Why did Ye Han feel this way?
Why did possessing the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron make him feel that breaking through his cultivation realms had become harder than before?
The answer began with the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron's reputation in the Cultivation World. In the records left by many cultivators and the materials that could still be found, many references to the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron called it the Ominous Cauldron...
Of course, Ye Han had found precious little information about the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron himself, only scattered words and fragments in the writings of some exceedingly ancient cultivators...
This was because the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron had vanished from the Cultivation World for a great many years, supposedly longer than one Heavenly Dao Cycle. Each so-called Heavenly Dao Cycle spanned more than a hundred million years...
Records concerning the Heavenly Dao Cycle were even scarcer. Ye Han had only heard a few words about it from Saint As, the Night Spirit Immortal Emperor, and others...
Moreover, the Heavenly Dao Cycle did not turn at some fixed time. Many special circumstances could trigger a new cycle. Of course, this was not something Ye Han could concern himself with now...
His chief concern now was that, although possessing the Heaven-Devouring Cauldron had given him tremendous advantages in combat divine abilities, practicing immortal arts, meditation and cultivation, absorbing pills, special divine abilities, and so on, greatly benefiting his cultivation...
Whenever he tried to break through a realm or push his cultivation past a bottleneck, he always encountered inexplicable trouble, and his heavenly tribulations were more powerful than other people's...
Comprehending the laws of cultivation was also more difficult, especially when it came to understanding the Heavenly Dao...
Take the Glacier Immortal Emperor now. Her cultivation, divine abilities, talent, spirit root, and every other aspect were clearly inferior to his, yet she