To break through to the Fourth Stage, Ye Xiwen had truly prepared for many years. The Fourth Stage was unlike any before it; compared with it, the difficulty of every previous breakthrough paled into insignificance.
This was the transition from the early Emperor Lord stage into the middle stage, a period in which both one's level and strength underwent earth-shaking changes.
Previously, his foundation had still been insufficient. But after years of gradual preparation, coupled with obtaining an imprint of the Dao character earlier, Ye Xiwen had received an unexpected delight: a direct glimpse into the Great Dao Source.
He sat cross-legged upon a cloud couch. Behind him, the Myriad Heart Ancient Tree continuously bloomed with dazzling seven-colored radiance. Back then, it had been no more than a sapling, yet now it had already grown into a towering tree over ten thousand zhang tall.
Yet unlike the Myriad Heart Ancient Tree of the past, Ye Xiwen had once speculated that it was likely a subspecies of the World Tree, though it was far from possessing the World Tree's former majesty. However, after Ye Xiwen later obtained a World Tree sapling, restoring some of the World Tree's traits to the Myriad Heart Ancient Tree had been placed on his agenda.
He did not simply believe that the Myriad Heart Ancient Tree was vastly inferior to the World Tree. At the very least, when it came to assisting cultivation, the Myriad Heart Ancient Tree far surpassed the World Tree.
Having cultivated to Ye Xiwen's current level, there were already exceedingly few external objects that could still be of use to him, especially those that directly aided cultivation. Apart from the Myriad Heart Ancient Tree, only that Mysterious Space remained.
His cultivation had advanced so swiftly not merely because of the Mysterious Space.