Shi Lan's seclusion this time lasted far longer than before. In the blink of an eye, more than a year had passed.
She had needed only two months to heal her injuries. The rest of the time, she devoted to cultivation.
For over half a year now, she had stopped consuming immortal medicines directly. Instead, she entrusted them to the alchemy masters of the Tianyan Sect, who refined them into various top-grade immortal pills for her cultivation.
Immortal medicines were extraordinarily difficult to grow, often requiring tens of thousands of years. Such extravagance was unimaginable even to the mightiest of the Imperial Dao.
Shi Lan felt no sting at this tremendous loss. There was no need to scrimp on resources in this way. The true path was to make herself stronger as quickly as possible.
With an endless supply of immortal pills to nourish her, her cultivation had advanced without the slightest hindrance. Before long, she had smoothly pushed the Jade Clarity Creation Art to the mid-stage of the sixth layer, and her foundation was secure.
If she fought the newly ascended Demon Emperor of the Divine Phoenix Clan from the Phoenix Ze Mausoleum again, she would now be able to defeat him without relying on the power of immortal medicines.
Compared with her leaps in cultivation, Shi Lan had made even greater progress in martial techniques. Within the system's virtual space, she had already spent more than twenty years.
For all those years, she had cast aside every distraction and devoted herself wholeheartedly to studying martial arts. Besides the divine abilities and killing arts she already practiced, she had also selected several powerful techniques to keep at hand from among the divine abilities and secret arts extracted from the Sword Emperor's Dao Fruit.
The Demon-Sealing Sword Finger, Great Sage