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Expanding the joint aperture three times-three rotations-brought one into the mid Joint Aperture Realm. Then came three compressions, reaching six rotations and entering the late Joint Aperture Realm.
After that, achieving Three Flowers Gathering at the Crown upon the joint aperture meant reaching nine rotations and entering the peak Joint Aperture Realm.
The Profound Sky Sword recorded in detail how to raise one's cultivation to the peak Joint Aperture Realm, with a precise plan for every step. If Chen Fei followed it methodically, reaching the peak Joint Aperture Realm was virtually inevitable.
But that required time. Several decades were unavoidable. That was not particularly long; Chen Fei would not even be a hundred by then.
Joint Aperture Realm cultivators lived for three hundred years, and once he reached the peak Joint Aperture Realm, obtaining secret longevity medicines would not be difficult. In other words, Chen Fei would have more than two hundred years to consider how to break through to the Mountain Sea Realm.
But Chen Fei wanted to accelerate that process, hence his forced breakthrough now. The entire process had not even qualified as a close call. He had broken through very smoothly.
However, Chen Fei did not immediately continue compressing his joint aperture. A forced breakthrough ultimately inflicted some damage on it, however slight and harmless to its foundation.
If Chen Fei continued forcing breakthroughs, however, that damage would grow until it ultimately caused a collapse.
"A few months of rest will restore the joint aperture to its original condition. Then I can break through again!"
Sensing the condition of his joint aperture, Chen Fei estimated how long it would take. Advancing another step from the mid Joint Aperture Realm in just a few months was a speed that would shock anyone who heard of it.
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