The day finally arrived at the fifteenth of the month, a night of full moon, and also the day for Yu Yan and Xiao Wu to verify their guesses.
On the mountaintop in the east, Yu Yan and Xiao Wu sat cross-legged, waiting for the moon to rise.
During these days, Xiao Wu has returned to normal, eating and drinking as usual. She even grabbed Yu Yan's arm and, by acting cute, got to eat three different kinds of crayfish.
Everything seemed to remain unchanged.
No, Xiao Wu's attitude towards cultivation is clearly more serious than before.
Yu Yan couldn't guess the reason, but Xiao Wu's willingness to cultivate seriously was a great thing for Yu Yan.
Do you think our hypothesis will be proven true?
Xiao Wu was a little nervous, worried that her theory that the moon's essence would be produced on the night of the full moon would fail tonight.
"I think it will succeed."
Having taken Xiao Wu's advice to heart, Yu Yan didn't say anything discouraging or lowering expectations at this moment. Instead, he comforted Xiao Wu.
From this perspective, Yu Yan is affecting Xiao Wu, and Xiao Wu is also affecting Yu Yan.
That's how relationships work; you're changing the other person, and they're changing you in turn.
A full moon slowly rises, its soft light spilling across the earth, gently caressing everything in the mountains and fields, and gilding it with a layer of silver gauze.
Without Xiao Wu urging him, Yu Yan closed his eyes and used all his mental power to perceive his surroundings through meditation.
With his mental energy at full power, Yu Yan successfully sensed a special energy in the soft moonlight.
This energy is silvery-white, and it flows towards the world with moonlight at its center.
Viewed from this angle, the scene is incredibly beautiful and breathtaking.
When Yu Yan's spiritual power came into contact with the silvery-white energy, unlike the purple aura of the rising sun, the first feeling this energy gave was gentleness.
Being close to this energy is like being close to one's own mother.
He used his spiritual power to contact the moonlight and, drawing on his experience in refining purple energy, guided a small wisp of energy into his body.
As the moonlight entered Yu Yan's body, its gentle energy emitted a faint, soft chill, subconsciously catching her off guard.
Having anticipated this, Yu Yan instantly completed the Martial Soul Possession, activating the fire fish's flame energy.
Flames and cold air clashed within Yu Yan's body, and the moonlight was refined in the process.
Seeing Yu Yan perform the Martial Soul Possession, Xiao Wu understood that their guesses were correct; there was indeed a special energy in the moon that could be absorbed.
Knowing that the moonlight truly existed excited Xiao Wu even more than knowing that the purple aura was real.
The purple aura was discovered by Yu Yan alone, while the moonlight was discovered by her and Yu Yan together; the two represent completely different things.
Moon Essence, or the essence of the moon, was the name Yu Yan gave to this special energy in advance.
After taking a few deep breaths to calm herself down, Xiao Wu quickly sat down cross-legged to begin her cultivation. She wanted to see if she could discover and absorb the moonlight on her own.
Xiao Wu learned the method of deep breathing to calm her emotions when she practiced Tai Chi with Yu Yan.
During her meditative state, Xiao Wu did not perceive the presence of moonlight.
Xiao Wu, who had anticipated this, was not too sad. Instead, she began to absorb the high-quality soul power emanating from Yu Yan's body.
After this period of cultivation, Xiao Wu could feel that the quality of her soul power was much higher than before.
The essence of level 10 soul power has not changed at all, but the duration of continuous combat using soul power has increased by one-tenth compared to before, which is a clear improvement.
Speaking of this, we have to criticize Yu Xiaogang's ten core competitive advantages of his martial soul—that the bottleneck of the soul ring does not affect the accumulation of soul power.
Yu Xiaogang explained this theory by saying that soul power can continue to accumulate even before a soul ring is acquired. For example, a soul master who has not absorbed a soul ring at level 30 can directly reach level 31 or even higher soul power level after breaking through.
Such a pointed theory, which specifically mentions not breaking through level 30, makes it clear who is being stubborn and who is daydreaming.
Yu Xiaogang might still be dreaming of breaking through in a single day and instantly reaching level 40, or even higher, based on years of accumulated experience.
These flawed theories are the real reason why Yu Xiaogang became a clown in everyone's eyes and was ridiculed as a 'master'.
Let's get back to the main topic.
The full moon hung in the sky, its radiance not disappearing in the blink of an eye like the purple haze of the morning sun.
It has always hung in the sky, and the moonlight has always flowed down from the sky.
After refining this wisp of moonlight, Yu Yan pulled in another wisp of moonlight to begin refining it.
Yu Yan was very happy. He was able to continuously refine the moonlight throughout the night, and the benefits of this cultivation were self-evident.
Xiao Wu was also very happy. She could continuously absorb the high-quality soul power emanating from Yu Yan's body to cultivate, which would bring her considerable benefits.
In the blink of an eye, it was sunrise. Yu Yan, who had been cultivating, sensed the appearance of purple energy. He quickly activated the power of the Ice Fish and began to absorb and refine the purple energy.
This time, the purple energy entered Yu Yan's body, causing some very obvious changes.
The purple aura circulated within Yu Yan's body, stirring up the remaining moonlight.
The purple aura and moonlight intertwined and merged, forming a brand new energy. This energy did not emit heat or cold, and appeared to be normal.
Yu Yan used meditation to activate this new energy without any hindrance, and the new energy was activated and refined.
The whole process went exceptionally smoothly, so smoothly that Yu Yan began to doubt whether it was an illusion.
With the energy completely refined, Yu Yan could feel that his soul power and physical fitness had improved considerably.
Xiao Wu opened her eyes after cultivating all night. She looked at Yu Yan with some surprise. It should have been the time for him to refine the purple qi and release his soul power, but Yu Yan did not continue to release high-quality soul power.
Is something happening that I don't know about?
Xiao Wu stood up and stretched her body a little. She'd ask what happened after the fish fire subsided and she finished her cultivation.
While Xiao Wu was moving her body, Yu Yan was sensing the situation in front of her.
First and foremost, the most exciting thing is the increase in soul power. After a night of cultivation, his progress to level 9 has reached 54%. He is confident that he can successfully break through to level 10 if he does it again in the middle of next month.
Secondly, there are physical changes. After the energy from the fusion of purple qi and moonlight was successfully refined, Yu Yan could clearly feel the surge of power and the changes in his body, which were moving in a positive direction.
Yu Yan called the energy resulting from the fusion of purple qi and moonlight the essence of the sun and moon. The name was stolen, but it was the most suitable name.
Yu Yan wasn't entirely sure how this energy came to be, but he was certain that it was only beneficial to him and had no drawbacks.
The benefits of increasing soul power are self-evident; soul power is the source of the mystical power in Douluo Continent.
The improvement in physical fitness allows Yu Yan to absorb soul rings of higher age.