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"Heavenly Thunder Punisher." With a loud shout, a ray of silver light hacked into a tree trunk a few meters away. The originally straight tree trunk shook for a moment before it slowly fell to the ground.

"Right now, I just can't control the lightning with the Earth Spirit. It's enough for me to be able to do this." Looking at his own result, Han Xiao said in satisfaction.

After a few consecutive days of refining, the only thing he felt was an unconcealable fatigue. After coming out of the cultivation room, he had eaten a huge meal and slept for an entire day.

As soon as he recovered, Han Xiao rushed to the back garden to test out his Eagle Peak Sword. Although it did not achieve the effect of the Thousand Lightning Descent, he was still quite satisfied with the Eagle Peak Sword.

From the back garden, Jian Chen looked back and saw Qinggrong standing not too far away shyly with a light yellow cloak in her hand. She was clearly going to give it to him.

"Qinggrong, why are you here?" Han Xiao asked in surprise.

"Seventh Prince, this is the cloak this servant made for the Seventh Prince. Please!" Qinggrong hadn't finished speaking before she saw Han Xiao appear in front of her. It was unknown when the cloak in his hand had already fallen into Han Xiao's hands.

"The stitches on this cloak are very detailed. It seems that you have done this very diligently. Thank you." Han Xiao said with a gentle smile.

Seeing Han Xiao's gentle smile, his face lowered even further, saying softly, "As long as the Seventh Prince doesn't mind."

"You sewn the cloak yourself. I will definitely wear it day and night. That's right, you have been in the palace for quite some time. Since there's nothing to do today, I'll bring you around the palace." After saying that, Han Xiao did not wait for her to react and directly grabbed her hand, turning it around in the palace.

Along the way, Han Xiao wholeheartedly introduced every single place in the palace, his eyes were filled with gentleness, and with the two people tightly holding hands, it was as if they were a loving couple.

After walking for a while, he saw that in front of him, there was a trace of an almost imperceptible coldness in the eyes of the prince's palace, and the smile on his face became more and more gentle.

"In front of us is the prince's palace, which is where the prince of the palace resides. However, after the imperial palace is bestowed the title of emperor, we will have to leave the prince's palace and head outside to open up our palace." Han Xiao said with a faint smile.

"Why are you staying at the Palace of the Phoenix, Seventh Prince?" Qing Rong asked curiously.

"The Asgard of the Phoenix is my mother's original palace. I grew up there, so I'm not willing to leave the Asgard." Han Xiao said indifferently.

"So that's how it is. Then it seems that the Emperor truly dotes on you, Seventh Prince." She said as if she understood him.

"Love?" The corner of Han Xiao's mouth curled up into a cold smile. He could use this phrase on his father in his past life, but he only felt a wave of disgust when he used it on Han Xiangtian.

He didn't notice the smile on Han Xiao's cold face as he walked around the prince's hall to return to Phoenix Sage Palace. However, she didn't expect that there was a pair of eyes staring at her and Han Xiao in the direction of the prince's hall. She also didn't expect that Han Xiao would treat her so gently.

Returning back to Phoenix Sage Temple, Han Xiao saw that Xiao Jianfeng was preparing a meal in the hall. He let Qing Rong return to her room and walk towards Xiao Jianfeng.

"Cousin Jianfeng, I intend to go into seclusion for a period of time to increase my cultivation. I need you to look after the Phoenix Sage Palace and the bamboo view of a city." Han Xiao said.

Hearing Han Xiao say that he was going to go into seclusion, Xiao Jianfeng was stunned for a moment, then he respectfully said, "Seventh Prince, don't worry. All of Yicheng's Bamboo Scene and the subordinates of Phoenix Sage Temple will take good care of her, it's just that we let her off lightly." Xiao Jianfeng said hesitantly.

"You should encourage Qinggrong to go out more when she just arrived at the palace." Han Xiao said indifferently.

Xiao Jianfeng's eyes flashed with a dark light as he heard the meaning behind Han Xiaoyao's words. He lowered his head and replied, "Yes, this subordinate will obey."

"During my closed door cultivation, Little Lei Zi will depend on you for cultivation, and how is Mo Yun?" Han Xiao asked.

After he had won the money and returned from the gambling house, he had Xiao Jianfeng send people to watch the gambling house. After watching Xiao Jianfeng for a day and seeing Mo Yun being chased out with one of his arms missing, he had followed Xiao Jianfeng's instructions and brought Mo Yun to a city where there was a bamboo view until now.

"He's talking a bit more than before, but he still seems quite dispirited." Xiao Jianfeng said.

"Then we don't need to bother with him for now." After Han Xiao said this, he seemed to have thought of something and continued, "Also, no matter what happens during my closed door cultivation, don't worry. Also, don't notify Han Xiangtian."

"Yes, this subordinate understands." Xiao Jianfeng replied.

After talking with Xiao Jianfeng for a bit, the fragrant food was served, and he randomly ate something, then he asked Xiao Jianfeng for some pills to help with his hunger. Then, he entered the cultivation room again.

After slowly closing the cultivation room door, Han Xiao lightly swallowed and sat on the bed with his legs crossed. He slowly released the early Spirit Condensation aura from his body in one gulp.

When he woke up this morning, he found that his Qi had become much stronger than before he refined the Eagle Peak Sword, and the source energy in the Soul Grounds was also much more refined. Faintly, he felt that he had touched upon the paper on which he had broken through, and as long as he could break through, he would be able to advance to the middle stage of the Soul Condensation.

Slowly calming his nervousness down, his breathing caused the energy in the air to rush into his body unceasingly, and he slowly closed his eyes to control the Bodhi Sacred Flame in his body to transform into a dagger before fiercely chopping down at Bodhi. After a few days of refining, his control over the Bodhisattva Sacred Flame was clearly much stronger, at least this time, after chopping it down, he did not have the same violent resistance as before, which Han Xiao could not help but heave a sigh of relief.

Carefully controlling the Flame Dagger to cut the Soul Field in his body, on the other hand Han Xiao closed off the Earth Soul inside his body, forcefully using his flesh to absorb the Origin Energy in the world, the result of doing so was his body not absorbing the Origin Energy at all, but instead absorbing it at an even faster rate. The blade in the middle of the Soul Field did not hesitate, fiercely slashing the orb-shaped Soul Tian into two semicircles, and after separating from it, the glow on the Soul Tian slowly faded, as though he suffered some sort of heavy injury, and there were even signs of destruction.

"Earth Soul!" Seeing this, Han Xiao hurriedly threw a field into the Earth Soul. The originally closed field awakened the Earth Soul, and under its wrapping, the originally bright yellow field slowly turned black. After struggling for a while, it finally quieted down.

At the same time, Han Xiao chanted the chant for the fifth layer in his heart, carefully cutting off the Origin Energy that was rushing towards the Earth's Soul, and forcibly stuffing it into the half piece of land. The fifth layer in his body circulated the Soul Refining Technique, and together with Han Xiao, they forced the uncontrollable Origin Energy into the field.

Under the infusion of a large amount of source energy, the originally incomplete Soul Grounds started to slowly recover. A white dot of light slowly appeared in the Soul Grounds, and in the end, it slowly flew out of the Soul Grounds and wrapped itself around the Soul Grounds.

"Heaven's Soul, condense and fuse." While he was in a daze, Han Xiao felt that all of the acupuncture points on his body had been opened up, greedily absorbing the source energy around him, and finally injecting it into the newly formed Soul Tian Tian. It was as if he had also suddenly become one with the world, and the source energy that should not have been able to be used, suddenly appeared in front of him. Although it was only for an instant, to Han Xiao, it was a representation of his success.

When his Soul Realm split into two, his cultivation suddenly reached a critical point. Han Xiao vaguely heard a "ka" sound, and the source energy in his body frantically increased, while the Qi in his body also continued to increase along with the source energy.

"Whew." Originally, he had also come here with the intention of failing. Who would have thought that he would actually succeed after one try? Thinking about the extra Heaven Soul in his body and the agreement he had with Gu Xuan'er back then, he couldn't help but look forward to the day when he met Gu Xuan'er again.

However, before Han Xiao could finish rejoicing, the sound of thunder and lightning resounded in the sky. From the outside, the sky above the Phoenix Sage Temple was already surrounded by dense black clouds and streaks of lightning. Xiao Jianfeng immediately had the people from the Phoenix Sage Palace leave, his eyes filled with worry.

In the cultivation room, Han Xiao also heard the sound of thunder in the sky. Although he was in the room, he felt as if he was exposed to thunder and lightning, as if the entire Phoenix Sage Temple had vanished into thin air.

He lifted his head and looked through the rooftop. Han Xiao seemed to see the dark clouds and lightning in the sky, and a bolt of lightning was rapidly striking towards him. He blinked his eyes, thinking that it was just an illusion, but when he opened his eyes, the lightning had already arrived in front of him, and even instantly struck him.