Four days had passed since the dust settled from the battle at Maple Valley.
The Quiet Chamber was utterly silent. Chu Fan sat cross-legged, his mind sinking into his Inner Mansion.
A faint light swirled within the Qi Sea in his Dantian. Though small, it had already taken shape.
The Primordial Qi suffusing it contained a power that far exceeded the First Heaven of the Spirit Awakening Realm.
The key to the Spirit Awakening Realm was the act of "opening."
First, one opened their Qi Sea, and then, they cleared their meridians.
To advance from the First Heaven to the Second Heaven, one had to use Primordial Qi like an axe and chisel to forcefully carve out eighteen pathways in the body, allowing the Primordial Qi to flow unimpeded.
This process was known as Washing Marrow and Rushing Meridians. Its agony and difficulty were comparable to death by a thousand cuts, causing countless Martial Artists to pale at the mere mention of it.
