Blue Phoenix Chapter 7 - Golden Streaks of Light

Constantly switching between absorbing the essence of the heavens and the earth which was refined into qi and then further refining that qi into spiritual energy kept Hui Yue fully occupied for more than a whole day. During this entire time, Lan Feng ensured that nothing happened to him. His entire being was on high alert, every muscle was tense, and his wu wei circulated throughout their shared body, ready to be used at any time should any trouble occur.

While Lan Feng was fully focused on the outside world, Hui Yue’s entire focus was on the inside world. His eyes were closed while he felt the essence of the heavens and the earth entering through his veins and meridians. He felt how it kept circulating within his meridians until it was fully refined, and how it ended up joining the qi swirl. Then it was sucked into the middle dantian where the qi threads, one after another, were refined further into small drops of spiritual energy.

Usually, the spiritual energy sea would start climbing towards the shoreline and at some point become so filled that it would spill out over the shoreline. The spiritual energy sea would become chaotic, and eventually, it would carve out an area within the middle dantian to hold an even larger amount of spiritual energy. This would increase the depth and width of the sea.

This was the usual way of breaking through. However, no matter how much Hui Yue refined, the sea did not rise like it used to, nor did it burst over his shoreline in an attempt to break through into the next rank. The only thing which happened was that ripples could be seen on the surface. Ripples which appeared every time one drop after another fell into the spiritual energy sea below.

Grumbling Hui Yue stopped refining more energy as he understood that the current situation could not be dealt with by forcefully refining more and more spiritual energy. He was stuck at a bottleneck, a bottleneck which required something other than just raw energy. It was evident that Hui Yue was closing in on the upper dantian level. I

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