Everyone within Haiyue Grotto-heaven stopped what they were doing, their eyes full of confusion.
They had all cultivated the techniques recorded in multiple scrolls and understood that every technique was of the same level. Thus, the time each required was almost identical.
At most, some techniques truly suited a person's nature, allowing them to get started a little faster, but only a little faster.
Yet now, someone had already restored their cultivation to the Organ Refinement Realm. Were they really all taking part in the same trial?
What kind of talent and brilliance would it take to lead them by so much? Or had everyone else actually comprehended things quickly, while they alone were the dumbest of them all?
"The Organ Refinement Realm? Someone restored their cultivation to the Organ Refinement Realm? How could it be so fast!"
Dugu Man stood inside a cave. Just moments ago, she had only just gotten started with a technique and restored her cultivation to the Bone Forging Realm.
Dugu Man walked to the cave entrance and looked outside. Of the people she had encountered before, most were the same as she had been earlier, merely in the Muscle Tempering Realm.
That showed that everyone's progress had indeed been roughly the same. Those who could enter Haiyue Grotto-heaven differed in talent and comprehension, but not to an outrageously exaggerated degree.
After all, the time had been far too short. Many people would gradually pull farther and farther apart later on because of that slight difference in talent, stretched bit by bit over decades.
Over a short period, however, you might comprehend a little faster while I did so a little slower, and the gap between us would seem exceedingly small.
Just as some had now taken the first step into the Bone Forging Realm,