Back in his room, Zu An was busy refining the tremendous energy inside him. The amount of residual energies left behind by both the emperor and Yun Jianyue were not significant, but the energies were of a much higher quality than any he had encountered before.

Well, other than those stupid old things in the secret dungeons.

He sat down on the bed and began to convert the energies for his own use.

Even though the two energies were trapped within the vortex and could not escape, one belonged to an earth immortal, while the other came from a grandmaster. Both forms of ki were furious that a puny being like Zu An was trying to devour them, and were putting up a frantic struggle.

For any ordinary seventh-ranked cultivator, even one at the peak of seventh rank, trying to absorb the energies of an earth Immortal or grandmaster was wishful thinking. They would be lucky if the energies didn’t cause their bodies to explode immediately, killing them straight...