Joining forces to bear down on the Nine Heavens Sword Pavilion [Monthly votes requested]

Baibi City.

"Master, you dismantled that Two-World Teleportation Array with just a few quick moves! That was amazing!

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Jin Feng pouted, gesturing excitedly with both hands, while Lin Chang'an stood beside Jin Feng with an unruffled expression.

"It was only dismantling, not crafting. For a formation master like me, only one step away from reaching fifth-rank, it was nothing."

During those fifty-odd years in seclusion, advancing to spirit transformation, he had naturally devoted himself entirely to cultivation. Even his craft had been set aside.

After all, reaching spirit transformation was what mattered most. There was also the scarcity of resources in the Lower Realm. It was nothing like his time in the Upper Realm, when people constantly delivered materials for crafting fourth-rank formations right to his door.

And the prices had not even been particularly high.

"I was a little careless before. I thought I could attempt a breakthrough after ten or twenty years in seclusion. Who would have thought I would spend nearly sixty years shut away?"

Lin Chang'an sighed softly. Although leaking seals across the land had made the world's spiritual energy considerably richer than before, it still could not compare with the Spirit Realm.

Especially for someone like him, who had visited the Spirit Realm, returning to cultivate under these conditions left an enormous sense of disparity.

It was easy to go from frugality to luxury, but hard to go from luxury to frugality. That saying held true for cultivators as well.

Seeing her master's expression, Jin Feng could not help pouting and muttering, "Master, do you realize how much you're asking for a beating? If other people saw you like this...

"How could this realm compare with the Spirit Realm? Besides, you've reached spirit transformation before the age of seven hundred. You've already broken the