The Approaching Three-Year Deadline

In less than two years, even with the Time Acceleration Cabin by a hundred times, it would have been almost impossible for Gu Ding to reach the level of a Celestial God, let alone become Main God Level powerhouse who could traverse Higher Plane. However, Gu Ding still chose to go into seclusion.

Time Acceleration Cabin, Gu Ding didn't dare waste a single second and entered a frenzied training mode.

Ten days passed in the outside world, but nearly three years had passed in the Time Acceleration Cabin for Gu Ding.

Over the course of three years, all the potions, herbs, crystals, and even Source Energy Crystal and source stones in Gu Ding's Storage Space containing source energy were completely consumed. Meanwhile, Gu Ding's cultivation level only advanced from Five-Star High-rank God to Two-Star Peak-rank God. Given the limited cultivation resources, even with Gu Ding's talent, the improvement in his cultivation was not significant.

In fact, when Gu Ding's cultivation reached the Peak-rank God, a golden gate appeared in his Soul Space, behind which was a jade stone the size of a little finger. Gu Ding glanced at the item's description, which stated that in a life-or-death situation, one should crush the jade stone. Gu Ding didn't pay much attention to it, merely playing with it casually before putting it back into his Storage Space.

Of course, Gu Ding did not miss any opportunity to improve his overall strength. The improvement in his cultivation also allowed him to further enhance the upper limits of his physical and spiritual strength. Gu Ding also consumed a lot of resources to raise his physical and spiritual strength to the level of an eight-star Half-Step True God.

The limitations imposed by his cultivation level prevented Gu Ding from further improving his overall strength. Gu Ding's cultivation progress had entered an unprecedented bottleneck period.

Cultivation level reached the extreme

"Gu Ding, you've been on edge for the past three years. Now that you've lost your cultivation resources, you won't make much progress if you continue cultivating. Why don't you take this opportunity to rest?" the Sea Emperor advised. For the past three years, Gu Ding had spent almost every day cultivating, and he looked much thinner.

"Sea Emperor, is there any way to make the improvement of the physical body and soul unrestricted by cultivation level?" Gu Ding had no intention of resting at all.

"Both of the cultivation methods you mentioned are unorthodox approaches, like this Gravel World where everyone only cultivates their physical body. However, the reason why people in this world can achieve something is because of the abnormal rules of the world. Under normal circumstances, it would be impossible to do so. If you force yourself to cultivate, not only will you not achieve anything, but you will also damage your physical body, and in severe cases, it may even lead to the disintegration of your physical body."

"I want to give it a try. This world only has resources for physical cultivation. If I want to improve, I can only start from the physical aspect." Gu Ding was unwilling to give up. Without resources to improve his cultivation, he began to seek other paths to breakthrough.

"This attempt is not very meaningful. Your physical strength has already reached the limit that your current cultivation level can achieve. The possibility of breaking through is very small. Even if you do break through, the improvement to your strength will be limited," the Sea Emperor advised.

"I'll give it a try. If it doesn't work, I'll think of something else." Gu Ding still refused to give up because he really couldn't think of any other way.

Over the next few days, Gu Ding consumed a large amount of Crimson Blood Crystal to enhance his physical strength.

Each impact brought intense pain to the physical body, and after the pain appeared, the Devouring the Heavens and Swallowing the Earth Divine Power would automatically activate, completely absorbing all the vital energy. This happened every single time; each impact ended in failure at the last moment.

This left Gu Ding speechless. He carefully examined his body and finally found the culprit: the little black dog in his Soul Space.

Inside the Soul Space, the little black dog was enveloped in a layer of blood energy, which Gu Ding had absorbed from the Crimson Blood Crystal.

"I'd like to see how much you can absorb." Knowing that the little black dog would bring him great benefits, Gu Ding simply activated his Devouring the Heavens and Swallowing the Earth Power and began to frantically absorb the Crimson Blood Crystal.

As piles of Crimson Blood Crystal were continuously consumed, time passed day by day in the Time Acceleration Cabin.

For over 120 years, Gu Ding absorbed Crimson Blood Crystal almost daily without interruption. His Storage Space, including the spoils he received from Celestine, had consumed hundreds of millions of Crimson Blood Crystal. Finally, the little black dog stopped absorbing blood energy. In the Soul Space, the little black dog seemed to have grown to the size of an adult dog, but it had yet to wake up.

The Sea Emperor also saw this scene in Gu Ding's Soul Space and finally spoke up to remind him, "More than 120 years have passed in the Time Acceleration Cabin, while almost one year and three months have passed in the outside world. Counting the previous year of confinement and more than four months in the Gate of Purgatory, there are less than four months left until the deadline of the three-year agreement. Even with the time acceleration effect of 100 times in the Time Acceleration Cabin, you only have more than 30 years left."

"Given this scarcity of cultivation resources, it's impossible for me to even reach the True God level. Let alone reach the Heavenly God level and leave this Gravel World. As for becoming a main god, that's just wishful thinking!" Gu Ding shook his head and said with a bitter smile, mocking himself.

"It's impossible for you to leave by breaking through your cultivation level, but perhaps there are other ways to leave this world," the Sea Emperor suddenly said.

"What method?!" Gu Ding asked hurriedly upon hearing the Sea Emperor's words.

"I don't know, but during your seclusion, I've been keeping an eye on the outside world, trying to find a shortcut to leave this world from others. It wasn't until recently that I noticed a very special person who might be able to tell you how to leave this Gravel World." The Sea Emperor's words were undoubtedly good news for Gu Ding.

"Who goes there?!"

"He's an Old Shaman from a primitive tribe in this world. I hadn't noticed him before, but he successfully predicted a Natural Disaster recently, saving many lives, which is how I came to pay attention to him. After starting to follow him, I discovered that he knew about Celestine and Bartholomew, and even predicted Celestine's death before Celestine demise, and even predicted your arrival before you did. Most terrifyingly, he even knew of my existence..." The Sea Emperor's words completely captured Gu Ding's attention. "So, if anyone in this world knows how to leave, it's probably only that guy." (To be continued~^~)