Only when he saw Su Jiu return did Yun Huanling finally breathe a sigh of relief.
At the same time, however, he noticed that her expression was anything but good.
"Hey, what's wrong? Are you all right?"
Su Jiu did not answer him. She merely said, "Don't let anyone in," then hurried back to her room and fastened the door shut.
At first, Yun Huanling had no idea what had happened. Only when violent fluctuations of spiritual qi came from Su Jiu's room did he begin to understand.
Su Jiu was probably about to break through.
Indeed, not long after parting ways with that group, she had felt that she could no longer suppress the spiritual qi inside her.
Flower Bud in her sea of consciousness had also been frantically warning her.
In truth, her Cultivation Level had already reached saturation when she emerged from Swallowing Heaven. Breaking through to the late stage had only been a matter of time, but one thing had happened after another, leaving her without even a moment to regulate her breathing.
Now, a month had passed since she emerged from Swallowing Heaven, and it seemed she could finally hold it back no longer.
Breaking through a minor stage in the Golden Core Stage was nothing like doing so in the Foundation Establishment Realm. A Foundation Establishment cultivator could break through while standing right where they were without much consequence. The amount of spiritual qi involved was still relatively small, so it would not cause much of a disturbance. The Golden Core Stage was different. Staying out in the open to regulate her breathing and break through would be no different from courting death.
Besides, after she broke through to the late stage, the spiritual qi inside her would not settle within a day or