The happy times soon came to an end.
Xiao Tianyang had only found time to accompany Saber and the others on their travels.
Although once the Heavenly Martial Dynasty entered its development phase, the pressure on Xiao Tianyang would greatly diminish.
By then, however, he would need to shift his attention to the Abyss Faction and could not afford even the slightest slackness.
As for going into seclusion to cultivate... that was merely something he said to fool others.
After all, a Supreme Expert was already the limit within the same rank and could never advance any further.
Even if some said that "limits are meant to be broken," certain things could not be achieved through effort and talent alone.
Each advancement in rank was equivalent to a form of self-transcendence.
Cultivation was like expanding the capacity of a bucket.
Cultivators could use their talent to continuously alter the quality of the water, but they could not defy the natural order and change the quality of the bucket.
That was a benefit that came naturally only when breaking through to the next rank.
Perhaps it could also be regarded as a way of evolving a wooden bucket into an iron one.
The energy Xiao Tianyang could now contain was twice that of others, while its quality had risen to that of mercury.
In other words, his current strength had already reached its limit.
If he went any further, he would be breaking through the boundaries of his Plane Level.
That was something for a Fourth Tier Plane to deal with, not something that belonged on his current schedule.
He could set aside some time to rest and keep Saber and the others company.
However, he could not use cultivation as an excuse to place himself in a state of genuine