Days passed one after another.
Wei He continuously absorbed Sacred Artifacts, relying on Holy Liquid to rapidly raise his Returning True Force.
There were ten Sacred Artifacts stored in the cave. Within fifteen days, he had absorbed more than half of them.
As a result, his cultivation swelled at breakneck speed. His Returning True Force had already been strengthened to the point where it could enhance his perception of a higher level of the True World.
This meant that, from a level higher than Pain Wind, he could sense and absorb true energy.
Higher-level true energy meant Returning True Force of greater quality.
It also meant more powerful true force.
Wei He could feel that his true-force martial path was rapidly advancing every moment.
Though it was merely the straightforward improvement of his Returning True Force, without any corresponding secret arts or martial techniques.
Even so, this progress filled his heart with satisfaction.
If he could maintain this high-speed advancement, it would not be long before he reached the seventh step of Complete Reality—the twelfth and final level of the Mysterious Lock Skill.
At that point, he would be merely two steps away from the limit of the ninth step of Complete Reality.
Switching to any higher-tier cultivation method would be easy as well.
During his cultivation inside the cave, Wei He would pause every so often and attempt to break the seal Yuan Du Zi had used to lock the cave.
Yet even as his cultivation rose, when he unleashed his full power—nearly 5.5 million jin of limit strength—the seal still did not budge.
An ordinary Grandmaster possessed only one million jin in their normal state, and even with explosive secret arts, they could barely approach two million.
A freakish combination like Wei He's, with his body entirely built