[430,000th year: As you continually comprehended the power of laws, your divine soul steadily advanced. Yet the more it did, the more you felt the unfathomable wonder of this domain formed by the interconnection of three hundred and sixty-five laws. If every law was a Great Dao, then the laws you had condensed encompassed nearly all the major powers of the Great Dao across the heavens and myriad worlds—and you sought to fuse them into one. For that, your divine soul needed to become incomparably powerful.] [570,000th year: You persistently comprehended the laws, continually attempting to merge your divine soul with them. Fourteen hundred thousand years passed, yet the power of your divine soul still had not reached the required standard...]
Zhao Cheng slowly opened his eyes, his brows knotted tightly, his heart full of frustration.
That was not fourteen years—it was a full hundred and forty thousand years!
He had spent all those hundred and forty thousand years comprehending laws and tempering his divine soul, yet its strength still had not even reached the threshold for a breakthrough.
Was breaking through to the Spirit Transformation stage really this absurdly difficult?
He could not help suspecting that by the time he truly broke through to Spirit Transformation, he might well possess the power to split heaven and earth apart.
"Besides, although I've been cultivating my divine soul these past hundred and forty thousand years, its improvement hasn't even been as noticeable as swallowing a single Three Pure Spirit Pill."
"Rather than slowly grinding away here, I might as well take pills directly. No matter how I look at it, that's more cost-effective."
With that thought, Zhao Cheng hesitated no longer. He directly spent two hundred thousand years of lifespan in the system and exchanged it for