It took another full month before I completely refined the ninefold power of the Dao lineage and finally began entering a state of cultivation. During those two months, Luo Dongjun indeed returned with that old Thunder Dragon, wanting to come in and cultivate again. However, we flatly refused him. Yet for some unknown reason, the fellow lingered around the island and refused to leave. We were too lazy to go out and drive him away, so we simply let him stay there.
The guards who had previously protected the island also came over to harass us from time to time. However, their cultivation was too weak to cause us much trouble. Once we activated the grand formation, we focused on cultivating.
The countless immortal crystals made our cultivation progress extremely quickly. Long Yue had excellent aptitude. Without immortal crystals acting as a natural roadblock, she advanced to the Ninth-Level Immortal even faster than we did. After all, she had already reached the Eighth-Level Immortal Transformation Realm. With the ancestral dragon's destiny aiding her, the purity of her true dragon bloodline was simply incomparable to ordinary bloodlines.
As for Xiao Mengtong, she had already reached the Seventh-Level Immortal Transformation Realm, so she entered the Eighth-Level Immortal Realm a month before I did. However, advancing further was difficult. She became stuck at the entry stage of the Eighth-Level Immortal Realm, struggling greatly to enter its Transformation Realm.
Because I had to absorb a Dao lineage and cultivate a new one to the seventh level, I spent two months longer than them. Thus, by the time I broke into the Transformation Realm of the Seventh-Level Immortal Realm, three months had already passed. The speed of a ninefold Dao lineage was another threshold compared with an eightfold Dao lineage, and my progress had slowed