Once the room was empty.

Shen Yi shook his head.

Letting his body-tempering cultivation show had actually been part of his plan all along.

After all, he still needed to rely on the War Temple for accumulated faith — but also needed to go out and kill demons to harvest lifespan and demon blood. As a divine-spirit cultivator who could nonetheless go around slaying demon kings in various places, he'd always needed some explanation for that.

He tightened his grip on the Golden Wolf jade token and opened the panel again.

As demon lifespan poured into the Three Origins Immortal Ascension Method, the abundant accumulated faith came surging in once more.

A divine spirit, if it required direct personal control, was honestly of limited use to Shen Yi. But if a demon soul could handle it instead — that was an entirely different matter.

Just as he'd proven this time.

With both himself and Lady Qinghua working in tandem, the demon lifespan they could harvest doubled.

"Should this accumulated faith be enough to break through to the upper tier?"

Shen Yi watched the derivation prompts surface on the panel. Through countless attempts, the divine spirit had clearly found a path that suited it — the white mist flowing through it had grown smoother, more harmonious, and it probably wouldn't cause any more serious problems going forward.

Two cloud-patterns marked the upper tier.

Yet this technique was called the Three Origins Immortal Ascension Method.

Which meant the upper tier wasn't the pinnacle.

But whether from the General or from Senior Brother Wu, what he'd heard was that the upper tier was when one could start thinking about condensing a golden body.

Probably owing to the strain on lifespan, he supposed.

Shen Yi figured he'd work through it and see — he had plenty of banked demon lifespan right now, and the War Temple wasn't short on accumulated faith either.

【Year 2,400 — With sufficient accumulated faith replenishing you, a second cloud-pattern gradually takes shape around your divine spirit's form. Your body has condensed to near-solid substance, your expression growing ever more…