Out in the wilderness.
Watching the girl close her eyes, Chu Tiange sighed silently, then closed his own eyes to rest.
But before long,
his eyes flew open, and he turned toward the girl beside him.
Her eyes remained tightly shut, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
Yet, for that fleeting instant, her aura had exuded a vastness that was perfectly integrated and without flaw.
Chu Tiange's brow twitched. As a Myriad Phenomena Heaven Late Realm cultivator, he naturally understood what that aura meant.
"Wait... she actually broke through?"
He recalled how she had just earnestly asked him how to break through to the Myriad Phenomena Heaven Middle Realm, only to do exactly that a moment later.
He really wanted to ask whether she was having him on.
How could anyone be such a monstrous prodigy?
For those in Myriad Phenomena Heaven, there were indeed many ways to condense Dao patterns. Some cultivators, convinced that their talent had reached its limit, simply abandoned any hope of reaching the Supreme Capital someday and sought unorthodox shortcuts instead.
But even the fastest methods took considerable time.
Who could be like the girl beside him, closing her eyes and then opening them,
and be done?
Chu Tiange exhaled a stale breath and forcibly suppressed the sense of absurdity in his heart. All he could do was silently find an explanation for her.
Presumably, she had finished condensing her Dao patterns long ago and needed only that final step across the threshold.
She was simply too cautious in her everyday dealings, which was why she had insisted on unnecessarily questioning him for confirmation at the brink of her breakthrough.
Yes, that must be it...
That was the most charitable and reasonable explanation Chu Tiange could devise.
Had he not seen over the past