Nine Tribulations Perfection was still short by about thirty percent.
However, both Yue Shuo's Divine Soul and Body Tempering levels had stalled at the peak of Eighth-Tier, without advancing.
Over the past few years of cultivation, Yue Shuo had also come to understand that the Divine Soul level was the most important.
As long as his Divine Soul level improved,
his comprehension of laws, Qi Refining, and Body Tempering would all advance much more easily.
Of course,
comprehending laws and breaking through in Qi Refining and Body Tempering would also benefit the Divine Soul.
Therefore, he had several options if he wanted to break through his Divine Soul level.
First, he could cultivate a Divine Soul technique and grind away with time, increasing his soul power until he broke through to a Ninth-Tier Divine Soul.
Second, he could find a treasure capable of nourishing and strengthening the Divine Soul.
Third, he could comprehend a certain law to Ninth-Tier and use his level of law comprehension to push his Divine Soul level into a breakthrough.
Fourth, he could first reach Ninth-Tier in Qi Refining and Body Tempering, then use that to promote his Divine Soul.
Yue Shuo first eliminated the first option.
He could calculate how long it would take, at his current steady pace of meditation and soul-power cultivation, to reach a Ninth-Tier breakthrough.
The Divine Ability Runes within his Divine Soul could also improve his meditation efficiency.
But even so,
with his current meditation speed, he would still need at least a hundred years of seclusion to break through to Ninth-Tier.
A hundred years!??
After calculating it, Yue Shuo was utterly stunned.
Was cultivating soul power through practice really this slow?
That was obviously not feasible.
He had only cultivated for a few years.
Besides, this world was still