After the time it took to drink a cup of tea, Lin Xuan slowly rose. This breakthrough had taken a little longer than expected, but the results were gladdening.
His strength had increased by a great deal; it would not be an exaggeration to call it a leap.
As expected of the Flat Peach Sacred Fruit!
Lin Xuan truly sighed at how good his luck was.
And this also confirmed that common saying in the cultivation world: hard work and aptitude were certainly very important, but in cultivation, when breaking through a realm, what mattered more was often opportunity.
This was especially true for cultivators above the Spirit Division Stage. Relying solely on dull meditation made it extremely difficult for one's cultivation to advance even an inch. This was also why many high-level cultivators, if there was no need, no longer liked to sit guard at their main headquarters, preferring instead to roam everywhere in search of opportunities and treasures that could help them advance.
For someone like Lin Xuan, if he had not obtained this Flat Peach Sacred Fruit, then although he definitely would have eventually advanced to the middle stage of Spirit Division, the time spent would not have been a mere hundred-some years.
Being able to step into that realm in one or two thousand years would already have counted as very fast.
It was precisely because Lin Xuan's cultivation had advanced so swiftly that Heavenly Tribulations, which high-level cultivators feared like tigers, were something he had never experienced before. After all, for Lin Xuan's cultivation level, his age was simply far too young.
Such a cultivation speed might not be said to be unprecedented before and never to be seen again, but looking across the Three Realms, ranging through ancient and modern times, those who could