Only three years after his wife Zhao Qi'er and his sons Liu Fuyang, Liu Fuba, and Liu Fuyu had successively advanced to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm, Liu Changxu arranged for his four wives, Xiao Ningxue, Dongxue, Su Yue'e, and Zhao Qingxia, to enter seclusion and attempt their own breakthroughs to that realm.
After his four wives entered seclusion, Liu Changxu also entered the Seclusion Chamber in the Ruyi Lotus Palace to devote himself to cultivation.
Once cultivators stepped into the Mahayana Realm, ninth-tier spirit treasures became exceedingly hard to come by. To improve their cultivation, the vast majority of Mahayana experts could only meditate in seclusion, slowly increasing their cultivation and strength through day after day of comprehending the Heaven and Earth Laws.
Liu Changxu was considerably better off than most experts who had just advanced to the Mahayana Realm. Thanks to the advantage afforded by his Innate Spirit Treasure, he had previously slain two veteran Ninth-Tier Demon Emperors, the Golden Crab Emperor and the Yellow Dragon Shrimp Emperor. Not only had he obtained their bodies, which contained tremendous energy, but he had also acquired the cultivation resources they had accumulated over tens of thousands of years. Thus, he lacked nothing he needed for cultivation in the short term, and his progress was relatively swift.
But Liu Changxu knew perfectly well that even with these resources supporting him, advancing to the mid-Mahayana stage would still be as difficult as ascending to heaven.
Every breakthrough in the Mahayana Realm required a profound comprehension of the Heaven and Earth Laws. It could never be achieved simply by piling up resources.
Moreover, the cultivation resources he had obtained could, at most, help him reach the peak of the early Mahayana stage. Advancing to the mid-Mahayana stage through them was essentially impossible.
Thus, when