This advancement lasted a full seven days and seven nights before the immense energy pouring from the Gate of Fate finally ceased. Xiao Dai had completely devoured and absorbed the vast cosmic origin energy and law information, making them her own.
Crack!
The Gate of Fate completely collapsed, turning into a mass of primordial energy and vanishing without a trace.
Xia Ping also devoured a portion of the cosmic origin energy, raising his cultivation to the peak of the early Lightning Tribulation Realm. All nine of his Purple Mansion spaces were filled with dense mana, nearly overflowing.
The energy he devoured this time alone had saved him several thousand years of effort refining mana.
At the same time, his Primordial Spirit had become fully twice as powerful as before, and his divine consciousness had grown even more formidable. The Primordial Spirit within the Sea of Bitterness had become stronger still, seeming to grow solid and corporeal.
As a result, the power with which he crossed the Sea of Bitterness became even greater. Even though countless waters within that sea tugged at his Primordial Spirit, trying to drag it completely into its depths—
Before the surging strength of his Primordial Spirit, that little resistance was nothing at all.
Moreover, with his previous experience, he easily crossed the first stretch of the Sea of Bitterness.
With just one more step, he would advance to the middle stage of the Lightning Tribulation Realm.
"Crossing the Sea of Bitterness seems to be a form of tempering as well."
Xia Ping had now gained a measure of enlightenment. Crossing the Sea of Bitterness appeared incomparably arduous, but in truth, was it not also one opportunity after another to temper his Primordial Spirit?
For every distance he advanced, his Primordial Spirit grew a little stronger. At