As if sensing Chen Yang's arrival, Chen Huaien, floating in midair, began drawing the starlight around him into his body bit by bit.
As the starlight was refined, his aura steadily rose, quickly breaking through the limits of the Twelfth Layer Essence Condensation.
At that moment, several mottled, tattered black phantoms appeared out of thin air. Their forms were illusory, yet each bore the same face as Chen Huaien upon its shoulders.
They drew close and circled Chen Huaien as he broke through, chattering without end—whispering, roaring, and shouting—in an attempt to drive his mind into collapse and madness.
Outside the hidden chamber, the King Insect grew somewhat nervous at the sight.
During its transformation within the cocoon, it too had suffered the harassment of these inner demons and knew full well how terrifying they were.
Advancing into Essence Condensation had already been so agonizing. For Chen Huaien, who was now attempting to break into Spiritual Connection, the difficulty of this trial could well be imagined.
Chen Yang had also been watching Chen Huaien's condition. Fortunately, the latter's state of mind remained calm from beginning to end, and the appearance of those ghostly souls caused him no trouble.
"Heh... Hahahahaha—"
A moment later, Chen Huaien burst into laughter, and the ghosts surrounding him shattered in an instant.
At that very moment, his cultivation crossed that threshold and steadily entered the First Layer of Spiritual Connection!
Thus, Ban Kuizhen, once an elder of the Jade Firmament Sect and now the Yang Family's guardian, entered the Spiritual Connection Realm once more!
"He really made it look easy, like driving a familiar carriage down an old road. This was the breakthrough of an entire major realm, yet it only drew a few inner demons—there wasn't even the slightest tribulation."
Chen Yang praised him