"A breakthrough—the Fourth-Level Venerable Martial Realm!"
Joy lit Qin Hao's face. His Dantian's Self-World rumbled, then expanded by roughly a hundred zhang out of nowhere.
Just as I thought.
Qin Hao nodded to himself. The size of his Self-World was tied directly to his Cultivation Realm and Martial Dao Realm. The higher his Cultivation Realm and the tier of Origin Laws he commanded, the larger it would grow.
The Self-World is extraordinary. As the Ancient Emperor put it, it's the embryonic form of the Heaven and Earth Great Dao. Qin Hao considered this. I formed it by turning myself into the Dao and governing the laws through it. As I grow stronger, so will my Self-World.
Qin Hao set the thought aside and swept his gaze around, sensing the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy. He could not help marveling.
They had been cultivating in the Azure Flame Spirit Pool for nearly half a day. In that time, many had broken through from the Ninth Layer of Saint Martial Realm to the Venerable Martial Realm.
Mu Ziqing had reached the First Layer of Venerable Martial Realm too.
Strangely, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy in the Azure Flame Spirit Pool had barely changed. It remained incredibly dense.
No wonder this is one of the Azure Flame Sect's prized cultivation grounds. The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy here is astonishingly dense. Still, Qin Hao could tell on closer inspection that there was slightly less of it than when they had arrived.
The difference was so small it was impossible to notice without careful attention, and it had no effect on their cultivation.
Without dwelling on it, Qin Hao resumed cultivating.
He circulated the Spirit-Seizing Chapter, the first chapter of the Great Dao Spirit-Seizing Art, furiously absorbing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy, converting