Li Qingyuan had long since honed his perfected True Immortal Early Stage cultivation to its limit. The bottleneck of his realm was already as thin as a cicada's wing.
There were only two ways to break through.
The first was the most common: he simply had to enter seclusion, accumulate law power, digest resources, and absorb immortal veins, breaking through by building up his cultivation day after day.
This was the safest path, and the method all cultivators followed.
The second required an opportunity.
Once the opportunity arrived, he could break through.
But such an opportunity was profoundly mysterious, impossible to describe. It could only be understood, not conveyed in words.
Some cultivated for a million years without ever encountering such an opportunity.
For others, chance aligned, and the opportunity arrived naturally.
Li Qingyuan was both delighted and surprised. "To think my opportunity to break through would arrive just like this!"
Its arrival probably had something to do with the rise in the Creation Immortal Sect's overall fortune.
Two Supreme Elders had simultaneously reached the perfected Late-Stage True Immortal realm, causing the sect's fortune to soar. As that fortune nourished the sect in return, Li Qingyuan naturally benefited as its Vice Sect Master.
Perhaps it also had something to do with his advancement to a second-grade immortal alchemist.
While refining pills with the Human-Pill Union Art, he had continually tempered his principles, Primordial Spirit, and law power. His Dao of Alchemy and cultivation promoted and complemented one another.
Perhaps it was also related to the heavenly phenomena that had appeared when the two Supreme Elders emerged from seclusion, their manifestations drawing him along.
Those two surges of Dao Rhyme from the perfected Late-Stage True Immortal realm had resounded like great bells, shaking his immortal apertures and Primordial Spirit, giving him