Cultivation Breakthrough, Return to Flowing Cloud

Time flowed on, and in the blink of an eye, ten years had passed.

During those ten years, aside from occasionally taking a break to talk with his Dao companion Xiao Ying and cultivate together with her, Zhou Yang spent all his remaining time in secluded cultivation within the Extreme Yang Fire Pool.

Over those ten years of arduous cultivation, his cultivation had smoothly advanced to the Third-layer Nascent Soul.

After he advanced to the Third-layer Nascent Soul, less than thirty percent of the Fire Element spiritual qi within the Extreme Yang Fire Pool had been consumed, far different from what he had expected beforehand.

Thus, thinking that such an opportunity was hard to come by, he continued cultivating there for another fifteen years, only stopping after less than ten percent of the Fire Element spiritual qi remained in the Extreme Yang Fire Pool.

After twenty-five years of absorption and refinement, the Extreme Yang Fire Pool, which had originally been several hundred zhang in diameter, had shrunk to less than twenty zhang. It was only one step away from collapsing entirely.

The reason Zhou Yang stopped at this point was also because he felt that the Extreme Yang Fire Pool had not been easy to form. It would be far too regrettable if his own unrestrained extraction caused it to collapse and dissipate.

Moreover, with his current cultivation, even if he absorbed and refined the final less-than-ten-percent of Fire Element spiritual qi, it would only add another twenty or thirty years to his cultivation.

"The most important thing is that more than thirty years have passed. The Thousand Year Grand Meeting in the Cultivation World of the Flowing Cloud Continent should be held soon. If I fail to return before it begins, what I lose may not be any less