Breakthrough

He gently smiled and caressed her face softly as she moved a little and turned to the other side after leaving his embrace but didn't wake up.

'Hmm... I will let her sleep for now. I need to break through as well; suppressing this raging Qi is getting harder and harder now, and her Primordial Yin only made it more impossible for me to do it.'

He quickly thought as he sat up straight and sat down in a meditative stance. He breathed in deeply and focused all his attention on his multiple dantians.

But before he could mobilize his Qi to break through, Yue Lan's voice echoed in his mind:

[Yuan'er, you have too much excess Qi this time. You have to use more of it because your body is also passively absorbing Qi even if you don't cultivate actively.]

Shen Yuan paused his movement as his mind churned. He quickly thought of various paths he could take, but in the end, he decided on the one which would benefit him the most.