Over those three months.
Xu Mingwei reached the peak of the eighth layer of Qi Refining, then used a High-Grade Realm-Breaking Pill to enter the ninth layer. Outwardly, however, he still displayed an eighth-layer cultivation.
Xu Mingshu and Xu Mingxuan reached the peak sixth layer of Qi Refining one after the other. They likewise broke through to the seventh layer with Realm-Breaking Pills, but only displayed fourth-layer strength.
Like Divine Sense Pills, pills that broke through bottlenecks had limits on their use, though different types could be used in combination.
For instance, High-Grade Realm-Breaking Pills could be used to break through to the seventh, eighth, and ninth layers of Qi Refining.
For the middle three layers, those with insufficient aptitude could take High-Grade Barrier-Breaking Pills to swiftly overcome their bottlenecks.
Ordinary cultivators, however, had generally only heard of Barrier-Breaking Pills.
And Barrier-Breaking Pills were far weaker than Realm-Breaking Pills.
Even so, Barrier-Breaking Pills were exceedingly precious and rarely sold openly. Even when they appeared, they were only ordinary Low-Grade Barrier-Breaking Pills, which carried a considerable chance of failure even when used against the seventh-layer bottleneck.
Never mind the later bottlenecks of the eighth and ninth layers.
Thus, most people still relied on breaking through naturally.
And, when their allotted years ran out, dying naturally along the way.
The others had also made considerable progress. Xu Dezhao had already completed his spiritual root purification and would embark upon the Immortal Way as soon as the Immortal Ascension Celebration was over.
Xu Deling was currently at the peak of the fifth layer of Qi Refining and could break through to the sixth layer at any moment.
While busy refining pills, Zhang Wanqing also cultivated, keeping roughly the same pace as Shen Qingyi, a cultivator with a mixed spiritual root. Both were now