Chu Qing had grown stronger.
The moment the Heaven-Connecting Path was fully opened, he understood why so many Heavenly Prides charged at the Heaven-Connecting Path like madmen.
Why so many people fought like madmen over the Heaven-Connecting Path's resources.
Because:
After opening the Heaven-Connecting Path, one truly became incredibly powerful.
More terrifying still:
Even if he did nothing now, if he never cultivated again for the rest of his life, his strength would still slowly yet steadily increase.
The Heaven-Connecting Path was nurturing strange innate bones.
It was nurturing special physiques.
It was forging special bloodlines.
Any one of these three things, placed upon any martial artist, could greatly increase their strength.
Yet, the Heaven-Connecting Path nurtured all three.
And:
As time passed, it would even nurture Aberrant traits.
Aberrants were terrifying.
Even nurturing just one Aberrant trait was already formidable.
Theoretically:
The longer a Heaven-Connecting Martial Artist lived, the stronger they became.
Even without doing anything, a Heaven-Connecting Martial Artist could easily break through limits and step into a New Realm.
Moreover, after opening the Heaven-Connecting Path, Chu Qing discovered:
His body felt light.
As though he had cast off a layer of shackles.
Yet he did not know what those shackles had been.
"Perhaps I'm simply in a better mood!"
Chu Qing let out a breath of turbid air.
He glanced at the pile of materials on the ground.
The strange power within these materials had all been drawn away by the Heaven-Connecting secret transmission.
They were completely ruined.
Among all these materials, the cheapest were things like Sun Gold Moon Jade.
The others were incomparably precious.
There were many things he did not even recognize.
The value of these materials alone equaled the combined assets of several great families.
"I still need two more sets of materials