Although the Three Realms Six Paths had cultivated for a long time, most of that time had been wasted. At first, the Progenitor had deliberately suppressed them. Later, the wars they experienced left them with little opportunity to cultivate.
Death God had broken through to the Eternal Life Realm because he had left the Heavenly Origin Universe.
Fate was an unknown.
As for Ancient God, he had forced his breakthrough, opening a shortcut for those who came after him. Even so, no one had managed to succeed by following that path.
Old Ancestor Lu Yuan was a little different from the rest of the Three Realms Six Paths. He had cultivated far longer than they had, since he had always been in the Lu Tian Realm. Although the Lu family was later exiled, the years before that had been long indeed. And his breakthrough this time was thanks to Meng Luo.
Meng Luo's Law of Cosmic Harmony was the Self-Imprisonment Cage. Against an enemy, it could make them imprison themselves with whatever they cared about most. Turned inward, it could also become a psychological shortcut for breaking through the Cross Tribulation level.
So ever since Meng Luo had reached the Eternal Life Realm and joined Human Civilization, she had rarely gone into battle, yet she was the busiest of them all, constantly helping Human Civilization's Cross Tribulation cultivators break out of their Self-Imprisonment Cages.
Old Ancestor Lu Yuan had done the same, as had Qing Xing before him.
Qing Xing had later broken through after Master Cao's guidance. Lu Yin didn't know what had led to Old Ancestor Lu Yuan's breakthrough, and he didn't need to know. All that mattered was that he had made it.
This was a breakthrough of the self.
Everyone's breakthrough was different. Old Ancestor Lu