All along, with the Talent Tree at his side and the Taotie Meal assisting him, Lu Ye had been able to endlessly consume Spiritual Pills to raise his cultivation. He had always been confident in the speed of his Apertures Opened. Among all Spirit Stream Realm cultivators in the Nine Provinces, no one should have been faster than him at opening apertures.
Having reached Heaven Seven, and still maintaining a pace of opening one aperture a day in such an environment—who could compare?
Until he saw Hua Ci today!
When Hua Ci had left the camp for Mount Ying, she had only been at Tier Eight.
When she entered the Myriad Poison Forest, she had reached Tier Nine. That could be explained by her obtaining sufficient benefits in that Inheritance Land and thus advancing her cultivation.
But it had only been a little over a month since she entered the Myriad Poison Forest, and she had actually risen from Tier Nine to Heaven Seven!
One had to know that after Tier Nine, each advancement required opening sixty apertures. Opening sixty apertures in just over a month was practically a pace of two apertures a day.
No comparison, no comparison...
Lu Ye more or less knew how Hua Ci had cultivated during this period. Most of the time, she did not stay in the wooden hut, because the Formation kept the poisonous mist out of it.
He simply had not expected Hua Ci's cultivation method, so contrary to common sense, to raise her cultivation this quickly.
Now that they were both at Heaven Seven, if this continued, it was only a matter of time before Hua Ci surpassed him.
An inexplicable sense of urgency rose within Lu Ye!
Jujia had advanced to the Cloud River before him because he had accumulated