Within the Supreme Purity Grotto-Heaven, the silence was broken only by the sound of a spirit spring flowing through cracks in the stone.
Lin Yuan sat cross-legged at its center, the Qingxuan Sword and the Thick Earth Sword laid flat before him. Above his head, an illusory Great Dao Flower slowly revolved, brightening and dimming.
The spiritual energy outside, so dense it had almost liquefied, kept pouring into his body.
Yet Lin Yuan still had not truly attempted his breakthrough.
His magical power at the taiyi golden immortal peak had long since reached perfection.
He knew that, and so did Tongtian.
What truly held him back lay within his primordial spirit.
There was too much.
Lin Yuan closed his eyes.
Innate spiritual perception surfaced first.
It was among the first abilities he had acquired that truly changed how he fought. Before danger reached him, his mind would already react.
Next came the blackstone dao body.
Heavy, stable, attuned to the earth.
After that, Supreme Clarity Battle Intent, his talent for Wind-Thunder Escape, vajra immortal bone, Battlefield Killing Intent Perception, ten ultimate formation insight, Daluo Combat Insight, Innate Formation Core, Nine-Heavens Qi Mastery, and Primal Battle Intuition emerged from his primordial spirit, one after another.
Then came Mystic Thunder Eyes, Celestial Sound Soul-Shaking, Treasure-Mastering Telepathy, Cooperative Combat Spiritual Perception, Four Symbols Sword Intent, innate fire spirit, indestructible immortal body, myriad plague dao body, and innate fire virtue.
Any one of these, bestowed on an ordinary cultivator, would take hundreds or thousands of years to slowly hone.
Lin Yuan had them all piled onto himself.
Previously, they had worked together more and more smoothly in battle.
Now that he stood before the gates of the Daluo Realm, the problem finally revealed itself in full.
They were too scattered.
With every fraction that