Not long after Zhang Fengxi returned, Xie Jianshen, true to his word, imprisoned him within the walls of Fuxi Palace by erecting a powerful spiritual barrier around it.
Upon discovering his boys' weakened condition, Zhang Fengxi took both of them to the mausoleum, the one place in the entire palace that harbored abundant spiritual energy, enough to stop the flow of time and preserve a heavenly body from decaying.
In his smaller body, without his cultivation, there was not much Zhang Fengxi could do. He tirelessly accompanied Zhang Mingrui and Xie Junjie day in and day out, channeling spiritual power from the spiritual stones into their small bodies, but his efforts yielded scant improvement.
