Afterward, Alan once again utilized the Mana Compression technique he had learned from the middle-aged man, aiming to accelerate the recovery of the Stone of Sage within his body.
However, vital energy was fundamentally different from mana—the gap between the two was as vast as that between clouds and mud.
So, even though he had compressed his mana and elemental energy to the very limit, the regeneration speed of the vital energy within the Stone of Sage remained painfully slow.
"How could this be?"
Alan frowned in confusion and chose to directly materialize the Stone of Sage into his hand.
At that moment, a strange resonance suddenly surged between his spirit and the Stone of Sage.
Before he could even react, he realized his perception had changed dramatically—he was no longer observing the First Layer of Hell with mere physical eyes.
Instead, he was seeing it from a far higher plane, as though through an unfathomably elevated dimension of awareness.
