Inside the immortal cave's cultivation room, Zhou Xun sat upright upon a straw meditation mat, his eyes half-closed, breathing deeply and rhythmically.
With every breath Zhou Xun took, the ambient spiritual qi seemed drawn by an invisible force, gathering closely around his body.
It seeped through his skin and into his meridians, flowing in a complete grand celestial cycle according to the path of the *Purple Firmament Lightning Art*, and was ultimately refined into mana, absorbed by the Nascent Soul at his dantian.
Chapter 590