The Flowing Wind Returning Snow Pill truly lived up to its reputation as one of the few peerless elixirs of this tribulation. After I took it to cleanse the impurities from my Dao body, the capacity for storing essence power increased tremendously. It was like a wooden barrel for holding water: once all the bumps inside had been polished smooth, it could hold far more water. This also increased the speed at which essence power could be extracted. After all, the size of the gourd's mouth determined the rate at which spiritual energy could be absorbed. Once the impurities were cleared away, the passage became much smoother, and the extraction speed multiplied.
On top of that, with the Primordial Dragon absorbing essence power for me, I realized that I lacked neither absorption nor extraction power. So even though I had lost several months to other affairs, once I began cultivating in earnest, my cultivation advanced several times faster than that of other families. All I lacked was the tribulation of the Divine Tower. Once the Divine Tower reached the seventh tribulation, my speed would surely increase even further, without any restrictions.
Of course, using the Divine Tower to cross tribulations was possible, but crossing realms was definitely not. So as the Divine Tower's tribulation grew higher and the range it covered expanded, Heaven's Unity Dao would have to consider making the major tribes and Demon Kings yield some territory. After all, the closer one got to the Divine Tower, the greater the pressure of the spiritual energy became. Many lesser demons would be unable to withstand such essence-power pressure. Therefore, there was probably no need to establish a special project to persuade them to leave the Divine Tower's center; they knew their own limits.
And in a world where the