Chapter 5739 Jared Rises Again

Inside the tower, where one outside hour stretched into days, his cultivation turned frenzied. Pills dissolved on his tongue like peppermint, torrents of spiritual veins were siphoned straight into his core, and relics packed with broken laws cracked apart under sheer absorption.
His body became a bottomless furnace, devouring matter, energy, even the faint shimmer of time itself.
The memory of his crushing defeat lashed him forward. Each imagined swing from Soul Devourer's blade stoked his drive. The illusion that he was already fearsome had been obliterated. In its place burned a lucid, almost desperate hunger for higher cultivation levels.