A month flashed by in the blink of an eye.
Throughout that month, Zhang Qingyuan remained in the Lineage's secret chamber, cultivating and steadily consolidating his Cultivation Realm.
If a cultivator who had just broken through a realm were compared to a red-hot iron block freshly forged from iron ore—
Then battle against a powerful opponent was like a blacksmith hammering it blow after blow, continuously tempering out all the impurities within the iron block,
Forging the material dense and solid, forging it into fine steel!
That was precisely the significance of his battle with Liu Daoyan
For Zhang Qingyuan.
Nothing improved one's control over power and increased one's experience faster than a real fight with blades and guns.
And after the battle, the three High-grade Spirit Stones he had seized became the foundation that solidified his surging strength.
"Whew, High-grade Spirit Stones truly live up to their name. If I had Spirit Stone resources like these for cultivation in the future, the speed of my realm advancement would increase by at least tenfold!"
Within the secret chamber, Zhang Qingyuan opened his eyes.
He let out a long breath, a sharp glint flashing through his eyes. The High-grade Spirit Stone in his hand turned into flying ash as its spiritual energy was exhausted, vanishing into mid-air.
Yet he felt little regret.
The harvest of this month had simply been too great!
With the assistance of those High-grade Spirit Stones over the past month, he had not only thoroughly absorbed the combat experience from this journey, but had also stabilized his True Essence Seventh Layer realm and taken a small step forward within it.
Do not mistake it for merely a small step—
It had not come easily.
One had to know that an ordinary True Essence Realm Seventh Layer cultivator