Breaking Through to Dou Sheng

Time slipped quietly away like sand through fingers amid the silence of the ancient hall, and before they knew it, a year had passed.

Over the past year, Xun Er had devoted nearly all her focus to cultivation. The energy at the core of the Heavenly Tomb gathered here like a sea, making it the perfect place for her to replenish the deficit in her bloodline.

With each passing day of breathing and refining, the Divine Bloodline within her, once drained dry from extracting its origin, had regained most of its vitality. Even the Dou Qi lingering around her body had grown increasingly solid and profound.

Although advancing at her level of cultivation was already like rowing against the current, nourished by such dense energy, her progress was still several times faster than it would have been outside.

Only when she briefly awoke between cultivation sessions would Xun Er's gaze cross the empty hall and settle on the figure standing motionless in the center of the blood pool like a statue.

For an entire year, Xiao Ling had kept his eyes shut. The deep-blue barrier around him had never dispersed, while the incomparably pure energy within the blood pool flowed into his body without end like a surging river.

Strangely, despite the violent influx of energy, Xiao Ling's aura remained at the brink of breaking through to Dou Sheng, without the slightest sign of growth leaking out.

Xun Er was not surprised by this. Better than anyone, she knew that Xiao Ling was not stagnating. With the new foundation formed from the fusion of three top-tier bloodlines, he was madly accumulating the reserves needed to break through.

That seemingly dormant power was, in truth, like a sleeping volcano within him. Once the final thread of energy completed its infusion, it