[The haul, [Twenty-Three-Thousand-Layer Qi Refining Limit-Breaking], major divine ability [Divine: End]]

[You then controlled your "other self" and left the [Other Shore Realm].]

[You merely instructed [Zhen Yuanzi] to keep his "projection" from dissipating over the next hundred years, until you returned.]

[There was no guarantee behind the promise you had made with him earlier, but you knew that waiting for you was his only choice.]

[A hundred years... you believed you could at least survive past that milestone this time.]

[Your "other self" deactivated [purple talent: Transform All Beings], then continued "preaching the Dao"!]

[Meanwhile, you took stock of the gains from this trip to the [Other Shore Realm]: an enormous amount of experience points and attribute points.]

[Over five hundred and ten million experience points and more than five million attribute points.]

[Adding the experience points and attribute points you had gained from your earlier frenzy of "preaching the Dao"...]

[The total came to over 1.3 billion experience points and more than ten million attribute points!]

[That already rivaled the gains from destroying the entire [Northern Land of Sin]!]

[Not to mention that you had also obtained the corresponding [other shore] "authority".]

(Note: you had already recycled all the heavenly materials, earthly treasures, and supreme treasures you had obtained earlier through [purple talent: Equivalent Exchange], exchanging them for experience points and attribute points.)

[Without hesitation, you poured all your experience points into upgrading [qi refining limit-breaking].]

[The foundation of your [twenty-one-thousand-layer qi refining limit-breaking] began soaring wildly!]

[With the blessing of [Heaven Rewards Diligence]...]

[—Your cultivation only barely stopped rising upon reaching [twenty-three-thousand-layer qi refining limit-breaking]!]

[Only two thousand layers?!]

[Even though you had expected this, you could not help grumbling. You had sunk over a billion experience points into it without hearing so much as a splash...]

[Who knew how long it would take to reach the [hundred-thousand-layer