"Stop!" Song Min struggled.
In the room with only two of them now, Anji's condition worsened. Her physical body was now closer to a glued-together porcelain vase.
Anji heard the pleas but shoved them to the back of her mind. There were more important matters to attend to. She was already at the cusp of the final breakthrough to achieve the Heavenly Core. However, as expected, her feeble body was unable to contain the magnitude of her soul.
The Transcendent Core enhanced Anji's hard-earned qi and spiritual control mastery, enabling her to repurpose the artificial cores and seals in her body into a temporary container for the energy. Without them, she would have disintegrated into nothingness before she could become a being of pure energy in the Heavenly Core stage. The assimilation of one's astral self with the physical body was a task similar to a sage's ascension, never meant to be permanent.
Yet, in this very instance, Anji walked on the tightrope between two realms.
