Breaking through to the Middle Saint Venerable Stage had not made Li Yun smug.
On the contrary, it had left him more fired up than ever.
His drive had only grown stronger, along with his hunger for a higher cultivation level.
He closed his eyes and resumed cultivating.
Before he knew it, another month had passed.
He had spent another 216 trillion Myriad Wonders Points.
The same amount of time, the same expenditure, the same two-hundred-thousandfold acceleration—yet Li Yun had made no major breakthrough. After all, once the Heavenly Venerable Descends Scripture reached the thirty-eighth level, the difficulty of cultivating it rose exponentially.
After a month,
the Heavenly Venerable Descends Scripture had reached only 37% of the thirty-eighth level.
Still,
Li Yun was not short of Myriad Wonders Points.
There was no need to rush.
He lowered his head and kept working.
But who would have thought—
at that moment, a somewhat urgent message suddenly arrived.
Li Yun opened it. It was from Yu Huafeng.
"Li Yun, come out of seclusion at once."
"An honored guest has come from afar. The Ninth Princess orders you to return to Man Yue Palace immediately for a banquet!"
The message threw Li Yun's cultivation rhythm into disarray.
He raised an eyebrow, rather at a loss for words.
He did not need to think to know who had come.
No ordinary honored guest would prompt Saint Venerable Man Yue to send Yu Huafeng all the way to the Chaos Heaven Cave Secret Realm for him. There was only one possibility: this guest was probably Ye Chen, the Young Master of the Eastern Estate.
That guy really came...?
Was life in the Eastern Estate really that hard, or was there some other reason?
Li Yun turned the possibilities over in his mind, but he could