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Several hours later.
The three extremely precious heavenly treasures had already been completely consumed.
At this moment, only two jade bottles floated in front of Wei Yang. Looking at the two bottles of emerald-green liquid, nearly overflowing at the brim, a satisfied smile appeared on Wei Yang's face.
This emerald liquid looked exceptionally clear and verdant, and faint wisps of fragrance subtly spread out. Breathing in this scent, Wei Yang's slightly weary spirit felt a faint jolt of energy.
This was the Core Soul Marrow after refinement, and he had obtained two full bottles in total. He sealed one of the jade bottles away, while holding the other in his hand. With a wave of his hand, the stone doors of the secret chamber rumbled open.
"Master."
Outside, Ah Da and Xiong Zhan bowed. Wei Yang didn't speak, simply gazing quietly at the entrance. Soon, at the end of the corridor, Xian'er's figure appeared.
She quickly flashed into the stone chamber, her expression carrying a trace of nervousness, "Brother Yang."
Wei Yang smiled, stood up, walked to her side, and handed the jade bottle to her, speaking softly, "Do your best."
Clutching the bottle, Xian'er took a deep breath and nodded firmly. Wei Yang raised his hand, gently brushing her cheek, then turned and stepped out.
Rumble~
The stone door slowly closed.
Xian'er sat cross-legged on the cushion Wei Yang had left behind, eyes closed, adjusting her state of mind and body.
After a while, she slowly opened her eyes. She raised the jade bottle, opened the lid, and from the mouth of the bottle, emerald-colored mist slowly swirled out.
A faint, peculiar fragrance spread through the air. Breathing in this scent, she felt as if her entire soul suddenly became abnormally active.
Without hesitation, she tilted her head back and poured the liquid down her throat. In a few gulps, the entire bottle of Core Soul Marrow flowed into her body.
The moment the essence entered her body, Xian'er's mind buzzed, and the soul power at her brow suddenly swelled explosively, as though injected with a catalyst. The rapid expansion brought with it an intense, splitting pain between her brows.
It felt as if her head might explode at any moment. This sudden change made Xian'er's heart jolt in alarm.
But now was not the time for distraction—she could only forcefully steady her mind and carefully sense the changes within her body.
The emerald liquid, after entering her body, transformed into streams of scalding heat that spread throughout her system.
Then, those streams rapidly vaporized, turning into strands of deep-green strange mist that surged upward, flowing straight to her brow and into her sea of consciousness. There, they merged with the soul power dwelling within and were absorbed.
As the mist entwined with her soul, Xian'er quickly noticed that a terrifyingly powerful energy was fusing rapidly into her soul.
At the same time, the strength of her soul itself seemed to be skyrocketing, as if it had been nourished by some miraculous tonic, soaring at a rate that left her utterly shocked.
With her soul power soaring so rapidly, the pain at her brow only grew more severe. She truly hadn't expected the Core Soul Marrow to have such an exaggerated amplifying effect on soul power.
Facing the increasingly splitting pain in her brow, Xian'er was powerless—she could only endure as her soul grew stronger and stronger.
More and more green mist flooded into her sea of consciousness, and her soul kept strengthening without pause, as though it would never end. At this moment, Xian'er finally understood the true meaning of the phrase "a splitting headache."
The temples on both sides of her head bulged as though two small lumps had risen, throbbing violently, making her worry that they might burst apart at any moment. This worry did not last long.
"It's going to explode!"
Her soul, which had suddenly become so overwhelmingly powerful, had already begun to surpass the maximum limit her sea of consciousness could bear.
Then, at a certain moment, her soul seemed to finally reach its breaking point. From the depths of her mind, a deafening explosion suddenly erupted, making her eardrums throb in piercing pain.
Rumble!
It was as if the heavens and earth themselves had just been split apart. Under that explosion, her mind and consciousness were blasted into a haze, her vision filled with golden light.
Inside her mind, everything was thrown into chaos. This strange state lasted for quite a long time before it finally began to subside.
When Xian'er's awareness slowly returned to clarity, the splitting pain in her head had already begun to fade. Vaguely, she realized that her soul was now several times stronger than before!
But she could also clearly sense that her soul still had not stepped into that so-called Spirit Realm.
"Still can't reach the Spirit Realm?" Xian'er frowned, unable to hide her disappointment.
She hadn't expected that even such a rare chance wouldn't be enough to push her into the Spirit Realm. Just having stronger soul power was still far from being comparable to the Spirit Realm. If her soul could not reach that realm, then she would never be able to refine a true Tier 8 pill.
"So this must be what Brother Yang meant when he said there's no such thing as perfection in this world?"
"Every living being has its shackles, flaws, or shortcomings. There's no such thing as a creature that's perfect in every aspect."
And her shortcoming was clearly her soul. She sighed softly in her heart. To say she wasn't disappointed would be a lie. Her lips curved into a faint, bitter smile.
The stronger her power became, the more deeply she understood the importance of the soul. If she had a choice, she would, without hesitation, trade away the Woeful Poison Body for a soul-related talent instead.
She finally and truly understood the meaning behind Wei Yang's words: "In the early stages, it's the body that matters. In the later stages, it's the soul."
A physical talent could be changed, but a soul talent was far too rare. Just as she was sighing, she suddenly sensed that the energy of heaven and earth around her seemed to be stirred by something strange in that instant.
Hm?
Xian'er was startled.
As the heaven and earth energy rippled, threads of extremely faint and mysterious airflow quietly seeped out from the void, then surged toward her brow like a tidal wave.
"This is… the Spirit Qi Brother Yang talked about?!"
Xian'er was delighted, quickly focusing her mind, and immediately discovered that this strange pull was emanating from her brow.
This peculiar force was drawing in, pulling those mysterious currents from who-knew-where into her. Seeing this, Xian'er was overjoyed, a wave of relief washing over her as well.
Her soul was absorbing the mysterious Spirit Qi—it was undergoing some kind of transformation!
The Spirit Qi continued to seep out of the void, endlessly pouring into Xian'er's sea of consciousness through her brow, merging with the soul that resided there.
As this fusion occurred, her soul felt as though it was wrapped in warm spiritual fluid, as if it had returned to the state of being nurtured within the womb.
The gentle Spirit Qi seeped into every corner, nourishing her soul. That blissful comfort nearly made her moan aloud.
But even with Spirit Qi being infused at such a level, it was clearly not enough to let her soul make an immediate leap into the Spirit Realm.
Thus, after this absorption continued for nearly an hour, the strange suction force at Xian'er's brow suddenly intensified dramatically.
Finally, an invisible fluctuation, unseen by the naked eye, spread quietly outward, escaping the stone chamber, flowing beyond the stone hall, and expanding into the skies above the entire mountain peak.
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