Cultivation Progress: The Four-Season Cycle

At this time, after two Ancestral Witches broke through to the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal realm, they had only improved a little. The remaining nine Ancestral Witches had improved by varying amounts, but their auras were all noticeably stronger than when they had just broken through to the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal realm.

As for Dijiang and Houtu, whose cultivation realms were higher and who had already broken through to the Late-Stage Primordial Golden Immortal realm before this, they naturally gained tremendously as well. Although they had not directly broken through to the Eighth-Layer Primordial Golden Immortal realm, they were close, not far from making that breakthrough.

If they exhausted all the remaining Merit on them, they might be able to break through smoothly.

However, neither Dijiang nor Houtu intended to do so.

Merit descended from the heavens, Fortune blessed them, and heaven and earth favored them. The easiest time to break through, when they possessed the right timing, location, and support, had already passed.

Even if they exhausted the Merit on them, they would need to expend even more Merit to break through.

Moreover, they had an agreement with Jiufeng: whenever they obtained Merit, they had to leave behind at least ten percent to form a Merit Golden Wheel, protecting their consciousness and keeping their minds clear so they would not be corroded by Calamity Fiend Aura, fall into madness, and do something irrational.

Next, they still had a matter of Great Merit and Virtue and Great Fortune ahead of them, enough to help them break through.

Naturally, they would not exhaust all their remaining and accumulated Merit now.

At this time, it was not only the Thirteen Ancestral Witches whose cultivation realms had broken through. The other powerhouses of the Earth Court had also made breakthroughs.

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