The instant Ning Sihua turned to look—

She saw Su Yi stand up in the air. As he moved, his originally weak, depleted aura rose, like a dried-up river after a downpour.

By the time he steadied himself, his cultivation had leaped to the third level of the Inner Furnace Realm. His lungs blazed like a furnace and lit up with the sharp, indomitable light of metal.

Metal Element Spiritual Dao Light! 

Su Yi’s qi and essence boiled around him, his blue robes fluttering about as his aura expanded and intensified. It suddenly seemed unstoppable. 

Ning Sihua felt suffocated. The majestic power bearing down on them was intense; it was impossible to imagine that a mere third-level Grandmaster could wield such power!

Su Yi’s dark eyes were calm as he stood in the air. As the power of his recent breakthrough ran rampant, he seemed like an unparalleled sword: sharp, proud, and contemptuous. 

“A breakthrough?” Liao Yunliu, Wang Tu, and Helian Hai each exclaimed, and their expressions shifted.

Earlier, they’d launched their assassination attempt so brazenly precisely because Su Yi was refining medicine, and that made him more vulnerable than ever.

He wasn’t vulnerable anymore. On the contrary, his cultivation had risen to an all-new level.

They were already...