Over the next ten days, Chen Qiu went nowhere. He stayed peacefully within his own Minor World, sitting cross-legged atop a mountain in the Mocking Heaven Sect's back mountain as he cultivated. He spent nine days raising his cultivation progress and one day consolidating his realm.
On the tenth day.
At dawn.
Chen Qiu, seated cross-legged on the mountaintop, gazed toward the two Demon Lotuses floating in the air not far away and slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air. His secluded cultivation had ended. The further one progressed, the slower advancement became. Going from the Golden Core Eighth Layer to the Golden Core Ninth Layer had taken him a full eleven days.
His cultivation had also risen from its previous Golden Core Eighth Layer (10.7%).
To—
"Cultivation": Golden Core Ninth Layer (1.1%).
"Finally, I broke through to the Golden Core Ninth Layer."
Chen Qiu stared absentmindedly into the distance without speaking. Next, he only needed another dozen or so days of secluded cultivation to raise his cultivation to Golden Core Peak Great Perfection, and then he could prepare to set out. Of course, he still had to finish that move involving Scholar and Ji Renjian first.
His cultivation speed in the Golden Core Realm had been so fast mainly because of the daily Heavenly Dao Blessing from the Prodigy Rankings—the Golden Core Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pill. He wondered whether there would be something like a Nascent Soul Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pill after reaching the Nascent Soul Realm.
But he quickly shook his head.
He had not yet attained the Nascent Soul Dao. Thinking about that now was too early. Besides, even if Nascent Soul Heavenly Dao Cultivation Pills existed, they would certainly be extremely rare and not so easily obtained.
He then turned his inner vision toward