Chapter 886: Just Getting Started. Hiss.
White mist gushed out.
The Red Mountain Horse swished his tail.
Unaware of the excitement around him, Liang Qu focused entirely on circulating his cultivation method.
The Qi Sea within him churned ceaselessly, surging outward and expanding.
Viewed from above, his original Qi Sea had been roughly seventeen Immortal Islands in cross-sectional area.
Judging by the consumption of his various Divine Powers, Water Travel Thousand Miles served as a perfect benchmark: one displacement over its maximum distance consumed an Immortal Island's worth of his Qi Sea.
Now the area of his Qi Sea was steadily approaching eighteen, then nineteen!
The size of a Qi Sea did not determine strength.
It was merely the "fuel" that powered Divine Powers, cultivation methods, martial arts, and other abilities, but it could be considered a form of accumulated reserves.
Generally, an ordinary first-realm Grandmaster opened a Qi Sea four or five times the size of his Heavenly Palace. Nurturing it to twenty-odd times that size was the limit, and even that required decades, if not a century, of accumulation.
Only those who consumed special natural treasures, or the gifted few, could break through to thirty.
A major breakthrough required reaching the second realm, Great Grandmaster, and establishing another Divine Power foundation before that ceiling could be raised.
When Liang Qu advanced, his had already been ten or even eleven times the size of his Heavenly Palace, far surpassing the four or five times others achieved. Afterward, he spent his period of rapid growth in a cultivation chamber at the Moon Gazing Tower, reaching sixteen outright! From the look of things now...
Twenty was other people's limit, but merely his beginning! The Cloud Sea churned and spread.
The first Dragon Court Immortal Island grew ever more complete in its