Huanhuan broke through to the Spirit Transformation Realm.
The good news soon spread among the members of the Lin Family.
But only the eight who had already reached the Spirit Transformation Realm were told.
The Nascent Soul Realm cultivators were not qualified to know, lest the news leak out.
Meanwhile...
Lin Fei had just comprehended wind true intent to minor mastery and turned to continue studying lightning true intent.
Inside the Ninefold Celestial Tower, he needed only five or six years to bring any Great Dao True Intent to minor mastery.
Outside, however, it took twice as long.
Clearly, the Ninefold Celestial Tower offered uniquely blessed conditions for cultivation.
Another eight years passed.
Lin Fei also brought his lightning true intent to minor mastery.
By then, all nine Great Dao True Intents he had studied—metal, wood, water, fire, earth, light, darkness, wind, and lightning—had reached minor mastery.
Yet he felt no joy. Instead, he was rather frustrated.
Both my wind true intent and lightning true intent have reached minor mastery. Why is it so difficult to fuse them into Wind Thunder True Intent?
At the initial insight stage, wind true intent and lightning true intent had fused smoothly.
But once they reached minor mastery, the difficulty of fusing them increased dramatically.
Lin Fei had not anticipated this.
I had planned to fuse metal, wood, water, fire, and earth true intents into Five Elements True Intent. It looks like that won't be possible anytime soon, either.
Fusing true intents is easiest at the initial insight stage. Once they reach minor mastery, the difficulty increases sharply. If I wait until major mastery to fuse them, it will probably be even harder.
*It seems the initial insight stage is the best time to comprehend and fuse Great Dao True Intents. But advancing a