Even as his Spirit God grew taller.
Qin Shujian continued cultivating without pause.
Another two or three hours passed.
The Origin Return Ancestral Canon circulating within him slowly came to a halt, and the dense spiritual energy surrounding him gradually dispersed.
His Spirit God returned to his body.
Qin Shujian opened his tightly closed eyes, a fleeting trace of regret flashing in their depths.
"So close to breaking through to the twenty-eighth level. What a pity."
At that thought.
He could not help shaking his head slightly.
Sometimes, that tiny gap was the difference between success and failure.
As for the Origin Return Ancestral Canon.
Qin Shujian had truly cultivated its Spirit Martial Volume to the peak of the seventh level, with one foot already across the threshold of the eighth.
However—
Having one foot across the threshold did not count as a successful breakthrough.
"Still, it won't be long. Another ten days or half a month, and I should reach the eighth level of the Spirit Martial Realm." Sensing his own condition, Qin Shujian could roughly estimate how much longer his breakthrough would take.
For him now.
Ten days or half a month was nothing.
It would pass in the blink of an eye.
But—
Qin Shujian had no intention of continuing his cultivation now. Instead, he rose and left Liangshan Summit.
Since this session of secluded cultivation had failed to produce a breakthrough.
There was no need to immediately begin a second one.
Balancing effort with rest.
That was the true path to sustained cultivation.
Otherwise.
If he became too obsessed with breaking through, he could easily lose himself in it. He might then spend several times as long without achieving the desired result.
When the phenomenon in the sky disappeared.
The powerful cultivators within the Origin Sect