After that incident, Piris declared the western valley off-limits. No one was allowed to approach it.
The excitement brought on by the breakthroughs faded, and the mood in camp grew subdued again.
Over those three months, Xu Feng had done more than venture out to explore.
He explored during the day and cultivated at night, sticking to that routine almost without fail.
The proficiency of Stellar True Explanation on his panel rose day by day.
It slowly approached "Grandmaster" from "Master."
Then, late one night, he completed his final circulation of the technique in his cave as usual.
The number on his panel suddenly jumped, and Stellar True Explanation officially reached "Grandmaster" proficiency.
That same night, his cultivation naturally advanced to the peak of radiant god ninth rank, and the area of his inner world finally stabilized at around ninety thousand square kilometers.
The radiance of his law sun had reached its utmost intensity.
Only one final step separated him from the legendary domain gods.
Yet he could see no way to take that step anytime soon.
Unless, as he had when advancing from moon god to radiant god, he could grind his proficiency all the way to perfection through the panel.
But after reaching Grandmaster, his proficiency increased at an infuriatingly slow pace.
On good days, it rose by two points. On bad days, only one.
No matter how he calculated it, he would need at least four to five years.
Forget it.
I won't worry about that for now.
To get out of this place, he still had to start with the Secret Realm itself.
Every inner world had a "back door."
In Xu Feng's own inner world, for example, the back door lay beneath the roots of the Divine Tree.
Once someone reached it, they could leave