Out in the wilderness.
Watching the girl close her eyes, Chu Tiange sighed silently, then closed his own eyes to rest.
But only a short while passed.
His eyes snapped open, and he turned toward the girl beside him.
Her eyes remained tightly shut, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
Yet in that instant, her aura had revealed a vastness that was perfectly rounded and without flaw.
Chu Tiange's brow twitched. As a cultivator of the Myriad-Forms Heaven late realm, he naturally understood what that aura meant.
"Wait... she actually broke through?"
He recalled how she had earnestly asked him how to reach the Myriad-Forms Heaven middle realm just moments ago, only to break through in the blink of an eye.
He truly wanted to ask whether she was playing a joke on him.
How could anyone be such a monstrous talent?
For those in Myriad-Forms Heaven, there were many ways to condense Dao patterns. Some cultivators in that realm felt they had reached the limits of their talent and simply abandoned any hope of entering Supreme Capital, turning instead to unorthodox shortcuts.
But even the fastest method took considerable time.
Who could do what the girl beside him had done—close her eyes, then open them...
And be done?
Chu Tiange exhaled a stale breath, forcibly suppressing his sense of disbelief. All he could do was silently find an explanation for her.
Presumably, she had finished condensing her Dao patterns long ago and needed only that final step across the threshold.
She was simply so cautious by nature that, on the cusp of her breakthrough, she had insisted on asking him those redundant questions to confirm things.
Yes, that must be it...
That was the most charitable and reasonable explanation Chu Tiange could come up with.
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