Three years, two stages.
It had undoubtedly taken far longer than expected.
Though there were enough Primordial Dao Runes, increasing them so massively in such a short time had been no small burden. He had even rested for half a year during that period.
There was no doubt that his progress had been extraordinary.
As his cultivation entered the tenth level of the Billion Dao Realm, leaving aside everything else, his river had already reached an exceedingly terrifying height.
The Great Dao formed from a full twelve billion Dao patterns no longer possessed merely overwhelming strength in quantity; its quality had become terrifying as well.
With his Great Dao, even before it had formed a "world" and entered the next realm—the level of Extreme Daluo—his Great Dao had already surpassed that of a Two-World Daluo, roughly reaching the level of a Three-World Daluo.
A Three-World Daluo, even within the Extreme Daluo realm, had already surpassed the initial stage and stepped into the middle stage.
This was an absolutely astonishing result.
Under normal circumstances, after reaching completion in the Billion Dao Realm, it would take at least tens of thousands of years to accumulate enough to reach Li Su's current level.
Though he was not yet an Extreme Daluo, he had in fact already caught up to Daluos with ten thousand years of cultivation.
Though above that were Daluos with a hundred thousand years of cultivation, as well as Daluos nearing a million years.
In truth, at the Daluo level, he had already touched the pinnacle. With a supreme treasure added in, so long as he faced someone below the Saint level, even as merely an Extreme Daluo, there would be very, very few who could stand as his opponents.
Though Extreme Daluos could continue accumulating over time, advancing to four-world,