In the blink of an eye, a month passed.
During that month, Xiao Yan and Zi Yan stayed with the Han Clan to cultivate while they waited for the secret realm to open.
Everyone in the Han Clan treated them with the utmost respect. Their meals and daily needs were seen to with meticulous care, and Han Chi personally came to check on them every few days. His attentiveness left Xiao Yan torn between amusement and exasperation.
Over that month of cultivation, Xiao Yan fully stabilized the Dou Qi that had grown somewhat shaky from his rapid breakthroughs. He even made further progress, advancing from Peak Nine-Star Dou Venerable into the First Revolution.
He had already been close to that threshold. If he had not feared that breaking through too quickly would weaken his foundation, he could have entered the First or even the Second Revolution of the Nine Revolutions Tempering long ago.
Now that his foundation was fully stabilized, there was no reason to hold himself back.
Zi Yan's cultivation had also grown rapidly thanks to Xiao Yan's unlimited supply of pills. She had reached Four-Star Dou Zong.
The Void Ancient Dragon Clan was naturally gifted at cultivation. Zi Yan was also the daughter of the Ancient Void Dragon Emperor and had received a baptism from Zhukun, a Peak Dou Saint. It was only natural that she cultivated even faster.
Then, on this very day, north of Tianbei City...
Rumble!
A tremendous crash suddenly erupted from the Godbreak Mountain Range Han Yue had mentioned. At the same time, a pillar of light hundreds of meters wide shot straight into the clouds.
It was like a massive column driven into the heavens by a god, dyeing the entire sky a brilliant silver-white.
The many experts who had long been waiting