Although becoming a Guest Elder hadn't brought Chen Changan many tangible benefits,
the three of them had now secured a foothold in the Yun Family and gained more time to cultivate.
Ten years later, Mu Yunyao had successfully finished creating ten thousand Small Worlds and devoted all her attention to raising their levels.
Since Chen Changan had spent some time improving the Chaos Jade Bottle, he finished this step a full ten years after Mu Yunyao.
As for Da Huang, this step had taken him a full forty years.
All told, Chen Changan and the others had been cultivating for nearly a hundred years, yet they still hadn't broken through to the Lesser Thousand Realm. They had barely even taken the first step.
For Chen Changan and the others, their cultivation had never progressed so slowly.
"Big brother, I really did try, but this..."
"This is fucking hard."
"How many resources have the things in your hand produced by now?"
For Da Huang, doing nothing but cultivating was truly dreary, especially when it went on for so long.
Hearing him, Chen Changan glanced at the resources inside the Chaos Jade Bottle and shook his head helplessly.
"They've reproduced, but the initial stock was small, so they haven't produced much yet."
"For now... we still can't use them. They need to keep reproducing."
"Right now, we can only rely on ourselves to raise each world's level one by one."
"By the way, have you run into any problems while raising your worlds' levels?" Chen Changan asked.
Da Huang and Mu Yunyao both shook their heads at his question, then asked curiously, "Did you run into a problem?"
"I don't know if it's something I'm doing, but as the Small Worlds I create develop, the ones that do especially well always end