In the Xiao Household of Wutan City, Yao Lao's help sent Xiao Yan rising faster than he had the previous two times!
Meanwhile, Xiao Lin continued roaming across the Central Plains.
Well, roaming might not have been quite the right word, but Xiao Lin certainly was traveling all over the Central Plains.
Of course, he was not wandering aimlessly.
He was observing how the stars changed from place to place.
After all these years, Xiao Lin needed only one final opportunity to advance his Star Codex from High-Tier Earth Rank to Heaven Rank!
"If I can grasp that opportunity, I'll not only be able to develop a Heaven Rank Cultivation Method, but I might even reach the Saint Realm in one step!"
Xiao Lin murmured to himself as he gazed up at the stars from deep within a mountain range in the Central Plains.
The reserves Xiao Lin had built up were already immense.
After all, it had been at least five or six years since he had reached Nine-Transformation Dou Venerable.
For another Nine-Transformation Dou Venerable, that much time might have yielded only ordinary reserves.
But Xiao Lin was different!
He possessed the Three Thousand Burning Flame, which was incomparably well suited to him!
As an embodiment of Astral Power, the Three Thousand Burning Flame had steadily built up his reserves throughout those five or six years, even without him making a deliberate effort to cultivate.
And at the Nine-Transformation Dou Venerable level, building up those reserves was crucial.
Without enough, a person could not break through at all.
With ordinary reserves, they could break through only to Half-Saint.
But with enough, they could break through to Dou Sheng in one breath!
That was why the Nine-Transformation Dou Venerable level was so unusual.
Accumulating reserves might do little to