The smile at the corner of Li Haoran's lips spread. Each additional transformation in his sword intent roughly doubled the efficiency with which he cultivated his technique.
Now that he had comprehended four transformations of sword intent, his cultivation speed had reached an astonishing level. This was what allowed sword cultivators to avoid relying excessively on pills.
Improved efficiency was only one benefit. The more powerful one's sword intent, the smaller the bottlenecks when advancing one's realm.
Too many cultivators were trapped by bottlenecks and unable to improve their cultivation. High-level sword cultivators did not have such troubles.
Senior Brother Ji cultivated the Five Elements Cycle Scripture along the path of "Five Elements Cycle, Myriad Laws Return to One." Li Haoran believed that this path could likewise greatly weaken bottlenecks; otherwise, the other man's cultivation could not have advanced by leaps and bounds.
He stored the Wooden Box containing the mulberries in his Void Stone and asked, "Senior Brother, when will the other spirit fruits roughly ripen? Is there an exact time?"
Though he did not rely so heavily on pills, having something capable of accelerating his cultivation was still quite good.
Nascent Soul-level sword cultivators condensed the spiritual power within their bodies into Sword Essence. This was the mana of sword cultivators.
He had found that pills were not much more effective than spirit fruits, so he preferred consuming spirit fruits.
Ji An pondered for a moment. "By the most conservative estimate, Junior Brother will need to wait thirty years. How about this: in thirty years, I will return to the sect and place the spirit fruits in the Treasure Pavilion for safekeeping. You can return then to collect them."
He was transforming the land in the Spirit-Severing Land. It would take the other party quite some effort to