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"Miss Qiu is jealous?" Shan Qingluo gazed at Qiu Yimeng with a teasing smile, her face full of mischievous amusement.
Qiu Yimeng pursed her lips.
"If you don't leave soon, I really will devour you." Shan Qingluo then turned her gaze back to Yang Kai, her beautiful eyes hazy and dreamlike, her scarlet tongue tracing lazily along her lips, wearing an expression of barely contained hunger.
"No thanks. I'm not ready to die yet." Yang Kai instantly understood why she was being so alluring. The secret of Shan Qingluo's poisonous widow constitution was known only to him and the bewitching queen herself.
The Love Seed must have had quite an effect on Shan Qingluo.
"I'm going into seclusion," Yang Kai said, making to leave.
"You just came out of seclusion, didn't you?" Qiu Yimeng snorted softly, assuming Yang Kai was making up an excuse to leave, and felt a twinge of displeasure.
"I had some more insights," Yang Kai offered casually.
Back in his room, Yang Kai quickly sat down and sent his divine sense plunging into his sea of consciousness. He transformed into his spiritual soul form and stared at the clusters of energy gathered there.
This mass of energy was muddled and chaotic — completely different from the pure energy left behind by the Ye Family expert last time. It was filled with the thoughts and lifetime experiences of sixty or seventy experts.
If he simply absorbed them as they were, Yang Kai was certain his memories and thoughts would become hopelessly jumbled. He might even forget who he was.
This was no trivial matter. A person who didn't even remember their own identity was destined for a miserable existence.
Raising his gaze to look at the tightly closed Golden Benevolent Single Eye, Yang Kai focused all his concentration and used his divine sense to establish a connection with it.
This energy had been drawn into his sea of consciousness by the attractive force generated by the Golden Benevolent Single Eye. Having gone through this once before, Yang Kai now knew what to do — he only needed the Golden Benevolent Single Eye to emit that golden light once more, and it could purify all of this muddled energy.
The only question was whether he could activate the Golden Benevolent Single Eye.
Gradually, his divine sense linked with the Golden Benevolent Single Eye. In some hazy, indistinct way, Yang Kai felt as though he had opened a great door. Beyond it, a brilliant golden radiance blazed, too dazzling to see clearly.
And the tightly closed Golden Benevolent Single Eye slowly opened at that very moment.
Just as when he had first seen it — that majestic, supreme golden pupil inspired an involuntary sense of dread and the urge to kneel in worship.
A devastating beam of golden light shot forth from the single eye, striking the massive cluster of muddled energy.
Sssszzzz…
The sound was like a branding iron plunged into water.
From within the muddled energy, wisps of black qi seeped out, writhing and struggling. But they could not escape the golden light's illumination, and in mere moments they dissipated completely, ceasing to exist.
These black wisps must have been the thoughts and lifetime experiences of those experts, all of which were purified clean under the golden light.
Soon, the golden light receded, and the open single eye slowly closed once more.
Within his sea of consciousness, the previously muddled energy was now extraordinarily pure.
Yang Kai laughed heartily, his heart brimming with joy.
He had finally figured out how to use this Golden Benevolent Single Eye obtained from the seventh page of the Black Book.
The only thing he somewhat regretted was that when the seven people died in the Divine Sealing Hall, he hadn't been able to establish any connection with the Golden Benevolent Single Eye. Otherwise, absorbing the divine sense energy left behind by those seven after their deaths would have been an enormous windfall.
But better late than never.
Approaching the purified energy, Yang Kai began absorbing it with great relish.
Before long, all of this pure energy was transformed into powerful capital for Yang Kai.
His cultivation at the fourth layer of the Shenyou Realm was further consolidated. Before long, he would likely reach the fifth layer!
This result left Yang Kai slightly dissatisfied. He had assumed that with such a massive amount of pure energy, his strength would at least advance by another full stage.
But as it turned out, he had been overthinking it. After all, this energy had leaked from the sea of consciousness of Shenyou Realm experts. In terms of quality, it simply couldn't compare to the energy left behind by that top Ye Family powerhouse. Although the quantity was vast, it hadn't reached the threshold needed to trigger a qualitative transformation.
Yang Kai also vaguely sensed a certain bottleneck within himself.
It was a bottleneck in his comprehension of the Shenyou Realm. Fortunately, when he had absorbed the energy left behind by the Ye Family expert before, he had also absorbed that expert's insights into the martial dao and heavenly dao, making them his own. Otherwise, given the speed at which Yang Kai broke through, his foundation in the Shenyou Realm would surely have been unstable.
Slowly opening his eyes, Yang Kai sank into contemplation. Before long, his heart began to stir with restless anticipation.
Half a day later, Yang Kai emerged from seclusion and swiftly made his way out of the residence.