As the Highland Sovereign Avatar completely dissipated, a substantial amount of foreign energy lingered before being automatically absorbed by Patriarch Liu Tianfeng, Liu Zhongzhu and the Spirit Severing Ancestors who participated in fighting it. It was the 'experience points' that directly impacted their current progress in their stages and were shared by all of them, with Liu Tianfeng gaining the most.
Nevertheless, compared to what they absorbed from taking down the Dreillings and the puppets, the absorbed energy instantly prompted them to sit down and refine it to spiritual energy and expel the corruptive properties that were slowly accumulating from all the energies they absorbed from defeating the creatures inside the Anchor.
Once successful, that would amount to their permanent progress in their current stage.
