The dull journey became much more enjoyable with lively girls like Lian Yue and Tian Meng along. As Ling Tian and the others traveled, they admired the scenery along the way, and their spirits lifted considerably.
The intense battles that had raged in Chaos City for over a decade had undoubtedly been a trial by fire. Now that Ling Tian had relaxed, the benefits of his accumulated progress began to show: his Mental Cultivation advanced rapidly, and after just a year on the road, he had entered the quasi-Mahayana Stage. He even had a vague feeling that his Mental Cultivation could break through to the Mahayana Stage at any moment.
The Golden Core cultivation in his dantian had been stuck at the Great Perfection Spirit Division Stage, unable to advance a single step because his Golden Core had reached saturation. However, his spiritual energy had been compressed until it was extraordinarily pure. His heart cultivation could break through, but remembering Poxiong's warning, he decided to first survive his seventh Advancement Lightning Tribulation and raise his dantian's Golden Core cultivation to match his heart cultivation.
Looking at Lian Yue and the others, the long period of fighting had also brought them great benefits, and their cultivation had improved as well. Hua Min'er, Tian Xin, and Chong Lou had unknowingly broken through to the Mahayana Stage; all that remained was for them to undergo their tribulations. Lian Yue, Long Shun, and the others had finally reached either the Great Perfection Integrated Body Stage or the quasi-Mahayana Stage. Even the younger generation, Ling Lin and the three Huzi, had successively broken through to the Integrated Body Late Stage.
Elder Ling, however, showed not the slightest surprise, as if he had known this would happen all along.
That made sense. Back then, he had