Southern Bright Region, Desolate Ridge.
At almost every moment, wherever he was, Chen Yan had been racing against the clock to cultivate.
To advance from the Divine Ability Realm to the Dao Integration Realm.
The most important task was to forge his Dao Foundation.
Chen Yan had forged a Dao Foundation once before, after using the Void Annihilation Method to sever all karma connected to himself.
A nearly perfect timeline.
Thus, with that previous experience, forging his Dao Foundation again now would undoubtedly be much easier than the first time.
But his accumulated strength still mattered.
Chen Yan needed to lay solid groundwork in his current Divine Ability Realm before he could begin forging his Dao Foundation.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth within Desolate Ridge converged on Chen Yan. Since he had truly learned how to cultivate using the demon core of the tenth-realm great demon inside him, his cultivation no longer drew attacks from the demonic beasts of Desolate Ridge as it once had.
Especially when he circulated the Purple Mansion Record.
Chen Yan had clearly noticed that when he activated the great demon's core to cultivate, the Purple Mansion Record was far better suited to his cultivation than the Hidden Immortal Art.
Even though the Hidden Immortal Art was unquestionably a higher-ranked cultivation method than the Purple Mansion Record.
Yet for his current cultivation, circulating the Purple Mansion Record was more than twice as efficient as circulating the Hidden Immortal Art.
Such a difference in efficiency was anything but ordinary.
More importantly, in the eyes of the demonic beasts of Desolate Ridge, whenever Chen Yan activated the Purple Mansion Record and circulated spiritual energy...
Those demonic beasts actually ignored him completely.
This could not help but stir many memories in Chen Yan.
He remembered what his