The Imperial Order had undergone "twofold" tempering, and its recent breakthroughs had indeed been immense!
Li Tianming still had a portion of the "little ancestral beasts" within this Ancestral Realm Nether Ark.
Thus, he used this chance for tempering to enter seclusion and absorb them. By observing the starsea-level Heavenly Soul Orders within the little ancestral beasts and studying his predecessors' cultivation experience, he gradually enriched himself and spurred the progress of his other Orders.
Infernal, Chaos, Grandmist, Origin, and so on—every single Order needed to advance. Breaking through even one level was truly arduous!
Li Tianming had accepted the reality that breakthroughs came slowly.
He had long prepared himself to walk the path of an Eonic God, one step at a time.
"Of course, my slowness is only compared to these monsters. Even compared to the imperial bloodlines of the Eight Gods, I shouldn't be inferior!"
He was not yet two hundred years old!
Yet in these lower-level ruins, most of those who had reached Mu Shanxue's level were likely nearing five hundred.
That was already the highest-tier bloodline in the Upper Star Ruins!
The days of bitter cultivation could truly be called lonely and desolate.
At times like this, Zi Zhen and Weisheng Moran's immense ability to comfort his soul became apparent.
Stifled?
With one on each arm and the days spent listening to songs in pleasure houses, how could he possibly feel stifled?
Li Tianming was like he had been injected with chicken blood, brimming with drive.
In roughly five years, all nine of his Orders had risen to a new level. Li Tianming's Eonic God body expanded once more, and he stepped into the realm of a "second-stage Eonic God"!
Though he was only a second-stage Eonic God, his Eonic God body was nine hundred meters