Next, it was time to break through to the Fourth Rank.
A trace of anticipation shone in Chen Feng's eyes.
He was now at the Peak Third Rank.
There were still nearly fifty bottles of Fourth-Rank demon essence blood left. There should be hope of breaking through to the Fourth Rank, perhaps even taking another step forward.
However, after refining another bottle of Fourth-Rank essence blood, a flicker of surprise appeared in Chen Feng's eyes. "What's going on?"
You refined a bottle of Fourth-Rank demon essence blood. The third level proficiency of your Blood Dragon Devouring Art has reached perfection.
"It didn't break through?" Chen Feng pondered.
He then drank several more bottles of Fourth-Rank demon essence blood. Although he could still feel his fleshly strength improving, none of them directly shattered the bottleneck. A trace of disappointment surfaced in Chen Feng's eyes.
But after only a moment of thought, an idea flashed through his mind.
"Could it be that breaking through a realm requires higher-grade essence blood?"
After all, he was still cultivating within the Lower Three Ranks. Between the Middle Three Ranks and the Lower Three Ranks lay an enormous gulf.
In this world, martial artists capable of crossing from the Lower Three Ranks into the Middle Three Ranks were one in ten thousand.
Too many martial artists spent their entire lives with their cultivation stalled at the Peak Third Rank.
"Phew!"
Chen Feng let out a soft breath.
It seemed he still could not be too hasty.
It had been less than a month since he had first begun cultivating.
Yet he had already surged from an unknown farmer's son all the way to the Peak Third Rank.
In this world, he already counted as an unparalleled martial prodigy.
As for the bottleneck between the