Such a thing was actually understandable.
Just imagine it: an expert at the pinnacle of the Ancient Realm had cultivated for hundreds of millions of epochs before accumulating enough cosmic origin energy. Yet after several attempts at breaking through, that origin energy would be completely exhausted, vanishing into nothing.
And those attempts might not even succeed.
To accumulate enough origin energy again, an Ancient Saint would likely need another hundreds of millions of epochs. The time consumed in the process was simply beyond the imagination of mortals.
Even though Ancient Saints possessed endless lifespans, it was still difficult for them to bear such a drain of time.
Moreover, with each successive attempt, the odds of advancement would grow lower and lower, while the bottleneck would become increasingly terrifying, making it harder and harder to break into the Primordial Realm.
Thus, whenever an Ancient Saint attempted to charge into the Primordial Realm, they had to be exceedingly cautious. Without absolute certainty, they would choose to continue cultivating and consolidate their foundations.
But Xia Ping was different. First of all, he was immensely wealthy. From this trip to the Abyss Forbidden Land alone, he had obtained twenty to thirty divine stones. The origin energy contained in each divine stone was astonishing, far surpassing the medicinal potency contained in ordinary sacred medicines.
Moreover, he possessed numerous World Fruits condensed from the World Tree. Every World Fruit brimmed with vast energy, as well as a great number of fragments of world laws.
The origin energy within a single World Fruit would likely take an Ancient Saint hundreds of millions of epochs to accumulate. That was the enormous gap between them.
With such vast energy, Xia Ping had the capital to spend freely. He did not need to pinch pennies like other Saints and wait