Inside the tavern, Ye Jingcheng rose to his feet, took out another pot of tea, and poured cups for the two of them.
Once the mist from the spiritual tea drifted up, Ye Jingcheng sat back down. Through the tea mist, his gaze looked somewhat melancholy. After a brief hesitation, he finally spoke.
"To be frank with you both, I have reached a bottleneck as well."
Ye Jingcheng's words, paired with his disappointed expression, naturally convinced them both.
Moreover, based on the deductions of Nascent Soul Cultivators like themselves, Ye Jingcheng's previous breakthroughs had indeed come too quickly. Though his combat strength was formidable, there were bound to be hidden dangers.
Now, it seemed the hidden danger had surfaced. Ye Jingcheng needed to spend some time refining spiritual pills to eliminate it, while also gathering high-grade spiritual materials in hopes of refining suitable pills for his breakthrough.
Most cultivators were like this, and they themselves had once been no exception, so they were not surprised.
"Daoist Ye, I have heard that there is a kind of cultivator in the Cultivation World whose foundations are solid, whose true essence is abundant, and whose divine soul and vital energy are both extraordinarily vast. For such cultivators, breaking through another realm is also more difficult," Spirit Rainbow Fairy said repeatedly.
She was actually a little flustered. She had merely wanted to remind Ye Jingcheng, yet he had directly brought up his bottleneck.
After all, her current status was no longer what it had been back when she was in Taiyi Sect and Ye Jingcheng had still been at the Purple Mansion and Golden Core realms.
"It is no matter. Even if I do not break through, I am confident I can still gain something in the Earth Immortal Realm. These past seventy years