Before he knew it, he had already reached the limit of the Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
Jiang Ding had experienced such limits many times and was familiar with them beyond familiarity.
As long as he possessed an inheritance, he still did not know what a bottleneck or barrier was.
"Break through."
Jiang Ding cast one final, slightly nostalgic glance at his Nascent Soul Middle Stage cultivation and spoke softly.
Within the thousand-li radius that had already calmed, Spiritual Qi of Heaven and Earth and Essence of the Great Sun surged in again like a tidal wave. Refined through layer upon layer of intricate meridian networks, they finally became drops of azure Myriad Transformation Magnetic Yuan Scripture mana, with a trace of scorching golden-yellow within the blue.
This was influenced by the essential nature of the Supreme Clarity Flying Sword.
As these minute streams of mana entered his already limit-reaching dantian, it instantly swelled slightly, bringing a faint prickling pain.
Then—
Crack!
With a crisp sound, hairline cracks appeared in the Nascent Soul Middle Stage bottleneck. They swiftly spread like a spiderweb before collapsing into a skyful of fragmented spiritual light, sinking into his dantian and dissolving without a trace.
The mana within his dantian encountered no further obstruction as it surged into the upper two-thirds of it, flowing freely within.
Jiang Ding's aura also skyrocketed in that instant, nearly doubling!
The late stage, in nearly every realm, represented a tremendous leap in strength compared to the preceding stage. Cultivators of the same realm called them "great cultivators" and invariably treated them with deep respect.
That was the reason. With strength as their foundation, late-stage cultivators could fight a double-digit number of peers alone without being defeated.
In a one-on-one fight, a late-stage cultivator could easily pose a mortal threat to