Wu Yu began to cultivate in Peach Garden, absorbing the immortal essence qi.

The immortal essence qi that he drew in was used to build the cycle within his body. He had to complete his Hell in order to have a place to store mortal souls.

Wu Yu also felt that as he was absorbing the immortal essence qi, the side effects of devouring divine sarira and immortal buddha corpses seemed to lessen.

It was not a very measured difference, but he could feel it gradually lightening.

Up till now, Wu Yu had been spending a lot of effort to contain the black qi, so that it would not affect the mortals in Devouring Apotheosis Realm.

But as he took in immortal essence qi, the black qi grew milder.

"It's clear that it isn't as toxic now." Wu Yu was in awe. The immortal essence qi elsewhere was less than a tenth of the richness here.

He was very...