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Although the others were furious, there was nothing they could do. They all settled down to meditate and cultivate.
As the spiritual qi outside his body poured in wildly and the medicinal power within him was refined, Li Xiaoya felt the bottleneck of the ninth layer being battered and worn away. It seemed he could break through with just a little more force, yet that bottleneck was as tough as leather. Though only a thin membrane remained, he always fell just short.
Li Xiaoya recalled Heavenly Venerable Daoling's instructions on breaking through a bottleneck at Spiritlight Lake. Resolutely making up his mind, he gritted his teeth and suddenly accelerated the circulation of his magic power. Like lake water bursting through a dam, the magic power within him surged wildly toward the bottleneck of the ninth layer.
Li Xiaoya's body suddenly shook violently, and visible spiritual qi sprayed out in every direction. Fortunately, it made little noise. Wild joy filled his heart: under that massive surge of magic power, the bottleneck of the ninth layer had finally been forced open. He felt his meridians continuously expanding and his magic power soaring. In that brief instant alone, his magic power had increased by roughly a third.
Li Xiaoya did not stop meditating. He continued refining the medicinal power of the pill within him and absorbing the spiritual qi around him.
The instant Li Xiaoya advanced to the Great Perfection Realm of the True Cultivation Stage, the surrounding cultivators opened their eyes and looked toward him in unison, as though they had arranged it beforehand. None of them seemed to