Li Yan's main aim in this seclusion was to transform the circulation of his internal five elements into a Five-Element Wheel. Then only the final step of forming a Five-Element Wheel of Heaven and Earth would remain, and he could seek a suitable place to break through to the Body Integration Realm.
For such a crucial final breakthrough, Li Yan currently had two places in mind: the Five Immortals Sect and the Dizhen Domain. At either, powerful cultivators could stand guard for him.
Yet Li Yan simply could not find the insight needed for that first step—forming his internal Five-Element Wheel. After his main cultivation method, the Gui Water True Scripture, reached a bottleneck, he switched to cultivating his other arts.
But whether he practiced his soul cultivation method or the Qiongqi Purgatory Art, he remained stuck at his current realm, unable to touch any deeper insight.
According to Li Yan's deductions, breaking through to the Body Integration Realm with the Sacred Soul Transformation likewise required him to form a soul-lodge moon within his body after cultivating the power of the soul-lodge stars and moon.
After that, he could find a place to attempt to generate the power of the great sun, which would mark the Body Integration Realm! Since Li Yan had not managed to form a soul-lodge moon within his body, there was naturally no question of making the subsequent breakthrough.
Breaking through to the Body Integration Realm with the Qiongqi Purgatory Art also required the circulation of his internal force to produce the form of a sleeping Qiongqi within his body, which would then sense the power of heaven and earth and open its eyes.
The Body Integration Realm—everything hinged on that word, "integration." It was the most crucial step in becoming a high-level cultivator, when a