Ye Han opened his eyes and sighed. "Tsk! Still just a little short!"
As he spoke, he ceased circulating his cultivation technique and looked helplessly at his hands.
Indeed, he had spent over a month here attempting a breakthrough. He had thought that after all his life-and-death spell combat with cultivators of the Demon-Slaying Sword Sect, and being hunted by two Golden Core Stage cultivators, he had accumulated enough insights and opportunities to break through the peak of the Foundation Establishment early stage in one stroke and advance to the Foundation Establishment middle stage...
Once he advanced to the fourth level, the Foundation Establishment middle stage, Ye Han intended to immediately continue cultivating until he reached the peak of that level...
With his many divine abilities and treasures, there should then be few Foundation Establishment cultivators who could match him in single combat.
Yet after over a month of attempting a breakthrough, the outcome was the same as during his previous seclusion. He still could not break through the barrier at the peak of the third level of Foundation Establishment.
And this barrier was utterly baffling. Every time he reached the crucial moment, he felt just a hair short, yet he simply could not break through. Ye Han could not figure out what was going on.
No wonder so many of the cultivators' autobiographies and travelogues he had read contained confusion and complaints. Why could they not advance despite cultivating so hard and surviving life-and-death ordeals? Why could others break through so easily?
Those cultivators' words conveyed bewilderment and helplessness over their own circumstances. They had clearly exhausted every means and risked their lives, so why could they still not break through, ultimately dying in despair when their lifespans ran out?
Now Ye Han had encountered the same predicament. He