Chapter 250

Inside a quiet chamber of the Longjiang Martial Arts Association, Lěng Yè sat cross-legged with a painful expression, his brow deeply furrowed. Waves of heat radiated from his body as if he were trapped inside a steamer. Bare-chested, his skin had turned a dark, ominous red, resembling a glowing piece of molten iron. He had already absorbed the Xuanhuang Qi along with refined two-century-old ginseng, a millennium-old turtle shell, and other auxiliary materials into his body, entering the most critical body-refining stage. During this process, his skin shifted from dark red to normal skin tone, and then back to dark red again, with each transformation marking the completion of one round of body-refining. The body-refining process was equivalent to completely shattering the body's existing cells and reassembling them, so every single session brought excruciating, unbearable agony. According to the cultivation manual of the Xuanhuang Holy Body, it typically required ninety-nine rounds of refining to truly succeed. This meant the practitioner had to endure ninety-nine trials of extreme torment.