Feeling the tremendous power within him, Qin Bowen's heart surged. He was far, far stronger than before his breakthrough. Previously, he had barely managed to hold his own against Lu Zhong, an Alpha-Class Cyborg. Now he was confident he could kill him within thirty moves!
The Martial Path's evolution truly was a road to Heaven! Within the same realm, a flawless practitioner was invincible!
Deeply moved, he looked at Huang Tian with gratitude and reverence. "Thank you, Master Huang!"
"It was nothing." Huang Tian gave it little thought.
Rewarding merit was only fair. Qin Bowen had been the first to stand up under Lu Zhong's threats and had borne the greatest pressure. Naturally, he deserved a reward.
As for the others, Huang Tian was pleased with them too. "You needn't envy Qin Bowen's breakthrough. Train diligently. When your skills approach completion, I can choose the right time to lend a hand."
Forcing a seedling to grow by pulling it upward was certainly bad for cultivation; it would exhaust a practitioner's potential. But if someone had honed themselves through training and reached the brink of completion, only to remain unable to break through for a long time, Huang Tian saw no problem with helping.
"Thank you, Master Huang!" Lu Kecheng and the others exchanged delighted looks.
The hardest part of cultivation was breaking through a bottleneck. A single hurdle could hold a practitioner back for years, decades, or longer. Take breaking the human body's limits: surely there had been martial artists throughout history more talented and perceptive than Qin Bowen?
There had been plenty!
Yet those people had spent their entire lives unable to break the human body's limits, while Qin Bowen had succeeded. The reason was simple: he had someone to guide him through the breakthrough.
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