The fiercer the battle became, the more terrifying beings within Pan Tian Palace it would draw. They could not linger for long. That was why the Fifth Stage Imperial-level being, Nine Transformations God Emperor, and even Ye Xiwen all shared the same thought: they had to find a way to eliminate the other side as soon as possible.
Yet a battle between opponents of nearly equal strength could easily turn into a war of attrition.
Ye Xiwen was already very satisfied with his current cultivation. After all, how many years had these people cultivated for, and how many years had he himself cultivated for?
But it was still not enough. If he wanted to end the battle in a short time, strength at this level was far from sufficient. He had to break through and take another step forward.
And if he wanted to break through, he had to achieve it in battle—force a breakthrough while fighting a Fifth Stage expert of the same realm. One could well imagine how insane such an idea was. Other people only broke through by chance, after being stirred by some special circumstance.
Deliberately seeking an active breakthrough was exceedingly rare, because it was simply impossible. Every breakthrough required countless accumulations; it could not arise out of thin air.
Especially since Ye Xiwen had only just pushed his realm to the mid-Fifth Stage. This was not a case of long accumulation finally bursting forth. On the contrary, he had already experienced that burst of accumulated progress. He simply did not have the conditions for an on-the-spot breakthrough.
Yet even so, it could not stop Ye Xiwen's plans. He had the Mysterious Space. That meant anything was possible.
Within his body, he forcibly seized a dragon vein. Forming a hand seal, he set the dragon