Flowers bloomed and withered; withered flowers bloomed again.
After the Heaven-reaching Spiritual Marrow was exhausted, Chen Fan did not leave the Sky Sword Secret Realm. Instead, he continued to painstakingly cultivate the Sword Dao.
One hundred years, two hundred years, three hundred years... Time flowed away like water...
Within the Sky Sword Secret Realm, the various sword arts and divine abilities he cultivated were also rapidly improving and reaching completion.
Yet even so, his Sword Dao had never managed to break through to the fifth level of Chang Sheng.
At Chen Fan's level, in terms of cultivation.
Many of the sword arts and divine abilities he cultivated required at least several hundred years of idle cultivation just to complete a single move.
Improving the Sword Dao was truly far too difficult.
Though he focused primarily on the Sword Dao, with his idle cultivation slots, quite a few of his divine abilities and secret arts were also being cultivated continuously.
For instance, Blood-Melting Technique, Indestructible Vajra Body, Great Evolution Divine Art, and other divine abilities.
In the three-hundredth year of his closed-door cultivation, his Blood-Melting Technique successfully broke through to the ninth level.
Throughout those long years of cultivation, Chen Fan also devoted part of his attention to continually absorbing his own Blood Spirit Flowers, Blood Seeds, and Blood Crystals.
With that Mutated Blood Beast, his external blood would never run dry. Though the absorption speed was somewhat slow, as his Blood-Melting Technique steadily progressed, it could barely keep up.
The breakthrough of the ninth level of Blood-Melting Technique brought a comprehensive rise in his physical strength.
The amount of time he could maintain the "Berserk" state was also steadily increasing.
After reaching the ninth level, when he activated "Berserk," he could sustain it for several months!
If he had external