A secluded region of the Extreme Sky Domain.
A massive Hidden Spirit Island floated within the Extreme Sky Domain, like a drifting continent.
"While I am in seclusion, activate the strongest defensive mode."
Within the Time Acceleration Minor World, Xu Fan gave Grape his instructions.
"Understood, Master." Grape's voice rang out.
"I've said everything that needed saying and cleared away all the miscellaneous matters at hand."
"When I emerge again, I'll be at the Tribulation Crossing Stage. I wonder what my Three Tribulations will be like." Xu Fan sat cross-legged at the center of the accelerated Minor World and muttered to himself.
After advancing from the Integration Stage to the Tribulation Crossing Stage, one would face three great tribulations.
The Flesh Tribulation, the Spiritual Power Tribulation, and the Soul Tribulation.
These were the three great lightning tribulations that Tribulation Crossing cultivators had to undergo.
In Xu Fan's view, the success rate for Tribulation Crossing cultivators in the Cultivation World was fairly high. According to known records, it was at least sixty percent.
Generally speaking, once one passed the three great tribulations and reached the Mahayana Stage, it was equivalent to receiving an entry pass to ascend to the Immortal World.
As long as one did not court death or suffer terrible misfortune, the chances of ascending to the Immortal World were still very high.
But no matter how high the odds of success were, the process of passing through the lightning tribulations was always the most agonizing.
Thus, after reaching the Tribulation Crossing Stage, cultivators would generally enter seclusion within their Sect.
Rogue Cultivators, meanwhile, would seek out secluded places to prevent being ambushed while transcending tribulations.
That was also why Xu Fan had moved Hidden Spirit Island into the Extreme Sky Domain before beginning Time Acceleration.
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