Chapter 385: Spiritual Union

"Breathe with me, Solomon," Yue instructed softly, her voice barely a whisper against the cool night wind. "Inhale for four seconds. Hold for two. Exhale for four."

Solomon synchronized his breathing with hers. He could feel the gentle rise and fall of her chest mirroring his own.

"Now, focus entirely on the point where our palms connect," Yue guided, her thumbs lightly tracing the callouses on his knuckles. "I am going to release a very small, controlled pulse of my qi. I want you to reach out with your silver aura and pull it into your meridian pathways. Do not force it. Just welcome the energy."

Solomon nodded slightly, keeping his eyes shut. He felt a sudden, warm surge of pure, vibrant green energy pressing against his palms. It felt entirely different from his own chaotic silver aura. Her qi was smooth, refreshing, and incredibly dense.

He gently pulled the green energy into his arms, guiding it down his shoulders and toward his chest.

"Perfect," Yue praised, her voice steady. "Now, we begin the cycle. I am going to push the volatile energy from the lotus root directly into your body. It will feel incredibly hot, almost like liquid fire. You must immediately refine that heat using your own silver aura before depositing it into your navel core. Are you ready?"

"Ready," Solomon confirmed.

An overwhelming wave of searing heat instantly flooded through their connected palms. Solomon gritted his teeth. The volatile energy from the Spirit-Condensing Lotus Root burned through his veins like molten lava.

He immediately deployed his silver aura, wrapping his cold energy around the chaotic green fire, compressing it, refining it, and shoving the purified mixture down into the empty cavern of his navel core.

[1Fizzy: the visual effects on the stream on screen are crazy!]

[James_hayes: they are literally glowing right now.]

[Mezz_3863 : the green and silver aura mixing is so beautiful.]

[sgtcwby : Solo Man is sweating buckets already.]

[GoonLord: DO NOT BREAK THE CONNECTION!]

"Keep refining, Solomon," Yue encouraged, her voice straining slightly from the effort of suppressing her own absorption. "Do not let the heat overwhelm your pathways. Push it down."

Solomon focused on the repetitive task. Pull the volatile energy, refine it with silver aura, push it into the navel. Pull, refine, push. His Indefatigable talent worked in overdrive, constantly converting his mounting exhaustion into fresh stamina, which his immortal heart immediately burned to produce more silver aura to sustain the rapid refinement process.

After roughly an hour of concentration, a strange, ethereal sensation washed over Solomon’s mind. The physical sensation of the wooden branch beneath him, the cool night air, and even the physical touch of Yue’s palms completely vanished.

He felt as though he was floating in a vast, infinite void.

"You did it," a voice echoed directly inside his mind. It wasn’t spoken aloud, but the words simply materialized within his consciousness.

Solomon opened his ’eyes’ within the mental void. He was no longer sitting on the tree branch. He was floating in a breathtaking, abstract dimension of pure spiritual energy.

Directly in front of him floated Yue. She appeared as a luminous, ethereal projection of herself, radiating a brilliant, soothing green light.

"We have successfully formed the spiritual union," Yue’s telepathic voice resonated, sounding incredibly clear and free of physical strain. "We are now completely synced. You can see the actual flow of our energies in this space."

Solomon looked down at himself. He appeared as a solid, imposing silhouette forged from dense, churning silver energy. Between him and Yue, a massive, swirling vortex of mixed green and silver light pulsed rhythmically, representing the active transfer of the lotus root’s volatile power.

"This is incredible," Solomon thought, realizing he didn’t need to speak to communicate.

"Focus on your core," Yue instructed, pointing toward his abdomen.

Solomon looked at his own spiritual projection. At the center of his silver silhouette, a hollow sphere slowly filled with the refined, glowing mixture of their combined auras. It was his navel core. The sheer volume of the reservoir was staggering, but the rapid, forced dual-cultivation was filling it significantly faster than he ever could have managed alone.

[Frendscham : bro they look like they are meditating so hard.]

[M00N: the concentration is absolute.]

[Ron_Selby : I wonder what is happening in their heads right now.]

[Foodball: they haven’t moved a muscle in two hours.]

"I am increasing the flow," Yue warned telepathically. "The lotus root is fully digested. Prepare for the surge."

A blinding torrent of green fire erupted from her projection, slamming directly into Solomon’s silver form. Solomon gritted his teeth in the mental void, aggressively wrapping his silver aura around the chaotic energy. He compressed the surging power, refining it into a pure, stable liquid before dumping it into the massive sphere in his abdomen.

The process was intoxicating. The constant, rapid depletion of his stamina combined with the instant, refreshing surge of Yue’s qi created a euphoric, yet addictive rhythm.

"Your capacity is terrifying, Solomon," Yue noted, her ethereal form glowing brighter as she pushed more energy. "A normal cultivator’s navel core would have shattered from this volume hours ago. Yet yours is still only half full."

"I told you I needed the fastest speed," Solomon replied confidently, doubling his refinement efforts.

The mental void allowed Solomon to perfectly visualize the intricate, delicate mechanics of his own biology. He could see exactly how his immortal heart pumped unrefined aura into his pathways. He could watch his Indefatigable talent actively devouring his fatigue, converting the exhaustion into a glowing, golden mist that fueled his heart’s continuous production.

He realized that by utilizing the dual cultivation union, he could actively force his talent to work even harder.

"I am going to pull more," Solomon warned her.

Instead of waiting for Yue to push the energy, Solomon reached out with his silver aura, grabbing the volatile green fire and violently ripping it into his system.

"Solomon, wait! That is too fast!" Yue panicked slightly, her green projection flickering. "You will tear your meridians!"

"I can handle it," Solomon assured her, his silver silhouette expanding as he absorbed the massive influx. "My body will heal any tears instantly. Just keep the energy coming!"

He ruthlessly forced the refined energy into his navel core. The hollow sphere filled rapidly, the glowing liquid rising higher and higher until it finally touched the absolute brim.

"It is full," Yue announced, her telepathic voice laced with awe and exhaustion. "Now, you must condense it. Compress the entire lake into a single, solitary drop of liquid qi. That compression will trigger the breakthrough."

Solomon focused the entirety of his willpower onto the overflowing sphere. He visualized a crushing, omnidirectional pressure closing in on the core. The silver and green liquid boiled and churned, violently resisting the compression.

He pushed harder, drawing upon every single ounce of his infinite stamina to fuel the mental vice.

Suddenly, the spiritual union shattered.

Yue was violently ejected from the mental void. Her physical body jerked backward on the tree branch, receiving an electrical shock that rattled her teeth. She gritted her teeth and dug her heels into the bark, barely managing to endure the recoil without falling off the edge.