Hidden in the clouds, Pan Long watched the scene below. He nodded slightly, pleased.
Since Wu Jixing had cast off the obstacle in her heart, her training had gone remarkably well.
In just half a month, her aura had grown substantially. More strikingly, there were times when it diminished rather than increased as she trained.
There was nothing wrong with her cultivation. She had begun to touch the realm of Meticulous Subtlety and could now restrain her True Qi a little.
She could only manage it while concentrating on her training, and only to a slight degree, but it was an excellent start.
Ordinarily, only veteran Innate Masters showed such signs. Once they did, another ten or twenty years was often enough to master their True Qi down to its finest details and attempt Return to the Natural State.
For Wu Jixing, this was an enormous leap forward.
She might originally have needed forty or fifty years to become a True Person. Now she would need only half that time, perhaps even less. The difference was as vast as heaven and earth.
Yet in the quiet chamber, Wu Jixing sighed after finishing her training.
She could feel that this period of rapid progress had ended.
Her deep reserves, her breakthrough in state of mind, and her exchanges with the Southern Sea sects had all come together. By drawing connections between them, she had made progress that flew by in the space of half a month.
Half a month ago, she could split her True Qi into only nineteen streams. Now she could split it into twenty-four. Her progress had been nothing short of flight.
More importantly, splitting her True Qi into twenty-four streams was a crucial milestone for her.
The Jade Tower Sect's core method was called the Twelvefold Tower