At this moment, Qin Yi and Ju Yunxiu had already been cultivating for a long time...
They really were cultivating, but at the same time... well, there was also some of that.
Qin Yi's cultivation was meant to consolidate the Law Comprehension he had gained from the gate. Cultivation had never been something where reaching a single level was enough; everything else had to keep pace, or he would become the sort of person others could defeat by fighting above their level.
What Qin Yi had always wanted was to fight above everyone else's level... so his requirements were even higher.
It just so happened that Ju Yunxiu was beside him. Through form and sound, she gave him a deeper understanding of the Chaos Power's Dao laws, and it felt as though even more things had suddenly clicked into place. He had not originally been in the mood to think about the sort of things Liusu and the others imagined would happen.
Much less any kind of group exercise.
Liusu had gone bad too. Before, she had clearly spent most of her time urging him to cultivate, but now her head was full of that sort of thing... Ahem.
Ju Yunxiu was likewise focused on cultivation. Over the years, all her cultivation had come from insights gained by seeing through the mortal world, but she had to admit that the trigger for such a tremendous leap in progress had been her contact with the stone platform during her closed-door cultivation in the Red Rock Secret Realm, when she had touched the Great Dao. Over these years, she had verified those gains one by one. It was like seeing the answer in advance, then going back to derive the process.
And now there were so many more stone platforms, linked end