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Time flies, and seven days have passed in the blink of an eye.

Li Hanshan sat cross-legged on the stone surface warmed by his body heat. Pure Yang energy flowed steadily through his meridians. The seventh day of cultivation had already consumed nearly 40% of his spiritual power, and the golden light of his pure Yang primordial spirit in his dantian was a little dimmer than before he entered the cave.

The reason for the high energy expenditure was mainly because this was not authentic dual cultivation; he did not have any deeper contact with Shen Yun again.

Excessive natural consumption.

As for Shen Yun, the barrier of the peak of the Nascent Soul stage had already loosened considerably, like a city gate that had been repeatedly pried open, with the unique spiritual energy texture of the Void Refinement stage beginning to seep out from the cracks.

However, the anxiety between her brows grew stronger and stronger.

She could feel that the barrier had become extremely thin, but no matter how she mobilized her spiritual power to attack it, that last bit of barrier remained as immovable as an iron wedge embedded in a crack in the stone.

Seven days have passed; they have been in this cave for a full seven days, and the beast tide outside will not stop because of her breakthrough. She even sensed the auras of several Nascent Soul level demonic beasts roaming around the island during the intervals of her spiritual energy circulation, a sign that the beast tide was about to launch an even larger-scale attack.

She opened her eyes, her almond-shaped eyes surging with an urgent sense of time pressing to the limit. "Just one last step."

Her voice was hoarse and tired from the long hours of spiritual energy circulation. "That threshold is too solid. I can feel it loosening, but I just can't push open the last layer."

As she spoke, she tried to prop herself up and try again, but her knees were slightly weak due to the long-term consumption of spiritual energy, and she almost fell forward, but Li Hanshan reached out and supported her waist.

Li Hanshan sensed her condition—the lightning power in her meridians had been refined to an extremely pure level, and fine golden patterns had appeared on the surface of her primordial spirit. The barrier was indeed only one step away from being completely shattered.

But as he had said before, the problem lay in the fact that her spiritual power was too forceful. The edges of that lightning-attribute spiritual power were like unpolished blades; each impact carried an extreme sharpness, yet it could never find a suitable point of entry when facing the last crack in that barrier. Like a sword that was too rigid, it could cleave through rocks, but couldn't penetrate the gap.

"That won't work," Li Hanshan said. "Your spiritual power has been tempered to its limit, but that extreme ferocity is itself the final obstacle. You need to create a trace of an attribute completely opposite to lightning power within your spiritual power at the very moment that barrier is about to shatter in order to generate enough implosive force to completely tear it apart."

Shen Yun paused slightly. She understood his reasoning—only by nurturing a trace of Yin within extreme Yang to achieve true balance could one generate the explosive power from within at the moment of breakthrough.

She had been trying for seven days, each time attempting to guide that trace of Yin energy to its deepest point, yet she couldn't quite grasp it. Her lightning power was too pure, so pure that it could hardly contain any aura that contradicted its essence. She looked up at him, her eyes filled with weariness and resentment: "I've tried, I can't do it. My spiritual power seems locked within the framework of lightning attributes; no matter how I try to guide it, I can't produce that slight change."

Li Hanshan lowered his head to look at her, his eyes appearing exceptionally calm in the dim light of the luminous pearl. He reached out and placed his palm on her lower abdomen, clearly feeling the primordial spirit in her dantian trembling slightly from the continuous impact. "Of course you can't do it alone," he said, his voice neither loud nor soft, "but with me here, it's possible."

Before Shen Yun could even process the meaning of his words, he had already gently pressed her against the stone surface. As her back touched the rock, warmed by his body heat, her body instinctively tensed for a moment, a flicker of surprise crossing her eyes: "You—"

Shen Yun wanted to say something, but he lowered his head and kissed her lips. This kiss was different from the previous ones—there was no uncontrollable aphrodisiac, but a firm and unyielding strength that silenced all the words she was about to utter. In that instant, her fingers gripped the fabric of his shoulder, her attempt to push him away crumbling halfway, shattering in her palm like ice melting in a warm current.

Li Hanshan slightly parted her lips and whispered in her ear, "Bear with it, it'll be over soon."

Then he broke through the defenses, and Shen Yun's body trembled violently for a moment, letting out a low, suppressed whimper, like that of a wounded animal, from deep in her throat.

She wanted to refuse, to say that this wouldn't work, that this was too sudden, but she found that all her voice was swallowed up by the burning sensation spreading through her meridians.

At that moment, Li Hanshan's pure Yang energy was no longer simply healing spiritual power, but rather carried a power she had never experienced before—a power that traveled deep along her meridians, precisely reaching the last crack in the barrier within her dantian. Then he activated the Yang Ce technique, fusing the spiritual power that had been tempered for seven days with the pure Yang energy, like throwing the last piece of fine charcoal into a blazing fire.

That power suddenly exploded deep within her dantian. It wasn't a brutal impact, but rather like a long-tamed river breaking through its dam at the last moment. With the lightning power within her body as its foundation and pure yang energy as its guide, it surged forth with an unprecedented, resilient power, as if it had been twisted.

That force seeped rapidly into the cracks of the barrier, spreading in all directions like the first crack appearing on ice under the warm spring sun. Then—the barrier that had stood for hundreds of years shattered completely from the inside out.

The spiritual energy of the Refining Void Realm surged into her meridians like a flood bursting its banks, cleansing every corner of her body until it was clear and transparent. At that moment, Shen Yun's body arched violently, and a long moan that could no longer be suppressed finally escaped from deep within her throat. The sound echoed between the walls of the cave for several breaths before slowly dissipating.

The golden patterns on the surface of her primordial spirit suddenly shone brightly in that instant, like a ignited sun rising in her dantian, taking in, refining, and settling all the surging Void Refining Spiritual Power.

Li Hanshan did not rush to withdraw. He could clearly sense the spiritual energy brought about by the breakthrough flowing back into his meridians along the point where the two were joined, like spring water being introduced into a dried-up riverbed.

The primordial power of the Void Refinement level was gentle yet boundless, flowing slowly along his Pure Yang Meridian, replenishing, refining, and purifying the spiritual energy depleted from seven days of dual cultivation. His Pure Yang Primordial Spirit rapidly regained its radiance amidst the influx of Void Refinement primordial power.

Not only that, his cultivation level began to soar under the impact of this Void Refining Origin, rising from the fifth level of the Nascent Soul stage to the sixth level in one fell swoop. But it didn't stop there; he went on to reach the seventh level of the Nascent Soul stage in one go!

Seventh level of Nascent Soul!

This is a late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator!

After reaching the seventh level of the Nascent Soul stage, he still didn't stop. He rushed all the way to the threshold of the eighth level of the Nascent Soul stage before finally stopping. He was only one step away from the eighth level of the Nascent Soul stage!

This time, I helped Shen Yun break through the Void Refinement Realm, enabling him to break through two and a half levels!

The harvest was enormous!