In fact, after using the "Dragon Phoenix Art" on Qing Yanjing, Xiao Yan could feel that his Spiritual Power had grown considerably. By his reckoning, he had now truly reached the pinnacle of Earth Supreme, even brushing against the Heavenly Sovereign realm. In this state, as long as he spent some time cultivating in seclusion and drew on the energy of the Plane Spirit, breaking through to Heavenly Sovereign should pose no problem.
For the moment, however, Xiao Yan had no such plans. Leaving aside the fact that he still had Qing Yanjing with him, even if he wanted to break through, he would first have to leave the Ancient Sacred Abyss. Otherwise, the moment he reached Heavenly Sovereign, he would inevitably trigger the Space-Time Storm there. If he ended up swept into the territory of the Extraterritorial Evil Clan, he would be in serious trouble.
Although Xiao Yan could not advance his Spiritual Power cultivation any further, he had made considerable progress in other areas. After obtaining Qing Yanjing's memories concerning Spiritual Arrays and the Heavenly Array Elder's inheritance, his understanding of Spiritual Arrays had deepened as well. If he had previously been merely a half-baked Spiritual Array Master, he could now be considered a genuine high-tier Spiritual Array Grandmaster.
While studying Spiritual Arrays, Xiao Yan continued onward with Qing Yanjing. Along the way, they passed through several gathering points in the Ancient Sacred Abyss and collected plenty of useful information. Of course, whatever information they could obtain was available to others as well. As a result, although they found several ruins mentioned in those reports, others had already beaten them to the punch. They had not even gotten a mouthful of the soup.
"These people move far too fast..." Emerging from yet another empty ruin, Xiao Yan sighed