Even a genius blessed with exceptional Spiritual Root aptitude would not dare claim that they could certainly reach the end of the Immortal Path and stand atop its peak before their lifespan ran out.
With every step forward on the Immortal Path, the difficulty lay in far more than merely raising one's cultivation realm.
It also lay in the scarcity of cultivation resources, forcing cultivators to spend vast amounts of time gathering and searching for what they needed to cultivate.
Tribulation Crossing stage magnates in particular, upon reaching this realm, needed to do more than simply improve their cultivation. Before their lifespan ran out, they also had to prepare for Tribulation Transcendence.
During this process, they might also be injured by all manner of unforeseen accidents.
Not to mention the time required to recover from those injuries.
And it was perfectly normal for certain accidents to damage one's lifespan.
If one could gain an additional thousand years of lifespan, then even a cultivator who had only barely entered the Tribulation Crossing stage would have far greater confidence in attempting Tribulation Transcendence, breaking through to the Great Vehicle stage, and ascending.
Once that step was taken, it could almost be said to be the difference between immortal and mortal!
Before a treasure like this, it was difficult for any cultivator not to be tempted.
Yet compared to the other human cultivators, Su Shi'er, standing at the back of the crowd, reacted far more calmly.
With the Heaven and Earth Furnace in hand, coupled with the many dangers he had experienced over the years, the opportunities and gains he had obtained far surpassed those of many cultivators in the same realm.
Compared with the others, his cultivation realm might not have risen the fastest, but he was still among the foremost.
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