[Foundation Establishment Limit-Breaking: 25,000 Layers], Setting the Plan in Motion, Zero and Wang Hao

``` [Age 51]

[Throughout this year, you kept trying to find the true [Primordial World], but still failed.]

[In the end, you had no choice but to give up. All you knew was that the true [Primordial World] did indeed contain Wang Hao's "sliver of vitality."]

[But you had absolutely no idea what it actually was...]

[Likewise, your [Golden Talent: Listening] no longer picked up much useful information.]

[Perhaps Zero did not want you to know, or perhaps there really was no important intelligence.]

[Throughout this year, to keep Zero's plan secret and prevent Past Li Ping from noticing, you kept pretending everything was normal while talking to him.]

[As for whether he had actually noticed anything, you did not know.]

[At least on the surface, he also acted as though nothing had happened and you were on the same side.]

[Sometimes, he even gave you the feeling that the two of you were the best friends in the world, and your conversations flowed quite easily...]

[Meanwhile, among the talented people of the Heavenly Gate, all the Fruit Position True Lords you had previously devoured had been replaced.]

[Another five Nascent Soul True Lords reached the [Nascent Soul Middle Stage].]

[You seized them all in one sweep and refined them in an instant.]

[In a flash, your cultivation in Qi Refining Limit-Breaking reached [Qi Refining Limit-Breaking: 33,000 Layers].]

[It still only increased by a thousand layers, even with the boost from [Purple Talent: Heaven Rewards Diligence].]

[Likewise, your cultivation in Foundation Establishment Limit-Breaking reached [Foundation Establishment Limit-Breaking: 25,000 Layers].]

[This time, it increased by two thousand layers, which was not bad...]

[Ever since learning that the path of limit-breaking had a massive pitfall, your enthusiasm for increasing your cultivation had waned.]

[After all, who would willingly jump into a fire