Release the Captive

In the end, Shen Fan managed to suppress the restlessness in his heart and devote himself wholeheartedly to his cultivation.

Of course, he wasn't going to masochistically absorb the special energy inside the two mysterious stones. Instead, he began accumulating True Realm Power again.

He knew that, with his current strength, he still couldn't withstand this special energy. So for now, he needed to lay a solid "foundation"!

Still, Shen Fan had no intention of hiding away these stones of extraordinary origins. He set aside some of his attention to analyze the nature of the energy they contained.

Shen Fan understood one thing: only when you truly understood something could your practice stay on the right track!

After all, he'd never dare to charge in recklessly like before again!

Accumulating True Realm Power was an incredibly slow process for any True Realm expert. Although Shen Fan's rate of accumulation was already a hundred times faster than that of ordinary True Realm experts, compared with the total amount he needed to break through, it still seemed painfully slow!

Shen Fan was only in the early stage of the True Realm. By his estimate, without some special opportunity, he would need at least a thousand years to accumulate enough True Realm Power to reach the middle stage!

And that was with his exceptionally powerful Bloodline Power. True Realm experts who had already reached the limits of their bloodline potential might go hundreds of thousands of years without making even the slightest progress!

Though Shen Fan hated this kind of long-term, painstaking cultivation, he knew it was something every powerhouse had to go through.

The further one advanced, the wider the gap between realms became. To grow stronger meant enduring even longer periods of painstaking cultivation. Shen Fan was merely taking some time