The carnage on the first floor had yet to subside, but with the death of the youth and the arrival of Gu Ji, the remaining assassins were hardly a concern. Forget threatening Wu Yuan, they couldn't even make it to the second floor.0

Inside the room on the second floor, a fraction of Wu Yuan's consciousness remained alert to his surroundings, while the majority was focused on the black pagoda within his upper dantian lobe.0

This blood-red mist is nothing short of extraordinary and can be aptly called Evolution Mist. It optimizes the human genome, raising the limit of the body's potential. Wu Yuan vividly recalled the otherworldly experience he had undergone after consuming the Soul Condensing Pill. 7

The blood-red mist didn't directly bolster physical strength but rather optimized and transformed his body at the genetic level. After getting an initial glimpse of the black pagoda, his subsequent attempts to Visualize it and cultivate his soul further affirmed Wu Yuan's hypothesis. If not for the increase in his body's potential, how could Wu Yuan's physical strength have increased by thousands of catties in just ten days?3

In his spare time over the last few days, Wu Yuan had been grappling with how to obtain more blood-red mist from the black pagoda, but to no avail. After all, his soul was still too weak. Although he had unlocked his upper dantian lobe, he was only...1