However, just as his happiness reached its peak, a parched voice echoed from deep within the Dantian Cave: "Everything here is delightful, and you've benefited from it, but the martial power I've left behind is negligible. Don't count on me, and certainly don't expect me to waste my essence on a wasteful brat like you anytime soon!"
Hearing Lan Feng's words, Yan Xiaobao couldn't help but laugh sheepishly. Indeed, the energy that had brought such profound changes and immense benefits to the white-haired young man had all come from the painstaking refinement by Wu Wei over the years with Phoenix's aid.
Like spiritual energy, once energy is utilized, it doesn't replenish itself automatically—even if the body relaxes—because there's no Dantian. Everything refined materializes solely within the soul itself. It's as though the soul acts as a box trapping it, but once it escapes, it never returns.
