[Within the Heavenly Talisman Gate, the many cultivators watching were visibly shaken.]
[This was especially true of several True Lords at the peak of the nascent soul middle stage who had tried to break through to the late stage, only to fail.]
[They had experienced it themselves, so they understood all too well how difficult that breakthrough was.]
["Fellow Daoist Zhou..."]
[The Deputy Gate Master of the Heavenly Talisman Gate could not calm his heart.]
[He had been the one to approve your admission to the Heavenly Talisman Gate. When he examined your aura back then, you had not yet reached the peak of the middle stage.]
[Now, just over two hundred years later, you had already taken that step, becoming a nascent soul late-stage Grand Cultivator and standing at the pinnacle of the Human Realm.]
[In recent antiquity, Heaven and Earth exerted their suppression, and Spirit Transformation Heavenly Lords faced countless restrictions when taking action. Nascent soul late-stage Grand Cultivators were powerful enough to look down upon the Human Realm.]
[The Deputy Gate Master of the Heavenly Talisman Gate could not help sighing inwardly.]
[He held great authority within the Heavenly Talisman Gate and had attempted to break through to the nascent soul late stage twice. He had poured untold resources and the sect's accumulated reserves into those attempts, yet both had ended in failure.]
[Yet today, you had broken through smoothly on your very first attempt, entering the realm he had dreamed of reaching. How could the Deputy Gate Master of the Heavenly Talisman Gate not envy you?]
[What the Deputy Gate Master of the Heavenly Talisman Gate did not know was that your accumulated foundations were at least as strong as his.]
[Moreover, you possessed the quasi-fifth-tier spiritual treasure, the Lotus Heart Seed, and the quasi-fifth-tier spiritual