Wu Changlian continued attacking the altar's pool of golden flames. Lu Xiaotian had already opened his eyes. The Misty Sword Embryo inside him had only initially absorbed half of the sword embryo that Ye Qianxun's Heaven-Severing Sword had split off; it was still far from being fully refined. Even so, the Misty Sword Embryo within him continued to grow at an astonishing rate.
Although Lu Xiaotian's cultivation of the Maha Buddhadharani Sutra had advanced extremely quickly with the help of the Bodhi Star Spirit, it still could not match the Misty Sword Embryo's rate of growth. After all, one relied on his own cultivation, while the latter simply reaped the rewards, directly absorbing several thousand years of Ye Qianxun's hard work. Even half of it was beyond imagination.
At this moment, Ye Ziyu had yet to complete the first step of refinement. Although Ye Ziyu possessed exceptional cultivation talent and devoted herself wholeheartedly to the sword path, she had also cultivated the Soul-Splitting Secret Art Lu Xiaotian had taught her, yet the amount of time she had spent cultivating it and the number of times she had split her auxiliary Primordial Spirit were both far inferior to Lu Xiaotian's. In terms of Primordial Spirit strength, Ye Ziyu was considerably stronger than cultivators of the same rank, but compared with Lu Xiaotian's Primordial Spirit—one that was only in the early stage of the Spirit Void Realm yet had nearly reached the early stage of the Integrated Body Realm—the gap between them was enormous. Naturally, Ye Ziyu's fusion with the Heaven-Severing Sword Embryo was much slower than Lu Xiaotian's.
Lu Xiaotian did not rush to leave. Ye Ziyu was still in the most critical period of initially fusing with the Heaven-Severing Sword Embryo, and it would be unwise to disturb her. Lu