[ Ding! ]
[Exchange of fifteen million balance for fifteen million years of cultivation time successful!]
[Cultivation begins!!!]
Boom!!!~~~
As the cold system notification fell, Chen An felt his mind shake violently, and his soul instantly sank into a boundless void.
Time flowed completely differently within this space!
An instant in the outside world was an age of vast changes here!
The years surged past like a rushing flood!
One year, ten years, a hundred years, a thousand years...
Endless time slipped away at breakneck speed!
His consciousness immersed within it, Chen An clearly saw another version of himself sitting cross-legged in relentless cultivation, day and night without rest, exhausting every ounce of strength to assault the barrier between Grandmaster consummation and a higher realm.
That bottleneck was like a towering heavenly gate cast from immortal gold of eternity—thick, hard, and unbreakable. No matter how fiercely he bombarded it with all his might, it never budged.
One failed attempt, two futile attempts, thousands upon tens of thousands of attempts, all crashing into a wall!
Within the scene, he watched himself throw everything into breaking through that barrier time and again, each ending in catastrophic failure.
Countless times, his astral essence ran wild and he exploded to death; countless times, forcing a breakthrough shattered every inch of his meridians and killed him; countless times...
Over those long years, failure had long become the norm. Yet the him within that mysterious space was like an indestructible cockroach.
He had no fear of death, no lingering dread of bursting meridians. Again and again, tirelessly and fearlessly, he charged at that bottleneck.
"Fuck!!!"
"Does it have to be this brutal?!"
Whenever he had previously used the system to spend money on cultivation, he had been like a robot without much thought, only able to