Three days later, in front of Cave Residence Bing Seventeen on Tianlan Peak, a man and a woman bowed respectfully before leaving hand in hand.3

They did not leave empty-handed. In Mi Li's hands was a first-tier Physique Refinement technique created from a short segment Luo Chen had extracted from the Myriad Path Convergence. It only included the sections on Meridian Unblocking and Marrow Cleansing. By itself, this technique would not even help her complete the first realm of Physique Refinement. However, with consistent and patient practice, it could gradually improve her physical condition, making her body more suited to the dantian and meridians rebuilt by the Blue Sea pill.0

With this, once Mi Li's body had fully recovered, she could begin cultivating swiftly. After all, she wasn't lacking in talent—she possessed dual spirit roots of wood and fire, and an excellent constitution. Her inability to cultivate in the past had been due to congenital defects; her meridians were too thin and her dantian had fragile inner walls. With such structural flaws, even the most gifted spirit roots couldn't absorb spirit energy freely, and any attempt to break through carried great risk.9

Now, those congenital defects had been healed by Luo Chen using a third-tier pill. If she continued to practice the Meridian Unblocking and Marrow Cleansing techniques, then with her dual-spirit-root constitution, she had a real chance to break through to Foundation Establishment.0

Had she been alone, even with this foundation, reaching that far in cultivation would...0