Before the second day arrived, Feng Jiaojiao came to Chen Fan with a Mustard Seed Stone.
With one billion kilograms of Heavenly Spirit Ore in hand, Chen Fan was naturally overjoyed.
At the same time, his approval of Feng Jiaojiao's father's discernment rose once more.
With the Heavenly Spirit Ore secured, he resumed his secluded cultivation.
But without the effects of the Nine Heavens Enlightenment Pill,
his progress in the various Great Daos and divine abilities was pitifully slow.
If not for the second level of Star-Seizing continuing to advance, he might not have remained in closed-door cultivation so stubbornly.
In truth,
he had originally planned to venture into the Outer Sea once his strength reached the King-sealing level.
But since he had already unlocked the second level of Star-Seizing, there was no harm in waiting until it reached completion before setting out.
Time passed.
More than twenty years went by in the outside world, while Chen Fan cultivated bitterly for another thousand years beneath the Chronolight Core. At last, he pushed the second level of Star-Seizing to completion!
During those thousand years, aside from bringing Star-Seizing to completion, he had only advanced the final Dao among earth, fire, water, and wind—the Dao of Wind—to the fourth level of Chang Sheng. The Wind Sacred Sword had also idled its way up another level. In almost every other respect, he had made no progress at all.
On the other hand, he had idled up quite a few miscellaneous divine abilities and secret arts, useful and useless alike.
Of course, other than Star-Seizing, none of those things greatly improved his strength. They merely made his methods more comprehensive.
"With the second level of Star-Seizing complete, along with my current physical strength and the Primordial Sword, I wonder whether I can now