Xu Xiaoshou had long since learned to control the amount of spiritual energy he took in through the Breathing Method.
Aside from being caught off guard by that breakthrough just now, he showed no further abnormalities afterward.
The acquired-level Breathing Method took in a negligible amount of heaven and earth spiritual energy. Only when absorbing pills did it bring that exhilarating, all-encompassing sensation.
But now, his cultivation method had reached the Throne level.
Xu Xiaoshou guessed that even without relying on pills, as long as he breathed normally, his cultivation could advance by leaps and bounds each day.
After all, a Throne-level cultivation method was still passive cultivation—it was equivalent to someone tirelessly striving to absorb heaven and earth spiritual energy twenty-four hours a day.
Sometimes, excessive exercise even counted as double cultivation...
This was far more desperate than those supposedly hardworking geniuses! How could his cultivation possibly not advance quickly? Yet Xu Xiaoshou did not pay excessive attention to his cultivation realm.
He was now a Master, and the various mastery passive skills had also granted him Throne-level insights into the Great Path.
It could be said that within the three Master realms, if he wanted to break through, there would be no bottlenecks whatsoever.
If he wanted to rush to the Star Sacrifice Realm, all he needed was to find some divine treasure rich in spiritual essence and take a few more breaths.
But the Master realm was the root of the Throne.
If one wanted to go further at the Throne level, the best way was to comprehend more rules of the Heavenly Dao while still in the Master realm.
This was also why so many descendants of great clans desperately suppressed their cultivation after reaching the Master realm.
Because when they subsequently advanced to the Throne,