After chatting for a while, Pan Long bade the members of Paijiao farewell.
He had already stayed there for several days. It had not been a waste of time, but now that his business was done, it was time to leave.
Besides, he still had something very important to do.
Cultivate!
After leaving the Heaven-Reaching River, he headed into the mountains, found an earth-vein node rich in spiritual energy, and devoted himself to cultivation.
Although he had entered the True Person Realm, he was still a Counterfeit True Person in name only. His realm had advanced, but he had yet to truly adapt to it or master the combat techniques of this level.
The leap from Innate to Returning to Truth was not merely the difference between a "small fireball" and a "big fireball," or between a "one-yard blade arc" and a "three-yard blade arc." There were many deeper changes.
The greatest was that he no longer needed to switch between states of "restrained breath" and "bursting power." He could unleash his full strength at any time, while also resting and recuperating at any time to build up his strength.
As Teacher Bi Lingkong put it, the Martial World did not divide cultivation into realms because people were bored. Those realms corresponded to real changes within a person.
Advancing a realm meant not only an increase in cultivation, but an elevation in one's very form of life.
Only when someone fully mastered those changes and improvements could they be said to have truly mastered a new realm.
And that naturally required a period of focused cultivation.
For Martial World wanderers without formal training, even a chance breakthrough into the Return to the Natural State would take a great deal of time and effort to master. Some might never truly grasp