Once we passed this village, there wouldn't be another shop like it.
With that mindset, Zhou Xu swept through the area like a storm, sucking up every last bit of Natural Energy wherever he went.
In just this short while, he had drained the Natural Energy from another region. He slowly opened his eyes, and the power of True Speech within him had already recovered to nearly ninety percent.
Although he had yet to fully return to his peak state, Zhou Xu now had a clear idea of things. Even in his current condition, the power of True Speech within him had already surpassed what he possessed at the peak of the Saint Realm by roughly twenty percent.
Once he fully recovered, he felt that this gap could be widened to thirty percent at the very least!
And that was only considering the power of True Speech. He had just broken through, yet he was already able to widen the gap this much. If he cultivated for another period of time and raised his strength to Gold Two-star and then Gold Three-star, the overall gap would only grow wider and wider.
Thinking of this, Zhou Xu became even more fired up about cultivating.
One had to understand that the old him had always taken a laid-back approach to cultivation. He truly had never been this enthusiastic before.
Zhou Xu knew exactly why. The key was that this breakthrough had thoroughly widened the gap between him and the vast majority of known experts.
When he had still been in the Saint Realm, facing a Vajra Realm martial artist, he could basically kill one in an instant, but after that, he would be too exhausted to instantly kill a second. On the battlefield, he had to calculate everything carefully. The slightest mistake