The first week after Ye Qingxian left.
One night.
I was incubating the eggs when, in a single instant, my eyes suddenly flashed.
The winds and clouds in the sky shifted.
The change lasted less than a breath. Almost no one reacted.
Qi Refining Level 9 breakthrough.
Foundation Establishment breakthrough...
False Core Realm breakthrough...
In a single instant, I had already reached the fifth realm.
Five realms in one breath—nothing could be more astonishing.
In the darkness, I slowly opened my eyes and stared at my fingertips.
Was this... why my appetite had been growing so much lately?
I didn't alert anyone, acting as if nothing had happened.
The realm I had just broken through began to fall, eventually settling at Foundation Establishment Early Stage.
It wasn't that my cultivation had weakened. I had deliberately suppressed my realm.
This was an ability I had just acquired.
In that instant, I had sensed my own origin.
Could it be...
A suspicion surfaced in my heart.
Could I, Ye Xiaoyao, actually be no ordinary person?
As time goes by, could I awaken an ancient bloodline?
Though it was hard to believe, it was the only explanation for what had happened.
Breaking through five realms in an instant—what an astonishing feat.
And yet it had truly happened to me.
I examined my current state.
These breakthroughs across five realms
felt more like all the accumulation from the past erupting at once.
I looked at the system panel in the darkness.
The page belonging to me still hadn't changed. It was as if I didn't belong to the system, or perhaps my level was higher than the system's; either way, it couldn't display my exact condition at all.
Suddenly, I fell silent, repeatedly checking my condition.
I was indeed still human. My fingertips had