I'll make you the furnace and the cauldron, so you can refine Yin and Yang and prove the Great

Li Hanshan sat in the courtyard for about six hours before the fluctuations in the atmosphere inside the room finally stabilized.

After Shen Ruoxi took the Transformation Pill, her spiritual power surged like a tide, repeatedly trying to break through her bottleneck. However, the invisible barrier was stronger than she had expected, and she was always just a hair's breadth away from completely tearing it apart. He sensed that the power within her body was slowly declining, a sign that her breakthrough had failed.

When he pushed open the door and entered the room, Shen Ruoxi was sitting cross-legged on a futon, her face as pale as paper, with fine beads of sweat on her forehead. There was a trace of unwillingness in her deep eyes, and her spiritual energy was wandering chaotically in her meridians. Several times she tried to regroup and break through, but each time it shattered like waves crashing against rocks.

"It's still not working." She spoke, her voice hoarse, carrying a weariness that she tried hard to suppress but still revealed. "That threshold is thicker than I imagined. The Nascent Soul Pill is indeed pure, but my foundation is still lacking." She lowered her eyes, her slender fingers slightly clenching the edge of her robe. After a few moments of silence, she said, "I'm afraid I need to settle down for a while longer."

Li Hanshan knelt down in front of her and placed his hand on her wrist. The sensation of her spiritual energy returning was like a river blocked by a dam—calm on the surface, but turbulent beneath. He was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "We may not need to wait."

Shen Ruoxi looked up at him, her gaze questioning.

"Your spiritual energy accumulation is already sufficient," Li Hanshan said, looking directly into her eyes. "What you lack is the force of that final impact. If you can use external force to break through at the weakest moment of the bottleneck, that threshold might not be impossible to overcome."

Shen Ruoxi understood the meaning behind his words. She did not evade the question, but remained silent for a moment before saying, "Your cultivation level is not high right now. Forcing yourself to help me will greatly deplete your energy."

"I have my own way of making amends." Li Hanshan stood up, walked to the stone bed, sat down, and stretched out his hand to her. "Trust me."

Looking into his steady eyes, Shen Ruoxi paused for a few moments before finally rising, walking to him, and placing her hand in his palm. Her fingers were icy cold, trembling slightly. Li Hanshan grasped her hand, pulling her closer, and wrapped his other arm around her waist. Shen Ruoxi's body tensed slightly, then relaxed, resting her forehead against his shoulder and closing her eyes.

The subtle sound of clothes being removed was particularly clear in the quiet room.

Shen Ruoxi sat on his lap, her hands resting on his shoulders, her breathing still unsteady. Li Hanshan did not rush to circulate his cultivation technique, but instead slowly probed her meridians with pure yang energy, guiding and gathering the chaotic spiritual energy strand by strand, stabilizing the waning impact within her body.

"I'm going to begin," he whispered in her ear.

Shen Ruoxi closed her eyes and nodded gently.

Li Hanshan pushed the Yang Scroll technique to its limit, and pure Yang energy, like a gentle yet resolute river, flowed into her dantian, slowly advancing along the edge of her nascent soul. At the same time, his divine sense probed into the Yang Pattern space. The golden mist beads condensed on the petals of those flowers were radiating a soft glow. One of them belonged to Shen Ruoxi, the one she formed after breaking through to the nascent soul stage; a single, fuller golden dewdrop clung to its petal, as if waiting for its moment.

He guided the golden dewdrop with his divine sense, leading it out of the Yang Pattern Space and into Shen Ruoxi's body along the point where their bodies met. The moment the dewdrop dissolved in her meridians, an extremely pure energy exploded deep within her dantian like a lit fuse. Shen Ruoxi's body trembled violently, and her previously calming spiritual energy surged and churned once more, like an oil field ignited by a spark.

That power surged ceaselessly along the meridians within her body, shattering the once indestructible bottleneck with a deafening roar. At this moment, Shen Ruoxi's nascent soul burst forth with dazzling light, its surface revealing intricate golden patterns, like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon and unfolding its first wings. Her aura soared, abruptly crossing the insurmountable chasm from the critical point of the nascent soul peak, rapidly transforming towards the level of the Nascent Soul Transformation.

At the moment of breakthrough, an immense surge of divine essence, like a flood bursting its banks, poured from Shen Ruoxi's body into Li Hanshan's meridians. That power was terrifyingly pure, carrying the unique afterglow of the Heavenly Dao from the moment of breakthrough, surging along the Pure Yang Meridian and directly into the dantian.

Li Hanshan felt his divine infant spirit violently shaken by that force, the golden light on its surface suddenly surging, and the barrier between the third and fourth levels of the Nascent Soul shattered instantly like paper. But this was only the beginning—the residual force of the Divine Transformation Origin continued to wash over his meridians and dantian, Nascent Soul fourth level peak, Nascent Soul fifth level, Nascent Soul fifth level peak, Nascent Soul sixth level—

boom!

A deep rumble came from his dantian, and the light on the surface of his divine infant was twice as bright as before. Sixth level of the Nascent Soul stage. Only one step away from the late Nascent Soul stage.

He opened his eyes, feeling as if his entire body's meridians had been cleansed by that power. His pure yang energy was even more refined and condensed than before, and even the divine soul sword in his sea of ​​consciousness emitted a faint hum. Shen Ruoxi also opened her eyes, and the two looked at each other. The cave was quiet for a moment.

Shen Ruoxi rose from him, her spiritual energy circulating around her body to cleanse her of all impurities. She put on her robes and stepped down from the stone bed. Her deep eyes held a sense of relief that had been accumulated over hundreds of years, and the aura surrounding her was completely different from before, like a knife that had been honed for hundreds of years finally being sharpened.

She pushed open the stone door and stepped out. The pressure of her early Nascent Soul stage power was released without reservation, transforming into a golden pillar of light that shot into the sky. A mountain wind suddenly rose, rustling the bamboo in the courtyard, and even the protective array of the main peak in the distance was disturbed by this aura, causing subtle ripples.

From all directions of the main peak, dozens of divine senses simultaneously swept towards the southern foothills. There was surprise, curiosity, and apprehension—Shen Ruoxi's breakthrough to the Nascent Soul stage was too obvious. That golden pillar of light, in the twilight, was like a long spear piercing the sky, alarming any cultivator with keen senses within a radius of hundreds of miles.

Qin Muyue, Leng Yue, and Chu Mengyao flew in almost simultaneously from their respective residences, landing on the bluestone path outside the courtyard. Qin Muyue stared at the slowly dissipating golden pillar of light, her mouth slightly agape, her captivating eyes filled with shock: "She... broke through?" Leng Yue remained silent, but her silver-gray eyes also held undisguised emotion. Chu Mengyao clutched the emerald bead, her gaze fixed on Li Hanshan, as if confirming the truth of everything.

Li Hanshan stood at the entrance of the cave, gazing at the pillar of light shooting into the sky, and then at the rapidly approaching streaks of light in the night sky—clearly, the commotion of the Nascent Soul breakthrough had already alarmed many more people.