“Breakthrough?” Xiao Yan looked at Pharmacist Elder in astonishment. After a moment, he gradually came to his senses and said with an incredulous joy, “Is it really happening?”
“Yes.” Sensing the rapidly surging energy in the surroundings, Pharmacist Elder smiled and said, “Prepare for your breakthrough. This is your chance, and you must not miss it. Otherwise, who knows when the next opportunity will come.”
Excitedly nodding, Xiao Yan didn’t even have time to measure the level of his advanced cultivation technique. He quickly sat down again, forming the hand seals for cultivation, and then sank his consciousness into his body.
As Xiao Yan entered his cultivation state, the surging energy in the surroundings became more and more intense. Eventually, Xiao Yan’s body almost turned into a black hole, continuously absorbing the vast amount of energy rushing into him.
With his consciousness deep in his body, Xiao Yan urgently began to guide the energy that was seeping in through his pores. Although this energy was abundant, it contained too many impurities and needed to be refined and purified by his meridians before it could be fully absorbed. Otherwise, it might taint the hard-earned Dou Qi (Battle Energy) within him.
Despite Xiao Yan’s efforts to control the overwhelming energy, he found it difficult to completely suppress it. The scale of the energy was simply too terrifying. Helpless, Xiao Yan managed to control a small portion, while the rest roamed freely in his body. Fortunately, he had already secured the critical areas, so although the chaotic flow caused some pain, it did not cause any significant damage.
Under Xiao Yan’s careful guidance, a portion of the energy that flowed into his body was refined into pure Dou Qi after circulating through his meridians, and then injected into the light purple vortex.
With this influx of powerful Dou Qi, the once serene vortex suddenly spun at a high speed, causing a splash like a boulder thrown into a calm lake. The formerly leisurely rotating vortex now spun violently, releasing a fierce suction force.
Xiao Yan, to his horror, realized that his consciousness could no longer control the energy entering his body. Without the suppression of his consciousness, the energy both inside and outside his body was being pulled into the vortex by the suction.
In the external cave, as the vortex spun faster, the suction force emanating from Xiao Yan’s body became more and more terrifying. Finally, the diverse energy in the surroundings formed a luminous energy barrier around Xiao Yan, making it extremely dazzling.
Pharmacist Elder, hovering in mid-air, frowned at the situation Xiao Yan had created: “What is this little one up to? How dare he directly absorb such chaotic energy into the vortex?”
With a furrowed brow, Pharmacist Elder took a deep breath, suppressing his anxiety, and watched Xiao Yan, ready to intervene at any moment, as the situation seemed to be getting out of hand.
While Pharmacist Elder watched with worry and bewilderment, Xiao Yan, with his eyes closed, also felt a growing panic. As the energy from the outside continued to rush in uncontrollably, his meridians began to feel a swelling pain. If this continued, he might face the danger of ruptured meridians.
“Damn it, stop!” Xiao Yan, with no power to stop it, could only roar at the spinning purple vortex with his consciousness.
Perhaps the roaring helped, for the vortex suddenly paused. However, before Xiao Yan could feel relieved, the vortex began to spin even more ferociously. “Damn it!” Seeing the vortex’s actions, Xiao Yan exploded in anger. But as he cursed, he noticed that a layer of purple flame began to envelop the surface of the vortex as it spun faster and faster.
The speed of the vortex increased, and the purple flames grew thicker. Meanwhile, the energy spread throughout his body began to surge chaotically through his meridians, reaching his lower abdomen, and then poured into the vortex.
Staring at the surging energy, Xiao Yan cried out in despair. If these impure energies were to flood into the vortex, all the Dou Qi he had painstakingly cultivated would be destroyed!
Under Xiao Yan’s desperate gaze, the surging energy finally touched the vortex. However, the moment it came into contact with the purple flame, an unexpected change occurred! The purple flame, which was previously gentle, suddenly flared up, reaching nearly half a foot high. The massive energy rushing in was rapidly reduced in size upon contact with the flame, turning into tiny droplets of liquid energy the size of fingernails.
After purifying the energy, the purple flame, seemingly intelligent, avoided the pure liquid energy, allowing it to directly enter the vortex.
As the liquid energy was absorbed into the rapidly spinning purple vortex, ripples of energy formed. Xiao Yan suddenly noticed that the volume of the purple vortex was mysteriously shrinking.
The purple vortex continued to shrink, but Xiao Yan was not overly worried. He could sense that, although the vortex was smaller, the Dou Qi within it was becoming more and more concentrated…
Feeling the increasingly potent Dou Qi, Xiao Yan slowly calmed his fears and watched the vortex’s actions intently.
After the first wave of energy was purified by the purple flame, the remaining energy did not dissipate but instead rushed into Xiao Yan’s body even more ferociously due to the vortex’s strong suction. The purple vortex welcomed the energy without discrimination, and any energy entering the attack range of the purple flame was instantly purified into tiny droplets of pure liquid energy, which then rained down into the vortex.
With the support of this extremely pure liquid energy, the vortex’s suction force became stronger and stronger. Even Pharmacist Elder was impressed by the intensity of the suction.
Under the continuous surge of energy, Xiao Yan suddenly found that his meridians and bones were becoming more robust and expanded. At this point, Xiao Yan had almost no control over the process, as everything was directed by the purple vortex. Fortunately, the strange thing wasn’t going berserk, or else Xiao Yan would have been in serious trouble.
Wandering through his body, Xiao Yan could clearly feel that his physical body was becoming stronger under the constant rush of energy, a feeling that made him almost moan in pleasure.
In the cave, Pharmacist Elder, seeing the slightly satisfied smile on Xiao Yan’s face, finally relaxed and shook his head with a smile. It seemed that something miraculous was happening inside Xiao Yan’s body, something that even he couldn’t understand, hence the expression of delight.
Of course, Xiao Yan was unaware that his pleased expression had been interpreted as lewdness by Pharmacist Elder, as his attention was entirely focused on the increasingly fast-spinning purple vortex.
After absorbing countless droplets of pure liquid energy, the purple vortex had shrunk to a size smaller than Xiao Yan’s palm, but the purple flame covering its surface was becoming thicker and thicker.
Upon closer inspection, Xiao Yan could faintly see what appeared to be liquid-like substances forming inside the vortex. After greedily absorbing more energy, the spinning purple vortex suddenly stopped, paused for a moment, and then began to spin in the opposite direction.
Seeing the vortex change direction, Xiao Yan, in shock, could only pray that nothing went wrong. Perhaps the prayer worked, as the reverse rotation did not cause any damage. Instead, the pure liquid energy that was supposed to drop into the vortex was ejected in all directions.
These ejected droplets of energy were scattered throughout Xiao Yan’s body, and whenever they touched his meridians, bones, or flesh, they gradually merged into them!
Xiao Yan let out a sigh of non-existent air, overwhelmed with joy. He could feel that as the liquid energy infused into his body, his every bone and muscle were undergoing a transformation, filling with immense power.
The reverse ejection of the vortex lasted for more than ten minutes before gradually stopping. As the vortex’s rotation slowed, the intense suction force in Xiao Yan’s body also diminished and eventually disappeared.
In the instant the suction ceased, Xiao Yan, who was sitting cross-legged in the cave, suddenly opened his eyes. His black hair stirred without wind, and his clothes swelled. A fierce and powerful aura, several times stronger than before, awakened within him and radiated outward.
Feeling the aura emanating from Xiao Yan, Pharmacist Elder smiled and said, “Congratulations! From today, you are a true Dou Shi (Combat Master)!”
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