The Qian Yuan Sword's blade trembled faintly, as though it too rejoiced at the leap in its rank. After all, for someone in the Aperture Refining Realm to nurture a Top-grade Spirit Artifact was exceedingly difficult.
Only experts above the Joint Aperture Realm could use their own power to swiftly promote a High-grade Spirit Artifact to the level of a Top-grade Spirit Artifact.
Yet Joint Aperture Realm experts could only gain any aid to their combat strength by using magic treasures. Spirit Artifacts were of no help in the hands of Joint Aperture Realm experts, even Top-grade Spirit Artifacts.
Chen Fei took a token from his sleeve. It was the Haiyue Token. In one year, the Haiyue Grotto-heaven would open. Chen Fei would definitely make this trip.
His greatest goal was pills or spiritual materials capable of breaking the limit.
Of course, there were other treasures within the Haiyue Grotto-heaven, but Chen Fei had temporarily placed all of them at the very end of his priorities. Only when his own strength improved would other things become more meaningful.
If Chen Fei failed to obtain pills or spiritual materials capable of breaking the limit in the Haiyue Grotto-heaven, he would likely have to attempt a direct breakthrough afterward.
Without limit-breaking pills or spiritual materials, one could naturally still force a breakthrough, but the success rate would inevitably fall. That was unavoidable.
It was like ordinary cultivation. Even without taking pills, one's cultivation would slowly increase, but its efficiency could not possibly be mentioned in the same breath as cultivation aided by pills.
Breaking through realms was naturally the same.
It was not only for breaking through to the Joint Aperture Realm. Many martial artists took certain pills even when breaking through minor realms in the Aperture Refining Realm, using them to