His chest felt clogged—like the kind of clogging from a myocardial infarction.
Why?
Yes, he had gained quite a lot as well. After entering the Heavenly Moon Grotto, he had soared all the way up, not only reaching the limits of Foundation Establishment cultivation, but expanding its depth to a terrifying degree, nearly catching up to those main-sect prodigies backed by powerful patrons.
More than that, he had also gained something in terms of spirit beasts—a little puppy, currently still dozing in his inner world.
Li Su was not an ungrateful man.
But the situation with the fifth mist was just too damn infuriating. The more he thought about it these past few days, the angrier he became.
His abilities simply were not enough. Otherwise, he really wanted to pry open the core of the Heavenly Moon Grotto and see whether there was someone inside. How else could it show such blatant favoritism?
Because of that, all the progress he had made over the past days had been overshadowed.
Still, he was continuing to improve, and his results were quite remarkable—no, downright eye-catching. If he told anyone, probably very few would dare believe him.
As far as body cultivation went, he had reached the end of the road. Unless he found immortal herbs like those in the third mist, he had basically hit his ceiling.
Perfection was something only the rich could pursue.
What had improved was his spell cultivation.
First was his qi sea. As his Heaven-and-Earth Dao Body continuously improved, the qi sea within his dantian also kept expanding.
At first, because time had been short and his attention had not been focused in that direction, he had not noticed it. But once the Heavenly Moon Grotto's problems had all been resolved and he no longer needed to