Jia Nan Academy, rear mountain waterfall.
Xiao Ze examined his body inwardly. Surging Dou Qi flowed like a river, continuously pouring through his meridians into the Dou Zhi Qi Cyclone, like a sea accepting countless streams.
He had remained at the Nine-Star Da Dou Shi stage for a long time now—several months, perhaps.
Breaking through to Dou Ling was an extremely difficult matter.
Many people needed several years of accumulation before they could possibly break through to Dou Ling.
In the original story, Xiao Yan had relied on the formidable energy of Earth Core Body Tempering Milk to forcefully break through the barrier to Dou Ling.
According to Old Ya, the energy contained in a single drop of Earth Core Body Tempering Milk was equivalent to what an ordinary person could barely accumulate through half a year of arduous cultivation.
Setting aside the Earth Core Body Tempering Milk consumed during body tempering, Xiao Yan had used roughly the energy of five drops of Earth Core Body Tempering Milk.
In other words, Xiao Yan had directly erased two and a half years of accumulation.
This made Xiao Ze immensely envious of a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Treasure like Earth Core Body Tempering Milk.
However, it was not yet time for the Inner Academy Selection Competition, and entering the Inner Academy was still far in the future.
He still had to focus on his own cultivation.
As early as a month ago, Xiao Ze had relied on Xiao Yi Xian's poison power, combined with his own cultivation,
to forcibly make up for that period of accumulation.
Even so, Xiao Ze continued accumulating madly, only deciding to break through to Dou Ling today.
Because he sensed that breaking through to Dou Ling would very likely be the opportunity for his cultivation system to