Fang Xiao had only recently broken through, so another breakthrough in a short time was unlikely.
However, he possessed a divine ability that could temporarily raise the intensity of his mana by more than a single major step.
It was the divine ability he had seized from Qing Hong—the Twelve-Story Building.
After obtaining the Twelve-Story Building, Fang Xiao had also gained a deeper understanding of this divine ability.
More specifically, its ability to elevate one's realm had clearer distinctions.
At the Core Formation stage, cultivators had shallow foundations. With the Twelve-Story Building, one could achieve one story per realm.
At the Nascent Soul Realm, although the divine ability had already risen to the level of a Dharma Manifestation, a cultivator's foundation had gradually deepened.
Thus, raising one realm required two stories.
Only upon reaching the Deity Transformation Stage was it as Fang Xiao had originally guessed: three stories per realm.
In truth, Qing Hong had already surpassed his predecessors during the Nascent Soul Late Stage, cultivating the Twelve-Story Building to the eighth story rather than the fifth story Fang Xiao had assumed.
It was through this that he could elevate his realm of intent to a level comparable to mid-stage Deity Transformation.
Unfortunately, Qing Hong had encountered Fang Xiao. Otherwise, with his means of using the Nascent Soul Realm to strike at Deity Transformation cultivators, he could barely have been counted among the monstrous geniuses.
Now that the Twelve-Story Building was in Fang Xiao's hands, it was likewise at the eighth story.
So long as he wished it, he could even directly raise the intensity of his mana to peak Deity Transformation.
Yet whether he could raise it was one matter; whether he could control it was another.
To wield the surging mana that only peak Deity Transformation cultivators possessed