After one hundred and forty-three years of cultivation, Fang Xiao had finally climbed to the summit of this lower realm.
He took in all the scenery beneath his feet.
Yet Fang Xiao would not sink into self-satisfaction because of this, nor would he linger here.
For before him stood even grander, loftier peaks awaiting his ascent.
To Fang Xiao, he had only just met the requirements to leave the novice village.
The journey ahead still stretched far into the distance.
This time, because of Xue Lian and the others, Fang Xiao had been forced to respond to tribulation within the void.
Though the process had been full of unforeseen twists, and had even nearly cost him his life, he had ultimately crossed this tribulation without danger.
And reaped a bountiful harvest because of it.
First was Fang Xiao's minor world.
Although the heavenly tribulation had undergone unprecedented changes because of the minor world, it was precisely those changes that had shortened its growth cycle of hundreds of thousands of years to this point, allowing it to achieve leapfrog development.
This included creating an Earth Star, evolving life, and gradually beginning to give birth to other Great Daos while driving the Primordial Chaos Sword Dao in motion.
It could be said that the growth of the minor world had completely entered the right track. Even without Fang Xiao's further intervention, it could gradually move toward completion.
Next came the minor world's two connate companion artifacts: the Great White Sword Pellet and the Sword Nurturing Gourd.
Due to the sword tribulation, the former had unexpectedly absorbed a Dao Track of the Primordial Chaos Sword Dao, thereby gaining might beyond that of a Spirit Treasure.
As for the latter, although it still retained a certain connection with the Great White Sword Pellet,