Breaking Through and Heartache

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Spirit mist surged.

Once again, ten thousand streams of energy converged into his dantian.

Then—

Xiao Chen's strength began to soar!

That joyous sensation of constantly growing stronger appeared again.

Only, this time—

It lasted even less time.

Xiao Chen had barely had time to savor it when he plummeted from the clouds into the abyss.

He began to panic.

His spiritual senses were now astonishingly sharp, and he could clearly feel that he was still a long way from breaking through!

Yet in that brief span, twenty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones were gone!

One Low-Grade Spirit Stone was worth one hundred taels of silver.

Twenty thousand meant two million taels of silver.

In these chaotic times, ten taels of silver were enough to keep an ordinary family of three fed and clothed for a year.

Yet he had burned through it all in an instant just to advance!

It was burning money!

Truly burning money!

Fortunately, his strength had increased considerably as well.

For a Dual Core Grandmaster Realm cultivator with a Martial God Physique, every minor realm was incredibly difficult to advance through. But at the same time, every advancement brought an enormous improvement.

Over the next stretch of time—

Xiao Chen painfully lit Spirit Notes one after another, continuously absorbing spiritual energy.

After absorbing the equivalent of eighty thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, his progress toward breaking through finally reached halfway.

"A normal first-level Grandmaster Realm cultivator should break through with five thousand Low-Grade Spirit Stones, right? I absorbed eighty thousand, and only pushed my progress halfway! What a wastrel!" Xiao Chen watched his former assets turn to ash, his heart aching terribly.

"Kid, that's enough! Could an ordinary Grandmaster Realm cultivator even take one punch from you? You want strength, but you're also afraid of