Ye Han sat at the edge of a Sky-Piercing Pillar, gazing up at the stars that filled the sky, utterly motionless...
Before his eyes lay only an endless sky and twinkling stars. The stars filling the heavens gave him a peculiar feeling, as though they were so close that he could reach out and touch them.
But Ye Han had already lost interest in all of this.
Any cultivator who had stared at the same starry sky for decades would have lost most of their interest.
His cultivation had already reached the Spirit Transformation Stage.
Indeed, he had quietly reached the Spirit Transformation Stage more than fifty years ago!
It had been quiet because, just as when he had advanced to the Nascent Soul Realm, his breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation Stage had not triggered another heavenly tribulation.
Ye Han could not fathom the reason for this, nor could Teacher Lan Qing, Heaven-Shaking Divine Venerable, or the others!
They could only envy him endlessly. Who ever advanced to a major realm like the Spirit Transformation Stage without Wretched Old Heaven sending down a heavenly tribulation?
Ye Han knew perfectly well how bizarre his situation was. Naturally, he did not reveal that this had happened to him before, instead claiming that it was his first time encountering it. Thus, everyone turned their speculation toward the formation within this world of the Astral Formation.
They believed that the formation might occupy an extremely unusual location, preventing heavenly tribulations from descending. It was the only explanation they could find.
Of course, Ye Han had deliberately steered their thoughts in that direction. After all, none of them had ever seen or even heard of a treasure or method that could evade the heavenly tribulation of a breakthrough to the Spirit Transformation Stage.
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