would certainly be extremely generous.

The sooner he gained powerful strength, the sooner he could avenge Old Butler!

Half a year later, Qian Chaoguang and Huo Yutong were about to turn ten. There was only one final year left before the time when the main storyline of the original work began.

As his Mental Power continued to grow stronger, some details he had once forgotten in some corner were now recalled by him as well.

Qian Chaoguang recalled the original work again, wrote down every detail from before meeting the Sky Dream Ice Silkworm in Chinese exactly as they had been, and placed it in his Storage Bracelet to prevent himself from forgetting.

At the same time, during this half year, he had been cultivating the Spirit Refining Art almost day and night without stopping.

The lump of Mental Power in his mind that had originally been the size of a basketball had already been compressed down to the size of a longan, though it was still some distance away from becoming a single point.

If compared with other Spirit Masters, his Mental Power was already no weaker than that of a Soul Elder-level spiritual-type Spirit Master.

Yet even with such a formidable level, he was still one step short of perfecting Mortal Transcendence.

In at most one month, he would be able to complete the final stage of cultivation and reach the standard for advancing to the next stage.

Cultivation required a proper balance of tension and relaxation.

Even if Qian Chaoguang was in a hurry to break through, he still needed to relax appropriately.

And forging and saber practice became his way of relaxing.