To cultivators below the Golden Core Realm, ten years might be a long stretch of time—long enough to achieve great things!
But to those in the Nascent Soul Realm, it was merely an ordinary length of seclusion. For cultivators at the Spirit Refining Stage and above, however, ten years passed in the blink of an eye. To powerhouses of such realms, ten years were like a single day, hardly enough to truly comprehend anything.
After Chen Fan returned from the ancient battlefield, his cultivation had already stabilized at the Nascent Soul Early Stage. Having survived that heavenly tribulation, he encountered no bottlenecks as he charged toward the middle and late stages of Nascent Soul over the next ten years. Everything flowed as naturally as water finding its course, and he cultivated all the way to Nascent Soul Great Perfection!
The realm within him had likewise reached a miraculous level. The realm of Life and Death Reincarnation could be manifested into tangible form with a mere gesture, like burning flames capable of destroying another's realm!
Unfortunately, although his comprehension of the Nine Palaces Sword Art had deepened another layer, he could never find the path toward the Spirit Refining Stage!
He believed that the Nine Palaces Dao essence he had deciphered was correct, yet he could not take another step forward. He knew he had encountered a bottleneck—a true bottleneck!
During these ten years, he had never opened his eyes, nor had he ever sensed the Nine Palaces Elder appearing. It seemed the old man was still in seclusion and had never emerged!
"Could Senior Dugu have been wrong?" Chen Fan frowned slightly. Dugu Han had originally said that the Nine Palaces Elder would emerge from seclusion within a few years, at which point he could send Chen Fan out of